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We made some badges for our mate Paddy and the punters at the mighty @CommercialClub. Get down there before the shut up shop this Sunday #lastlap

What a momentous day for Tasmania. 💚💛❤️ With the Devils re-entering the VFL and playing its first game since 2008, history has been made in front of a sold-out North Hobart Oval crowd of more than 10,000 fans. 🏟️ Tasmania finished with a 17-point win over Coburg Lions, 14.12.96 to 11.13.79. Hear every AFL game live and ad-free on ABC listen: ab.co/ABCListenApp #VFL #VFLDevilsLions

11 days! Month on from day one of the #Ashes You can buy under the table vapes in Australia that last longer 😓💨 ⏯️ espncricinfo.com/story/aus-vs-e…

Hey Baz @beastieboy07 has anyone checked on @StuartBroad8 ? I think he might need a cuddle! #Ashes2025

Few have explored cricket's quirky stories as far and wide as @GeoffLemonSport and @collinsadam Their new book, Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics, is available now Buy here: fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/bedtime-t…

It's another humbling for England Down Under 😬 #BBCCricket #Ashes

When a teenage Banjo Paterson stormed the pitch during the 1879 SCG riot! Geoff and Adam dived into this on @abcnews Breakfast with @CathMurphySport and James Glenday. Of course, a story from Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics - out now in both Australia and the UK.

Order the book via the link below fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/bedtime-t…

#Bornonthisday, Keith Miller flew fighter bombers in World War Two. He survived nights over Germany dodging gunfire and crash landed when his engine failed. Years later, when Michael Parkinson asked him about pressure, Miller smiled and said: “Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.” That line told you everything. He could bowl thunderbolts off a short run up and change the mood of a stadium with a single spell. At Lord’s in 1956, with his back in pieces and age catching up, he kept bowling through the pain for more than 70 overs because his team needed him. Ten wickets in the match, almost 37 years old, refusing to give in. Miller believed the game should have dignity. He would not bounce tailenders. It was never about hurting people. It was about competing with honour. There was a certain magic in the way he carried himself. That walk to the crease, hair flicked back, the grin, the looseness, the swagger. Crowds felt alive when he was involved, as if something unforgettable might happen at any moment. Miller lived like cricket was a privilege, not a burden. He was more than an all rounder. He was a reminder that sport is supposed to feel alive. If you want someone to win you a match off the last ball, catch, six or wicket, you pick only one man. Keith Ross Miller.

🚨MELBOURNE BOOK LAUNCH! We are formally launching Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics at our old home ground, the Commercial Club Hotel, on the evening of 27 November. All the details in the flyer - please do come along, and bring your cricket-loving (and book-buying) mates.

No sport does storytelling like cricket – a game as full of heroes, villains, politics and drama as any Shakespearean play. Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics by @collinsadam and @GeoffLemonSport is out now More info and buy the book: fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/bedtime-t…

Jack White just earned a new degree of respect from me. An exceptional response to Trump's little people! The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House “Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung. “It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added. this is Jack’s response… "Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc." "No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being." "He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift." "His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy." "So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda," "Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all," "The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc." "This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars." "Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves," "And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief," "I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III...

London launch of Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics — in pictures.📸 Thanks to everyone who came out… a wonderful night! A fun few days on Media Street too. Much more to come in Melbourne - launch 27/11 for that, info in bio link.

🚨 LONDON + MELBOURNE BOOK LAUNCH! Join Adam and Geoff as we launch Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics with @norcrosscricket and @WisdenCricket crew in London (free event, RSVP: matt.thacker@forwardpress.uk), then Melbourne at our old home ground, the Commercial Club Hotel.

@AusWomenCricket Alana King, best bowling 5 for 46. Also Alana King, hold my beer! #7fa #ICCWomensWorldCup2025

Clive Lloyd’s West Indies were about to be kings. A stopover in Papua New Guinea on the way to Australia 50 years ago showed they were leaders, too theage.com.au/sport/cricket/…

@collinsadam Local businesses like their sports teams down Geelong way boys, you could probably get someone to pay for the whole thing!

Geoff Lemon for Geelong Renegades President. And Blighty to coach. That'll get the #BBL humming.

Not a great visual is it. AFL paid Snoop Dogg millions of dollars to perform, Gout Gout hundred of thousands to start a race, and then Preston FC folds.

If we were as bad at our jobs as @Ticketek_AU are at theirs then we wouldn't have a job anymore. #Ashes

"I want to be just like you man!" 🥹 #AFLGF