Wrap - A Badly (AB) Designed Medal

1. NFL New England Patriots. An era like no other, but a bad loss whatever way you look at it in the Super Bowl. Now all together in your best Elton John impersonation: "Phil-a-delphian Eagles...I love-ve-ve, you.....yes I do!".

2. Bulldogs NRL Board. Gotta love an NRL board overthrow...it gets those journalists going. Renee Castle might just be laughing to herself right about now...and Des Hasler. Dib will no doubt hand this one over to his lawyers as well. The game stops for no one's ego.

3. English Super League. Hull v Wigan...? Great to see they think Australia is a good launch place, but is this a good idea? Hard to think there is much interest. Reasonable crowd, but not a great standard. Can't see them coming back in a hurry.

4. Australia v England T20 Cricket. Our bowling and fielding was exemplary. Maxwell was superb...and D'Arcy Short will be there for some time to come. When he unleashes without fear of retaining his spot, he will climb higher.  The top five are a lot more formidable in the shortest form of the game. Warner is in terrible nick, but I really like his captaincy. Communicative, authoritative and purposeful. How well does Chris Lynn hit the ball? He is a million dollar plus player in the IPL and looked worth every cent. He can change a game and should be the highest paid T20 player in the world before long.

How bad was the Shield batting again this weekend? I fear that Duke ball is going to roll us again in England (think Jimmy Anderson, Woakes, Broad), but a good initiative to be exposed to it at least. Worldwide expectations when a team is playing abroad are extremely low. Hopefully the South African series turns the tables our way!

5. Virat Kholi. For those who may not have seen it v South Africa in the ODI format, he has scored two centuries in the last 3 innings he has played (the third was 75 - and four centuries in the last six innings overall). Kohli is 15 tons shy of Tendulkar's ODI centuries record but is no where near the number of innings it took Tendulkar. His average now is the highest ever of anyone playing more than 35 innings - ever. Legend.

6. AB Medal. Farcical structure, making very few players eligible to win it. Only those playing all three formats. It is Smith v Warner...Starc and Cummins a small sniff. Elyse Perry should romp it in.

7. T20 Channel 9. The spidercam fiasco where it held up play for a few minutes in the T20 is typical Channel 9 now. They can’t  take a trick. Won’t be long before TV changes forever.

8. Quayde Cooper. I have to agree with Brad Thorn’s brutality. Cooper is an under performer of late. Bad attitudes are not required in modern sport. Not that Quayde will care as the money still rolls in. The Reds faired well in the Global Rugby 10s. Seems that every derivative in the spectrum is now being delivered by rugby...is their authentic 15's version not a palatable product?

9. Women’s AFL. Great crowd in Freo. 41,000!!! Bigger than all games in the NRL outside the GF. 41,000 used to be the Grand Final crowd at the SFS. Low scoring games, but the AFL should mandate all teams are required to field a women's team to play in the comp. Why they can't precede the main AFL game is anyone's guess.

10. A-League. Sydney FC are just too dominant. They can engrave the dunny seat trophy now. When will soccer ban players quizzing the refs and approaching them. 5 metre radius rule!

11. Winter Olympics drones. Spectacular. Not really a high interest sport in Australia. Rich surfers on holidays mainly.

12. EPL. Once again Arsenal under perform. 5 points adrift of the top 5 of Man City, MaN U, Tottenham, Liverpool and Chelsea. They spend and spend with no outcome in the EPL. Wenger surely cannot continue to last. He picks up a mid week chalice while the main cups disappear year in year out. West Brom seem destined to drop now and Huddersfield need some magic. They have not scored points since 17 December 2017 when they beat Watford. Some good FA Cup results, but no winning points for a month or two will see you relegated too. Fire up! They are absolutely due v Bournemouth tonight.