Shark Was Our Bo Derek - We're All Just Feral Scrubbers By Comparison: Appleby

AUSTRALIAN golf continues to wring its hands and gnash its teeth over the state of the game in this country. Tournaments have been lost over the years, sponsors have become increasingly tight-fisted, even though Australia has never had such a crop of world-class players as it does right now.

A Funny Thing Happened One Day On The Forum

The national netball coach, Norma Plummer, proved her strength two years ago by casting aside the shackles of tired sporting platitudes to call the entire New Zealand team "a bunch of scrubbers".

Breeding Them Tough - It Must Be In The Water

Australian coach Norma Plummer, who once dubbed the New Zealand team as "a bunch of scrubbers", joked yesterday she had been spiking her team's water with a contraceptive before tonight's Test at the Superdome.

Chief Concern: Scrubbers Would Love To Burst The Waratahs' Bubble

By 9.30 tonight, Waratahs coach Ewen McKenzie will either be king of the kids or facing an almighty mess.

Bunch Of Scrubbers? Please Uxplain

The New Zealand netball team could be promiscuous or ugly, depending on which side of the Tasman you are standing and whether you agree with the Australian coach, Norma Plummer. Plummer stirred up controversy after labelling the Kiwi netballers ``a bunch of scrubbers" because of their style of play.

Pain In The Art

BOOFHEADS AND SCRUBBERS REVENGE Where Penrith Regional Gallery, 86 River Road, Emu Plains When Daily, 10am-5pm, until September 28 How much Free More information 4735 1100 Britain can keep its enfants terribles, 'cause we've got our own, reports DOMINIQUE ANGELORO.

There's An Art To Being A Boof Head

Artist Michael Lindeman speaks as someone who's accepted himself: ``I'm a boofhead and I grew up in the suburbs," he proudly confesses, while hanging his photographs for Penrith Regional Gallery's new exhibition, Boofheads and Scrubbers Revenge .

Is This Good Enough?

ONLY the flashy blue and red training gear gives them away. But at first glance the 40 footballers slogging it out around Smith Park near the Goninan plant at Hamilton North could be any old team of scrubbers. The spartan surroundings would suggest that but this is, in fact, the Newcastle K

Now Buckley Joins The Glamor Boys Down The Back

A quiet revolution is happening in football. The backline, for 100 years the province of scrubbers, eye-gougers, squirrel- grippers and assorted roughnecks, has opened its arms to the glamor boys from up forward and in the midfield. Sacrilegious though it might sound, North Melbourne is playing W

Barassi Leaves His Mark On A Fourth Club

Ron Barassi has finished with his fourth AFL club. The Swans may, by some miracle, still fall into the finals but only because the final eight allows for a large contingent of scrubbers. His record at his past two clubs does not read well for a master coach. In five years at Melbourne, his best f

'epidemic' Of Sex Taunts At Teachers

MALE students humiliated female teachers and pupils by touching and leering at them and calling them "sluts" and "scrubbers" in an epidemic of sexual harassment at co-educational high schools in NSW, according to an education expert. University lecturer Kerry Robinson to

Ten's Dress Code Rates Zero With Its Women

IT IS more than two years since a memo on the Channel 10 newsroom notice board, welcoming new reporters Karen O'Sullivan and Bernadette Nunn, described the pair as ``two good little scrubbers". Those insulted by the note bit back their protests. Now they say it was one in a long line of sexi

The Cup That Sorts Out The Silk From The Scrubbers

TO racing's new generation, the W.S.Cox Plate might have the glitz; for Mick Mallyon, the rankings are unchanged since he came into ``the game" more than 30years ago. He acknowledges the Plate's growth in popularity, but for him, the Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup, in that order, are still th

Exports Top $100m For Parts Maker

The Australian car component manufacturer Johnson Matthey yesterday said that exports had reached the $100 million mark, less than a year after they began. The company, a subsidiary of Johnson Matthey of Britain, makes exhaust scrubbers, which use catalysts to reduce vehicle emissions. Mr Deni

Happy Days For Bad Girls Of Taste

MEET Sheree and Miranda, two single scrubbers who spend their time chasing blokes called Stace and Donk, wearing mini-skirts, boob tubes and white high heels, driving their Toranas and Geminis and sipping on Creme de Menthe between sucks on Alpine cigarettes. You get the idea. They m

Hewson, Howard Sinking The Boot Into Workers - Keating

The Prime Minister, Mr Keating, yesterday accused Dr John Hewson and Mr John Howard of being ``a couple of scrubbers from western Sydney" who had joined the establishment and now put the boot into ordinary people. Attacking the coalition's industrial relations policy, Mr Keating said Dr Hews

'lefty' Has The Mark Of A Star

* IF "Lefty" Dale Lewis turns out half as good as Mark Browning then the Swans have come up trumps. It took Lewis, who we picked up in the mid-year AFL draft, just two games with the "scrubbers" to break into the senior ranks. His raking left-foot drop punts remi