Wrap - Grubs and Dodgem Cars

1. Cricket. Clarke and Ponting. You can tell what's wrong with Australian cricket when the captain rats on the v/c in his tell all book? Ponting should know better. Ricky selling books is a bit sad. Must be missing that extra five million or so he earned each year. Is Ricky's book high on anyone's Christmas list? Much admired as a player - not so as a bloke. Smiles like a toll collector.

2. Warner finally hitting the straps. Candace Falzon has had more sportstar boyfriends than Tommy Carroll has had police search warrants. Ben Cutting could be a weapon for us in the shorter forms of the game. He can hit the ball. For a bowler, he is a better bat than a bowler unfortunately.

Why have the Poms arrived so early? They will hate each other by the time November starts. Our only hope.

3. Jonathan Thurston. The best in the world without peer. Forget Cronk, Slater and Inglis. Thurston produces in every big game. He is a winner, but may never win another premiership at the Cowboys (won one at the Bulldogs). Small, but the craftiest and toughest.

4. Italian rugby league team going great guns. Most surnames end in 'o'. Struggling to see how Kade Snowden fits in. The only link is he must love pasta.

4. Sam Burgess. Perhaps the dirtiest player in the past ten years. Has had a falling out with James Graham who is the ear biter and mad Monday slagger...grubs. I noticed that Lee Mossop is coming to Parra fresh from drug matters in the past. One thing for certain is that Shakespeare is safe.

5. Sydney FC v Western Sydney Wanderers. Crowd is unbelievable. The A League is lapping other sports in Australia. Ange Postocoglou's appointment was as predicatble as his sense of humour. Ange could be one of Australia's most boring sport entities.

6. Mundine v Shane Moseley. A crooked world of much disgrace. Anyone surprised? Jeff fenech looks like a heavyweight these day. Dropping $500K sounds like another unique story for A Current Affair...rich sportstar falling on bad times.

7. F1. Vetell. On fire. Soon to be crowned a four time world champion. He's got the same car as Webber, but his seems to be broken. It's like whinging about your dodgem car at the Easter Show....skill of the driver helps.

8. EPL. Arsenal looks good. They seem to have spirit. Great to see a few new teams at the top. Southampton are doing surprisingly well.

9. St Louis Cardinals in the box seat in the World Series. Tight stuff, but they have been the better team in the last two. Boston not done yet however. Birds can die if smothered by a red sock.