James McGrath

Canada’s blueprint for capitalizing on the men’s World Cup: A ‘one-stop shop’ for soccer More than one million people play soccer in Canada, and foreign leagues are popular — but how do they improve the domestic game?

One of the interesting foibles of today's #CANvAUS clash -- James Johnson is now head of Canadian football's commerical arm. Here's him talking about some of the challenges which seem...familiar

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Haha la get f**ked #CANvAUS

Kye Rowles on the left is no-bueno. Too many heavy touches inviting pressure #CANvAUS

Socceroo website headline -- Cam Burgess: Everyone's excited to be here

Whatta scoop!

Note to in-house content folk: don't let corporate fear make you create completely asinine stuff.

I'm starting to think that living one's life with *intention* is a luxury now structurally out of reach.

They absolutely will.

While I think this is overall terrible, the insight is sound.

I honestly wouldn't know -- not familiar with his comedy but this poster is just so...hack.

A poster for a Marty Sheargold tour with the tagline 'Stand-up without caring what HR thinks'

Marty Shearhold, now trying to ride the anti-woke gravy train.

Just really cringe.

An email from Afterpay telling consumers telling them 'no payment upfront' is now available at petrol stations

In bleak economic news for #Australia...

Although it should be noted it's only been rolled out for customers who have a history of paying on time, but the fact that this was deemed to be in demand enough to develop the service...yikes.

This is awesome!

Hopefully a bit of promo/contra is chucked into the deal to help spread the word -- but I'd be surprised if FA got any real cash for this.

NYT headline: Jamie Vardy signs for Italian club Cremonese on free transfer

Football Manager-coded signing, tbh.

He probably dgaf anymore and thinks showing a personal connection to the CCP will boost his business chances somehow?

To be clear, I don't think he should be posing in this photo either.

Former Victorian premier Dan Andrews, top far right, joins a group photo with Xi Jinping (centre front) and world leaders including Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, before the military parade. Credit:AP

At this point he's just baiting cookers #auspol

Imma need a quick '5 things completing my BAS taught me about SaaS sales' post

Lesbian Space Princess at #MIFF was great!

Coincidentally, I've never been in a room with as many lesbians as I was at the Melbourne premiere...that I'm aware of.

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

I dunno about you, but I'm definitely okay with Meta having 'sensual conversations' with kids. Yep. Normal areas.

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A poster for War 2, the sequel nobody really wanted

Still recovering from War 1, tbh.

Yeah, about that...

Underrated: a mid-morning trip to the cinema.

Grab a coffee, watch a movie, then get lunch and sit with the movie for the rest of the day; and you get to do other stuff with your day

HR specialist 'thought leadership' on LinkedIn is right up there with pestilence, famine, death, and war as a bane on human existence.

YouTube video by FOX Sports Eli White is the Speedway Classic HR King! 👑 #mlb #baseball #eliwhite #braves

This might be one of the genuinely greatest American things I have ever seen

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I mean...hopefully while not in the pool

Phil Moss needing to have the concept of Goldilocks and the Three Bears explained to him is some kind of television #PERvWEL #AustraliaCup

This fixture is one for the true sickos #PERvWEL #AusCup

'Benedict Cumberbatch reads thrilling stories of the railway'

This may be the most British thing to ever exist

I mean, fair enough. If we're not paying a transfer fee and he's under contract, Sydney FC are within their rights to tell the Glory to jog on

Jackson Irvine is going to be detained so hard.

I mean, honestly, they could have been booing Gianni Infantino just as much.

Football Australia in flux amid more staff exits Chief football officer Ernie Merrick has become the latest high-profile figure to depart Football Australia as the organisation experiences further upheaval following the exit of former chief executiv...

Oh no, the disruptor in chief has been...disrupted:

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