Personal Reflections

Saturday in Sydney has been windy, cold and miserable, just the day to stay at home to do some writing. Instead I went to watch school rugby...

The Olympics really haven't grabbed me this year, primarily because I haven't watched it on TV and consequently haven't had that...

Just when things seem so good seems to be the time when the wheels come off. On Tuesday 17 November 2015, ABC TV ran a documentary,   Pl...

This post returns briefly to an old theme that I have been meaning to come back to, the progressive evolution of world rugby union. The  t...

It's hard not to go past the Melbourne Cup . It was a complete fairy tale that had absolutely everything. I almost didn't watch....

I fear that I have been greatly distracted by the Rugby World Cup. Our campaign began in Copenhagen on Friday 18 November at the Globe I...

As you might expect, the New Zealand papers are covering the World Cup Rugby in blanket fashion. I can understand that. This places New Ze...

Australians and New Zealanders are, to put it mildly, sports mad. The photo shows the All Blacks' haka at Cardiff prior to their game ...

We had driven down that morning from the Cotswolds to watch two of the Rugby Union World Cup pool matches, Wales playing Fiji, followed ne...

Much sport around at the moment. Probably least said, soonest mended the better about Australia's performance against England in the ...

Again sidetracked this morning by the women's world cup. Again frustrated by the difficulty in actually finding the SBS live feed....

This morning's muse has been sidetracked by schools and rugby.. My old school TAS ( The Armidale School) has decided to go co-educ...

One of the reasons why we need to keep politicians and indeed law enforcement agencies out of public grandstanding on specific legal or quas...

The NSW GPS (Greater Public Schools) rugby competition is on again, so I spent much of yesterday watching my old school, TAS  (The Armida...

Yesterday was certainly a sporting day, with three Australian teams playing internationals in three sports in three countries! Crazy, really...

Today I feel like a break from more serious stuff. Well, not too serious anyway. One of the issues at present in Australia is whether or n...

I spent most of Saturday watching the Scots School Boys Invitation Rugby Sevens competition.   It was quite fun. This shot shows the Armi...

This post is a brief follow up to Sydney school sports' wars . The bigger post that I wanted to write is taking time. There is a very bi...

Here in Sydney, the issue of the professionalisation of sport in the GPS (Greater Public Schools) competition has finally broken into the op...

A hot day yesterday in Sydney for the football and election. I wandered off to see TAS (The Armidale School) play Newington in the last game...