Random Sports Comments

2005-12-05T12:49:00.000+11:00

Umpires are bad

Well that is what the West Indies and I dare sya England are thinking about after some of the shocking decisions given in recent test series. Cricket umpires have been getting really bad and seem to be relying on TV replays a lot more.

England were given many bad decisions against Pakistan and the West Inidies have posted an official objection to some of the blatantly bad calls given to them against Australia.

Lets hope it improves..

2005-12-04T11:05:00.000+11:00

Aussies Crush NZ
Australia has smashed NZ in the first Chapple Hadley Trophy. After starting poorly the Aussies unleashed for the bat and set the NZ a fair total of 5 runs an over to win.

NZ started exceptionally poorly and was down 6/34 afer some classic fast bowling from Brett Less and Clark.

Its good to see Australia have the fire in its eyes again.

Can NZ bounce back, I doubt it ... Go Aussies.

2005-12-01T19:40:00.000+11:00

Horse Tips 2nd Dec

Some horse tips for 2nd December 2005 :

Hamilton Race 5: Elles Angel
Hamilton Race 6: Palawan Pearl
Ipswich Race 3: Babinda Half
Ispwich Race 8: Jungle Echo
Ispwich Race 9: Feelin Dandy

Good Luck

2005-11-28T22:02:00.000+11:00

Horse Tipping 28 Nov 2005

Some tips for tommorrow include :
Pakenham
4 - Fleeting Sun or Miss Serious
5 - JeUnique

Others to Keep an Eye on (just watching) :

Townsville
3 - Lion Prince
4 - Rising Interest
5 - Cashie

Taree
8- Strong Breeze

Pakenham
7 - Super Serene

Have a great day punting

2005-11-25T12:57:00.000+11:00

Soccer/Football Club World Championship

CAPTAIN Dwight Yorke yesterday promised Sydney FC fans that the team would not go to Japan next month as whipping boys of the FIFA Club World Championship.

While sydney may be from a poorly Fifa ranked company the Sydney soccer team believes they have what it takes to be compeittive at the world club championship.

Soccer is a growing sport in Australia and any good results can only go to enhance the sport.

Sydney will play Deportivo and if successful will play Liverpool.

"We'll be underdogs, there's no doubt about that. We have just got to go out and play our own game and give a good account of ourselves and play to our maximum. "If we can do that we can give anybody a game but, at the end of the day, we know Liverpool are the team we want but it's not going to come easy. "We have to be prepared to work extremely hard to get past Deportivo.

Good Luck to them in this Football quest. I hope they get to play liverpool as it will be great for their confidence and will show the world we can play soccer.

2005-11-24T12:37:00.000+11:00

Shark gets bitten

Greg "The Shark" Norman who is one of Australias best all-time golfers was severly undermined by Mark Hensby. Mark regarded Greg Norman as someone who does not give back to the game.

In response to this there has been many commentators and golfing peers rushing to defend Greg Norman. Should he be defended ? I don't see him at all these days helping out and he is so far out of the limelight that he has almost lost golf celebrity status.

My personal belief is Mark was right about what he said, Greg should be giving more back to the game. Greg may have "helped out" earlier in his career but lately he has not done much that is in the public eye. He could influence sponsors and help out the Aussie tour, but it doesn't seem like he wants to. I could be wrong and he may have done heaps but none oif it is in the public eye which is his fault.

Lets hope this gives him a kick in the arse and he gets out there and starts doing something for the golfing community.

2005-11-22T12:33:00.000+11:00

Australia is dominant in Cricket

After losing the Ashes to England, the Aussies have dominated the next few series they have played. They have just thrashed the West Indies in the second test match and they murdered the World XI. Perhaps they were off in England and had lost the will to win but they seem to have got it back now.

Go the Aussies.

2005-11-18T20:50:00.000+11:00

Rugby League High Tackles

If anyone has been following the tri-nations for the rugby league then you would surely be following the poor judgement made for the 1 match suspension of Vagana. If you don't follow rugby league or have not heard, a high tackle was made by Vagana which unfortunately caused Britians halfback Paul Deacon to require reconstructive surgery. He was in a life threatening condition at one point. For more on the story read http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,17279391-23214,00.html

One match is surely not enough. Careless or not, the other player now can not play for an extended period due to Vagana's reckless tackle. My thoughts are that the person who commits the offence should NOT be allowed to play again until the injured player is available for his team again. This would put a major stop to careless tackles which are high. Vagana misses one match payment which Deacon has no idea when he will be able to play again thus missing countless match payments.

I hope the Judiciary thinks about the suspension they gave considering the uproar and hopefully they will keep this in mind when faced with similar situations.

2005-11-17T21:46:00.000+11:00

Soccer - Turkey might get banned for 2010

Turkey is in trouble after Switzerland defender Stephane Grichting was reportedly taken to hospital after clashes in the tunnel.

The match ended with tempers flaring, and footage showed Switzerland player Benjamin Huggel kick a member of the Turkish coaching staff as he ran off the pitch. Then defender Alpay aimed a kick at Streller as the Swiss goalscorer went down the tunnel towards the dressing rooms, and the trouble erupted.

This could be big news in the enxt following days espcially if Turkey gets banned .... keep an eye on it.

2005-11-17T16:26:00.000+11:00

Australia Demolishes West Indies

Australia has taken a firm grip on the second test against the West indies. A short time ago the WI team were only 130 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.

Macgill had taken 3 quick wickets and was in sensational form.

While Austrlaia lost to the English in their last test series they are a compeletly different side at home. The Austrlaians have dominated the games and look like the will win every game this series.

England on the other hand has been simple BAD. They lost to Pakistan in the opening test when they really had controlled the majority of the game. The English appear to have lost the edge that gave them the wins against the Aussies.

Ahhh well anyone who took the short odds of 1.24 for the aussies as I did would be very happy right now.

Good Luck

2005-11-17T12:09:00.000+11:00

HORSE RACING TIPS

These aren't great tips today but have a look at the following for some value.

Coffs Harbour Race 7 /3 SANDY SHORE
There are a lot of good horses in this race. I would only look at SANDY SHORE if the value was available. Next Best is UMDINGER.

Pinjarra Race 9/1 OLD GRUNDY
This horse has a chance in this race. He is only carrying 56Kg so I doubt it will hold him up to much.

Good Luck.

2005-11-16T23:03:00.000+11:00

AUSTRALIA WINS

Australia is finally going to the world cup again after a sensational demonstration of goal keeping. Uraguay had their chances but in the end Australia scored the only goal in normal time to tie up the series 1-1. Both teams had their chances in extra time but it came down to the brilliant goal keeping skill of the Aussies to get them through. Australia won the Pentaly Shoot out 4-2.

It was good to see after the poor sportsmanship and bad attitudes of the Uraguyans. I am glad to see their "Divine right" did not come true.

Go Aussies ...

2005-11-16T18:13:00.000+11:00

Horse Racing

Well I like to follow the horses and the dogs. I thought I might post some of those tips on here to keep track.

Today I took only 2 races

Ballarat Race 6
Home Sweet and Miss Dettori.
The Winner was Home Sweet at $2.40.

Ascot Race 3
The QuarterMaster and Hello Doctor
The Winner was "The Quartermaster" at $4.80

Total bets were $4 and the return was $7.20

YAY a nice little profit.

2005-11-16T12:37:00.000+11:00

Soccer Qualifier - Australia vs (disrespectful) Uraguay

Well what can I say about this match up today. Austrlaia has big problems scoring. Since they are down 1-0 already in the series it is going to be very hard for them to come back.

Some good things were that Austrlaia at least dominated for a while in the first game, but as we have seen could not score.

Uruagay are not my fav team and their fans should be ashamed of the way they behave. Anyone would think it is some kind of war going on between the 2 countries based on their poor behaviour. At least the Austrlians can be proud of their supporters and the way their management have acted. saying that it was good to see their change of time last match backfired on them and caused them more stress than it did to Australia.

Oh and another thing that was said was that Uraguay have a devine right to be in the playoffs ... what a load a crap. They won 2 world cups ages and ages ago ( before I was born ) and they have done nothing since. They may be ranked 17 in the world but that doesn't give them the right to be there ....

Anyway

My heart says Australia to equalise early in the match (before half time ) and win on a penalty shoot out.

But really everything is in Uruaguys favour. Better Players, aready scored, Good defenders, etc.

For those wanting a bet I am going to throw $5.00 on a 1-0 Australia win and $5.00 on a 0-0 scoreline.

Oh well... Go Aussies.

2005-11-16T12:28:00.000+11:00

This is just going to be a random blog and some of my thoughts on Sports shown in Australia.

Just testing for the first post