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Lord's has had a see-through sight-screen at the Pavilion end for more than a decade now. It's made of poly-carbonate. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/3682441.stm I'm surprised other cricket grounds haven't followed suit considering the seats behind the bowler's arm are prime viewing...

The tweet got the gist of things but was off the mark a little. It was during a Mercantile-Mutual Cup game at the Adelaide Oval in 1997/98 just after they had installed the retractable lights (which proved to be unreliable/dangerous and were soon replaced by permanent ones). I'm pretty sure SA...

This carping about the number of Indians in the crowd is a bit silly. I'm in Sydney. I wanted to go the game with a couple of mates. We'd have taken the day off work. Tickets have been sold out for ages. It's not like Australians have snubbed it - plenty of Indians just got in first. Luckily...

Disclaimer: I'm gay. At the moment, any straight couple can go find a celebrant, lodge the requisite form, wait 30 days, get a couple of witnesses together and get married. They can have a ceremony on the same day which ties in with it all. Many people look back on such a day as one of the...

It's actually Morgan's face-to-face polling that's out of whack. Morgan's phone polling has been shown to be reliable and it usually has the ALP about 3-4% lower than their face-to-face poll. The Poll Bludger's impartial William Bowe has noted this regularly.

The problem with just keeping one division while expanding the league is that it creates a lot of dead space. Let's say the AFL eventually goes to 20 teams. By halfway through the season you are going to have more and more teams playing for pride. The alternative is increasing the number of...

This last Grand Final would have been the first time Melbourne did not have a majority of Sydneysiders going for them. In 1999 Melbourne were still a bit of a fairytale themselves. St George Illawarra had a good chunk of the city behind it, but more people were going for the Storm. In 2006...

For those of you questioning the inclusion of two spinners (and two legspinners at that), it's worth noting that Bill O'Reilly was a very different style of bowler to Shane Warne. O'Reilly was six-foot-two and used to bowl at a pace approaching fast-medium ie. close to 130 kilometres per...

You can't sin-bin players for an act of foul play in Rugby League. It's either a send off or on report. I don't think the ref could have sent him off considering how low Inglis was to the ground. It's still a bad incident mind you, and Barrett will have to answer for his actions at the...

It's worth remembering that you need to take First Class stats into account when judging players from years gone by. Test Cricket used to be much less frequent and many players made their reputations in First Class Cricket, just as Aussie Rules players make their name in club football...

Back in the mid-19th century Rugby was still a kicking game. You could only score points by kicking a goal. When the ball went out of bounds behind the goal line the side that touched it first would get to kick it back in. If the attacking team got there first they would invariably kick it...

Cumberland is actually a very good name for the team. Most of the Sydney metro area is in Cumberland County. The Cumberland Plain virtually is Western Sydney. It takes in Campbelltown, Penrith, Windsor and Parramatta. The only problem is that it's dropped out of usage a bit - but it would...

Junior sport is the main problem with Saturday afternoon football in Sydney. But it's also been a long time since the Saturday timeslot (when it was around) was allocated to a high profile game. For most of the time in the 90s the Saturday game went to one of the dud games of the...

If the NRL want to make this an annual clash (which they should) then it should really be played in Auckland each year. Kickoff at 2 or 3pm Auckland time and the match would be finished before the Saints/Roosters clash in Sydney. It would also be finished before the kickoff at the MCG for...

That's not suprising. Ian Meckiff was called for throwing on the 7th of December. Jack Kennedy had been shot dead two weeks earlier on the 23rd of November. Kennedy's shooting still being on page two at the time sounds pretty fair to me.

This is a case of people jumping to conclusions without really thinking things through. Barack Obama did not write the stimulus bill. Hell, he didn't even read it (it's 1073 pages long) - he just signed it. He used his influence to get some things in the bill, but plenty of other things found...

Yes, we need to be wary of ANZAC Day falling victim to jingoism. And there are many other conflicts that often get overshadowed by Gallipoli. But Keating's comments give fuel to people who detest the very idea of ANZAC Day (I'm not including Keating in that category - but as usual, he's shown...

Bringing back the Bears is necessary for Rugby League to move forward. The Super League war still leaves a bitter taste in many people's mouths. Bringing back the Bears on the Central Coast would put a full-stop on the whole debacle. Rugby League's treatment of the Bears was a disgrace...

The Telegraph tried to do this last year as well. It ran a "get behind Manly as the Sydney team" line. Well nothing is going to make this Sydneysider follow Manly against anybody. If the vast majority of people in Sydney don't support Melbourne over Manly on Sunday I'll walk naked down...

All I know is that for two weeks in September 2000 people were genuinely happy. Locals and visitors were embracing each other and signing songs together. People revelled in their country's wins, but that was secondary in the end. People from all corners of the globe were enjoying...

Oh dear. I suppose that's the reason why the State Government spent 100 million dollars on making the Olympic Stadium suitable for Aussie Rules. As a result it is a less than perfect venue for the rectangular codes. There's four Rugby League matches in Sydney every round. What do you...

Regarding the two 14k crowds this week - Sydney is very fickle when it comes to the weather. I was at Parramatta Stadium on Friday night and it absolutely bucketed down. Anyone not in the stand got soaked; not just a little wet, I mean absolutely drenched. The weather was similar all day...

I find it funny that your argumment places so much weight on Elliott, Lehmann and Bevan not being recalled at similar points in their careers. But it's a furphy. Lehmann was dropped from the test side in early 1999 as a 28 year-old. He was recalled to the team in late 2002 as a...

This is another Turkey of a format. During the first four weeks we are going to play 42 matches - 30 of which will involve a minnow - to narrow the tournament down to eight teams. I wonder who those eight teams will be. With six matches for each side it's almost a given that the eight...

Perhaps we could combine the two famous Napoleons together and call him Napoleon Blown-apart?

Indoctrinating? If Catholic schools are trying to indoctrinate children then they aren't doing a very good job of it. During my time at Catholic schools the teaching of religion actually acted as a force to stimulate debate. This idea that the study of religion is just an excuse to...

It's a one-week thing. Melbourne looks forward to the GF all year. It's bursting for it to come. It's in the blood. But Sydney gets up for it in a big way too. It's like the Melbourne Cup. People may not show a great passion for horse racing throughout the year, but that one day is a very...

I don't know why the above post isn't in paragraphs. I tried editing it but it just keeps going into block form. I know how annoying it is trying to read a post that's not paragraphed. Cheers.

Australians aren't that different. All over the country we love our sport. The Rugby League Grand Final is as big a deal in Sydney as the Australian Rules Grand Final is in Melbourne. Grand Final parties are a long-standing tradition in both cities. Aussie Rules does have a greater hold on...

Zemanek was a stirrer. Jones, Laws, Carlton and co. are not stirrers. They're serious. George Wallace was a Governor - it's a post that requires you to take him seriously. But if you took Zemanek seriously then you were missing the point entirely. Stan Zemanek would host his program...