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A Parkes Rugby League Club champion passed away early on Sunday morning.
Graham “Muncher” Kennedy was captain-coach of Parkes in 1971 when they won everything that season - bar the grand final.
Dubbo Cyms got up by two points.
He led Parkes to the premiership the next year against Macquarie.
Muncher endeared himself to the community despite only being in town a few years.
He is renowned as a great leader and enjoyed plenty of success everywhere he played and coached.
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After watching some of the Aussies in action at Wimbledon, I have to say I am less than impressed.
The majority of Australian tennis players in action handle themselves well on court and in the interviews afterwards, win or lose.
That was not the case for two of Australia’s premier male competitors.
Bernard Tomic and Nick Kyrgios were very disappointing in their displays.
While I wanted them to win, the results were not the issue.
The pair, who are close friends, behaved atrociously.
After Tomic lost his third round match to Novak Djokovic, he had a rant during his press conference at Tennis Australia and Pat Rafter’s expense.
He claims to have been forgotten about by Tennis Australia after hip surgery last year.
He went on to say Rafter, Tennis Australia’s Player Performance Director, had no idea how to control player funding.
The rant was on the back of Bernard’s dad claiming his son may boycott next month’s Davis Cup quarter-final against Kazakhstan in Darwin if more funding was not made available to Bernard.
Rafter hit back by saying Tennis Australia had invested large amounts of money in Bernard and his talented sister Sara.
That will now stop according to Rafter who has had enough.
On top of that, Tennis Australia has dumped Tomic out of the Davis Cup side, taking any possible boycott off the table.
Kyrgios put on a petulant display in an earlier match before being booed and accused of tanking during his fourth round loss to Richard Gasquet.
Early in the second set Kyrgios looked disinterested and appeared to not even try and return the Frenchman’s serve.
It did not make me want Gasquet to win, but I did change the channel and could not have cared less about the result, even though it was obvious to me what it would be.
I was surprised Kyrgios had won a set.
In all four matches at the All England Club, Kyrgios had run ins with different officials.
These guys grew up watching Pat Rafter display humility and sportsmanship while still competing at the top of the sport.
They could do worse than to model their behaviour on one of Australia’s sporting champions.
There is no doubting Tomic and Kyrgios have enormous talent, but it will do them little good with their current attitudes.