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The Mariners have what they wanted out of season 2023/24; a home decider in Gosford. However, Melbourne Victory should be given plenty of credit for qualifying to meet them after battling in fourth gear for much of the season; eventually limping into third place. Yet… Read More »No-one ‘deserves’ anything in sport: Mariners must earn it and lucky Victory will have them shaking in their boots

And so it came to pass: with the weekend’s loss to the Western Force, the Waratahs’ season is finally and definitively dead, as opposed to just being comatose as it has been for most of the year. In some ways the removal of even the… Read More »‘Utterly toxic public relations disaster’: The flaw you didn’t realise exists in Super Rugby’s finals system

The recent woes of North Melbourne have been well documented, but the stretch of not being a legitimate flag contender goes back over 20 years. Only once since the year 2000 have the Kangaroos finished in the top four at the end of the home… Read More »Rather than continuing to bash North Melbourne on a weekly basis, how about we talk about the positives developing

In many ways, sacking the coach is the easy bit. Sure, you have to go and break the bad news to someone you’ve worked with for a long time – over a decade in the case of Brad Arthur – that you’ve had enough of… Read More »The Parra Project: Why the Eels have to be brave with their coaching choice to break the Premiership drought