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THE GUY WHO LIKES SPORT
Just another guy watching games and thinking things
THE GUY WHO LIKES SPORT
Who am I?
I'm just another guy who thinks his takes on various sports and pop culture are worth listening to. Are they? Probably not, but I need somewhere to air them. Yet another Bill Simmons impression. Anyway. I have a law degree, work a corporate job and wish there was something else that I could be doing.
This is that something.
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Every AFL Head Coach as a Succession Character
Succession is ending tomorrow. I have loved Succession. I also love footy. I wondered about combining them. Is this going to work? Not...
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Thank You, Dimma
The best scene in The Godfather, in my estimation, is the scene in the garden where Don Vito tells Michael that it will be Barzini who...
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Eternal Truths Remain True in Haney v Lomachenko
Own the lead foot outside position, and you will own the fight. That has been true in boxing since the dawn of the sport. This truth...
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Could Francis Ngannou be MMA's Michael Jordan?
In the wedding episode of Succession, Connor Roy says to his soon-to-be mother-in-law that Ebenezer Scrooge, beneath it all, was actually...
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Haney v Lomachenko Preview
After one of the grimmer weekends in recent boxing history – which feels a bit like saying “it was one of the more violent weekends in...
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Who Is Most Likely to Win The Premiership from Here
We are through just over 1/3 of the AFL season and there is a pretty clear division between the wheat and the chaff. We have a season...
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Who Would Tasmania Pick First?
With the relatively recent news that Tasmania is getting an AFL team, it prompted a big question in my mind. No, it has nothing to do...
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Watching the Tigers This Year Doesn't Make Me Angry. It Makes Me Sad.
There’s a certain melancholy that comes with watching Richmond this year. In a ladder bet before the season opened, I had the Tigers...
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This Can't Be Easy for Nathan Buckley.
This can’t be easy for Nathan Buckley. He seems like a nice fella, albeit he is one of the world’s most prominent FIGJAMs. Right up there...
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Tank Is The Best Lightweight in The World
Gervonta “Tank” Davis is the best lightweight in boxing. It was probably true before he destroyed Ryan Garcia on Sunday afternoon, AEST....
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Ross Lyon and Brad Scott are Singing From The Same Hymn Book
If you ask Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino they will say that they’re not copying, they’re paying homage to the great directors...
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Have the Cats finally run out of lives?
Terminal lucidity, also known as "the surge", is a fairly common medical phenomenon. It’s defined as an unexpected return of mental...
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Are the 2023 Tigers Ready for Broadway
I’m not quite sure if this year’s Tigers are ready for Broadway. We’ll find out on Friday night when they play a marauding, corridor...
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Tyson Fury is Damaging his Legacy
Tyson Fury is the single best heavyweight I have ever seen fight live. He is that rarest of beasts: the chameleonic heavyweight who can...
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Is Chris Fagan a Wartime Consigliere?
Chris Fagan believes in Brisbane. Brisbane is where he made his fortune. And he raised his team in a Brisbane fashion – from the ground...
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Tim Tszyu Is Not Just Another Nepo-Baby
So much of the lore around boxing basically amounts to poverty or hardship porn. Almost every boxing documentary starts with the story of...
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The Friday Night Footy Watchability Index
Welcome to the first annual Friday Night Footy Watchability Index! The concept of the gimmick is simple. All I’m doing is putting all the...
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AFL Would You Rather: Non-Victorian Edition (other than Geelong)
The AFL is a national competition. Has been for a while, as a matter of fact. People forget that, myself included. In my previous piece ,...
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Would You Rather? Preseason Edition
Would you rather have a teleporter or a time machine? Hawthorn fans would probably answer time machine, harking back to the halcyon days...
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The Ballad of Alexander Volkanovski
Alexander Volkanovski lost his last, biggest fight. That sentence is true and false. It’s true that he didn’t get his hand raised after...
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