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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The AFL is crisis this week, after light has been shone on a systemic programme of covering up positive drug tests that most young blokes thought was common knowledge. This come after explosive comments made in Federal Parliament last week, in which Independent Federal MP Andrew Wilkie alleged he had a signed statement from former Melbourne doctor Zeeshan Arain...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT Two men from opposite sides of the tracks that both claim the same footy team have finally crossed paths over the weekend at the Royal Easter Show - an iconic agricultural fair that takes place in Sydney Olympic Park, which is the official boundary between West and Inner-West. The 1999 merger between the Western Suburbs Magpies and the Balmain...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Just one year after the NRL competition was expanded to include a second Brisbane team, and the wear and tear is starting to show. Aside from including two more rounds per season over the pandemic period, the NRL has also added and an array of new exhibition matches, representative matches, and trial matches - in their efforts to get...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Queensland Premier Steven Miles is now realising very quickly that the Greens take-over of inner-Brisbane now means it will be nigh on impossible to build any decent public sporting facilities north of the Moorooka Mad Mile. This comes after the NIMBY anti-Olympics movement stamped their feet right through a local council election that nearly delivered a Greens mayor. While...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT With a 32-0 thumping of the Gold Coast Titans at home, The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs shone brightly like the sun off the skulls of their excited fans over the weekend. Round 3 of the NRL Premiership saw Multicultural Round come to the most multicultural home-ground in the entire competition, with every single variation of Eastern Mediterranean Australian and a handful...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Penrith Panthers are under fire this morning, after allegations that the three-time NRL champions made a coordinated effort to ruin the good looks of the only handsome bloke in the game. Brisbane Broncos heart-throb Reece Walsh has suffered a facial fracture in a nasty bump with Taylan May last night, a collision that has left him with stitches...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In shocking news for NRL fans who once had a grandfather who lived in Balmain before it was gentrified to hell by graphic designers and kids with allergies, it seems that the Inner-Sydney footballing institution of Leichhardt Oval may no longer be hosting three games a year. This comes as the Inner West Council, which controls Leichhardt Oval, informs...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The fabled Tasmanian JackJumpers have today begun their slow but steady march towards an NBL title. The JackJumpers team are famous for being made up of sentient humanoid tree like beings that stand at nearly 4 metres tall, who generally mind their own business unless being attacked by outside forces. They are the National Basketball League's newest but...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In one of the greatest examples of the Australian media's delusional sense of self-importance, Rabbitohs star Latrell Mitchell is this week under fire for setting a bad example for the 634 people who listen to FM radio broadcasts of NRL matches while driving trucks or sitting in a jail cell on a Thursday evening. In what could be written...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In the world of AFL football, Carlton have only just bested a limping Richmond by five points at the MCG for round 1 last night. Just one week after their 46 point pumping of Brisbane Lions at the Gabba, the Blues have been very lucky to notch two in a row. with 12.14 (86) to 12.9 (81) in front...