Ann Cahill Lambert tells us about the latest innovations and collaboration in sports science. The University of Canberra’s new Sports Commons facility gives the ACT Brumbies (Super 14’s finalists this weekend) and the Canberra Capitals a leading edge.
Rebels mark two opt for substance over stardust
February 28, 2014 by 3 Comments
Tim Ladhams thinks the Melbourne Rebels rugby union franchise have chosen substance over style this season, and will be all the better for it.
Mandela and Sport
December 7, 2013 by 13 Comments
Peter Baulderstone reflects on the life and miracle of Nelson Mandela. Mandela used sport to communicate and inspire. Sport used Mandela to find the ‘better angels’ in its own nature, and in those who play and watch it.
McKenzie’s new game-plan Cummins to fruition
November 18, 2013 by 3 Comments
Tim Ladhams reckons the Wallabies have turned the corner, and that Ewen McKenzie’s side is on track to be real contenders for the next World Cup.
McKenzie has Wallabies moving in the right direction
October 21, 2013 by 1 Comment
Tim Ladhams has been sweating over a hot plasma screen all weekend, monitoring several sports for the Knackery. To his trained eye the Wallabies cup is becoming half full, after Robbie Deans spilled most of the contents over recent years.
Folau shows the way as Wallabies break the shackles
October 7, 2013 by 2 Comments
Tim Ladhams can see a light at the end of the tunnel for the Wallabies. And for once its not an All Blacks winger wearing a miner’s lamp.
Door reopens for Smith but closes on O’Driscoll
July 6, 2013 by 3 Comments
George Smith will line up for the Wallabies for the first time in almost four years in the Lions tour decider in Sydney.
Fortune favours the braver Wallabies
July 1, 2013 by 3 Comments
Australia’s momentous victory on Saturday night was a triumph of ambition over execution.
James O’Connor holds Robbie Deans’s future in his hands
June 28, 2013 by 3 Comments
Robbie Deans has put his future as Wallabies coach in the hands of James O’Connor, and if last weekend’s performance is repeated it may well be the last meaningful decision he makes.
Wallabies v Lions: Izzy Izzy Izzy, Oi Oi Oi
June 24, 2013 by 2 Comments
Not since David Beckham landed on his backside in a penalty shoot-out in the 2004 European Championship quarter-final has such a mishap decided a major sporting occasion.
AFL Rounds 11, 12, 13 – Bye Bye AFL: Memo – Grasp the light
June 23, 2013 by 6 Comments
Footy, and interest in footy lives and dies on the weekly conversation. The weekly cut and thrust at work, at home, in one’s mind. By scheduling each team to have a bye over a three week period, the AFL has diluted interest in the competition over this entire period.
Let the umpires off their philosophical hook!
August 21, 2012 by 5 Comments
Once I smugly looked down on Rugby Union. Its penalties seemed to contribute far too much to the final score and, worse than that, they seemed trivial and opaque. Fans apparently waited with bated breath and accepted the direction of the referee’s pointing arm with the best good humour they could muster, and then mutter [Read more]
Hangies and Rugby
December 8, 2011 by 4 Comments
Hangies and Rugby. A few days of farm work and, somehow, cutting back from the coast and its relentless winds, I‘ve found myself in the back of a city, over a river and all the lights that frame it, drinking at a hangi with a group of Islanders. Most of them are from PNG [Read more]
Beware an All Black
August 19, 2010 by 7 Comments
It is often said that a nation’s sporting teams are a reflection of the nation itself. While stereotyping nationality is fraught with obvious dangers, not least being ridiculously generalised, there seems to be a reasonable body of evidence to suggest that the way in which a team goes about their work does indeed reflect the [Read more]
New tricks for a new Dog by Stephen Cooke
April 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Muzza had taken it upon himself to provide me with an impromptu coaching session. It was my first night of training with the Capella Cattledogs and I certainly needed the help. I was a Victorian (“Mexican”), followed Australian football (“aerial ping pong”) and had never watched a full game of rugby in my life (“inconceivable”). [Read more]
Bring on the footy. PLEASE
by Tony Robb Now that the summer sports caravans have packed up and moved north I felt it was time to reflect on a few of the not so published happenings of recent months. While CA and FA have been suitably chastened for their collective ineptitude I believe that a few other individuals and teams [Read more]