1. Are the record prices at the recent horse yearling sales, threatening the viability of the sport? For a sport predicated on cash - sales and purchases, betting, percentages and margins, bookmaking, investments, etc - we learn that not only Black Caviar, Pierro but now All Too Hard will be retired from racing in pursuit of the golden foal and servicing rates that will be through the roof. As a colt, All Too Hard goes to the best retirement role in the world..if only this fate was ours in the human world! It may be timely to remember the boom horse - Typhoon Tracey who was taken of action at its prime. Regretably, it died soon after. A fickle and unpredictable past time.
2. GWS. Showing a bit more promise, but clearly not fit enough. Their second half fade is legendary now. Will be hard to live down. Swans smashed the Brissy Bears, who will be after a new coach real soon. Again, I'm liking the Geelong club's work who will be tested in the Essendon match up next Friday.
3. How stupid is Laurie Daley? New, first year Origin coach, but seriously. He tells the world that he only has two positions to fill in his squad, with four or five weeks to go before Origin starts. Listen carefully....you can either hear QLD laughing or...Mal Meninga saying nothing. NSW seems to feast on loud mouthed coaches.
Enter Blake Ferguson who unexpectedly killed Melbourne out wide and has size to rival QLD (both of ego and Twitter postings along with physicality). Daley's Michael Jennings - Morris pairing is now up for questioning...so too is Paul Gallen whose knee injury looks serious. Maybe Laurie - like Mal - might shut up now. Daley fed Mal a lot of good ball at Canberra in the 1990's..let's hope he doesn't start feeding him Origin series wins.
4. Can't help but think that "promotion - relegation" is the way of the NRL and AFL future. More teams and two tiers. The excitment of teams making their way into the top league is fanatical...and the disappointment of terrible performers is justifiable once their 'drop' is confirmed. Both ends of the comp matter until the end, peppered by the performances of the second tier competition.
5. Super 15's. Crusaders are dangerous all of a sudden (as usual) after beating the Brumbies. Reds seem to be stagnating ('Link' MacKenzie needs to move on I suspect - Ireland - or Australian coach?). Force are surprising at times. The Tahs broke a three year hoodoo in South Africa...but could easily lose by 50 next week.
Folau looked sharp. A Wallaby jersey is essential. He is one of our best performed. Does this say more about the depth and state of rugby - or Folau?
6. Brett Rumford has won again in China - part of the European Tour. Two tournaments in a row! Not sure how "European" Asia actually is, but good luck to him. Suddenly our golf stocks look deep. The most difficult thing in golf at the moment is trying to keep Greg Norman Inc. Pty Ltd away so he does not hog the glory and start flogging his warehouses full of old dusty shark gear.
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