NTFS#147 – A Look Back at the Paired Back Commonwealth Games, Lessons to be Learned From FIFA, and Are Waivers on Player Injuries Going to Change Sport in the Years Ahead?

After the success at the Paris Olympic Games, Australian Athletics has once again recorded its best performance at the rescheduled Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In this show we catch up with the Vice President of Australian Athletics Brian Miller to

The Review That Needs To Happen

The only way to improve is to review performances and identify where you could have done better. The recent FIH Women’s and Men’s World Cups hosted in the Netherlands and Belgium have both been labelled as a success by the

Learning From Numbers

We have all heard the famous line from Mark Twain about how numbers and data can be twisted to make a point, no matter how false they are, “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” A similar quote that this writer’s late

The Band Plays On, But Is It Time For the Lifeboats?

As the Titanic sank the band famously played on. Is the same true of hockey at this point in time? The FIH Men’s and Women’s World Cups are currently being held simultaneously in the Netherlands and Belgium and as you

Missing Commitment

There can be no doubt that times have changed when it comes to sport, and we are not talking about the elite level. Here the changes have been phenomenal. At the level below the professional level there has been a