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• Big Dell hangs up his famous white boots

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 500
  Love him or hate him, you certainly couldn’t ignore him. Wendell Sailor, flamboyant and polarising, announced his retirement today and a move into a new role as an ambassador for the St George Illawarra Dragons. Over a distinguished career (that wasn’t without its moments ), Sailor electrified both league and ...
  15 hours ago

• World’s best Hayne not going to Western Sydney AFL

  
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  The man voted the best rugby league player on the planet insists he’s going nowhere, with international footballer of the year Jarryd Hayne quashing speculation of a move to the new Greater Western Sydney (GWS) AFL franchise. Hayne was awarded the game’s highest individual honour at a gala ball in Leeds on ...
  1 day ago

• There will not be a code war in Western Sydney

  
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  There’s been a lot of conjecture about whether or not the Western Sydney AFL team will be successful and even more about the ignition of a “war” between the NRL and the AFL now Kevin Sheedy has been appointed. It all makes good press and it keeps both codes on the back pages during the off season. But ...
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• Hayne named League’s player of the year

  
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  Jarryd Hayne’s stunning 2009 season has earned him yet another major award, with the Parramatta superstar named the international player of the year at a gala dinner in Leeds on Monday night. Hayne was awarded the game’s highest individual honour following a string of stunning displays for the Eels, NSW and Fiji ...
  2 days ago

• Hunt to play just two VFL matches before AFL debut

  
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  Gold Coast will take a huge gamble on giving code-crossing recruit Karmichael Hunt just two VFL games in preparation for his AFL debut in 2011. Coach Guy McKenna has revealed the expansion club is so worried about burn out from back-to-back rugby league and union seasons that Hunt would hardly be seen in Coast ...
  2 days ago

• The NRL can learn a lot from the NFL

  
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  For those rugby league fans who are excited about the potential for the game now that an independent commission seems imminent, here are some ideas that may give you even more reason for optimism. Michael Searle and Co. have advised that the new leadership model will be based on both the AFL and NFL independent ...
  2 days ago

• Sheedy signing exactly what West Sydney needs

  
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  Kevin Sheedy will coach West Sydney on a three-year appointment that will include the club’s first season in the AFL in 2012. That was the bombshell news delivered by the News Limited press late last night which will have the football world buzzing. The western Sydney AFL project suddenly has wings. In fact, ...
  3 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  4 days ago

• Smith not crowing for Mason’s return to Roosters

  
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  New Sydney Roosters coach Brian Smith said he doesn’t care if Willie Mason turns his back on the NRL club to play rugby in Japan. Mason, who has one year remaining on his lucrative contract with the Roosters, is currently exploring his playing options with various Japanese rugby clubs – with the full blessing of ...
  5 days ago

• Matthew Johns’ footy show tackle

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 606
  Further reports on the future of Matthew Johns now suggest the (unnamed) production company he formed with John Singleton could develop a show to compete head to head with The Footy Show . The unnamed company touts everything from a new-look NRL footy show to a Paul Hogan-style comedy variety to a movie with John ...
  5 days ago

• Matthew Johns’ contract expires

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 606
  Former Footy Show and NRL commentator Matthew Johns has declined an invitation from Nine to renew his contract. In one of the year’s biggest media stories, Johns was stood down by the network, following the now notorious NRL sex-scandal revealed by Four Corners . But Johns was never actually sacked by ...
  6 days ago

• If league, union merged, would you support it?

  
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  When the Super League swept through town in the mid 1990s it was all quite sudden. There would have been a lot of planning involved and meetings behind close doors before they launched. Professional sport is a business these days, so it would be naive to think that in a boardroom somewhere, some men and women in ...
  1 week ago

• Giteau backs Tuqiri to be success in England

  
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  Wallabies five-eighth Matt Giteau backed former teammate Lote Tuqiri to be a big hit with Leicester after the English Premiership champions on Monday confirmed the signing of the dual international. The contract is likely to be a short-term one with Tuqiri thought to have come to an agreement with Wests Tigers to ...
  1 week ago

• Roosters looking to get their coop in order

  
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  Todd Carney and the Sydney Roosters must be hoping the NRL club’s new slogan for the 2010 season of “New Attitude, New Beginning” stands up. The Bondi Junction club is desperate to rebound from a shocking 2009 season plagued by embarrassing on-field performances that led to a wooden spoon finish and a litany ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Call to close anti-siphoning’s “loophole”

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 606
  Seven, Nine and TEN have called on the government to close a loophole that allows Pay TV channels to acquire sports events before free to air broadcasters. The claim is submitted by Free TV Australia to the review of the anti-siphoning list. There were 322 submissions received, which are available for reading here. ...
  1 week ago

• Broncos voted Australia’s most popular football club

  
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  The Brisbane Broncos have knocked off the Sydney Swans in an independent ratings survey to find Australia’s most popular sporting team. It completes a double for the NRL’s Broncos who also came out winners in TV viewer rankings compiled by brands researcher Repucom in a study of 2009 television audience numbers ...
  1 week ago

• Plummeting pound is a blessing for the NRL

  
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  There are two things to talk about amongst English rugby league fans: one is the depressing state of the English economy and the second is the arrival in the NRL of Sam Burgess. As I sat on a ridiculously expensive, yet on-time train (and compared to NSW, it actually existed), I pondered how closely the two were ...
  1 week ago

• Conspiracy theories have Kangaroos primed

  
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  Australia are fearing an ambush from their Four Nations rivals with winger Jarryd Hayne claiming England could deliberately lose to New Zealand next weekend if it meant avoiding the Kangaroos in the Elland Road final. While Australia still have their destiny in their own hands with wins in their next two matches ...
  1 week ago

• Rees promises fight over NRL grand final

  
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  NSW premier Nathan Rees has promised Queensland counterpart Anna Bligh a “fight to the death” over the hosting rights to the NRL grand final. Bligh said on Wednesday she was “playing hard” to secure the game’s showpiece after the NRL’s deal with the NSW government expires in 2012. The Queensland ...
  1 week ago

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