Category Archives: Sport-general

Congratulations Neville Sillitoe

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Nicholas Gruen

We were thrilled at midnight last night to discover that Neville Sillitoe received an honour. Neville has been around for some time. He ‘discovered’ Peter Norman as Norman was running in Princes Park in Melbourne in the 1960s. He won … Continue reading →

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Let’s have another World War!

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Paul Frijters

Sometimes, it feels like 1910 all over again. Then, a confident Germany was the up-and-coming industrial power house, fearing an even more up-and-coming Russia, with the UK and France desperately holding on to their colonial empires. Now, a confident China … Continue reading →

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Some Game of Thrones Season 8 speculation

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Paul Frijters

Let me indulge, purely for entertainment value, in some fan-speculation on what we will see on-screen after the Long Night is over and the final 6 episodes Of Game of Thrones are run in 2019. Let me first talk about … Continue reading →

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Tennis before larger racquet heads

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Nicholas Gruen

Noticing my checking of vids of Wimbledon, Youtube has been serving up far too many excerpts of tennis for my own good but I’ve got a bit of a fascination with how the game has changed. Anyway, this is as … Continue reading →

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Fire and ice

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Nicholas Gruen

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s2Ybgtc7XA4 Last night I came off a series of deadlines and sat in my chair, catching up on a backlog of emails. I also watched David Stratton’s series on David Stratton with some Australian Movies worked into it currently on iView (episode 2) which … Continue reading →

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Collingwood

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Nicholas Gruen

I wrote these words just before we nearly threw away the 2010 Premiership. [I]t’s hard to figure out what exactly the plan is up forward. In the case of virtually any other club, if a mid-fielder gets the ball and … Continue reading →

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The gamebrand’s the thing

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Ken Parish

It’s well past time to reconsider our communal attitude towards professional sport.  We’re subjected almost daily to scandals about drug cheating, gross and usually drunken behaviour  by sports people, rorted salary caps and match-fixing by players colluding with bookmakers and … Continue reading →

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