ABC Sport Digital Editor. I’ve edited newspapers in Torquay, Geelong & Brisbane and by gum it put them on the map.
Joined September 2009
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Jun 13
So grateful for the work that went into this. The incredible journeys taken by the players in the @Socceroos squad to get to this World Cup. abc.net.au/news/2026-06-14/o…
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Jun 12
The umpiring has not been good tonight, but what’s been worse has been the camera angle decision making. Poor all year but at its worst tonight. Feels like maybe some level of automation has been introduced. #AFLCatsSuns
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Swamp has just pulled out his greatest stat of all time.
Jun 8
2026 R13 is the H&A round in the @AFL era with the strongest positive correlation between a match’s final margin & the distance between the ground and the CBD of that state's capital city
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Jun 7
A totally objective analysis of Why Australia will win the World Cup.
open.substack.com/pub/declan…
#suivaus #socceroos #worldcup #fifaworldcup
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Jun 8
Took a couple of goes on the train home but we got there. Just needed an OK full forward on the bench.
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Jun 5
Over the last 24 hours I’ve speed run the development of 23-0.com.
It’s simple — pick 5 players from the 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s, and simulate how they’d go leading a side through a 23 game season.
Give it a go, see if you can find the perfect mix to go perfect!
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Jun 7
V/@AFL rounds with 5 games decided by 6 or fewer points
2016 R21
2018 R20
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Jun 7
@sirswampthing
5 games 6 points (1 goal) or under in round 13 2026.
How many times, if any, have 5 or more games been decided by 1 goal or less?
Lobe your work.
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Jun 4
EXCLUSIVE: ESPN used AI to help create several visuals for Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the network tells @FOS, and is “evaluating” whether it will continue.
An image of Tony Parker drew online backlash, but there were other visuals, including one of Bill Russell.
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You can't be mean enough about this stuff because blowback is the only thing that's going to keep nonsense like this from becoming a permanent fixture of sports broadcasts
Could ESPN really not find a genuine shot of Tony Parker as they cut to an ad break? Just had to use AI
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Could ESPN really not find a genuine shot of Tony Parker as they cut to an ad break? Just had to use AI
Jun 4
Did ESPN just use an AI version of Tony Parker in that cut to commercial?
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Jun 4
Cats now with three losses by less than a goal. Been a fascinating watch in those tight ones because that composure of old just isn’t quite there. #AFLCrowsCats
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Jun 4
Hell of game, but if the AFL is taking head injuries seriously surely questions have to be asked about how Hall-Kahan was allowed to keep playing. That’s a brutal hit.
Hugo Hall-Kahan and Toby Murray both went down to the rooms following a collision.
#AFLCrowsCats
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May 31
Aiden Markram, right-arm quick bowler, with no ball, for some reason running away from the batter, who for some reason is in whites
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The classic T20 scenario where a wicketkeeper, wearing batting pads and batting gloves, plus a helmet, takes a diving catch parallel to the square leg umpire, who is next to TWO square leg fielders, both wearing whites, with floodlights on under midday blue skies.
AI sucks.
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May 31
ABC Sport is live blogging the #Socceroos friendly against Mexico and will also do the game against the Swiss, as well as having a consistent live presence during every match of the #FIFAWC.
abc.net.au/news/2026-05-31/s…
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May 29
Mick Malthouse on @abcsport on the Bombers coaching process:
It will be a sham, it smells already. You can almost see those that are around, those that have any sort of position have already pushed the button. The fact that James has said yeah I'd love to have the job and there's nothing wrong with that to say I would love the job but I just can't see how any senior coach that's out of the game would put his hand up and go I'm going through that. It's already been decided.
And any young bloke will go through it just for the process of understanding what it's like to be interviewed.
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May 29
I maintain that bad coaching is the only thing that’s stopped a Blues and Demons dynasty fight. This is exactly where Carlton should be. #AFLBluesCats
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May 27
As a Geelong supporting Queenslander can I just say how much I enjoy seeing Ford on the Maroons jersey.
I’ll never buy a Ford but I like the aesthetic. #Origin #Stateoforigin #downwiththesimondslogoongeelongguernseys
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May 27
It was about eight years ago I asked two reporters at the CM to compile a list of 25 future Origin players. Sam Walker’s debut tonight takes the strike rate of that list to 16 out of 25.
He was so off the radar that we literally had no photos of him for the article.
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May 27
Others out there tonight from the article are Carrigan, Grant, Cobbo, Fa'asuamaleaui, The Hammer, and Flegler. Plenty of others not out there tonight including Walsh. Hell of a strike rate.
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