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14 July, 2016. 15:025 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact With a dead rubber, pointless rugby league match set to be broadcast in a couple hours from now - the great unsung heroes of Channel Nine sport are furiously doing what they do best. It is believed that the Channel Nine NRL orchestra have been 'flat chat' for the last eight hours under the...

14 July, 2016. 15:025 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Despite having not played a full eighty minutes since 2002, Betoota Dolphins fourth-grade coach Warren “bubba” Fitzsimmons has once again picked himself to start at prop in an elimination final against the Boulia Workers this weekend.   Last week's closely fought win against the minor premiers was not good enough, according to Bubba - who proceeded to name himself...

12 July, 2016. 15:025 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Former Queensland and Australian NRL representative, Steve Price has made an impassioned plea to the frustrated female viewers of last night's Q&A to please stop sending him hate mail. "Please stop. You've got the wrong bloke," he said. The former Canterbury-Bankstown prop's comments after he became aware the he had been mistaken for radio shock...

11 July, 2016. 15:025 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The already anxious Blues fan base were further rattled this morning after it was revealed that then increasingly unsuccessful NSW coach, Laurie Daley, was spotted yelling at several piles on dead rubber one a remote Coffs Harbour rugby league pitch yesterday morning. "It just didn't look right. There wasn't one player in sight," said...

7 July, 2016. 13:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact In yet another blow to youth culture, Premier Mike Baird has today announced the decision to ban Greyhound Racing in New South Wales completely from July next year. It follows a Special Commission of Inquiry, the findings of which were handed to the state government last week. This announcement comes not even six months after...

31 June, 2016. 11:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Blues coach Laurie Daley has today announced the newest inclusion to the NSW Origin management team. Former Olympian Rower Sally Robbins, has been hired by the NSWRL to 'help bring about a bit of ticker' in the most unsuccessful Australian representative sports team of this millenium. Daley says Robbins has proven experience in 'having a...

30 June, 2016. 13:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Local man, Will Chapman (26) doesn't know how his mates can be so 'into this political shit' at the moment, especially considering the current Manly Sea Eagles match-fixing saga. As a staunch fan of both Manly, the NSW Blues and the Wallabies, this health and fitness professional from Avoca Beach has nothing to smile about,...

30 June, 2016. 12:32 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact YOU'RE NOT FROM CANBERRA UNLESS you've headbutted an ADFA warrior during a big Mooseheads session or received some sort of ban from Workies. Or you've told some wok-eyed ATP tennis umpire to go and get fucked. The 21-year-old was been fined $3,380 for unsportsmanlike conduct in his opening Wimbledon match for calling out Swedish umpire Mohamed...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact GILBERT KLOGHEART DOESN'T KNOW how the world could be heating up if the eastern seaboard has just experienced their coldest weather episode in 20 years. Despite loud and ghastly shouting matches with his adult children, the 59-year-old remains unswayed on the issue of climate change. Even as the scientific facts and evidence began to mount...

26 June, 2016. 11:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE MANY THOUSANDS OF private schoolboys that witnessed the latest Wallabies defeat last night have been left picking up the pieces, as their mothers pick their beer-soaked polo shirts from their bedroom floors. Though the series defeat was secured last week in Melbourne, this game was about saving face. Only two hours later, the...