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On today's edition of The Almanack Report, international rugby league returned to the sporting calendar for the first time since the covid outbreak, and what a refreshing and amazing time it was. Six nations pitted against each other in three Tests, with proud men showing true emotion during the anthems as to what it meant to them to be able to represent their country in a rugby league Test match....

On today's episode of The Almanack Report, coming out of the two years of Covid, cricket has managed to survive reasonably well, but it looks as though now the world bodies are looking for a way to recoup all of their monetary losses, and that revolves around the bastardised form of the game, T20 cricket. And the danger of over-proliferation of this less-cricket part of the sport is already well a...

On today's episode of The Almanack Report, can anyone understand how the Logies, Australia's so-called premier awards night for television, is still a thing? When Covid came along and made the whole thing disappear, there seemed to be not one iota of complaint from anyone in the industry or the viewing public. And yet, this week it has resurfaced, with all of the same problems. We'll have a run th...

On today's episode of The Almanack Report, the US Open golf provided a brilliant final nine holes with a three man battle to win the right to lift the cup, and saw three of the sports brightest talents showcase their skills on one of the world's toughest courses. It provided an interesting backdrop to the battle that has opened up between the PGA and LIV Golf, and we'll take a look at the circumst...

On this episode of The Almanack Report, the NSW Blues have chosen their squad for the second State of Origin rugby league match of the season, and despite the coaches trying to play down why so many changes have been made, it smacks of a massive panic attack, or an admission that they completely stuffed up their selections for Game One. we take a look at the squad and try to come to grips with wha...

On today's first exploratory episode of The Almanack Report, we discuss the Gold Coast Titans continuing fade into obscurity in 2022, and wonder if they have anything left in the tank for the remainder of the season. We've also seen the start of the northern Test summer, and after a first day that saw 17 wickets fall can either team take any positives from that opening position. Sure, so maybe the...

Australia's mens cricket schedule for the next 18 months has now been released, and it is one that is packed solid, such that the players will barely have time to take a breath. In amongst both the T20 World Cup and the ODI World Cup, Australia also has marquee Test tours of India and England, as well as plenty of other bilateral series in all three formats of the game mixed in between. On today's...

Another round of footy is behind us, and with it an increasing injury toll that is beginning to affect some clubs as they look to push towards both the Origin period and their ability to play finals in 2022. We also came to learn that the obstruction rule is not as black-and-white as the NRL may have led us to believe, and that the sin-bin is having a much greater influence on matches now than it...

Australia woke on Sunday morning to the terrible news that former Australian all rounder, and in the top three of current cricket commentators Andrew Symonds, had died in a car crash aged just 46. On top of other recent losses of cricket greats in Rod Marsh and Shane Warne, this one felt harder. Symonds always carried himself like a normal bloke. He didn’t seek the limelight like Warne, he didn’t...

Throw the coaching books out the window, forget about sitting down and trying to methodically work out your tips for each weekend, because it looks as though it is all just a complete waste of time. Magic Round didn’t provide a lot of what people might consider Magic, but it did provide some surprise results and matches that will have a far greater consequence on the outcome of the 2022 season tha...

It has been an oft-quoted mantra in Australian cricket for 150 years. “If NSW cricket is strong, then Australian cricket is strong” as well as “NSW players get a baggy green cap when they get their first baggy blue cap, it just saves time later on”. For the past five or six years, NSW has provided the entire Test bowling line up as well as arguably its two best batsmen, and of course they have als...

So Round 9 wasn’t quite as simple a round to predict, though the upsets came from different angles and have shown up some deficiencies where one would not have expected. The Panthers lost a game, that at least can stop the speculation that a team could go through undefeated in the modern age. The Broncos came to Sydney without arguably their two most important players and still towelled up the Rab...

It would be fair to say that Round 8 of the NRL contained its fair share of surprise results, either through unexpectedly close games or from upset results that will have turned a number of clubs on their ears. As always, we’ll run the rule over the weekend’s results and ponder whether they are something to worry about as we reach the 33% mark of the regular season. Today’s Talking Point brings us...

On today’s episode you can listen to me carry on like a pork chop over the plethora of squads that Cricket Australia’s selectin panel has announced for the tour of Sri Lanka coming up in June and July. Four separate teams have been announced, including squads for all three formats of the international game, as well as an A team squad to help give some upcoming contenders a chance to show their war...

On today’s episode you can listen to my dulcet tones as I bring forth five points arising from round 7 of the NRL, and offer up discussion points for you all to consider as a result. Have Penrith and Melbourne already done enough to lock in a Grand Final match up come the first Sunday in October? The Dragons and the Tigers have found a way to win, but will that be enough going forward? The Knights...

So we’ve reached the end of round four of the NRL season, and things are starting to settle into place. Have there been some surprise packets? Yes there have. Have there been some obvious points as well. My word there has. Would you say the season is over for some teams already? That’s a soft yes at this stage. On today’s program we’ll take a look back at the results for round four and how the tea...

As we have begun to come out of weeks and months of covid lockdowns and isolating for days or weeks on end because family has caught the virus, we have all slowly come around to realising that it would be nice to have get togethers. Do you remember them? They were events that you may have organised to celebrate a family member’s milestone, such as a birthday or anniversary, or to invite some frien...

Super Saturday in the NRL is here again, with three games of varying quality and interest to get you through the day. So before you head to the fridge and grab a beer and one of your daughters Kristen Keene donuts, why not check in with Peters & Peters as they give you the good oil on all of todays matches. First up it's the Warriors and the Broncos, followed by the Sea Eagles and the Raiders,...

Thursday night NRL is here, and to bring your their thoughts on the Clash of the Year between the Titans and the Tigers, here is league’s most knowledgeable duo Peters & Peters!  Note: 'knowledgeable' could have been used for the purposes of humour.

Where to now for Australia’s men's football team, the Socceroos. It has been a disastrous few months, winning only one of their last seven qualifying matches, and as a result failed to make automatic qualification for this year’s World Cup. Now they face an uncertain two knockout games against good opposition in order to be in Qatar later in the year. But is it a matter of poor planning and respon...

Is it time to just take the follow on out of cricket? For all of the lack of good it is, certainly at the international level, where it looks as though enforcing the follow on is a thing of the past. Teams rarely use it, wanting to retain the advantage they believe they have in bowling to the opposition last on a day five pitch, no matter what type of lead they have following the completion of the...

Has the game of rugby league evolved to the point that the law makers have to start thinking about the integrity of the competition when it comes to sin binning and sending off players during a game? We are only three rounds into the competition, and yet we have seen several matches that it could be said have been unfairly influenced by the fact that a team has been reduced to 12 players for a ten...

It's the final day of the second round of the NRL for 2022, and there are two tough matches to negotiate within it. So why not leave it to your favourite duo Peters & Peters to get to the nitty gritty of the matches to offer you the reasons why two teams will win and two teams will walk away as complete losers. Today's matches will be between the Knights and the Tigers, and the Bulldogs and th...

It’s Super Saturday… or at least that is what Josh tells me… and so Peters & Peters offer up their thoughts on todays three NRL matches for you to entirely dismiss with a wave of your hand. So wade in and listen to three pretty average previews of today's matches between the Titans and the Warriors, The Sharks and the Eels, and the Cowboys and the Raiders. #PetersAndPeters #NRL2022

Friday night rugby league is here to save the masses once again, and Peters & Peters return to offer their expert(less) opinion and commentary on tonight’s two matches in the NRL, with absolutely no bias against the Roosters. Tonight's games are Dragons vs Panthers and Roosters vs Sea Eagles. #PetersAndPeters #NRL