Wrap - Shadow Boxing

Boys,

1. One thing is certain now - Melbourne are in the GF with the Warriors winning on the weekend. It would be some sort of miracle for either Manly or the Storm to be beaten. The week off these days in such a brutal version of the game is a major advantage. Lockyer is still the most dangerous pivot in the game when running the ball at the line.

2. Now here's a pattern. You beat some tough teams - then lose to a terrible team. Welcome to Wallabies Deans Rugby Union. Think Samoa. Think Ireland now. Deans has had fifty tests and are we any closer to consistency and consolidated progress? This game is in dire shape really. Whenever there is a game that matters, out comes the rulebook and whistle. "Look For the Solution - Not the Problem". Referees look for the problem, always in rugby. When minnows play, it is free flowing...

2A. AFL. Stop the lot and play the GF. Has there been a more lopsided comp in the history of Australian sport? Something is wrong here. Even coaches show no loyalty. The likes of GWS getting what was STUPIDLY agreed by all clubs (one uncontracted player from each club) plus a wealth of draft picks is starting to show everyone what big money does to ruin a code.

3. Cricket. Suddenly Australia are in danger of losing the test and leaving with a 1-1 result. 100 plus behind and two days to play. These things seem to happen to us a lot when Siddle plays. Typical display from us overseas. The deciding test rarely falls our way. Hussey in some sort of form and Nathan Lyon not bringing the wickets needed. This Angelo Matthews is a freak. Maybe the next huge thing from Sri Lanka.

4. Davis Cup. A great teams event but will we ever return to the World Group? Even if we did it would be for a year. Tomic has had a tough initiation and Hewitt fights gamely but gives away free points too often as well. That is why he is not in the top echelons of world tennis.

5. Boys get a look at Floyd Mayweather's bout v Victor Ortiz. The ref stops the fight momentarily after a headbutt and Ortiz is talking to the ref and Mayweather cracks him twice while he is not shaping up...joke! Then Mayweather picks a fight with the ring announcer...older than Ray Warren. He magnificently said in reply..." I wish I was FIFTY years younger and I would kick your ass". Gold. It is something special - particularly the commentator's facial expressions.

Have a look at: http://www.foxsports.com.au/Other+Sports/mayweather-ko/video-e6frf56c-1226140207846?subcat=1225914720791&site=FoxSports