Wrap - Brought To Heal

1. Jarryd Hayne. Surely the days of having one expensive recruit - whose arms, knees and hamstrings are as vulnerable as the next bloke's - cannot win you a comp. The Gold Coast has a startling way of converting talent into dust...in all sports. To offload a million good earnest players for one prancing stallion is not sensible. Jarryd will do some good things. He is quality, but gee the Gold Coast has a temporary sniff about it for him. He will take up boxing or checkers soon.

2. Cricket. Our inability to play grinding cricket was always going to show at some stage. Smith has lived on a fairytale for some time now. Can you imagine us in the Ashes in England? Anderson and Broad will make mince meat of this lot.

A series loss to the Lankans is a humiliation. We are soft and we are excuse makers. The talent in Australia is not in test cricket. Joe Burns has been found out (of course) and the flat track experts with the bat have been exposed too. What is Voges' average now? He needs to lift. Herath seemed to be bowling hand grenades. Starc is our only shining light. How long will he last? He has proven to have a very dubious fitness level. How can you pick Jon Holland as our next best spinner? Please....Zampa? Agar?...

Rod Marsh is still hanging around long after his expiry date. Lehmann needs to watch out too. Langer will jump in there with half a chance. Bayliss might also like to come home...

3. Olympics. Talking of whinging...that Chef de Mission for Australia. Chiller? She has already won the gold medal for that. Very soon she will be telling us it was - of course - the best games ever...ever since the last ones.The local crims have never been so busy. Was Rio going to be anything but a challenge with crime, lower standards of living, infrastructure, etc? The Olympics are well known for their ability to fry a nation's resources.

How good are those Campbell sisters, Cate and Bronte? Quick. Possibly a lap quicker than Dawn Fraser now. Loved the Mack drug cheat sledge. I think we are all tiring of the glory victory on the dias with the Olympic Gold medal surrendered at a meek ceremony a couple of years later. Swimming and Athletics are the home of the fraudsters and pure cheats.

4. Why does Andrew Bogut annoy people so much?

5. Hawthorn. They are the most remarkable team. There is probably no other team in Australia at present (outside the Cowboys and Storm...Cronulla?) who know how to win in all kinds of conditions and circumstances. A fourth consecutive flag will take some doing. They will take some beating. Even if Melbourne knocked them over!

6. Roston Chase. Who? This West Indian all rounder had a superb game v India (top notch opponent) in tests getting five wickets on debut and then a 137no to stave off defeat. Now there s someone who that country - our country ? - needs! Steel and hunger.

7. You can put money on a Foran comeback. However, this obsession our media has with stating under all articles about salary cap rorting and match fixing "we are not suggesting any of the players mentioned or photographed here are involved" is wearing mightily thin. Players know more than we are being told. They need to be brought to heel.