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Good afternoon, sports fans. It would be fair and reasonable to label today Sombre Sunday after Australia’s meek Rugby World Cup exit. And no doubt there are plenty of sore heads among the nation’s ruggers fans as they sober up to the realisation that, yet again, this is not the Wallabies’ year. But unlike my eldest son, who yesterday stacked his new, and rather expensive, mountain bike after a tree “came out of nowhere”, I prefer to look ahead, not at what’s behind me. So I hereby dub this Sensational Sunday, and diners do we have some sporting treats on the menu. Any second now the third instalment of netball’s 2019 Constellation Cup will begin, with the series level between Australia and New Zealand; there is a feast of WBBL action to gorge on, with Stars v Hurricanes, Thunder v Heat and Strikers v Renegades to be decided; in the A-League Melbourne City will host Adelaide United before Sydney FC and Wellington lock horns; and later on the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals continue with Wales taking on France and Japan facing South Africa (both to be documented in separate liveblogs). Sensational, indeed.
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