Wrap - Low Tide and Princess Highway

1. Cadel Evans. Doubted last week but superb in the time trial last night. A mammoth achievement. He is an intriguing character. Wide mouth frog smile, a temper like McEnroe and a heart like Fiona Coote. The vision from France at this time of the year will make the travel agents busy.

2. On doubters, Mark Webber. Pole position in Germany. Surely he has a win in him. Vettel to win again I believe.

3. Western Bulldogs. They are terrible. Talk of a mid season comeback was quashed with their appalling display again v Sydney. Weak and lily livered. But for the boot of Hall it should have been an eighty - hundred point game. Rodney Eade needs to go quickly and that club needs to get their act together or move to Tasmania.

4. Parramatta. It has become a weekly treat. Wait till five minutes to go and watch what next numbnut is able to do something dumb and cost them the game. Again, Hayne failed. Robson (gone to the Sharks TG) gives away a stripping penalty (akin to putting water in your petrol bowser at the service station), then Hayne gets cute with his kicks and gives away field position before the Dogs (ex Eel Hodkinson) boot a field goal. Parramatta's stupidity and lack of smart game leadership under pressure (and that is Hindmarsh mostly - as good a defender as he may be) is not to be helped with the signing of old mate Tautai, who returns from Cronulla for next year to the Pacific Islander Parrots. Not much good comes out of Cronulla - usually low tide is about it.

5. The most boring batsman since Chris Tavare, Raul Dravid hit a century overnight. Again, not about the team, about HIM. Gets the not out at 105, but runs for the team post century as the tail whimpered around him. He has traded on the 'I got a century, I am a cleanskin' mentality, but he is not interested in team success. A draw is his aim - and another century.

6. "Ban Bin Hammmam from all football leadership, admin and involvement for life" says FIFA. "That way, our corruption can only be blamed on him". What a farce.

7. Apparently Jarryd Hayne was in Kings Cross looking for a few competition points on the black market.

8. Wallabies were alive and kicking on Saturday night. Must say that at the ground, the standard of our defence was pretty strong by and large. The Springbox were ordinary and were more box than spring with many stars left out. What price is on a national rugby jersey these days? Seems as though a bench of 10 all get on...not like the old days.