Wrap - My Word Is Stronger Than Oak

1. Crazy Horse Stuff. Fancy having the All Blacks play the Kangaroos in a hybrid game. It sounds like a promoter with a desire for cash because there is no sense to that sort of game. A newspaper column filler. A time waster that will risk injury. Unless a desperate for cash NRL get behind it, it will fail. Coaches will run a mile.

2. The Warriors. Honestly, they are a basket case. Sure, they are away from home for a time, but the way they go on, it seems like they are in the USA or Africa. They are safe, they are professionals and they need to get on with it - not make excuses for really poor play. Some of their team are receiving big dollars and are simply not delivering.

3. Liverpool FC. Finally a premiership a mile out from the end of the season. Great news for the long suffering. It is a slashing team with a coach who looks like the professor in Money Heist. Could be as successful.

4. Rugby. Great to see the USA with a senior comp on their hands and lots of Aussies heading there for the cash. Could be a gold mine really - and a less intense standard. The USA would be a niche market if it ever got serious. They would love the heavy contact.

5. Bankwest Stadium. Hard to see the surface to blame for Radley and Verrells' injuries. Unlucky, but slippery in Winter. Amazing we don't build stadiums that have heating beneath the grass like in the EPL to keep the surface steady and firm and the grass cover immaculate.

6. Player Agents. Is anyone upset for deregistered player agents? Surely Jerry Maguire ended any sympathy in this area. Tim Mannah has not been cast well through this, but that is how it rolls. Does a player need an agent? Or a trusted friend...a bit sad really.

7. Peter Vlandys. His aim to speed up play has softened off a bit as some of the worst NRL referees - led by Ashley Clown - get in the way. Unfit and self centred, they need to keep the speed up or retire.

8. AFL. Carlton are sneaking through and Eddie Betts is delivering. The Crows are done and the Giants had a good win after some shockers. Swans still lack pace - especially in the moist/ wet conditions.

9. Cricket. The new sporting basket case in Australia. Greed and mismanagement. Bring on World Series Cricket again!

10. Curtis Scott (Raiders). Dud buy of the year. No risk.