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1990-92: Allan Border playing a wristy square cut with a grill-less helmet; 1992-93: Mal Meninga taking a hit up; Tony Modra taking a trademark leaping mark, David Campese mid-goose step; 1995-6: Split poster featuring Waratahs Tim Gavin and Sam Payne. Also, several NSW Blues cricketers (Waugh brothers, Michael Slater, Michael Bevan) engaged in elegant strokeplay;…

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If the Sydney Swans football club was a business, it would be ‘liquid’ as fuck. The team is simply overflowing with assets. Just take the midfield for example: names like Josh Kennedy, Daniel Hannebury and Kieren Jack lead the competition in basically every statistic imaginable – with young players like Tom Mitchell exploding onto the…

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Allan Border has threatened an unlikely comeback to the test arena, with the former captain simply fed up with Australia’s top-order batting failures. An angry Border told The Public Apology that Australia’s under-performing top-order lacked courage and commitment, adding that “if these fucking poofs won’t get the runs, then I will!” “I scored 11,174 test…

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My father came home the other night from a boozy dinner with some mates and regaled me with a reasonably interesting but somewhat spurious conversation he had with some bloke at the table. This friend of his has had a long and distinguished career in the medical industry and has, he assured my dad, intricate…

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