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If there's stumps or goalposts in the ground, I'll probably be watching...
- Member Since:
- September 2008
- Based In:
- Canberra
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- the Australian cricket team, and the Wallabies
- Favourite Sports:
- Cricket, Rugby,
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- Brett McKay
Latest Articles
The Bledisloe headaches for Ewen McKenzie
3 days agoThe Wallabies are all set to name their team for the First Bledisloe Test today at midday, and it will be very interesting to see how Ewen McKenzie shuffles the puzzle pieces. The Wallabies face New Zealand at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on Saturday night. Everyone has a thought on who should play where, and […]
Waratahs title drought ends: The new challenges ahead
5 Aug 2014Three days on, and it’s still difficult to think of a Super Rugby decider that tops the Waratahs’ last-minute triumph over the Crusaders in Sydney on Saturday night. The 2000 final, where the Crusaders pipped the Brumbies in ironically similar circumstances might come close, but it didn’t (from memory) quite captivate for the full 80 […]
Super Rugby Final preview: The stats that matter
1 Aug 2014For our Super Rugby final preview, we thought it might be useful to present the cold hard stats, given that the Waratahs and Crusaders have both arrived at the last game of the season in great form. Every week this Super Rugby season, SANZAR has sent out ‘match packs’ on each game outlining all manner […]
Super Rugby final favouritism: Surely it’s obvious?
29 Jul 2014I have been genuinely surprised to read and hear suggestion that Michael Cheika’s team will start the Super Rugby final as anything other than favourites. The Waratahs finished the season in top spot, scored the most tries by some margin, and conceded the second fewest in the competition. They’ve comfortably been the best team in […]
Commonwealth Games Preview: Rugby Sevens
25 Jul 2014Rugby Sevens first featured on the Commonwealth Games program in Kuala Lumpur in 1998, and has been included in every Games since. The event will be run over two days, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July – the first weekend of the Glasgow 2014 schedule. Sevens will be played at the Ibrox Stadium, home of […]
Commonwealth Games Preview: Hockey (Men)
25 Jul 2014Australia’s reigning World Champion Men’s Hockey team, the Kookaburras, head into the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow later this month facing one their biggest challenges in recent memory. Largely, it’s all of their own doing. Still riding high after their recent World Cup win in The Hague, the Netherlands, in June this year, the Kookaburras head […]
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