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I know they have a massive catalogue of hits and the song choices were predictable for a five-ish minute set, but it was still enjoyable. If they ever do the actual half-time show itself, they should only play Jesus of Suburbia in full and walk-off just because.

This rice went to an Aussie beach and forgot to wear sunscreen.

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

gaiman slinking back into the world is why i always bristle at folks decrying "cancel culture" as some kind of danger. none of these dudes are ever voided, at worst they get an inconvenient year of not being fawned over and then they come back and just peddle the same shit to a smaller audience.

Summer Olympics are great for armchair fans saying, "Pft, I could win a medal in that." Winter Olympics are great for armchair fans saying, "No way in hell I could do that."
Luging is not for normies.

You can't be abusing referees and attacking journalists on a regular basis and except supoort. When things were going swimmingly it was Alexander the Great this and Troy that. As soon as the going got tough? That went away

The team improvement is fantastic and if they make finals, brilliant. I want to see it.
My concern is with Valkanis. I don't think he's the right coach to take them forward for a number of reasons, and his conduct is at the top of the list. But if the Roar want to put up with it, that's their choice

Turns out I was so sick last week I lost 4kgs 🙃

Loved that show when I was a kid during it's original run. Never watched the reboot.

So the league is holding Pride Celebrations again. No dedicated round/weekends unlike previous seasons, and clubs are able to opt-in and nominate fixtures of their choosing.

I completely forgot I had that sitting in my inbox until I saw this post.

Canberra usually keep the Pride numbers for their home Pride game IIRC?

Yep. In an ideal world, Ben Cahn would still be the coach of the Roar and we're not even having this discussion right now.

Definitely agree on the stadium as well.

There are way too many variables at play to actually answer that question. Does the club want to pay the new coach to be FT? Do they want a coach focused on player development, immediate trophy success, or both? Do they want another male coach? What do they want to be as a club moving forward, etc.

I agree that Hutchinson could be interesting. My knowledge of available and up and coming men's coaches is somewhat limited compared to the Dub (it's hard enough keeping across it in the Dub)

If you're after an actual name, I can't entirely help you there beyond who I have as my two lead candidates for every men's job that opens up in this country, which are John Anastasiadis and David Perkovic (although I'd be surprised if Perko ever moves into an A-League Men job)

Given the last two have been Zadkovich and Valkanis, there's a low-hanging fruit answer, and I'm taking it. The opposite of those two. Someone with a great footballing mind (which MV has) who knows how to deliver a message consistently without yelling and attacking everyone when things go wrong.

Valkanis' record at Brisbane is now 6-3-9. His latest interview and press conference antics show why he's a career assistant coach. His shtick wears thin awfully quickly, and I'd be surprised to see him return for a second season at this rate.

Throw in not calling a Pride jersey a Pride jersey for marketing purposes (of course I bought it because I'm a sucker for pretty colours), along with general anti-LGBTQIA+ sentiment from fans + across other tiers of Aus football, it's hard not to feel disenfranchised with the game as a queer person.

Last season after launching a Pride membership, Sydney FC attempted something of a marketing campaign with a known homophobe and transphobe, which they dropped and refused to acknowledge. This season, they've done a HP video the week of their Pride game. Yeah, this all sucks.

So curious to see Sydney FC post a “Harry Potter starting 11” during the week of their Pride celebrations.

And during the week that it’s been confirmed J.K. Rowling had connections to Epstein.

That’s certainly a decision. 🥴🥴🥴

An American skier is fighting to open up the last Winter Olympic sport off limits to women U.S. Nordic combined athlete Annika Malacinski is leading the fight for gender equality at the Winter Olympics after women were excluded from the sport at the upcoming Milan Cortina Games.

I know we're having a lot of fun with the whole penis doping thing, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out that this should be the scandal in ski jumping that everyone is screaming about apnews.com/article/olym...

Her FIRST gold medal, she now has gold, silver, and bronze, sets the olympic record on her 35th birthday, and collects her nation's first gold medal of the games IN HER HOME COUNTRY like shut uppp Francesca Lollobrigida you iconnnn #olympics

This is insane. For an Australian context, this would be like if any of the Sydney-based teams went by bus to Adelaide and back.

I did that trip once. Emphasis on the once. I was beyond exhausted when I got home and I'll never do it again.

SHE WAS GONNA RETIRE BUT STUCK IT OUT BC IT WAS A HOME OLYMPICS AND SHE WANTED TO SKATE!!! SHE CAME BACK AFTER BEING BEHIND!!!! I LOVE WOMEN’S SPORTS

In other #JLeague news, Kazuyoshi "King Kazu" Miura was given a START in his Fukushima United debut on the road against Ventforet Kofu.

He came off after 20 minutes with the team down 1-0; they eventually lost 4-1.

He played a total of 69 minutes (nice) for Atletico Suzuka last season.

Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"

A photo of a TV showcasing a women's ice hockey game between Germany and Japan at the 2026 Winter Olympics, with Germany leading 1-0

In what might be hard to believe news, the first Winter Olympics action this ice hockey nuffy is watching is... ice hockey.