Sports

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA woman who doesn’t give two shits about sports has this week been thrown into the deep end, as she witnesses a side to her husband she’s never seen before. Zara Tully is said to have known about Jason’s love of rugby pretty quickly into the relationship, but had been able to avoid seeing him go feral as...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former Parramatta Eels icon Nathan Hindmarsh has today spat the dummy, after being denied a hero's welcome at his old club. The 49-year-old former captain was reportedly left feeling humiliated, after making the effort to take off his big-shot-TV-host hat and lend some tips to the young fellas at a Wednesday training run. This comes ahead of Sunday night's Battle...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Momentum is growing in Sydney's second city this week, as the Parramatta Eels quiet and graciously begin preparations for the 2022 NRL Grand Final. Pandemonium will break through the Western Suburbs this weekend, as the embattled Eels take to Sydney Olympic Park for a 'Battle Of The West' against their neighbours the Penrith Panthers. Not since their 2009 Grand Final...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT The producers at Fox Sports are believed to be working overtime this week, as they attempt to pull together a whole week of fact based NRL content. After spending the entire season fuelling unsubstantiated rumours and concocting hypothetical storylines like the producers of Love Island, The Advocate understands Fox Sports’ most click-baity TV program, NRL 360, is...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The parklands surrounding the Melbourne Cricket Ground have become a makeshift morgue for Swans scarves and other supporter apparel as the Sydneysiders failed once again to bring the bacon home from the sporting capital of Australia. Yarra Park sits adjacent to the sporting complex, creating a buffer between it and the cosmopolitan East Melbourne district....

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | ContactThe AFL Grand Final Parade has made its way through the city of Melbourne today, including a portion taking place along the Yarra River for the very first time. The Yarra, notorious for its ability to carry and spread waterborne disease, many of them fatal, has little in common with the comparatively fresh and flowing rivers found up in...

RORY SALAZAR | Finance | ContactMarty Verkuylen (41) could not quite believe his luck in being one of the lucky Cats Members to get a ticket for him and his son to go to this year’s AFL Grand Final taking place at the hallowed MCG.His gratitude and sense of wonder has buoyed him this last week as anticipation builds towards the exhilarating contest.And...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The common rock pigeon tasked with running the entire marketing division of Rugby Australia has assured boss Hamish McLennan that people know that the Wallabies are playing tomorrow. Speaking to Mr McLennan from its Auckland hotel room, the pigeon explained that the game at Eden Park was already a sellout and that he didn't have...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT This Saturday marks perhaps the most jam-packed day of of sport in the 2022 calendar. Right across the nation, TVs and stadiums will be hosting some of the most-watched football matches of the year. With the Wallabies playing a pointless but significant Bledisloe test against the New Zealand All Blacks, an ever-powerful South Sydney Rabbitohs taking on the unforgiving Penrith...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact The AFL has once again reminded the nation how fucked in the head their culture and leaders are today. While most people are aware of how racist the AFL and its Southern and Western clubs are, a new report has revealed just how crook the people who run the game can be. An external review commissioned by the...