1. Cricket. What a thumping. Old Ronald McDonald the coach will be thrown out on his ear soon. Soft and gentle on the players...and no silverware. It was Justin Langer who won the last T20 World Cup last year. All strength to New Zealand. Too good and too courageous. How often do we see Glenn Maxwell produce in Australia? Not picking Cameron Green was gutless and Aaron Finch should hang his head in shame...and what about those who agreed to this? Steve Smith either plays or he is replaced in the squad. Too many bowlers who don't bat as well.
2. Loud media mouthpieces. Once upon a time it was Neil Harvey. Man Mundine was an expert. Ray Price has dabbled and Jana Pittman was pursued and gave us comments on everything from medicine, marriage/ divorce and bobsleds too. Move over the lot of you...Erin Molan has arrived and re-arrived. Bullied, oppressed, downtrodden, married, divorced and comments on everything, from motherhood and politics. There is a reason her radio show rates so poorly... unfortunately it is all a little boring.
3. Netball. Talk about poisoning the whole sport commercially. $15 million for an organisation that is bereft of business acumen was a bonus. Now everyone is claiming it wasn't them that influenced it. Aboriginal programs are broad and flourishing under Gina Rhinehart and the silly old goose of a father is dead a long time ago. - and with it his twisted, sad comments.
Businesses are rightfully wary about going near sport. I am yet to see a wind farm sponsorship or a 'Climate Change/ Greenpeace' sponsorship of mainstream sport. Has anyone seen this?
If it is a betting company, alcohol, even banks and insurance companies... forget it. Qantas bailed. Cigarettes went years ago (Benson and Hedges, Winfield Cup, Craven Mild Cup), but what is left? Milk (OAK), but flavoured milk is unhealthy, car companies like City Ford are dangerous too...every single one has a fault in the eyes of many of our new age viewers. Casinos are in trouble. Even Souths pledged not to have pokies... is that still in place?
So too much squabbling - bad publicity - and now all players from the grassroots upwards suffer. Cricket has done this as well. Soccer/ Football as well. No strength or substance. Players need to be reminded that your never sponsor sport to make money. Pat Cummins is now a world energy expert too I see. If he took more wickets in T20 cricket instead, we would be better off.
4. Celtic. They break free and now are four points ahead of Rangers (who drew with Livingston) beating Hearts 4-3 on the weekend. I am noticing some loose play this year in Celtic however. They need to be on guard. It could come crashing down.
Liverpool are experiencing this in losing to Notts Forrest 1-0 and their former legend, Steven Gerrard is particularly feeling it having been dumped by Aston Villa. Had to laugh re the home crowd's chant here when the result went to Chelsea 2-0: "you're getting sacked in the morning". And he was.
5. Rugby League World Cup. Love watching tries, but the minnows are a joke really. Addo-Carr is loving it. Jamaica? Italy? Lebanon? Scotland lost 84-0. Bring on the real stuff.
Surely you fill the competition with those games which are fair dinkum contests only and play more regularly than once a week. The squads have enough players to do this. It stands to be a decent competition, but clean out the minnows. The game will never grow there.
John Ribot promised China in Super League (1997). How's that one going? Russell Crowe promised the USA? How are they progressing? (Like NFL in Australia I suspect). We played Origin at Veterans Stadium in LA in 1987. Any day now we should see their excellent steps forward. They are not even amongst the minnows!
6. MLB. The Philadelphia Phillies lead the San Diego Padres 3-1 and the Astros lead the New York Yankees 3-0 in their best of seven games series. Both the Phillies and the Astros look like contesting the MLB World Series (limited to the USA - but played by the best players from across the globe).
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