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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With another week of holidays left, local man Roger Deen (35) is demanding more cricket. He joins thousands of other Australian men who don't feel they are getting enough between the 9:30 am test openers and the final Big Bash batsmen at around 9:30pm. "This fucking rain isn't helping things" "I just want to be able to watch 2000 over...

5 January, 2017. 15:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact After scoring the first of many hundreds to come, opening Test batsman Matt Renshaw explained to The Advocate this afternoon that his celebrations last night were cut short because of Sydney's LockOut™ laws. Rolling out of an Oxford Street establishment at closing time, the 20-year-old struggled to find another venue in the...

4 January, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Hundreds of migloos around the nation were shocked earlier this week after footage emerged of former NRL superstar Chris Sandow fighting another man in his hometown of Cherbourg. The 27-year-old was seen trading blows with another man, over what the mayor of the town as described as 'an argument between mates after a...

30 December, 2016. 17:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Footscray-born coffee technician Banjo Tuesday explained candidly to The Advocate this afternoon that he was actually at the group cheering on the Australian cricket team as they record a historic win over Pakistan at the MCG. As opposed to rolling his eyes whenever any of his morning clients speak about sports, Banjo...

19 December, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Rubbing his hands over his wearing brow, national cricket coach Darren Lehmann is currently pulling any hair he can find. As the Pakistanis edge closer and closer to a historic victory, the 46-year-old is beginning to feel the pinch and pressure that a loss such as this can and will bring to...

BRUCE BACHETTO | Editor | CONTACT Andrew Bogut is having a hard time making friends at his new team, the Dallas Mavericks. However, it’s not his basketball that has his new team mates turned off. “Melbourne was voted most livable city in Australia – again” says Bogut. “I just really want the boys to understand what a great city it is. It’s so much better than...

5 December, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE PRIME MINISTER OF New Zealand, John Key, is the latest head to roll after the All Blacks' shock loss to Ireland last month - a national scandal which has seen politicians and rugby officials receive widespread criticism and death threats. Key's resignation comes after one senior rugby administrator was sentenced alongside...

4 December, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact AFTER WHATS BEEN described as 'just another Wallabies tour of Europe,' coach Michael Cheika has shrugged off calls for him to step aside, saying that while he's no Eddie Jones, he's certainly not another Robbie Deans. Speaking to the media after the Wallabies 37-21 loss to England in London overnight, Cheika said...

25 November, 2016. 12:02 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact RATHER THAN SPENDING THEIR weekend the traditional South Australian way - listening to Hilltop Hoods, stoned out of their mind on clonazepam, four Adelaide mates have tentatively bought tickets to Day Four and Five of the Third Test, thinking that there's an off chance it might go the distance. However, the current form of the...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Australian cricket captain, Ricky Ponting, has put the blame squarely on our nation's town planners in the wake of another "very, very poor batting performance" that led to a heavy second Test defeat. "How do we expect to find any young talent when majority of our countries junior players are growing up in apartments? Or worse off the...