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Last article on my beloved @TheRoarSports for the foreseeable future. This one is for you @pvlandys to remind you what you thought was important when you started running the @NRL. theroar.com.au/2022/04/14/th…
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TG intriguing answer asked when he would start giving Mary Fowler 90 minutes. Anyone know who would be stopping him? Player or medical?
"As soon as I'm allowed to play her 90. This camp I wasn't. She had a couple of issues we needed to deal with...
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"We also have to look at player well-being and protect the, I would love to play her 90 minutes when I can."
No follow up from the 10 crew on that one.
#Matildas
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Tony Harper retweeted
Horse Race Journalism. Prof Jay Rosen on how NOT to cover elections. Worth watching, folks.
2 1/2 minutes that sums up everything wrong with Australian political reporting
In 2010 American professor Jay Rosen came to Australia and nailed it with "horse race journalism".
His damning critique of Insiders, and Leigh Sales' defensive reaction, is worth it alone
#auspol
Tony Harper retweeted
Journos: Hey Albo, unemployment?
Albo: Err 5%, umm, maybe 4. something. Jeeze, I don’t know…
Media: [Goes Crazy] AAARGH! This it it! Story of the Year!!!
Journos: PM, about the $500k hush money paid to protect Tudgey?
PM: I know nothing about it.
Media: [Yawn] Ah Ok.
Stolen from @TheRoarSports
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Tony Harper retweeted
On Sunday, the board for the 2032 Olympic Games was finalised. On Tuesday, Gillon McLachlan announces he is stepping down as AFL chief executive. I have him at $1.01 to be the Brisbane 2032 CEO #olympics
Tony Harper retweeted
You might have seen a wee clip going round of Trent Barrett declining to answer one of my Qs on Sun.
The Q was legit, though, so I had a dive into why his halfbacks don't get the ball, and what the Dogs might do about it.
As always, in @TheRoarSports
theroar.com.au/2022/04/12/th…
Tony Harper retweeted
So sad to hear about Chris Bailey today. Deliciously provocative, I spoke to him in January 2022 for the #almostamirror podcast - about early Saints, being down and out in Paris & London, murals & & Tracy Pew. #chrisbailey #thesaints podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
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City will get there eventually. In 20 years, when a generation has grown up with City favs in their playgrounds and classrooms they’ll get the level of disdain other big clubs have. But it isn’t there yet. Most current adults aren’t arsed about City.
Tony Harper retweeted
This is the crux of the Liverpool v City ‘rivalry’ thing that flared up this weekend. I think a lot of people dislike Liverpool. Not sure anyone really has strong feelings about Manchester City. Liverpool v United is accepted as a big rivalry. City don’t promote strong feelings.
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Tony Harper retweeted
Heaven forbid we ask an evidence-based question to a guy who averages 1.4 tries per game about why his creative players touch the ball less than everyone else's creative players when we spent a week talking about his main creative player.
(Trent can answer however he likes, btw)
Get around @Minwoo27Lee - he has a fabulous personality to match his prodigious talent.
Had a brilliant chat with him for @athletesvoice a few years back which his corporate PR stripped of all that personality, then got the shits when we wouldn't run his dire rewrite.
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Tony Harper retweeted
"We’ve created a two-speed football economy in Australia – one where supporting a European club is considered cool and chic, while supporting an A-League club is almost a lost cause worth laughing at," via @TheRoarSports #WeAreALeagues
This @haribaldijones bloke is a fabulous #rugby writer - funny, intelligent and entertaining.
And this is another cracker, busting the myth that the modern game is robbing fans of action.
theroar.com.au/2022/04/08/th…
