Oh, Lordy. Just when you thought this blog had nothing to do with serious sport analysis, bam: Best Off Ground predicts Cousins to Richmond.
Wednesday of last week, right here, I said that Richmond was the perfect fit for drafting Ben Cousins. Just about every club in the league was singled out, but none seemed more appropriate than the Tigers.
Now it is on the front page of the papers. “Tigers eye Ben,” the Herald Sun read. The Tigers are actually looking to sign Ben!
For once, you actually did hear it here first.
Well it’s good to know the director of football operations at the Tigers loves a bit of Best Off Ground during his recruiting sessions. (Kidding!)
And it’s also good to know I can still hit the mark sometimes. (I stress the word sometimes.)
Anyways, my head-wobble session is now officially over, let’s take a look at some other things from the world wide web.
The Roar
I know I promised like no more head-wobble and stuff. But, err, here is a follow-up to Tuesday’s Julius Hodge article.
It’s also got a bit of a 36ers-Crocs game review and delves deeper into the Julius Hodge story.
So all in all, probably a much better read than the original. Forget I even mentioned the Tuesday one.
Just as an aside, I recommend to any hoops writer that they post some stuff on The Roar. We're a little outnumbered over there at the moment.
Scibz’ Spiel
We shouldn’t plagiarise the A-League, according to Scibz. The whole eight team thing is still a hot topic of discussion.
That said, the way things are, the new national league might be lucky to get eight bids anyway!
Oh, and one mental note to come out of it from this end: a national league without New South Wales is not a national league at all.
Write that down, interim administrators, I’m kinda on a roll here.
2 comments:
"That said, the way things are, the new national league might be lucky to get eight bids anyway!"
Unfortunately, it looks like you're right!
A few days after writing that blog I see this article:
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/12/12/31125_gold-coast-blaze.html
Scott Derwin admits that there may not be enough bids that meet the criteria, so they will sort them into two categories: conforming tenders and non-conforming tenders.
All of a sudden an 8 team "league" (I say tournament) looks good, compared to even less.
Oh dear, at least this sport keeps giving us bloggers plenty to of ammunition!
I gotta say, this interim administration is really starting to scare me.
What was with Andrew Gaze in the Herald Sun today saying we may be going semi-pro and moving to winter?
Although I've said before the move to winter would be a success on two fronts (less competition, buys clubs struggling to meet criteria more time), how can one person in the administration, Gaze, completely contradict another, Derwin (saying that the competition would definitely go ahead next year).
And all this after the review stated "key appointments" would be made in November.
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