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Blog Central: Paul Munnings Paul Munnings has been the Daily’s sports editor since 2001, joining the paper after spending 10 years at the Tweed Daily News. Unfortunately work prevents him from playing more golf and watching more sport on TV – or writing a longer blurb for his blog!

Recent entries

Monday, October 6, 2008

Give Us a Stadium

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Come on Gus! It's time. >>

Monday, September 29, 2008

The Sea Eagles wear maroon

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And nine other reasons to support Manly this weekend. >>

Monday, September 22, 2008

Is this the sporting silly season?

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Karmichael Hunt, Darren Lockyer and friends are not alone. >>

Monday, September 15, 2008

Good news for all but Noffke

Our sports stars have enjoyed a wave of success. >>

Monday, September 8, 2008

Noosa's rugby dominance is over

The Barbarians' rise is truly a Cinderella story. >>

Monday, August 25, 2008

London calling our Olympians

The Games of the disappointing Olympiad for the Coast. >>

Monday, August 18, 2008

Time to take Suncoast out of Lions

Our sporting fake resembles the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony. >>

Monday, August 11, 2008

Melanie shines in Olympic spotlight

Schlanger relishes being back in the spotlight. >>

Monday, August 4, 2008

Sonny Bill needs a thank-you

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WIlliams' walkout may be positive for Sunshine Coast Snappers. >>

Monday, July 28, 2008

The magic of the mountain

King of the Mountain's big on community and competitor spirit. >>

Monday, July 21, 2008

Let’s get the Shark to Coolum

Does anyone have Chris Evert’s phone number? >>

Monday, July 14, 2008

It’s not wrong to criticise

Good on Nathan Buckley for offering some strong public opinions on Carlton full-forward Brendan Fevola over the weekend. >>

Monday, July 7, 2008

Happy to eat humble pie

It's nice to be proved wrong sometimes. >>

Monday, June 30, 2008

True or False? Some sporting questions answered

Stadium a ‘white elephant’? Warriors better for Moon? >>

Monday, June 23, 2008

‘Hammo’ continues regatta tradition

A 10-metre tiger shark in the changeover zone? >>

Monday, June 16, 2008

TV shouldn’t rule the roost

Television doesn't have to dictate every major sports decision made. >>

Monday, June 9, 2008

Fire makes us flamin' proud

Football upset from a team that's damn good. >>

Monday, June 2, 2008

The day the battlers rose up

A weekend to remember for our struggling sporting sides. >>

Monday, May 26, 2008

Good news for Queensland selectors

State of Origin selectors must be feeling happier today. >>

Monday, May 19, 2008

Where did the crowds go?

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Two meagre crowds show everything's not rosy for football. >>

Monday, May 12, 2008

My money on Kani to win again

There’s always a rematch to be had. >>

Monday, May 5, 2008

Kiwis are losing their love for rugby

Your sport is in trouble when your heartland loses interest. >>

Monday, April 28, 2008

Dolphins get Anzac spirit

The Kawana Dolphins rugby league club tried something a little bit unusual for Sunshine Coast sport on Friday night by playing matches on Anzac Day. >>

Monday, April 21, 2008

Sad ending to the D'Arcy dream

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But his coach still deserves to be honoured. >>

Monday, April 14, 2008

Qld doesn’t need Locky

Here are some lessons learned from the last three days of sport. >>

Monday, April 7, 2008

Time to honour local legend

Clint Robinson has a sporting record unmatched in our history. >>

Monday, March 31, 2008

Noosa is the No.1 AFL option

AFL Queensland faces an interesting conundrum with its plan to get a state league side based on the Sunshine Coast. >>

Monday, March 24, 2008

Coast Sea Eagles face tough competition

Loss to Dolphins showed the strength of the big clubs. >>

Monday, March 17, 2008

Titans now a far cry from the Seagulls

As much as I enjoy living on the Sunshine Coast, a chunk of me is envious about what is happening on the Gold Coast just now. >>

Monday, March 10, 2008

What next for the NBL?

The Queensland Reds are in a bad way. >>

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Noosa plays a game of ‘Where’s Kelly’

The world surfing champion can be an elusive man. >>

Monday, March 3, 2008

A threat to the Broncos

You either love or hate the Sea Eagles’ growing presence on the Sunshine Coast. >>

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Will Bennett go to the dogs?

Warriors skipper tips changes among league coaches. >>

Monday, February 25, 2008

Eagles need to see some money soon

Twelve months on from the Sunshine Coast’s last NRL trial and what has changed in Coast rugby league? >>

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Have your say on our best league players

The search is on for the Team of the Century. >>

Monday, January 21, 2008

Qld TV viewers miss out

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What is it with Australian free-to-air television networks? They pay millions of dollars to get big-time sport on their channels and then when we finally have something worth watching, they ... >>

Monday, January 14, 2008

Hewitt faces uphill battle

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Lleyton Hewitt is Australia’s Tim Henman. >>

Monday, January 7, 2008

Who would want to be a cricket umpire?

No other game has officials under as much pressure. >>

Monday, December 31, 2007

Big year ahead for Coast footy

Lining up for a FOGs Cup squad should not be the goal of the Coast’s best league talent. >>

Monday, December 24, 2007

It’s time for Chappelli to pull up stumps

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I’m sick of Ian Chappell's boring Channel Nine commentary stints. >>

Monday, December 17, 2007

Noffke best all-round for baggy green

There are two all-rounders in the Queensland Bulls side who, if their current form continues, shouldn’t be there after the Christmas-New Year break. >>

Monday, December 10, 2007

Coolum worthy of own medals

Golf wants to be in the Olympic Games so let’s start a tradition by awarding gold, silver and bronze medals from the 2007 Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship. >>

Monday, December 3, 2007

Steve is on way back again

Anyone who has followed Steven Bowditch’s career, through this paper and on television, know all about highs and lows. >>

Monday, November 26, 2007

A good news week

Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the negatives of sport. >>

Monday, November 19, 2007

Tests need to be sped up

If Test cricket didn’t have a problem before the invention of Twenty20 cricket, it does now. >>

Monday, November 12, 2007

Now we all love the Manly Sea Eagles

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But our Coast team still needs some big bucks. >>

Monday, November 5, 2007

Has the PGA been ‘Sabba-taged’

This year is proving to be a more difficult one with some negative PGA vibes about for the first time. >>

Monday, October 29, 2007

Quad Park, home of political football

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First there was political football, now there’s political football stadiums. >>

Monday, September 24, 2007

Best of the season

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Don't football seasons go by quickly? It doesn’t seem that long ago that thousands crammed into Quad Park for the NRL trial between Melbourne and Manly. >>

Monday, September 17, 2007

Not Nambour's weekend

The rugby-playing Toads still don’t have an A-grade premiership after losing to University 19-14 on Saturday and the league-playing Crushers, trying to defy all of us who have been tipping ... >>

Monday, September 10, 2007

Noosa: Winners can be losers

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Would the Dolphins accept defeat graciously if it happened, seeing as they have won much more frequently than they have lost in the past 20 years? >>

Monday, September 3, 2007

Tip: Never back against Noosa

There are no taller poppies in the Sunshine Coast football codes than the Noosa Pirates rugby league side and the Noosa Dolphins rugby team. >>

Monday, August 27, 2007

Raiders are right to bleat about West

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Was one of the most dubious video ref calls of the year the mistake which decided the game? >>

Monday, August 20, 2007

Satisfaction guaranteed

Could six weeks of hard training turn an avid sports watcher, who hadn’t run any serious distance in 20 years, into a runner who could finish the Noosa 10km? >>

Monday, August 13, 2007

Pounding the pavement pays off

Hard work without getting results is like being served bacon without eggs – disappointing and not that satisfying. >>

Monday, August 6, 2007

Clubs battle to be fit for finals

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Winning an NRL or AFL premiership isn’t about having the best squad in March. It’s who you have left for August and September that counts and that’s why the Brisbane ... >>

Monday, July 30, 2007

Your favourite Broncos moments

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The Daily has been asking readers for their favourite Brisbane Broncos moment from the past 20 seasons. Here are some of the entries we have already received: >>

Monday, July 30, 2007

'I can't' gets the run-around

One phrase has had to disappear from my vocabulary over the past three weeks. It will have to stay away for the next few weeks as well and probably shouldn’t ... >>

Monday, July 16, 2007

Where runners love to tread

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There's a spot in Mooloolaba with a magnetic attraction for a minority group in the Coast community. >>

Monday, July 9, 2007

Uh oh, it's time to get fit

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Here's a revelation for those of you who don’t know me all that well. Sports editor of the Sunshine Coast Daily I may be, but fit enough to play many ... >>

Monday, July 2, 2007

Time for horse sense

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When there’s talk about inductees in the Sunshine Coast Sports Hall of Fame, horse trainers haven’t been getting a mention. >>

Monday, June 25, 2007

The Stingrays really aren’t that bad

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If the Sunshine Coast Stingrays’ third Premier Rugby season was judged solely on what’s in the win column on the ladder it would clearly be a failure. >>

Monday, June 18, 2007

‘Magnificent Seven’ are down to just one

If it wasn’t over before, it is now. Chris Flannery’s departure to St Helens has brought an end to an era to remember in Sunshine Coast rugby league. >>

Monday, June 11, 2007

Very strange times in weird world of sport

These are strange times, very strange times. Over the past couple of days we have witnessed some sporting occurrences which come from the “I never thought that would happen” category. >>

Monday, June 4, 2007

Bowen must be a Maroon

Matty Bowen wasn’t in my Queensland State of Origin side for Game One but he’s there for Game Two on Wednesday week. But not at fullback – Karmichael Hunt is ... >>

Monday, May 28, 2007

Broncos not there yet

Theyre back” announced the headline on the television news last night. It doesn’t take long does it. One win for the Brisbane Broncos, a flogging of the Newcastle Knights, was ... >>

Monday, May 21, 2007

It’s crunch time for Fishermans Road

The fight over which Sunshine Coast sporting ground, if any, gets to host AFL preseason cup and practice matches gets serious this week. As revealed on our back page today, ... >>

Monday, May 14, 2007

You have to believe you can be the victor

Self-belief is a wonderful thing. It’s what separates those who are successful in the sporting world, and those who are not successful. Chris Vermeulen wouldn’t be a star in the ... >>

Monday, May 7, 2007

Why it’s so hard for the Falcons

Some people connected with the Sunshine Coast Falcons rugby league team have had enough of the “Falcon bashing” from people around the game. >>

Monday, April 30, 2007

Umpires farce ends a woeful World Cup

Good riddance to the World Cup. Like the rest of Australia’s cricket lovers, I sat watching the television early yesterday morning amazed at how the sport’s showpiece event turned into ... >>

Monday, April 23, 2007

Bring back Ballymore!

THIS may come as a shock to Queensland Reds supporters. Yes, you can go along to a Super 14 game and enjoy it so much that you want to go ... >>

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