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Well, the evidence suggests so. Have you seen any Big Bash games lately? Cricket Australia have shoved so much cricket down our throats that we're starting to throw it back up, and as far as the soccer goes, I don't know why this guy Statjic (?) was really sacked, but saying that he was "too...

Yeah, it would have to be a real labour of love owning or investing in a sports team. Just read this a few days ago about Perth Glory owner Tony Sage: https://www.goal.com/en-au/news/tony-sage-reveals-the-millions-los/1d7ze2kfq280a16mjs6ixmi6lk It says he's lost $27.5m since owning the...

Haven't followed soccer long enough to have an informed opinion, but in cricket the issue is obviously one of too much quantity and declining quality. The BBL, for example, has gone from each team playing 10 games in the regular season to 14, and it's not drawing in the marquee players it used...

So, he's going to be a "national high performance coach advisor" instead. When was Kevin Rudd put in charge of RA's staffing appointments?

I'm a rebel without a cause, baby.

Or he could just become a Perth Glory fan. Working a treat for me.

So had Western Sydney, so I don't know if we need to read too much into that.

Or d) Larkham was appointed as the successor a long time ago and the RA board actually think replacing Cheika with Larkham would be a good PR move on their part. I'm pretty sure that I read Larkham was being groomed for the top job as soon as he was appointed the assistant, which was - what -...

Back in his wilder, drug-taking days, Mick Jagger took it into his head to adopt a talking frog, which he named Kermit. Now, Kermit grew up to be a very enterprising, entrepreneurial young frog, and as soon as he became an adult he went to the bank to take out a business loan. He was introduced...

Maybe set your sights a little lower, fellas.

I think he must have missed one game with injury because he did a spell of commentary for WSR. Not too bad, either.

You may. SMSFs rule. And for the record, I don't hate banks. I do, however, hate cronyism which too many bankers benefit from, including from RA.

Banking seemed to work perfectly well when they just held deposits, loaned money for a profit, and knocked off to the gold course early. You could almost call it an idiot-proof business model. Then of course the idiots decided they had to reinvent the wheel to justify their huge salaries...

Why, whoever edited his Wikipedia page, of course.

You can bet some uni's applying for a grant to look into that. There'll be a double-blind test and everything.

Okay, you've touched on something which demands a response. If there's a lack of collegiality from those of us out West, it's because we recognise that Australia - whether you're talking politics, public policy, sport, business, whatever - is run by the east and for the east, and Western...

Well, for a non-announcement it's certainly got people here talking.

I think that's what they call the Sunk Cost fallacy.

There was a good piece by Cricinfo's Osman Samiuddin which looked at the concept of "Australian exceptionalism." Basically, Samiuddin thinks it's a load of bunk, and it's written in a different context, but I couldn't help but think of it when I read Hooper's statement about "backing their want...

Apparently World Rugby thought World Series Rugby was too similar to their own name, but I agree. Global Rapid Rugby sounds way too gimicky.