🗞 Best Fantasy Sports Forfeits

March 07, 2021

G'day sports fans,

Classic quote: "Tell him he is John Coleman and send him back on" - Jack Dyer, when told by medical staff that a concussed player 'did not know who he is'

In today's edition of Sport Journal:

🤡 Fantasy sports forfeits

🏏 What now for Australia

🇦🇺 Injuries everywhere

💻 Fantasy Forfeits

The best loser's punishments for your Fantasy league

McDonald's challenge - Loser is sentenced to 24 hours at a McDonald's, but for every cheeseburger you eat one hour is reduced from your sentence. Depending on your appetite, you are probably looking at 12-16 burgers in 8-12 hours.

Public shaming - Plenty of options here, but a common one is the loser must stand on a busy street corner with a sign saying 'I suck at AFL Fantasy' or something similar.

Fancy Dress - The loser must wear a fancy dress costume (chosen by the winner) for a day/night out.

New hairdo - Loser must get their hair bleached, dyed, perm or shaved bald.

Busk it up - Loser must sing, dance or play an instrument for an hour at location that will get plenty of foot traffic.

Anyone have any good ones or photo evidence of ones you or your mates has had to do?

🏏 Cricket

T20 Series Wrap

Fresh from a series defeat and with the T20 World Cup in India on the horizon, what do we know?

Aaron Finch will be captain at the World Cup: with scores of 69, 79no and 36 to become Australia's leading run-scorer in T20 cricket.

World Cup keeper is wide open: Both Matthew Wade and Josh Philippe showed positive signs in this series but neither were able to dominate the Kiwis. With Carey making runs (below), he's a real chance of jumping ahead of them both.

Australia still struggle against top quality spin: Ahead of a World Cup in India later this year, it would be of some concern for the Australians that while their spinners impressed with the ball, their batters struggled to negate the influence of New Zealand's slow bowlers.

Sheffield Shield

Green sets more records in march towards superstardom: Western Australian pushes on to 251 in Gabba run-fest, recording the seventh-highest Sheffield Shield score by a player 21-years-old or younger. (report)

Stumps: Queensland trail Western Australia by 275 runs with 9 wickets remaining.

Carey strengthens claims as Test keeper-in-waiting: Redbacks gloveman's 125 puts hosts in driver's seat against Marsh Sheffield Shield heavyweights NSW. (report)

Stumps: New South Wales trail South Australia by 305 runs with 6 wickets remaining.

Gritty Doran borrows Paine's pads, but makes MCG his own: Only told Friday morning he would be taking the gloves, Jake Doran has been unencumbered by the extra workload in crafting what he labelled the best knock of his career. (report)

Stumps: Victoria need 245 runs to win.

🐴 Racing

🐴 Race Day: Star jockey Jason “Stubby’’ Holder is hoping there might be a stubby or two raised in his honour if he can guide hot favourite Tralee Rose ($1.90) to victory in the $400,000 Group 2 Adelaide Cup at Morphettville today (Monday).(Racenet Article)

🗣 What the jockeys said after the 2021 Newmarket Handicap (Racenet). The Comments: Craig Williams could talk himself out of jail for robbery even if he was caught in the middle of the Robbery holding all the money 🤣

🐴 Forgotten All-Star Mile contender Russian Camelot will go to The Valley on Tuesday for one final hitout before tackling the world’s richest mile race on Saturday.

🗣 What the jockeys said after the 2021 Australian Cup (Racenet)

🙌🏼 Eduardo is a champ, by a nose to Nature Strip! Only broken in as a four-year-old. Out of $4k broodmare Blushing. Now won $1,353,900 in prize money.

🏉 NRL

💰 The NZ Warriors have been forced to extend their stay in Australia until June 21 after a resurgence in COVID-19 cases in New Zealand.

NZ based members are not renewing because, well, they're not going to see their team.

"We will be going to knock on the NRL's door at some stage because it has really impacted on our financial position in the short, mid and long term". (nine)

✍🏼 Premiership-winning halfback Jahrome Hughes has locked in a new contract with Melbourne Storm until 2024.

🧑🏻‍💻 Your club's NRL Fantasy guide for 2021 (Does anyone that knows what they're doing want to run the Sport Journal Fantasy Team? reply to this mail)

A premiership could be just seven months away but for some clubs that elusive title feels a long way off after extended title droughts.

🇦🇺 AFL

Community Series

North Melbourne 81 (12.9) Hawkes 120 (17.18) - Hawks by39: Six-goal Kozi firms for R1 debut as Hawks sink new-look Roos. (match report)

Geelong Cats 79 (12.7) Essendon 72 (9.18) - Cats by 7: Dons' twin towers impress, new Cats make their mark (match report)

Adelaide Crows 45 (6.9) Port Adelaide 116 (17.14) - Power by 71: Crushing win over Crows has Port primed for R1. (match report)

West Coast Eagles 67 (9.13) Fremantle Dockers 57 (8.9) - Eagles by 10: Injuries pile up as Eagles down Dockers in bruising tune-up. (match report). Let's hope Nat Fyfe and Zac Langdon are OK after a nasty head clash (Twitter)

GWS Giants 114 (18.6) Sydney Swans 86 (12.14) - Giants by 28: Toby Greene and draftee Tanner Bruhn impress with 7 goals between them. (match report)

Here's your one-stop shop for all the action from round six of the NAB AFL Women's competition.

⚽️ Football

A-League

Brisbane Roar 1-1 Sydney FC: Bobo nets, points shared.

Wellington Phoenix 3-0 Perth Glory: Phoenix too clinical.

Melbourne Victory 0-6 Melbourne City: Victory find a new low.

Western United 0-1 Western Sydney Wanderers: Wanderers move into third.

Tonight: Central Coast Mariners v Macarthur FC: The top 2 in the standings, go head-to-head. CCM won 2-0 in the January's reverse fixture. However, Macarthur come into this tie with a fine away record, having picked up four wins from five games on the road.

❌ Liverpool fall to another Anfield defeat: Defending champions Liverpool have now lost six games in a row in the Premier League at Anfield as Mario Lemina's strike saw relegation-threatened Fulham pull off a shock.

🔁 Bayern Munich boss Hansi Flick says a deal for Borussia Dortmund's Norway striker Erling Braut Haaland, 20, is "very much possible". (Mail)

🔁 Liverpool will challenge Real Madrid for the signing of PSG's French forward Kylian Mbappe, 22, if Egypt forward Mohamed Salah, 28, leaves the Premier League club. (AS - in Spanish)

In Scotland, Rangers won their first title 10 years. See Manager Steven Gerard's drive up to the stadium (Twitter), fair to say they're pleased.

🥅 Goal of the Week: A bicycle kick from Beto for Portimonense (Portgual)

🏉 Rugby

Lions reject Australia's tour hosting bid

The British and Irish Lions have declined Australia's offer to host their rugby union series against world champions South Africa.

A board meeting on Friday made the decision due to the lack of financial certainty over the finance of Rugby Australia staging the eight-game tour, which culminates in a three-Test series against the Springboks.

Rugby Australia made the offer in January with the Lions' tour to South Africa in major doubt due the widespread COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

A major selling point was being able to play in front of big crowds in Australia, with RA reportedly happy for South Africa and the Lions to share the profits while they covered costs.

Super Rugby

Last Gasp kick wins it: Replacement halfback Ryan Lonergan nailed a penalty kick from 55 metres out in injury time as the Brumbies snatched an unlikely 27-24 victory over the Rebels in Canberra. (match report)

Force hold on: The Western Force managed to grind out a 16-20 Super Rugby AU win over the Waratahs despite finishing with 14 men. (match report)

Incredible Comeback: The Highlanders fought back from 20-6 down to beat the Chiefs 39-23 at the Waikato Stadium and secure their first Super Rugby Aotearoa victory of the season. (match report)

Ruthless: The Crusaders earned their second Super Rugby Aotearoa win with a dominant 33-16 win over the Hurricanes in Christchurch. (match report)

🇺🇸 USA

The picks are in. Check out the full rosters facing off during today's All-Star Game in Atlanta.

UFC 259: Jan Blachowicz beats Israel Adesanya as Amanda Nunes wins again

Both defending champions successfully retained their titles at UFC 259 as light-heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz and women's featherweight champion Amanda Nunes picked up significant victories at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.

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