Tim Lane

Footy commentator 3AW. Sports columnist Sunday Age. Views are my own.

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

@lithgowflashman @AJGardineresq @brentcostelloe Except Peter George topped the poll in Franklin and Kristie Johnston and Vica Bailey (Greens) were 1,2 in Clark. Then there are the North and NW which helped form Tasmania’s footy tradition and will effectively be excluded due to financial imperative of the stadium.

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

@usopen @atptour @carlosalcaraz John McEnroe has paid this match the most perfect compliment: said the two players made him proud that he was once a professional tennis player. From one who for a period in time was the best in the world it was high praise and uplifting in its humility #AO

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@jeffrey_gabriel @bookgrocer Appreciate your assessment, Jeffrey.

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

@NeilKearney7 @melfyfe @WelshyKnows @Martin_Flanagan @AnnaReyno @brendongale25 @RuthForrestMLC Thumbs up from me, too, Melissa. And Neil, we’re in violent agreement. The degree to which the stadium is being seen as a Hobart issue reflects the fact that its existence would define the new entity as a Hobart team.

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

@piersmorgan To paraphrase a long ago, old-school footy club administrator down here: there’s only one thing better than retaining the Ashes five-nil and that’s doing it with a little help from the English weather 🤣🤣🤣

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Brilliant summation Graeme Rose (The Age, 6 July). Who could argue? #Ashes2023 #Ashes23

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

Question: would Bairstow do as he did with the ‘keeper up to the stumps? Answer: no, because he’d be aware the keeper would likely lift the bails. So, MCC experts, does the ‘spirit of the game’ apply differently depending on whether the ‘keeper is ‘up’ or ‘back’? #Ashes23

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

So, Ben Stokes says the umpires had somehow implied that it was ‘Over’. Well if they did, it was absolutely their responsibility to adjudge Bairstow not out. That they didn’t means this isn’t about Australia contravening the law. Which leaves ‘the spirit’.

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@piersmorgan And an old favourite just to wrap up a perfect night here in Oz: ‘Two-nil, two-nil, two-nil, two-nil; two-nil, two-niiiiiil…. #Ashes2023

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

@piersmorgan Magnificent innings by Stokes but utterly disgraceful of Carey to take that catch off a totally accidental miscue. And Smith to take Robinson. Hardly fair play old chap. What!

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

@jacklong17 @mattricho0 @JackRiewoldt08 @bec_white @CassyOConnorMP Your insinuation, in including me among the addressees, is absolutely rejected. Please do your homework.

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

If so called ‘friendly fire’ isn’t made punishable, it must now provide overwhelming evidence for the defence at some tribunal cases. Over to you AFL. #AFLCatsDees

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

Australia’s greatest Ashes Test win in my lifetime, edging out Old Trafford 1961. Atonement in both cases: for Laker-imposed humiliation in 1956 and for Edgbaston 2005/Headingley 2019. And in both cases an Aussie skipper worked a final day miracle. Bravo. #Ashes #Ashes2023

[Ezer @EzerRatchaga]

Formerly known as Prince.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

The artist formerly known as Prince.

[Cassy O'Connor🪲 @CassyOConnorMLC]

You gotta 💚 a US Ambassador to 🇦🇺 who’ll gladly be hauled up a giant tree in our threatened forests.

It was really something to meet Ambassador Caroline Kennedy today, & to talk about what makes this island so precious & rare.

Big thanks to @TheTreeProjects too.
#politas

[Nick McKim @NickMcKim]

Lovely to hang out with US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy. We went 60m up a giant eucalypt that’s grown for hundreds of years in Tassie’s southern forests. Such a travesty that this and other forest giants are scheduled for logging. Massive thanks to @TheTreeProjects for hosting us.

[Jeff Mason @jeffmason1]

Unexpected moment at the state dinner when the president of South Korea sings “American Pie.”

[Tim Lane @TimLaneSport]

@PictureSporting Interesting to look at Milburn from waist up: he looks like a strong, fit young man. From waist down he looks pre-disposed to putting on weight. They still talk of his 243 inside two sessions at the Gabba in 1968. #TheNatural