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Clijsters & Henin – Legends Amongst A Bunch Of Duds

Posted in Tennis, tagged , , on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve had this post sitting in my drafts for a few weeks now, with just the heading and no content. For the sake of getting it out there, let me say that seeing Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin return so successfully from retirement was fantastic for the game of tennis. The Australian Open is over [...]

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Leeds United – Nice One

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Manchester United 0  Leeds United 1 – 3rd round, FA Cup It’s easy to dislike Manchester United. They really are the Collingwood of the Premier League. Absurd amounts of financial backing while other clubs like Portsmouth are almost bankrupt. Arrogant. A manager who gets way more publicity that warranted. So how fantastic it was to [...]

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Boxing Day Test – The Usual Rant

Posted in Cricket, tagged , , , , on December 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I spent the first three days at the test this year. It was great to be there on the first day with Tom, and with friends and colleagues on the subsequent days. As I type this, I have watched bits and pieces of the fourth day on TV, including on a large outdoor screen that [...]

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Mornington Peninsula – What A Great Spot

Posted in Bowls, tagged on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s so easy to forget how the Mornington Peninsula is such a great place. I played bowls at Mornington yesterday with my mate PJ. I had a fantastic day, the company was great and we managed to win a bit of money. A few beers and dinner afterwards, looking out over the bay. Fantastic! The [...]

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Go Sainters – One To Go!

Posted in AFL, tagged on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s goint to be an incredibly difficult, but really exciting week. St Kilda beat Footscray last night in one of the most nail biting sporting events I’ve ever watched. I checked my pulse during the game and couldn’t believe how much it was racing. So what’s on this week? I’ll need to see if I can [...]

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Zebras v Frankston

Posted in Photography, Sport, VFL, tagged , on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve never tried action footy photos before, so took my camera over to Trevor Barker Oval today, to watch the Sandringham Zebras play the Frankston Dolphins. Here’s the pick of them.

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Australian Spin Coaches Not Supporting Chucking

Posted in Cricket, Sport on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve blogged previously on Muthiah Muralitharan and how the world cricketing authorities have changed the rules to support the way he delivers the ball (I won’t say “bowl”, because he doesn’t). Hence, I was delighted to read this in today’s The Age: “Writing in the Adelaide Review, off-spinning great Ashley Mallett said: ‘‘There was unanimous agreement that [...]

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Saints Training

Posted in AFL, Sport, tagged on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

For someone who’s so fanatical about the St Kilda footy club, I guess it’s surprising I haven’t done any blogging about it, particularly as it’s been such a great season so far. Last Sunday’s game was just brilliant – so much hype beforehand and a standard of game that certainly lived up to the hype. [...]

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Sporting Legends

Posted in AFL, Opinion, tagged , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Some of our sportsmen deserve, by the way they play their respective games, the way they carry themselves in public life, and what they do for their sports after they’ve finished playing, to be given legend status. Two of those people have hit the news this week, for entirely different reasons. Ron Barassi has been [...]

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Muthiah Muralitharan

Posted in Cricket, Opinion, tagged , , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Age is reporting this morning that Muthiah Muralitharan will be turning out for Victoria to play Twenty20 cricket next season. This is cause for frustration on a number of fronts. Whatever happened to the honour of representing one’s state or country? I would have dearly loved to have had the honour to represent my [...]

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