Crio wants to know what rule change in any code would make your sporting life better in 2013.
Crio’s Question: Who was destined for greater things?
December 4, 2012 by 29 Comments
Ricky Ponting’s retirement announcement triggered fond reminiscences. There are some wonderful anecdotes of his formative sporting days from blokes who knew even then that he was marked for special honours. Who have you “spotted” well before they became public property?
Crio’s Question: When sportsmen are “spent”
November 26, 2012 by 8 Comments
Du Plessis cramping and Siddle doubled over may well be the enduring images from the Adelaide Test.There’s something inspiring at seeing a person search for their full potential – “leaving it all on the field”. Who has some mental imprints to share?
Crio’s Question: grand-genes
November 19, 2012 by 4 Comments
Nick Compton opened the batting for England in the First Test at Bangalore. He is the grandson of the great Denis Compton, the original Brylcreem boy, a champion cricketer and Arsenal footballer, kindred soul of Keith Miller and trailblazing professional sportsman. Can talent skip a generation?
Crio’s question: Performance enhancing
November 11, 2012 by 5 Comments
What’s wrong with doing whatever it takes to be the best?
Crio’s Question: Commitment!
November 7, 2012 by 3 Comments
All punters, for a variety of reasons, have their trainers and jockeys to whom they turn when in need. Who are yours?
Crio’s Q: Fox sports packages
October 29, 2012 by 15 Comments
How do fellow Almanackers manage their contracts with the payTV providers?
Crio’s Question: Terms & Conditions
October 22, 2012 by 2 Comments
The stream of betting promises will become a torrent over the next fortnight. Billboards, jingles, radio and TV. Directed at the trendy and the trilby. They’ll try greed, humour, logic. Some are pretty clever. And they all have the same goal – you.
crio’s Q?
October 8, 2012 by 9 Comments
A “good media performer”…that’s what you wanna be.
Pays heaps, carries cred – opens doors. Develops a “brand”.
Draftees get trained up very quickly.
Be slick or be a “character” – Ch9/MMM bank on a JB/Billy duet.
Crio’s Question: one club conundrum
October 3, 2012 by 22 Comments
Crio invites us to consider the idea of players remaining at one club for their entire careers and asks what factors decide on how we remember those who have played at more than one club.
Crio’s ? Set in Stone
September 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
I was at Marcellin College last week when they revealed a sculpture commemorating a revered mentor and chaplain, John Carnie. They’ve memorialized him seated on the wing overlooking the Oval, forever gazing on the sportsgrounds and still able to offer silent counsel to those in need. It was a wonderful decision and his pose reminded [Read more]
crio’s Q: Cattle or Trainer?
September 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
How good the trainer? or You gotta have the cattle. $3m for Malthouse. Lyon engineers Freo resurgence. Gai set to dominate Spring. Coaches/trainers/managers forge big reputations. They are big news and command big incomes. But how can you rate them? Alan Joyce (not Qantas’!) is a dual Premiership coach. Hirdy’s side missed the finals. Is [Read more]
crio’s Q: MRP shambles
September 10, 2012 by 9 Comments
Mark Fraser. Peter Carey. Paul Broderick. The MRP. “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem”. Apparently there is widespread dissatisfaction (dismay/distrust) with the AFL’s Match Review Panel. It’s a soft target. Who’s got a solution? crio
crio’s Q: It’s luncheon season
September 4, 2012 by 9 Comments
It’s lunching season and Crio wants recommendations for the best lunches ahead.
Crio’s Q: “Deus Absconditus”
August 27, 2012 by 3 Comments
If you don’t mind, Umpire! As usual, the umps have copped a bashing this AFL season. The “deliberate” epidemic at Subi the other week generated another outburst of “worst ever” vitriol on talkback radio. We all seem to recognize a bad umpire….but what makes a good one? Last year, under the magnificent title “Deus Absconditus”, [Read more]
crio’s Q: Of long stops and long sleeves
August 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
What a winter! I’ve driven past some bogs in recent weeks, marvelling at where the full back could find footing for his kick-in. Some grounds are just sodden, others mudheaps. “The Age” on Monday highlighted the conditions for the VWFL (NW Div) GF here With Junior finals proliferating I assume Almaknackers have been to some [Read more]
crio’s Q?
August 14, 2012 by 21 Comments
Earnest Ernest again looked home for all money in the last at Warwick Farm until Heartbreak Hotel “jumped out of the ground”. “Ernie” finds ways. He is talented but has become a “muncher”. He is cruelly misnamed. Those who bet on omens or names are often quick to skite. But traps exist. After his failed [Read more]
crio’s Q?
August 5, 2012 by 3 Comments
Fans don’t like their side losing. It always hurts. But after the Hawks had reeled in the Cats yet still lost, I wondered… would you prefer to get beaten by “lengths” rather than by a “nose”? crio
Crio’s Q: Olympic armchair experts
July 30, 2012 by 5 Comments
Every four years armchair experts adopt a sport, its rules, its champions and its scoring nuances. Outside of the Olympics there is very little general interest in beach volleyball or diving or table tennis or women’s 400m running….. But, from under a rock we emerge to absorb and then challenge Drew Morphett, or Sandy, or [Read more]
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