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With the NRL and AFL seasons almost upon us, The Punch has fortuitously stumbled across an ancient parchment. Feasteth thine eyes upon it, and you too shall dwell in the promised land of tipping milk and honey… or some such.
1. Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy (well the Muslim Sabbath day of Friday, anyway)
Friday is the day upon which thy tips must be submitted. At the setting of the sun, thy tips shall be deemed inadmissible.
When the Indigenous All Stars run on to Skilled Park tomorrow night it won’t be just another game of football.
The game has been sold out for months and has been a dream of Indigenous league players and Indigenous people for decades.
For the indigenous players it’s about more than just rugby league – it’s a chance to represent and pay tribute to their communities and people. The game is a celebration of indigenous culture and has great symbolism, but equally important will be the profound effect it has on Indigenous youth.
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Tony G says:
If your going to hold an Indigenous match (which in this country means Aboriginal or TSI ONLY) then the players should ALL BE JUST THAT, which clearly they are NOT. Pacific islanders are NOT Indigenous and neither are red haired or Chinese named persons. The idea was a great thing… Read more »
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RB says:
Spot on.But thats the new PC Australia isnt it….. Read more »
The biggest problem for the AFL in getting a successful presence in Western Sydney won’t be the choice of Kevin Sheedy as coach, it won’t be the home ground or sponsorship and isn’t even the popularity of rugby league as such.
No, the largest hurdle for the AFL in setting up shop in Western Sydney is this: Australian Football is still predominantly a white Anglo/Celtic sport with a culture that doesn’t look anything like Western Sydney.
Right now the AFL doesn’t even reflect the ethnic make-up of its own Melbourne heartland, so how does it expect to sell itself to kids and their parents in the most ethnically diverse part of Australia?
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Steve of Sydney AFL/NRL fan says:
This is quite possibly the worst article ive ever read to compare majak daw (a sudanese refugee) to someone like george gregan (half australian who immigrated here when he was 1) is ridiculous i love league and aussie rules and theres room for both in west sydney. And to say… Read more »
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A Kiwi AFL fan says:
Regarding Pacific Islanders and the AFL, it’s worth noting that the national sport of Nauru is in fact Aussie Rules football. Another one of Shanahan’s arguments takes a tumble ... Read more »
Appointing Kevin Sheedy as coach of the AFL’s new Western Sydney team is a terrible idea.
For one simple reason: The game has left the once-great coach behind.
It’s the equivalent of making Bill Collins the face of iTunes.
Continue reading "Counter-punch: old man Sheedy a disaster for Sydney" »
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Being a life-long Essendon man, it will be wierd seeing Sheeds coaching another team, especially as I was born 2 years after he started coaching the Bombers, for my first 24 years all I knew was Kevin Sheedy being the coach. It was sad but inevitable the day his tenure… Read more »
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Mick says:
Finn, think you have been a tad harsh on old sheeds. Sure his last few years were not the best, but if you look back at the lists Essendon had - they were never finals chances. I think Sheeds is a great fit for a new club, the experience he… Read more »
JARRYD Hayne brought two left boots to the Grand Final. Has there ever been a more tragic footy omen?
The kid from Minto, whose whole life had been preparing for this night, chucked his gear in his kitbag, got on the bus and only realised when it was too late that his signature red boots were both the same.
Parra officials ran around looking for spares. The Eels were gone before the band struck up the national anthem.
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Pissed Off with this article! says:
absolutely agree with Riharna Thomson & Josh.. . . Whoever wrote this acts like they were the Star of “League” before . . .lyk.. WTF??!! . . . Obviously. . you gys need to get someone who isn’t a “from the beginning” a Parramatta HATER… to write the follow up… Read more »
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Riharna Thomson says:
if you think it was a snore you need a good “PUNCH” Read more »
When Fuifui Moimoi was penalised for stripping the ball from holding on to Billy Slater in last night’s NRL grand final, it brought a sudden halt to a late surge by the Eels with four minutes to play.
Moments earlier Moimoi had scored in the corner, carrying two Storm players over the line with him on his hulking frame after barging through the defence in a 22m run. It marked the apogee of the Eels’ resurgence against a Melbourne side that was in control for most of the game.
Before the penalty, the Eels needed a converted try tie the game and force extra time. The way they were playing it looked possible. But with ball now in hand, the Storm kicked downfield and calmly positioned themselves for the field goal. Greg Inglis delivered. Job done for the Storm; fairytale over for the Eels.
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Micha says:
Aw, poor little Parra warra. Even if they did get the penalty, where’s the garantee they would have scored? They would have to convert it to stay in the game and Burt had missed one earlier from the side. And you forget, even if you had scored and converted, it… Read more »
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Ben says:
Killah Kiwi I Think people are referring to Physics, more than anything, that is a ball hit a wall (object) it to some extent bounces back, not the Rugby rules themselves, that Slater was facing his goal line seems rather suggestive unless the ball hit his back, it almost certainly… Read more »
The Eels fought back bravely in the second half, but Melbourne Storm were ultimately too good in a blockbusting NRL Grand Final at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium. There’s a match report here and you can see how our coverage unfolded in the live blog over the jump.
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rob says:
replay proves ball was knocked out of slaters hand replay does not lie ingles coat hangerd on try line that was not payed even if slater was penilised the best parra could have done was put game in to extra time parra got two penalties that they should not got… Read more »
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Zac says:
@Karl…obviously massively one-eyed. Parramatta got a penalty 5 minutes earlier for a Billy Slater drop that went backwards. How does that work??? And the penalty against MoiMoi shouldn’t have been against him, it should have been against the Parra player that clearly knee’d the ball out of Slater’s hands as… Read more »
Parra can win this. All the predictions of Melbourne’s class overwhelming the baby Eels will count for nought when the smoke from the fireworks clears and the ref looks across to the timekeeper.
Grand Finals are the ultimate leveller and are often won by players you’ve never heard of, who get out in the middle and realise decades of training, injury and going home early comes down to this.
Here’s what I reckon the Eels need to do to take the silverware back to Church Street on Sunday night.
Continue reading "Eight things the Eels should do, to win by 8" »
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football says:
truly uninspiring football. I backed neither team but I watched it anyway. It was a total yawn. Where was the entertainment? Totally standard football. The under 20’s was a far better game in comparison. Read more »
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Artie says:
aaah MacHayne…. overrated again… well done storm. Read more »
Television ratings from the weekend’s big finals clashes will confirm for most that Australians love nothing more than large chaps smashing each other in pursuit of a football.
(Why would you watch sport when you can watch Antiques Roadshow, this is great)
But there is now evidence that we are not as sports-mad as we might think.
A new survey reveals that the number of TV viewers who think there is too much sport on their regular channels is greater than those who think there is not enough.
Continue reading "Enough with sport, we might not be that keen on it" »
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jason says:
TV sport is so yesterday…yawn. Someone should start a petition to get sport off TV. Read more »
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Dave says:
Mr Pastry: League, AFL and cricket are sports. Read more »
THOUGHT I might wander out to ANZZZZZ Stadium tonight for the Parra v Dogs game. Who knows? Maybe 70,000 screaming westies can breathe some life into the old Homebush morgue.
The majority of the crowd will be watching Jarryd Hayne, the kid in the red boots who plays every game as if it’s backyard footy and his mum’s about to call him inside for the night.
Me? I’m there to see Hindy, the shaggy-haired old-timer whose work-rate literally leaves his arse hanging out of his shorts at the end of the 80 minutes. Whose sway back and puddin’ guts gives him the look of a brickie in an age when footballers spend more time in Sydney Confidential than the sports pages.
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Tony says:
My 7 year old son has just finished playing he first season of league. Nathan Hindmarsh is his favourite player. I grew up before on the interchange, Pop talked about John Raper, Dad told me about John Sattler and I watched Ray Price. I reckon my boy’s got good taste. Read more »
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i need more information on the advertisment in the punch newspaper of 9/09/09,caution assistant inspector of corps( compass o6) Read more »
Losing is not something we like to talk about much at this time of year.
We’re reminded of the greatest premiership winning teams, the possibility of St. Kilda or Parramatta breaking the drought or Geelong or Melbourne Storm cementing their place as real champion teams.
But given that the team or individual that we follow is more often going to lose the premiership, not win the gold, or fail at the World Cup, our experiences with losing are arguably are more important in defining our support of the team or person than that of winning.
So in the lead up to the two biggest sporting weekends of the year The Punch writers have compiled, in no particular order, the ten teams or people that have let us down or just not performed when it mattered in Australia’s recent sporting history. What are yours?
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Ken Warren says:
4 of your 10 are rugby related… this blog was obviously written in Sydney. Please be aware no-one in Melbourne, Adelaide or Queensland like the game, it’s crap. Rugby/NRL is just a game of grown men constantly grabbing each other and slamming them into the ground. Although, Sydney is the… Read more »
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Mike Stand says:
The 2009 St George dragons surely take the cake. They got the minor premiership purely because the Bulldogs had 14 players on the field for a few seconds, they were beaten easily by the 8th place team that they flogged 1 week out from the finals and then they got… Read more »
I loved this team and still do but, like most things we love at one time or another, it my broke heart.
Neville Wran was wrong when he said Balmain boys don’t cry: they cry a lot when you’re seven and the Tigers lose the Grand Final.
While writing this I’ve come to the spooky realisation that today is exactly the 20 year anniversary of that fateful afternoon on September 24 1989: Balmain Tigers vs Canberra Raiders NSW RL Grand Final.
Continue reading "Balmain 1989: 20 years on the Grand Final still hurts" »
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I was at the game, seats right on the half way line, eastern side of the stadium. I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch the replay in the 20 years since, but i’m positive Benny Elias hit the crossbar during regulation time while we were 6 points up.… Read more »
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Emmanuel says:
For a while I kept the post game article by Warren Ryan. The biggest hype in the week before the game was about how great for the game it would be if Canberra won - it would spread the game if a team outside Sydney won. Ryan said all this… Read more »
Conduct on the sporting field often reflects the values of our society.
As a young lad growing up in Western Sydney and attending Catholic Schools in the 1980s and 1990s it was almost pre-ordained that I would play rugby league - the game that the Patrician Brothers taught me was the game “they played in heaven”.
While the behaviour I witnessed on the sporting field was less than saintly, rugby league became a great training ground for me and many of my team mates as we sought to grow and develop as young boys on the road to manhood.
Continue reading "Some of the spectators are as bad as on-field thugs" »
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Bruno says:
It’s still 30-15 Davo’s way. Can AFL people like ‘Rugby’ and can Rugby fans like AFL? From living in a place where both codes are played it seems to be more one way than the other. Read more »
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Tim2 says:
Davo, you are a fool. It’s really lame when people play the numbers game when comparing quality. Rugby league is a niche sport, played on the east coast of Australia. AFL is a nationwide sport. Of course there are more AFL fans in Australia. But, by your reckoning, Britney Spears… Read more »
This Saturday the pride of the League, South Sydney, will play their last game for 2009.
No finals for the men in Cardinal Red & Myrtle Green.
Again.
Continue reading "The eternal hope and despair of a Souths supporter" »
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Hitchy says:
I feel your pain!....but it could be worse, you could follow the AFL & be a St.Kilda supporter…1 premiership in 85 years!....& 25 ‘wooden spoons’ (colloquial for ‘stone mother less last’)...but this year….this year,.... this year the saints are going all the way!.....maybe Read more »
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Nick Pappas says:
Mark McGrath - always the same old response from a Souths supporter. The fact that Souths have won 20 premierships means nothing when you consider that only 6 of those were won after 1953 when grand finals were introduced. If winning premierships is the yard stick for being the pride… Read more »
Against my better judgment I turned on the rugby union on Saturday night to see the Wallabies vs the All Blacks, traditionally the biggest game on the Australian rah rah calendar.
It was probably at about the time of the fourth penalty for lying on the ball, or wrong side of the ruck or possibly, being rugby, driving the wrong make of luxury 4WD, that the remote finger got awfully itchy.
Soon I was simultaneously keeping up with the cricket, the silly science fiction movie on Channel 10 and Gordon Bray’s running commentary on how that wasn’t really a penalty under law 543, sub section b of the improperly binding to a maul code.
Continue reading "League wins the running battle of the rugby codes" »
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Carl Palmer says:03:31pm | 26/08/09 With respect, what you’re doing on sat nite, or what your daughters boyfriend does to impress you isnt really relevant, but if you think that adds weight to your arguments, so be it. For the record, as it may interest you, Ill be watching my… Read more »
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Carl Palmer says:
Mommo, I originally stated that last year was the first time a football code played a game (i.e. an official AFL home and away game) in every state and territory – yes including, Tassie, ACT & Darwin and whilst they played on smaller grounds still managed to increase attendances. This… Read more »
In a first for the game shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has made the switch from federal politics to rugby league, a move set to infuriate the Liberal Party. Hockey is already playing in the second row for NSW country league team Wests Lions.
Well not really. This is actually from the weekly round-up for the Parliamentary league tipping contest in which I hopelessly partake in.
According to tipping comp organiser and Nationals leader Warren Truss’ press secretary Paul Chamberlin the Hockey doppelganger, a “Matt Watton”, was in pretty good form:
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Dude says:
Come on you guys, league has enough to put up with let’s not bring it down any further. Although it might do him the world of good. Read more »
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Bill says:
Nice work Chambo. Read more »
AFL players kick with both feet – that’s a fact, not a metaphor – so it’s difficult to believe that a full-scale poaching war will follow the Karmichael Hunt defection.
In a typical game of league, only two or three players put boot to ball and the rest couldn’t hit a barn door with a Sherrin. This is clearly a problem for the AFL.
There are other problems, like the fact that league players are built for speed and power, not endurance.
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Josh says:
Darren Lockyer played Aussie Rules as a junior. Sure he is getting old now but he could come of the bench for spells. On the NFL side I think if we had a combined AFL/League and Union team to make up the multiple teams required. An All Aussie team would… Read more »
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Ken from northern NSW says:
To Davo from St Kilda. Kick catch, kick catch zzzz.. The TV ratings are won by the AFL but anybody south of Albury would watch grass grow..that is if it wasn’t all burnt in February, so they go to the footy instead. There’s not much to do in Melbourne anyway…except… Read more »
THERE are certain things you’re supposed to say when people ask what makes you proud of your home state. Nice things like the shimmering Harbour, the Opera House, the SCG or the Olympics.
I would trade them all for the bloodied grin that Brett White gave Justin Hodges in the moments after knocking out Steve Price on Wednesday night.
As the flashy Hodges ranted about payback, positioning himself behind bigger teammates, White simply poked out his bloodied tongue and smiled, mocking Hodges for the pea-hearted, adolescent sook that he is.
Continue reading "Savage dead rubber that breathed life back into league" »
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Mate, if you think Hodges is a coward, how about you step in the ring with him? You like to talk about your pride but the fact is, your team cant play football. For two games I watched with wide eyes at the skill level of the Blues and by… Read more »
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Billo says:
To Pete M: Would you really want to stop their kids playing league because of what they saw on Wednesday? The qualities on display included courage, toughness, strength, tremendous athleticism, wonderful skills with hands and feet, great teamwork, blokes standing up for their mates, and blokes refusing to back down… Read more »
JAKE Friend will slip on the number 9 jersey and run out to play for the Roosters tonight. It will be just under a week since he, along with teammate Sandor Earl, allegedly assaulted a 31-year-old woman in a Sydney nightclub.
Despite being formally charged, they are free to wear the colours of one of rugby league’s foundation entities – and even the most ardent Roosters fan must see that there is something terribly wrong with a club that allows it.
It doesn’t take Jack Welch to point out that a badly managed organisation tends to rot all the way to the bottom.
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GlennA says:
I agree that this is a great headline but not neccesarily with the thrust of the story. Isn’t one of the big problems our readiness to have players hung, drawn and quartered before all the facts of the case are known. I am not saying that either of the Roosters… Read more »
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Heléna says:
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Arnold Layne says:
Watching the Blues’ performance tonight is like watching the great Dragons (ahem) ball-handlers I grew up watching at Kogarah - Pat Jarvis, Graeme Wynn and John Fifita. It’s no surprise Hayne scored the try that got us back in the game. He’s the only one in the first game and… Read more »
For centuries, humanity has grappled with some of the universe’s biggest conundrums.
An intelligent creator or a bunch of randomly evolving strands of DNA? The chicken or the egg? And why does Darren Lockyer have such a gravelly voice?
But there’s one mystery which has divided the great thinkers like no other. Do sporting coaches really make a difference?
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Joe says:
Of course coaches matter. Don’t be an idiot Sharwood. I suppose the better point is that in the Origin arena, it takes a different coach to succeed. The tactical side of it is important, but at this level the guys know what to do. That’s why they’re there in the… Read more »
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Andy from KIRRA says:
I said yesterday that QLD would wipe the Blues - it was neve in any doubt to be honest. Even when NSW gets a free try –courtesy from Jarryd Hayne’s forward pass! So the real score should have been 28 – 14. The only downside to QLD winning game 2… Read more »
As a youngster I used to catch the bus to North Sydney Oval on a Saturday to watch my local team get flogged.
It was like confession for a Catholic – you knew you had to go and you knew what the outcome would be, but somehow you also knew that it was good for you.
Rugby League was always the working man’s sport.
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Despite the seemingly inoperable state that Rugby League can appear to be in at times, the advent of the three-match State of Origin manages to redeem it as an amazing sporting spectacle year after year. It is also a venue in which players are still given the green light to punch on.
Although nothing quite like this anymore (keep an eye on the Blue’s 13 whose idea of tackling is just to come in swining along with a young Paul Vautin)
This year the first match is in Melbourne and some deluded weirdos argue (see below) today that Origin has no place being played in AFL’s heartland. But I say let Origin be staqed in whatever city can guarantee a packed stadium of enthusiastic fans engaging in the lost art of interstate hatred. Furthermore if Melbourne wants an annual Origin clash we should give them one.
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Dave says:
The worst thing about not being at the game is having to listen to Phil Gould commentate (especially now that Roy & HG aren’t on…) He called everything an ‘origin moment’ - things like picking up the ball in the in goal, making tackles, scoring tries - things that happen… Read more »
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Rod says:
Haynes disallowed try: The linesman was so close up and couldn’t see he put a foot on the line? Because he didn’t and the video ref changed the entire game. Along with other decisions, a poor match by the ref’s and linesmen. Bad decisions also by the nsw fullback, Lyons… Read more »
Tonight State of Origin travels south to Melbourne. It should be the last time it does so.
Sure, it’ll be a great chance for the several dozen Melbourne Storm fans to get together, along with several thousand ambivalent corporates who will be chatting over Crownies about whether Terry Wallace jumped or was pushed as Richmond coach.
As a spectacle though it’s an insult to real league fans in Sydney and Brisbane - which offers nothing to Melburnians who simply don’t get the game, and will no doubt be shouting “high!” and “ball!” at inappropriate junctures tonight.
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Well, bring SOMETHING to Alice Springs, please. It’s now cold enough to host curling, tho… Read more »
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Ant Sharwood says:
The funny thing about your analogy about curling in Alice Springs is that Centrebet is based in Alice Springs. And Centrebet offers odds on a huge range of wintry, icy sports because a huge portion of its clients are Scandinavian, who for one reason or another trust Australian bookies. Centrebet… Read more »
In 1991 I stood in a museum in Cambodia staring at a row of photos of people who’d been tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge. I was a young journalist sent there to report on the United Nations arriving in Cambodia to set up democratic elections.
I dutifully took myself off to Tuol Sleng the former school where the Khmer Rouge tortured a bizarre array of people they thought were subverting their regime. No-one visits that museum without emerging horrified by the human capacity for irrational brutality. I wrote an article for the Sydney Morning Herald about my experience. Confident I’d broken new ground in feature writing, I asked a senior foreign correspondent what he thought of my effort. He told me: “Shallow and self indulgent.”
Moral outrage comes cheap.
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Group sex? where? Read more »
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Catharine Lumby says:
@Casey: Email me and I’ll send you the synopsis of the report. Happy to chat further anytime if you’re interested in this subject - which you obviously are in a genuine way. It’s clearly a topic that arouses strong feelings in people - see post above this one, for example… Read more »
UPDATE 7.20pm: Willie Mason has been fined $2000 and ordered to do extra work on his club’s programs that help the homeless.
It’s just a pity it was Willie Mason. Unbelievably, this picture was taken just over 24 hours ago, with Mason deciding the best way to conclude the worst week in NRL history was to piss all over the footpath on a public street outside a Sydney nightclub.
The morning newspapers were squeamish with their use of the photo so we thought we’d run it in full here. It wasn’t a sidestreet or an alleyway either - it was bang in front of dozens of youngsters at the Golden Sheaf Hotel, one of Sydney’s busiest pubs. It wasn’t like Mason deserved a drink anyway - his team the Roosters had just been flogged 38-6 by the unfancied Newcastle.
If only because he brings nothing other than headlines such as these, Mason should be punted from the game. How many lives has this boofhead had? How much contempt has he shown for the code that pays his salary? Follow the furore throughout the day here.
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In a week when the nation was confronted with a $58 billion budget deficit, when more than a million Australians were stripped of their private health rebate, when plans were unveiled to push the pension age to 67, there was obviously one story in town - Matthew Johns.
Knocking the federal budget off the front page of a major newspaper in budget week is no mean feat. The last people to do it were called Todd and Brant. They hijacked the coverage of Peter Costello’s 2006 Budget by spending the previous 14 days buried alive in a tiny air-pocket in the collapsed Beaconsfield mine.
While Costello was frustrated by his own burial on the inside pages, Wayne Swan might have been faintly relieved that, just two days after sheepishly unveiling our biggest-ever deficit, replete with some fingers-crossed growth forecasts which may have us not on the path to surplus but bankruptcy, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph devoted its first three pages to Matthew Johns affair.
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Greg Smith says:
Media silence, you mean. The media must shoulder much of the blame for not reporting these incidents. Sports journalists don’t want to risk their ‘matey’ contacts by reporting on these things. Remember, it was Liam Bartlett who revealed the first of the Ben ‘whathisname’ scandals. Read more »
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Catharine Lumby says:
Agree with much of what you say. The real issue is getting everyone to understand that men treating women in this way is not isolated to a particular sporting code or a particular post code. The blaming and shaming of women who find themselves quite literally ambushed by men who… Read more »
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