Big Baby Hird

James Hird, was once dubbed the Saviour of Essendon, yet now he resembles a spoilt child as he divides supporters while simply satisfying his own vanity.

His legal battle has all the hallmarks of child who has been refused what he wants. He's been told 'NO' time and time again yet he continues to push and pull well beyond the clubs limits. 

His first babysitter, Bomber Thompson is long gone. Fed up with his inability to grow up and accept responsibility. 

Now the club has decided he still needs looking after. So like a bad Hollywood sequel, lets welcome the return of Hird's father figure - Kevin Sheedy.

TJR says time's up for Hird. Cut your losses Essendon and send your baby off to Boarding School.

The Inaugural "Raph Clarke Medal"

The season has ended.

Hawthorn wins another premiership. Whoop de fucking doo.

St Kilda win a wooden spoon, Lenny Hayes retires. Put a fork in them. They're done.

Priddis wins the Brownlow. Deserved it, but who honestly saw that coming?

That leaves only one thing left to work out: Who were the worst players of the season?
This is the battle of the bottom dwellers, the shit kickers, and the all round disgraces to the game.


This year it was a tight affair. To qualify for this prestigious medal, players must have played a total of 8 games, and be hated more by their own supporters than the opposition.

We will begin with the runners up. These two players gave it a red hot crack this year, but finished tantalising short.

3. Travis Cloke
Travis Cloke returned to his poor form, poor kicking and poor fashion choice. In an average year for Collingwood he wasn't worth his over the top pay-packet. He's just lucky his brother Cameron has already shamed the Cloke name enough that one poor year won't damage it any more.

2. Zachary Dawson
Zac Dawson continued to be his ridiculous self. The man is hated by every Fremantle supporter yet Ross Lyon still wants him as a son in law. I actually don't understand how this child gets a game. He'd honestly struggle to break into Blackburn's senior backline. Shocking player, even worse bloke.

As stated above, these players all worked tirelessly on their ability to miss a target, miss a tackle, and miss a goal. But there was one player who surpassed all this year.
So it is with great honour, that TJR announces the winner of the inaugural Raph Clarke Medal  to be....

TYRONE (cheapshot) VICKERY

Tyrone Vickery represented everything that was wrong with the Tigers in the first half of the year. He looked suited to EFL Div4 at times as he dropped chest marks and imparted nothing but misguided violence.
Some men buy expensive cars to overshadow their certain shortcomings. Tyrone simply throws punches to hide the fact he can't actually play football. It's as though he thinks that physicality can make up for being ineffective, clumsy and difficult to watch. His season was summed up in one hit on outgoing West Coast champion Dean Cox.

Vickery's cheap shot

A worthless, expendable, useless and all round weak player. He sports a face most men would love to hit, and now he finally has an award befitting of his ability.

Congratulations Tyrone, you're officially TJR disapproved.

English cricket team move into favouritism for Bobsleigh Gold Medal

Very few things in this world make me as happy as seeing Australia succeed on the world stage. One thing however that gives me similar feelings of joy, fulfillment and patriotism is seeing England lose.

In recent years England have revitalized their cricket team, to the point where they well and truly had the wood on the Aussies. Following victory in the 2011 Ashes series in Australia, England gained the number 1 position in world cricket. A position they would hold until late 2012. Not only did we have to hand over The Ashes, we had to put up with England big noting themselves to the entire cricketing world.
As much as they whine when the lose, they boast even more heavily when they win.
And they wonder why we resent them.

However, since 2012 the English Cricket team have fallen from grace so quickly that they have become the favourites for the Gold medal in the team Bobsleigh event at the World Cup event beginning later this year. Furthermore, plenty of their players will seek individual glory in the downhill skiing, with Bell, Prior and Cook the best chances for medals.

It is just one year ago that England beat Australia by 347 runs at Lords. Since then they have been unable to turn around a form slump so dramatic that if things fall India's way in the final two tests, England could be sitting as low as 7th in the world rankings.

How bad is it? Let see..

They haven't won a test in their last 10 tries - worst run in over 20 years.
Their senior players in Bell, Cook and Prior are all averaging under 25 runs a game over this stretch.
Cook hasn't scored a century in his last 27 innings.
Their bowlers can't put together two good performances during an entire match.
Broad now believes in ghosts, proclaiming that his room was haunted in their test against Sri Lanka.
Kevin Pietersen was sacked earlier this year for bad-mouthing their coach.
Then Andrew Strauss was in hot water for labeling Pietersen a c*** on live TV.
And up until last week India had gone 1,124 days without winning a Test outside of India.

Long live the Queen? Nah, long live the demise of the English cricket team!