In recent weeks the ABC have been running a thing about the best 40 Ashes moments of the last 40 years and, as you can imagine, on Shane Keith Warne features regularly.We are creeping up on the anniversary of David Boon’s classic catch for a hat trick, there is the […]
Yearly Archives: 2021
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There are some great days on the Australian calendar.Days that we have fun like Christmas, days where we celebrate too hard like birthdays, days we remember like ANZAC Day and days we commemorate like the Easter. There are days of mourn and party at the same time like Australia Day, […]
How many times have you heard when recruiting from other clubs, “I’ll stay, I just want to play with my mates.”?Every year, every coach in the word tries to attract a new player to their club and every year this line gets trotted out. And rightly so. Playing sport with […]
Who remembers the “Milo Man”?You know? That person who would come to your school when you were in primary school and teach you how to play cricket in your phys ed lesson?They would usually come armed with a bag full of bats, balls, stumps and batting tees and show you […]
What a whimper!Did anybody else know it was National Coaches Day on 8 October?Nah, apart from seeing one hashtag and posting a quote from legendary NFL coach Tom Landry I all but missed it myself. There seems to be a day for everything these days. World Spider Appreciation Day, National Pencil Case […]
Is Dean Boxhall a nutter or coach invested?It’s been plastered all over the news all over the world, the reaction of Arianne Titmus’ coach Dean Boxhall when the TASMANIAN won the 400m freestyle in Tokyo, seemingly weeks ago now.Boxhall carried on like a pork chop when his charge beat home […]
Every four (sometimes five) years hockey comes squarely into focus with the Kookaburras and Hockeyroos taking on the world at the Olympic Games. High Performance careers are usually well established by this time, even for younger Olympians like DiamondBacks Hockey Club star Josh Beltz who will head into the games with […]
From a young age Aaron Kitchener has been involved in coaching hockey. Even as a year 10 student he was forging a path toward a career in the sport. When most young men were discovering partners, cars and potentially other distractions like beer, Kitchener was working hard coaching junior hockey players, umpiring […]
Tucked away in what a lot of people call “the sticks” is a football club.Just your average, run of the mill “country” footy club. I say average because like so many clubs, this one deals with the same pressures as any other. Recruitment, retention, cost of balls, umpires’ fees, liquor licencing […]
Condensed Sport is Still Sport.It’s a far cry in this world for people to play footy in the winter and cricket in the summer, blokes especially. The options to play a greater variety of sports, even in Tasmania, are abundant. A classic example was when my eldest son was six, he […]