October, 2009

Matt is editor of GreenandGoldRugby.com Robbie Deans must feel like the boy with his finger in the dyke – just as you get one hole plugged, another crack opens wide. Or at least, I hope he sees it that way, because I believe there’s a good chance that the Wallabies are going to get blindsided [...]

Jim Stynes’ journey from the green fields of Gaelic football to the heart and soul of the Melbourne football club was never as tough as the challenge he faces now.

Combat sports have always made easy fodder for mainstream media pundits, so a multi-million-dollar outfit like the UFC hitting our shores was always going to attract more than its fair share of fist waving and moral indignation. But I didn’t expect it to start so early.

A few weeks ago, I did something far worse to my four-year-old son than hitting him with a wooden spoon. I took him to his first football match. Striking him with a kitchen implement probably wouldn’t cause as much long term mental trauma as introducing him to a world where people agonise about ‘their’ sports [...]

Would the NRL thrive without the influence of News Ltd?

It happens quite often with every sport — and every fan can remember calling bullshit on a story they’ve seen, heard or read, when it must have seemed that they were at a different game that said journalist.

What is it like for fans who get so close then fall so far? Nearly one week on, two Saints fans put their continuing grief into words.

Seven months, 26 rounds of Rugby League, and come Sunday evening it all comes down to to eighty minutes of football in front of a Sold Out ANZ Stadium crowd.