The more I watched it the more I realised the Wallabies simply didn’t let the French play. A clinical and useful gameplan with the 3Ns around the corner. A few laughs at the end.
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
To “spot him up”
June 29, 2009 – 4:13 pm
You hear the phrase “spotted him up” often, and variations on it, when watching AFL games. It is a phrase that in isolation would be very difficult to understand.
So, what does it mean?
It is an abbreviated way of saying that the player who has the ball has seen his teammate who [...]
AFL coaches 2010
June 25, 2009 – 2:57 pm
More AFL clubs might change coaches from the start of the ‘09 season to the start of the ‘10 season than we have seen in…well, longer than my memory. Already two changes have been made, and we are only half way through the season.
So, who will be coaching where in 2010? Here are the answers.
Adelaide: [...]
Wallabies vs Italy 2 – alternative highlights
June 25, 2009 – 3:14 am
Here they are, our best highlights to date
Ashes 09: How to get Phil Hughes out
June 24, 2009 – 10:29 pm
Every now and then Phil Hughes goes out.
Not a lot, but from time to time, he doesn’t make a hundred.
And this is a good thing for every chin stroking English cricket fan.
It gives them a chance to work Phil out, because the one time they have seen him go out is enough for them to [...]
Ashes 09: Call off the Ashes
June 24, 2009 – 8:41 am
As I walked the streets of London I saw the faces of the children, they were tear stained, drained of colour, and lacking all hope. Something had happened.
The more I looked around, the more I realised something was horribly wrong.
Birds flying into each other, rats ignoring open garbage, homeless people refusing to ask for change. [...]
Ashes 09: Vaughan left out of squad
June 23, 2009 – 10:06 am
Ricky Ponting has said that the English squad of 16 picked itself.
Have you ever thought about that saying, it really is rather stupid.
And it means that the squad did not want Michael Vaughan.
He is not good enough to warrant a place in England’s pre-ashes training squad of 16.
How is this so?
Do they not know that [...]
Ashes 09: Simon Jones is out for the season Ashes
June 19, 2009 – 8:25 am
If that is not a drop your knickers headline, I don’t know what is.
This one is true by the way.
I wouldn’t lie to you two days in a row.
Actually I would, but I’m not.
For those who still think the 2005 Ashes is haunting the Aussies, let us look at the list of people who won’t [...]
Wallabies – Italy Melbourne test preview
June 19, 2009 – 12:34 am
By Juan Cote @ GreenAndGoldRugby
Obviously, after last week’s test, both Robbie Deans and Nick Mallet came to a gentlemen’s agreement that both would field their second XV’s for this week’s tests.
The Italians have made plenty of changes to their team which makes them even harder to comment on, such is the unknown nature of the [...]
Melbourne or Sydney?
June 18, 2009 – 2:03 pm
If Australia won its bid to host the 2018 or 2022 FIFA World Cup who should host the final?
Should it be at the MCG in Melbourne?
Or at Stadium Australia in Sydney?
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