As the business end of the World Cup is played out in Paris,the Wallabies’ plight burns bright.
It seems set to fail at a national level,but kudos to those in Australian sport for doing what I regard to be the right thing.
Straight after Penrith’s 2022 grand final victory,I predicted they would three-peat this year. Will they make it four in a row? I’m tipping a team that hasn’t won the premiership for over a decade.
I called it after last year’s grand final and again in April:the Panthers will go back-to-back-to-back. They are too strong across the park and you always have the sense that they have another gear in them.
You can trace the Swans’ evolution from running joke to credible team on their way to being a real force to Ron Barassi’s arrival in Sydney.
Let’s get the Rugby World Cup up to 24 teams for Australia 2027 so we can enjoy an uninterrupted festival of matches like the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The Wallabies will (probably) just win their World Cup opener,and that’s just what Australia’s coach wants.
In most industries,an employee being punished physically by fellow employees on the command of the employer would be outrageous. Is it different in professional sport?
Eddie Jones told me he picked Will Skelton as Wallabies captain because he had the capacity to bring the team together. Then I watched it happen before my eyes.
I don’t remember a time when a sporting team has so perfectly captured the zeitgeist that it is not only empowered by it but doing a lot of empowering along the way
It’s been four years since Alen Stajcic controversially lost his job as Matildas coach. He was making headlines for all the right reasons this week at the Women’s World Cup.