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Issue No. 129 | 22 March 2002 |
Not So Happy Campers
Interview: Pulling the Pin International: At the Crossroads Unions: A Case Of Lost Identity History: Rocking the Foundations Industrial: Rocky Road Economics: Cracking a Coldie Poetry: The Right Was Wrong Satire: Heffernan�s Evidence Conclusive: Proves He's An Idiot Review: Upstairs, Downstairs
Giant Rat Fights Cole Commission Queue Jumper Abbott In Cash Grab Rabbit Fence Leads Reconciliation to Classroom Council Takes Up Discrimination Challenge Power Workers To Decide Own Fate Fee Pressure Builds on Beattie Nobel Committee 'Subordinates' Union Rights Columbians Level Death Charges Call To Blockade Burmese Junta
The Soapbox The Locker Room Postcard Cole-Watch Week in Review
Letter to Howard #2 Letter to Howard #3 Jump Before You're Pushed
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The Locker Room The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall
********** With the action for the country's major winter codes moving from the law courts onto the playing fields the time has now come for those students of a bit of argy-bargy to concentrate on what they love best: blokes chasing a bit of leather around a paddock. Or at least you'd think this was the case... That great Scion of the Riverina, Wayne Carey, continued to prop up the sports media's fascination with everything unsporting by being the first man in known history to cut his mate's lawn. The fact that Wayne is on the very public record for grabbing a woman by the tits in the not too distant past seems to have slipped everyone's very short attention spans. A great deal of concern was shown for Carey's mental state. At least the media shows the same concern for people who lose their jobs and stare down the barrel of losing everything else in their lives; or those people whose jobs demand more of them than their families can stand. Yes, it's good to see that the media isn't driven by some prurient fascination with the misery of another. Of course when you start with the ego of a league footballer, especially one that's often lauded as the best in the game, you have to start wondering about how long it is before those that live by the sword... Speaking of egos, Bill Harrigan absolutely slaughtered Souths last Friday night. Admittedly the James Packer Roosters ran away with it in the end, but I switched off after it was obvious that Souths' kickers were getting no protection, and that the haircut with a whistle gave Easts every opportunity for possession in the first twenty minutes. After that the Bunnies were never in the hunt. Something is seriously wrong with South African cricket. To see a side roll over like a dead cow in a flooded river in the first two tests was mystifying. Crikey, the Australians aren't that good, as the third test showed. Pick up the Proteas at good odds for the one-dayers which start tomorrow, where they'll put in more of a show. Mark Waugh likes a punt, and why shouldn't he? The fact that he's remained in the Australian test team as long as he has shows what a lucky bastard he is. I am doubtful that he will be picked for the upcoming test series against Zimbabwe, where pitch invasions take on a whole new meaning. Then again, the wildest Waugh mightn't be racing off to back quinellas against the field just yet. There may be more to this than meets the eye. As we've found out of late, there's more to sport than what happens on the playing field - much more. Just ask Anthony Stevens. Phil Doyle is the Back Pocket/Interchange specialist with the Cooma Cats
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