The Wallabies have been unable to back up their opening Rugby Championship success, crashing to a 48-17 loss to Argentina in a helter-skelter affair in San Juan.
It was the Pumas’ biggest-ever win over the Australians and, on the back of the thumping bonus-point victory, they moved to the top of the four-nation standings.
Argentina raced to a 26-10 half-time lead with the Wallabies unable to repeat the second half surge that led to their Mendoza Test win last week.
Australia had a James O’Connor try, which would have given them the lead, disallowed in the 20th minute in a baffling refereeing decision and the Pumas scored minutes later for a 14-point swing.
It provided a turning point with the remainder of the game almost one-way traffic in a disappointing display by the visitors.
“Massive disappointment. It’s not good enough,” Wallabies coach Dave Rennie said. “We conceded four tries with kicks in behind us and certainly got dominated in the collision area and created plenty of opportunities but we’ve got to be patient. A ruck’s not a disaster; just not clinical enough.
“We had a good enough side on the paddock to do the job,” said Rennie. “We gave them a few soft points early on, fought our way back into it. We’ve got to be better and while we’ll get a few guys back, whoever puts the jersey on has to front and we weren’t good enough.
“We certainly want to earn the respect of the country and you don’t do it with performances like that.”
Rennie will return to Australia feeling out-coached after Pumas coach Michael Cheika switched up his gameplan and used Argentina’s contestable kicking game to expose the inexperience of Australia’s back three.
The home side piled on the pressure in a physical performance with the Wallabies, who are missing key men such as skipper Michael Hooper through personal leave and injury, bereft of answers.
Australia got off to the worst possible start and they trailed 14-0 after seven minutes. Veteran winger Juan Imhoff opened the scoring in the first minute when he pounced on a mix-up between Wallabies winger Jordan Petaia and full-back Tom Wright and raced to the line.
On the back of a 50-22 kick by Santiago Carreras the Pumas had an attacking lineout five meters out with fired-up prop Thomas Gallo barreling over.
The Wallabies started to find their feet and got on the board in the 12th minute after Rob Valetini charged ahead and set up a quick pick and go for skipper James Slipper to score, which was soon backed up by an O’Connor penalty for a 14 -10 scoreline.
Australia scrum-half Nic White (centre) and teammates look dejected after defeat. Photograph: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images
It looked like the visitors would take the lead after O’Connor crossed after some clever interplay with Petaia but referee Karl Dickson and the TMO deemed an earlier clean-out by Slipper was illegal.
It provided a double blow when Argentina center Jeronimo de la Fuente scored down the other end with Emiliano Boffelli adding the extras for a 21-10 lead.
The Pumas again jumped on some box kick confusion from the visitors with flanker Juan Martin Gonzalez this time gifted the ball to touch down.
The half-time margin could have been more ugly but for a miracle try-saving tackle by Marika Koroibete.
The Wallabies were unable to build into the second half through errors and poor decision-making while the hungry Pumas marched on. Gallo grabbed his second and then Boffelli crossed before a try by Tomas Albornoz after full-time capped a memorable match for the home side.
The 31-point loss was the Wallabies’ heaviest against Argentina, surpassing a 15-point margin in 1983.
The shattered Wallabies captain James Slipper, deputizing for longtime leader Michael who flew home from the tour last week citing his “mindset”, cut a desolate figure at the end of the record defeat.
“Clearly disappointed,” said Slipper. “Off the back of a good performance last week we wanted to back it up. Probably fell short of today’s standards. They got the momentum and the crowd behind them and they’re a tough team to play catch up football against. I think we’re excited to get home. It’s been a really tough tour for us.”
With Los Pumas’ victory, and South Africa’s 23-35 defeat by New Zealand earlier in the day, all teams in the Rugby Championship have one win from two matches.
He says disability support networks across Australia describe similar experiences of plans being slashed without adequate reasons. Along with these mounting anecdotal reports, official figures reveal a 400 per cent increase in complaints about NDIS plan cuts to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and the scheme agency spending tens of millions of dollars fighting its disabled clients.
While the NDIA has dismissed claims of a razor gang engaged in wholesale plan slashing, the previous minister Linda Reynolds publicly warned that the scheme was facing a financial sustainability crisis.
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It was against this backdrop that the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) began gathering intelligence about serious organized crime syndicates exploiting the scheme. Some of the commission’s information came from the gangsters the agency hauled before closed-door inquiries, where suspects must answer questions truthfully or face jail.
The NSW, Queensland and Victorian police, along with a joint NDIA and federal police fraud taskforce established in 2018, had also been gathering evidence of crime gangs using loopholes to steal tens of millions of dollars in disability funding (the Australian Federal Police has made several major arrests of NDIS fraudsters linked to crime gangs).
A senior source from the NDIA says that in March the then chief executive Martin Hoffman was warned, via a classified briefing paper emailed by the criminal intelligence commission, that organized criminals were freely exploiting “systemic vulnerabilities” in the NDIS.
The commission’s chief executive, Mike Phelan, has confirmed this rorting to The Agethe Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes, revealing the ACIC had determined that the scheme was far too easy to exploit and that the scale of fraud was in the “billions,” potentially as high as 20 per cent of its total.
Mark Gray struggles to stomach the concept that drug traffickers and money launderers are exploiting the welfare program that has helped give his son a quality of life not possible without government support.
For Mark, the rorting of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is not just about money.
“You’re taking pieces of people’s lives,” he says.
“It’s unconscionable.”
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Phelan is calling for a new multi-agency taskforce to combat the problem and has described an array of strategies being employed by high-level criminals to steal disability entitlements. Some are as simple as billing the federal government for services never provided, confident that desktop audits won’t detect the fraud.
While the intervention of a police chief in a public policy debate is rare, Phelan’s warnings are not news to the Formica family in the southern NSW town of Shellharbour. Parents Guy and Dawn are full-time carers for their daughter, Felicity, 16, who suffers from severe autism and epilepsy.
They, too, were eleven fierce proponents of the scheme until they hired an NDIS-approved contractor to renovate Felicity’s bathroom to make it safer if she has a seizure while showering. Guy says that this contractor sought to inflate the costs of the renovation, assuring him the NDIS would cover any blowout, asked no questions.
Dawn and Guy with their 16-year-old daughter Felicity.Credit:louise kennerley
When Guy pushed back, the builder abandoned the job unfinished. The builder’s last act, though, was to claim the full $33,000 allocated by the NDIS to complete the renovation.
“These providers can just go in, put in a claim and get, get paid, and nobody checks. The actual system on how these providers get paid needs to be revamped,” says Guy, echoing the ACIC boss.
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The calls for NDIS reform from the Formica and Gray families and the criminal intelligence commission have been welcomed by minister Bill Shorten. Shorten dismisses claims the scheme was poorly designed by Labor a decade ago, heaping blame on the recently ousted Coalition government.
Since Shorten has become minister, NDIA chief executive Hoffman and the agency chair, former Victorian Liberal premier Denis Napthine, have both quit.
In a statement, the National Disability Insurance Agency apologized for distress caused by its handling of the Gray family’s case, acknowledging the delay in resolving their complaint was “not acceptable.” It said it had forwarded the Formica’s family’s concerns to the industry watchdog for assessment.
Phelan, who has spent 40 years pursuing criminals in a decorated policing career, is confident that systemic reforms and more investigations will save the NDIS hundreds of millions of dollars – money that should be going to people such as Ken Gray and Felicity Formica.
“It is a personal mission. I look at some of the material that has come across my desk, all the intelligence that is available to me. And it just sickens you,” says Phelan.
“At the end of every single case is a victim who is already a victim.”
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Sennheiser’s Momentum 4 Wireless noise-cancelling headphones ($349.95) are a marked departure from past entries with a completely different look and a revamped app experience. They easily compete with the top-rated Sony WH-1000XM5 ($399.99) and Bose QuietComfort 45 ($329) in terms of audio quality, offering a bass-forward-but-balanced sound signature with excellent clarity. They don’t quite offer the same class-leading active noise cancellation (ANC) as either of those models, but they’re in the same ballpark at least. And although we like the app’s features, we’d prefer more granular control than its streamlined EQ allows. These minor drawbacks aside, the Momentum 4 Wireless headphones are a worthy alternative to our favorites from Bose and Sony.
Streamlined Design, Long Battery Life
The Momentum 4 Wireless headphones are exceptionally comfortable even for long listening sessions. The earcups swivel to fit your head and ensure a tight, secure fit.
You can choose between black or white models, but both feature the same gray fabric lining on top of the headband. Notably, they look distinct from Momentum 3 Wireless headphones, which use a metallic headband adjustor. The earcups are more oval-shaped on the new model, too. Faux leather covers the memory foam earpads, while recessed cloth grilles clearly mark the left and right sides.
Internally, 42mm dynamic drivers deliver a frequency range of 6Hz to 22kHz. The headphones are compatible with Bluetooth 5.2, plus support the AAC, AptX, AptX Adaptive, and SBC codecs. This is the kind of wide-ranging codec support we expect in this price range, but don’t always see. That said, Sony’s headphones have a slight edge here because they also support the LDAC codec, which offers a higher maximum bitrate.
The right earcup’s side panel sports a button that handles power and pairing, as well as summons your device’s voice assistant. It sits alongside five tiny status LEDs. There’s a USB-C port at the base of the earcup for the USB-C-to-USB-A charging cable that arrives in the box.
The right ear’s outer panel functions as a capacitive touch control pad and works quite well. That said, like all touch panels this large, it’s easy to accidentally trigger it when you handle the headphones. Regardless, a single tap in the center controls playback, while forward and backward swipes handle track navigation and phone calls (forward to answer, backward to end). Swipes up and down to control the volume. You can also tap twice to toggle between ANC On and Transparency modes. If you perform these successive taps quickly enough, this gesture doesn’t affect playback, but we occasionally paused the music unintentionally. You can also use a two-finger swipe gesture to toggle between the modes—pinch and expand for Transparency or pinch and draw inward for ANC. Optionally, you can turn off the touchpad controls entirely within the app.
Sennheiser estimates that the headphones can last roughly 60 hours on battery at mid-level volumes with ANC on. Turning the ANC off should get you even more battery life, though listening at top volume levels will lower the runtime. Regardless, 60 hours is an impressive figure. Sennheiser says the battery takes roughly two hours to fully charge from empty and that five minutes of charging gets you roughly four hours of playtime, but these numbers depend on your charging source and headphone usage.
The thoughtfully designed zip-up travel case’s exterior matches the headband’s material (in our case, a gray fabric with a slight sheen). A loop for hanging the case from a hook extends from the outer side panel. The headphones swivel flat to fit inside, and each accessory (the USB cable, an airline jack adapter, and a 3.5mm audio cable) comes with an elastic band so you can keep everything tidy. Additionally, the case features a small mesh pocket for storage.
Sennheiser App Experience
The Sennheiser Smart Control app (available for Android and iOS) offers plenty of features beyond the standard over-the-air firmware updates and basic settings (such as on-head detection, smart pause, and auto-power off).
The main menu has a Connection section (for switching between the maximum two paired devices), an EQ section with adjustable presets (the three-band EQ is a little basic, but at least works in conjunction with Bass Boost and Podcast toggles), a Sound Check section (that creates an EQ preset based on a few parameters you specify after listening to music you’re familiar with), and a Sound Zones section (which helps create ANC and EQ presets for up to 20 locations that automatically turn on when you enter those places).
Farther down in the app, the ANC section offers an Adaptive ANC toggle, as well as a slider that lets you blend the ANC and Transparency modes—the left-most position is for full ANC and the right-most position is for full transparency. You can also enable Wind Noise Reduction (Auto, Off, or Max) and set the auto-pause feature to turn on whenever Transparent mode is active. Lastly, a fader in the Sidetone section lets you control how much of your voice you hear on calls.
In the settings menu, you can also choose to hide the various sections of the menu to streamline the app’s home screen. Notably absent is a section for customizing the on-ear gestures, but that feature is more typical of earphones with limited real estate for touch controls.
It’s a little annoying that Sennheiser requires you to create an account to access some of these features, but at least it doesn’t block access to the app altogether. An increasing number of audio companies apparently now want your email. Our main complaint with the app, however, is that the three-band EQ feels unnecessarily simplified—plenty of competing apps offer far more bands and actually bother to label the bands with frequencies. The app was slightly inconsistent in connecting with the Momentum 4 Wireless headphones, too—more than once in testing (and after we installed all available firmware updates), the app didn’t recognize the headphones despite them being paired to our iPhone at the time .
Highly Effective ANC
The headphones deliver high-quality noise cancellation. Unsurprisingly, we had the most success with the maximum ANC level and Adaptive ANC on. With Adaptive ANC off, the ANC lets through a faint hiss (though one that’s really only noticeable in quieter environments).
In testing with the above settings, the headphones dial back powerful, low-frequency rumble (like you hear on an airplane) significantly and don’t produce any sort of masking hiss. They also effectively cut back noise from a recording of a busy restaurant with clanging dishes and boisterous conversation. We weren’t able to test the Wind Noise Reduction feature (which combats unwanted noise as a result of wind hitting the ANC mics), but we suggest leaving it in the default Auto mode.
It’s difficult to say whether the ANC has an obvious effect on the audio performance because there’s no way to turn it off completely; you can only toggle between ANC and Transparency modes or opt for some blend of the two. We didn’t notice any significant audio performance difference when we switched between the two modes in testing.
Compared with the Sony WH-1000XM5, the Sennheiser headphones let through a little bit more of the lows and low-mids in environments with intense, deep frequencies. In a noisy cafe-like setting, the Momentum 4 Wireless headphones allowed a thin band of higher frequencies to slip through that the WH-1000XM5 didn’t—but both are very effective against lows, mids, and, to a reasonable extent, the high-mids. Neither competes with the Bose QuietComfort 45’s level of noise cancellation in these scenarios, however.
Transparency mode effectively provides a clear way for you to hear your surroundings without removing the headphones. And, as mentioned, you can set the pair to auto-pause your music whenever this mode is active. The app doesn’t provide anything beyond a basic transparency function, though—some apps offer a conversation mode that emphasizes the human voice.
Fantastic Audio and Strong Mics
We tested the audio performance primarily without any EQ or Bass Mode enhancements. On tracks with intense sub-bass content, like The Knife’s “Silent Shout,” the headphones produce a powerful low-frequency response. The bass doesn’t distort at maximum volume levels, and at more moderate levels, the audio still sounds robust.
Bill Callahan’s “Drover,” a track with far less deep bass in the mix, gives us a better sense of the sound signature. The drums on this track sound bass-boosted and heavy, but don’t quite veer into unnaturally thunderous territory. Interestingly, the Bass Boost mode doesn’t really add too much thunder, either, though it does beef up the lows somewhat. Callahan’s baritone vocals sound rich and crisp, while the acoustic strums and higher-register percussive hits maintain a bright, detailed presence. If you want a more clinically accurate sound, you can dial back the lows slightly in the app’s EQ, but as is, this is a balanced, if somewhat sculpted, sound signature.
On Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild,” the kick drum loop receives an ideal high-mid presence that allows its attack to retain its punchiness, while the sub-bass synth hits that punctuate the beat come across with an ideal depth. The sub-bass doesn’t sound overly emphasized, but no one will accuse the headphones of skimping on subwoofer-like thump. We can tell that the pair enhances the lows somewhat, but they don’t add sub-bass where it doesn’t exist (unlike plenty of modern headphones). The vocals on this track sound clear, with perhaps a bit of additional sibilance.
Orchestral tracks, like the opening scene from John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary, sound fantastic. The lower-register instrumentation has a rich, full presence, but the spotlight belongs to the higher-register brass, strings, and vocals. This is a crisp, detailed sound signature with excellent anchoring in the lows—subtle on classical and jazz tracks, but capable of delivering the rumble you want from electronic music and some modern mixes.
The four-MEMS-mic array performs very well. We had no problem understanding every word from a test recording on an iPhone. The beam-forming mics (two are in each earcup) deliver an EQ-ed signal that zeroes in on the voice and successfully tamps down surrounding noise.
Sennheiser Strikes Back
The Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless headphones deliver excellent audio performance and support a strong array of Bluetooth codecs. The ANC here is quite good too—not the best, but fit to hang with the top models. We also like the new design and the option to tweak the audio in the app (although the EQ section could benefit from more bands). The headphones are a bit more affordable than the top-notch Sony WH-1000XM5, and comparable in price with the Bose QuietComfort 45. The Bose model edges out the Momentum 4 in terms of ANC, but we can at least argue that Sennheiser’s pair sounds the best of the bunch.
If all of these models are outside your budget, you should consider Sennheiser’s $199.95 HD 450BT headphones, which offer impressive ANC and audio, just obviously not on the same level as these other pairs. If you have room in your budget and are more focused on audio than noise cancellation, we’re also fans of the luxurious Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2 ($399.99). At the very least, however, the Momentum 4 Wireless headphones deserve a spot in this high-end audio conversation.
Antonio Colak scored for the third game in a row as Rangers swept St Johnstone aside to maintain their perfect start to the league season.
Malik Tillman gave the patient home side the lead in the 32nd minute with a close-range header. St Johnstone continued to make life difficult for the Light Blues until Croatia striker Colak, who had scored in previous games against Union Saint-Gilloise and Kilmarnock, drove in a second from 10 yards in the 62nd minute, with late goals by substitutes Scott Arfield and Tom Lawrence adding gloss to the scoreline.
It was a third Rangers victory at Ibrox in a week with three clean sheets and will boost confidence for the first leg of their Champions League play-off at home to PSV on Tuesday.
With injuries to Ryan Kent and James Sands from last Tuesday’s European game, Ben Davies made his first start and Rabbi Matondo, Ryan Jack and Scott Wright also came in against unchanged St Johnstone.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst gave praise to those who stepped in. “Really pleased because we changed some players today, some we had to and some we gave more minutes, so overall it was a positive day for us,” he told BBC Scotland.
There was a half-hearted appeal for a penalty early on when Colak tumbled inside the area after a challenge by Alex Mitchell. The referee, Nick Walsh, took no notice.
St Johnstone suffered some disruption three minutes later when Cammy MacPherson went off injured to be replaced by the former Watford midfielder Daniel Phillips for his debut.
It was one-way traffic but in the 17th minute, when a deep cross bounced off the Rangers defender Borna Barisic eight yards out, Theo Blair knocked the ball wide of a post from on the ground and a good chance was gone.
Rangers kept the visitors pinned in and when James Tavernier took a Wright pass and floated the ball over to the back post, Tillman, on loan from Bayern Munich, rose high again to head in off the bar.
In the 50th minute Matondo, playing off the left, cracked the woodwork with a drive from the edge of the area and Barisic cleared the bar by inches with a free-kick from a similar distance.
When St Johnstone conceded a second, it was their own fault. A hesitant Drey Wright was robbed by Matondo inside the penalty area and the ball fell to Colak who swiftly turned and drove the ball low past Matthews.
Scott Arfield celebrates giving Rangers a 3-0 lead. Photograph: Stuart Wallace/Shutterstock
Colak made way for Alfredo Morelos in a triple substitution with Wright and Tillman replaced by Arfield and Lawrence.
The points were already secured and it was a case of Rangers trying to add to their tally, which Arfield did with 10 minutes remaining when he converted a Matondo cutback from 12 yards.
Three minutes later, Arfield set up Lawrence for his first Rangers goal and after a comprehensive domestic display Van Bronckhorst can focus on Europe and PSV.
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birmingham phoenix 161 for 5 (Perry 58, Devine 48) beat Welsh Fire 142 for 5 (Beaumont 39, Elwiss 2-29) by 19 runs
Birmingham Phoenix notched the second-highest total of the women’s Hundred as they beat Welsh Fire by 19 runs at a blisteringly hot Sophia Gardens.
After a slowish start, in which they were scoring at a run a ball in the first 20 and lost the wickets of Eve and Amy Jones, Phoenix picked up the pace to take 22 runs off the next set of five balls from Annabel Sutherland.
Welsh Fire skipper Tammy Beaumont led the charge with a 47-run opening partnership with Hayley Matthews. Matthews hammered 20 off 15 balls, while Beaumont notched 39 off 34 before she was stumped by Amy Jones off opposing skipper Devine.
Despite going down by 19 runs, Fire went on to bag their highest score in the competition with 142 for 5.
Having reached the eliminator last season, Phoenix recruited well in the off-season and made a good fist of being put in by Fire. Aussie import Perry enjoyed a brilliant debut in the tournament and her excellent innings of 58 off 31 balls included 10 fours to earn her the Hero of the Match award.
Having seen two wickets fall very cheaply at the top of the innings, Perry dug in with Devine to put on 46 for the third wicket. Between them they turned that conservative start into an innings with real momentum, Devine hitting seven fours and two sixes in her 48 of her.
Those two maximum strikes came off Matthews, as 18 runs came in her first set of five. That took Phoenix to 60 off 30, and although Devine departed soon after to Katie George’s first ball, Perry and Molineux provided a final flourish that took them to their best-ever total – five runs short of the 166 notched by Northern Superchargers against Fire last summer.
Lauren Filer, whose 20 balls cost just 20 runs, was the pick of the Fire bowlers, with Claire Nicholas taking 2 for 26.
The chase from Fire was energetic and innovative, with a ramp shot from Beaumont for six being the highlight. The skipper steered her team to 32 runs in the powerplay and looked set with Matthews until the latter was caught off the second ball from Abtaha Maqsood. Rachael Hynes hit some nice shot in her quickfire 14 and Sutherland notched 34 before she parted.
There was a spirited 20 in 12 balls from Fran Wilson before she was run out and, in the end, Fire fell well short.
It’s been a long time since gamers could feel victory, and today it’s one of those days. Although Blizzard announced they would remove loot boxes from Overwatch once Overwatch 2 launched almost a year ago, the good news is surprisingly coming early than expected, since loot boxes will be leaving the Overwatch store on August 30th.
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How about getting players on top of their content until Overwatch 2?
Those still playing the game and sagging overwatch ranks know and know that the anniversary Remix event will happen, where players can spend their currency and buy cosmetics before Overwatch 2 is released on October 4th. If the box is out of the store, the players will only earn boxes by standard way, such as leveling their account and playing an arcade.
After Overwatch 2 comes out, Blizzard will implement the Battle Pass system, which appears a bit more transparent when it comes to unlocking the content in the game. Of course, there are also skins that players can buy directly, including the new Mythic skins.
Watch the first time you play Overwatch 2.
If you don’t want to grind anything in the original Overwatch or you don’t like the second stage of playing Overwatch, you must try to buy the Watchpoint Pack and get instant access to the closed beta. As for the grand question, are there some new players in this game? Even if the game is due to be free on release, you can find plenty of players on the closed beta servers.
the QPR goalkeeper Seny Dieng scored a stoppage-time equalizer to force a 2-2 draw at Sunderland in the Championship.
Dieng headed home deep into time added on to complete a remarkable comeback by Michael Beale’s team. Sunderland were 2-0 up and coasting towards a win after first-half goals from Ross Stewart and Ellis Simms. But Elias Chair got Rangers back in it in the 87th minute and five minutes later Chair’s cross was incredibly converted by Dieng, who then made an incredible stop at the other end.
“At half-time we had honest words, told them to live more dangerously, we played on the front foot and Ilias scores a great goal,” said Beale. “I thought the moment had gone but Seny had other plans. It was a great goal followed by a great save. When Seny went up an assistant said: ‘Are you happy?’ I said I am not going to bring him back. When the goalkeeper goes up, who picks him up, he attacks both balls in. A crazy game.”
Rotherham enjoyed a stellar afternoon as they hammered Reading 4-0 at the New York Stadium. The Millers blew Paul Ince’s side away in the first half, racing into a 3-0 lead after only 18 minutes and adding a fourth before the break. Reading’s goalkeeper Joe Lumley had an afternoon to forget. After Richard Wood headed the hosts in front, Lumley allowed Conor Washington to score from an acute angle, before letting a weak Jamie Lindsay shot through his hands from him. Chiedozie Ogbene piled on the misery for Lumley, beating the keeper to the ball and finishing into an empty net.
“All that going forward didn’t please me as much as our defending,” said the Rotherham manager Paul Warne. “Generally speaking we defended really well. I thought we deserved to win but maybe not by four goals – but I’m not complaining.”
Millwall came from two goals down to beat Coventry 3-2. The Sky Blues were in dreamland after just 28 minutes as Kyle McFadzean and Matty Godden put them 2-0 up. Jake Cooper’s goal before half-time proved pivotal as it gave the Lions something to cling on to and they quickly leveled after the restart through George Honeyman. Gustavo Hamer was sent off for Coventry and then George Saville’s 85th-minute goal won it for the hosts.
Meanwhile, Coventry have had a second Championship game postponed due to the condition of their pitch, with Tuesday’s home match against Wigan called off by the EFL due to ongoing issues with the playing surface at the Coventry Building Society Arena. Last weekend, their opening home fixture against Rotherham was postponed, and the Carabao Cup tie with Bristol City was moved to Burton’s Pirelli Stadium.
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Burton they were denied their first win of the season after a remarkable comeback from Accrington saw them draw 4-4 in an eight-goal thriller at the Crown Ground in League One.
A hat-trick from Davis Keillor-Dunn was not enough for the Brewers as Rosaire Longelo struck deep into stoppage time to rescue a point for Stanley. Keillor-Dunn scored two goals in the first half and one early in the second to give Burton a 3-0 lead, but Accrington continued to threaten with Joe Pritchard pulling one back minutes before Sean McConville added their second.
The Brewers thought they had managed to see out the game when Gassan Ahadme made it 4-2, but Josh Woods and Longelo scored late to steal a point.
Ipswich made it back-to-back wins to go top of the league with a 3-0 win against bottom side MK Don’s. They took an early lead through Wes Burns in the fifth minute and goals from Marcus Harness and Conor Chaplin saw the Tractor Boys go top on goal difference.
sheffield wednesday are behind them in a second, also on seven points, after Tyreeq Bakinson found a late goal to beat Charlton 1-0.
John Marquis scored the only goal as Bristol Rovers made it back-to-back wins with a 1-0 victory against Oxford to move up to third in the table.
peterborough dropped down into fourth after they were handed their first league defeat by Plymouth, who won 2-0. Finn Azaz put Plymouth ahead in the first half before Ryan Hardie scored from the penalty spot for the Pilgrims to move fifth.
cambridge left it late to come from behind to beat newly-promoted exeter 2-1. Jevani Brown put Exeter ahead just before half-time but Sam Smith leveled 15 minutes into the second half and Paul Digby found the winner for the U’s two minutes from time, heading home from close range.
Derby held on to beat Barnsley 2-1 and earn their second win of the season. The Rams took the lead through a Conor McCarthy own goal eight minutes in before Nathaniel Mendez-Laing doubled their lead with his first goal for the club.
Barnsley pulled one back after the break through Josh Benson but Derby managed to clinch maximum points.
Colby Bishop netted in each half to help portsmouth earn their first win of the season as they beat Cheltenham 2-0.
Shrewsbury also picked up their first win after a late penalty from Luke Leahy saw the Shrews win 2-1 against Wycombe.
The Chairboys took the lead through Garath McCleary six minutes after half-time but their lead was short-lived when Matthew Pennington equalized for the Shrews before Leahy added their second from the spot.
Fleetwood came from behind to snatch a point in a Lancashire derby clash against Morecambe, which finished 1-1. Arthur Gnahoua put the Shrimps ahead but Danny Andrew leveled just seven minutes from time, and the game ended with Paddy Lane being dismissed with a straight red card for a tackle on Shane McLoughlin.
Lincoln and Forest Green also drew after Connor Wickham scored on his Rovers debut to cancel out Baily Cargill’s own goal. Port Vale were unable to capitalize as they drew 0-0 with 10-man Bolton after Ricardo Almeida Santos was sent off 37 minutes in for his second bookable offence.
Norwich are enduring a difficult start following relegation last season as they lost 2-1 at hull, who climbed to third. Óscar Estupiñán scored twice, once in either half, to extend the Tigers’ unbeaten start to the campaign, despite Marcelino Núñez’s consolation for the Canaries, who sit bottom after three games.
Dean Smith urged Norwich fans to stay calm following the defeat. “We’re giving ourselves tough things to come back from with silly mistakes, but I don’t think after three games there’s any cause to panic,” he said. “We should have won the game in the first 20 minutes – the chances we created and the players who they fell to.”
Óscar Estupiñán celebrates grabbing his second goal. Photograph: Richard Sellers/PA
Huddersfield earned their first points of the season by beating Stoke 3-1. Lee Nicholls’s penalty save from Lewis Baker in the first half provided pivotal as Yuta Nakayama headed the Terriers in front before the break. Baker made amends for his spot-kick miss as he leveled after the restart but late goals from Danny Ward and Jordan Rhodes gave Danny Schofield his first win as Terriers manager.
swansea got their first win of the campaign as they beat blackpool 1-0. After Andy Fisher saved Jerry Yates’s penalty early in the second half, Olivier Ntcham scored in the final 10 minutes to get the Swans up and running for the campaign.
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Leyton Orient beat Mansfield 1-0 to maintain their 100% start to the new League Two season.
The Stags had the chance to take an early lead from the penalty spot after just two minutes, but Stephen McLaughlin saw his spot-kick saved. Orient broke the deadlock just after the hour through Charlie Kelman, which proved enough to secure a third straight win for Richie Wellens’ side.
Walsall are second after Danny Rose’s stoppage-time goal earned Stevenage a 1-1 draw at Banks’s Stadium. The Saddlers, who had also won their opening two league games, went ahead in the 13th minute through Danny Johnson. That looked to have been enough, only for substitute Rose to snatch an equalizer in the 10th minute of added time to leave Stevenage still unbeaten in fifth.
Salford are also on seven points after beating 10-man Crewe 3-0 with a brace from Brandon Thomas-Asante. Conor McAleny gave Salford a 17th-minute lead before the visitors saw striker Bassala Sambou shown a straight red card following a clash with Theo Vassell just after the half-hour. Salford made their advantage count as Thomas-Asante struck twice in the space of three minutes early in the second half to put the result beyond doubt.
Northampton picked up their second league win after beating hartlepool 2-1. Tyler Magloire headed the Cobblers in front after 31 minutes, with Josh Umerah nodding in Hartlepool’s equalizer in first-half stoppage time. Northampton, though, were back ahead just before the hour through midfielder Louis Appere.
barrow suffered a first league defeat after losing 1-0 at Suttonwhere substitute Tope Fadahunsi broke the deadlock with 11 minutes left.
bradford secured their first win by beating 10-man Newport 2-0. Richard Smallwood put City ahead in the seventh minute. In first-half stoppage time County had defender Declan Drysdale sent off for hauling down Harry Chapman who was through on goal and the Bradford midfielder struck a second goal in the 53rd minute.
At the other end of the table, Rochdale sit bottom following a third straight defeat as they were beaten 1-0 by Grimsby thanks to a stoppage-time header from Luke Waterfall.
Doncaster struck twice in the final three minutes to fight back and draw 2-2 at A.F.C. Wimbledon. Dons substitute Nathan Young-Coombes made an instant impact from the bench when he broke the deadlock in the 76th minute and then looked to have sealed the points when making it 2-0 with just six minutes to go. However, Rovers midfielder Tommy Rowe set up a tense finale with a 20-yard strike and defender Ro-Shaun Williams played in from a corner in the fifth minute of added time.
Carlisle and Swindon drew 1-1 at Brunton Park. Jacob Wakeling put the visitors ahead in the 22nd minute, but Kristian Dennis hauled Carlisle level just before the break.
A second-half header from Kyle Wootton gave Stockport 1-0 home win over Colchesterwhile harrogate and Crawley drew 0-0.
Tranmere saw off Gillingham 3-0 at Prenton Park. Elliott Nevitt put Rovers ahead in the 18th minute, with defender Ethan Bristow adding another midway through the second half. Josh Dacres-Cogley wrapped up the points when he scored Tranmere’s third with 15 minutes left.
Cardiff manager Steve Morison said he was “pleased as punch” with his team’s performance as they dominated birmingham to win 1-0, with Aston Villa loanee Jaden Philogene scoring the only goal in 17 minutes. “We should have had a couple more,” he said, “but, on the whole, it was really pleasing … Anyone can beat anyone this year, I don’t think there’s going to be a Fulham, it’s going to be very tight so it’s about stringing results together and getting that consistency.”
Elsewhere, Brad Potts’s acrobatic finish was enough for Preston to beat Luton 1-0 while wigan and Bristol City drew 1-1.
the next Final Fantasy 14 update dubbed “Buried Memory” now has a release date with the patch scheduled to be released on August 23rd. This update – Patch 6.2 for those keeping track – comes with a range of new features like more main quest content, additional dungeons and variants, and an “Island Sanctuary” feature which will give players the chance to manage and build up their own private island like a mini farming or settlement management game.
For those who might’ve missed the latest on this update from Square Enix, the trailer below shared this week should bring you back up to speed. It shows off some of the different dungeons and enemies players will tackle when the update releases as well as a look at the island players will inhabit as they take care of crops, animals, and more.
The site set up for the next Final Fantasy 14 update shared more info about this Island Sanctuary and other key features planned for the next patch. You can find all of that below:
“Find sanctuary in an island paradise abundant with wildlife, where crops may be sown and minions let to roam,” a preview of the next update’s Island Sanctuary feature said. “What will you learn in nature’s embrace─and what will you create from this newfound inspiration? Make ready to set sail, for your hideaway awaits!”
New Final Fantasy 14 Features in Patch 6.2
New Main Scenario Quests
New High-end Raid – Pandæmonium: Abyssos
Island Sanctuary
New Dungeon – The Fell Court of Troia
NewTrial
The First Variant Dungeon – The Sil’dihn Subterrane (Patch 6.25)
The First Criterion Dungeons – Another Sil’dihn Subterrane and Another Sil’dihn Subterrane (Savage) (Patch 6.25)
New Unreal Trial – Containment Bay S1T7
Main Scenario Revisions
Tataru’s Grand Endeavor
Somehow Further Hildibrand Adventures (Patch 6.25)
New Weapon Enhancement Quests – Manderville Weapons (Patch 6.25)
New Tribe Quests – The Omicrons (Patch 6.25)
Adventurer Plates (Official Release)
Allagan Tomastones of Causality
New Crafting Recipes
New Mounts, Minions, and Emotes
New Fashion Accessories
Final Fantasy 14’s Patch 6.2 will be out on August 23rd.
Australia’s Cam Smith has been forced to battle hecklers calling him a “sellout” amid links to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series as he battled in the third round of the St Jude Championship.
Smith shot a 67 in the third round to find himself tied for a third spot on 199 with American pair Will Zalatoris and Trey Mullinax. He is two strokes behind the leader, JJ Spaun (197) and one behind the second-placed Sepp Straka.
Speculation is rife over Smith’s future in the game, with the Australian widely expected to sign a reported $143 million deal with LIV, and his potential defection has not been lost on those in the crowd in Memphis watching him play.
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According to Memphis-based columnist, Mark Giannotto, the Australian was branded a “sellout” by a fan while hitting a tee shot on 14, with the sledge one of many alluding to the LIV links.
Cameron Smith has been given a tough time by those in the crowd in Memphis at the St Jude Championships (Getty)
Public opinion on Smith has soured drastically in recent weeks due to his refusal to shut down links to the Saudi-backed rebel tour, despite him winning his first major just a month earlier.
While an official move to LIV Golf could see Smith officially made into a villain by the public, former Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor said the Queensland-native could potentially turn it into a win.
“There’s no doubt there’s a bit of reputational damage at the moment … but I want to go in and bat for him,” Taylor said on Nine’s Sports Sunday.
“It’s a lot tougher for the non-Americans with this LIV Golf. As an Australian golfer or a South African golfer, you’ve got to make the big move to the (United) States to become a regular PGA Tour.
Cameron Smith ‘ready to cop some heat’
“That’s what Adam Scott has done, that’s what Greg Norman did many years ago, so it’s tougher for those guys to commit full-time to the PGA Tour when there’s another option which is also talking about moving events to Australia.
“If Cameron Smith moves to LIV, yes there will be some reputational damage, but I think he can make it work for him.
“LIV are already talking about having three tournaments in Australia and the Australian golf tour is nowhere near what it used to be. This influx of money from LIV will be great for Australian golf. I’d love to see Cameron Smith buy into it.
“If I was his manager, I’d say, ‘Well if you’re going to sign up for this amount of money, put 10-20 per cent of it into Australian golf and buy in and get Australian golf back to where it used to be.
Australia’s Cameron Smith in action during the third round of the St Jude Championships in Memphis (Getty)
“If he does that, it’ll be a win for him and a win for Australian golf. I think eventually LIV, the PGA, they’ll get back together in some form or another and I think it’ll be a win- win for him and Australian golf.”
Smith has so far shot down questions from multiple journalists regarding a potential defection, notably after his Open win last month, but said earlier this week that he is “ready to cop some heat.”
“That’s just their job – that’s what they’re there to do. They’re there to sell stories and I’m sure they’ve had a few looks at it the last few days,” he told Sky Sports of questions regarding the LIV tour.
“You know I’m ready to cop some heat… but like I said I’m here to win the FedEx Cup Playoffs – that’s my number one goal and whatever happens after that will come from me.”
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