I can take or leave Michael Clarke, he doesn’t inspire me as a player or a potential and seemingly future captain of Australian cricket at this stage. It may be because he is younger than me, at 30 I clearly should be captain of Australia before this young 26 year old upstart. I have spoken to a few friends of mine who are older than Ricky Ponting and they seem to feel the same way about him. Just a fact of life I guess, the younger people coming through will always take your chance at glory away from you.

I have watched Ricky Hatton fight a few times now and I am quite looking forward to him coming up against ‘pretty boy’ Floyd Mayweather this Sunday. Ricky is a tough scrapping type of fighter and Mayweather is a technically sound, keep away counter attack type of fighter. I hope these ingredients provide a good fight with a Hatton knockout in later rounds. My money will be on a Hatton victory at juicy odds.

News on the street is that the McLaren F1 team are back in discussions with Fernando Alonso for a possible return to the team next year. Is Ron Denis smoking crack?! This would have to be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard and I can not see it happening. Michael Schumacher is more likely to turn out for McLaren next year than Alonso!!

For the last 100 years house prices have increased by an average of 10% per year. Or so these real estate investment seminar gurus tell us. This means that a house that today sells for $450,000 was worth $32.00 dollars in 1907. I am not sure if this is a realistic figure or not but given population growth in Australia since that time I am guessing that a house bought in 1907 was much closer to the centre of your CBD than a $450,000 house would be today. Averaged out, lets assume for a moment this figure is accurate.

If we also assume that the average salary increase per year is 3 – 4% and the average yearly house price increase is 10% then there is an average 6% gap. Somewhere along the line something has gotta give.

Will house prices just keep on going?

Or have we reached a point of unequilibrium (I just invented a word) where house prices will stagnate for a few years to allow debt serviceability to catch up?

What are your thoughts here??

Whoops, Just saw that the followng entry is incorrect. To bad

What is the story? The prime minister and opposition leader seem to have stopped attending funerals for soldiers that have died in Afghanistan……. why?

Are these recently lost lives any less important than the first few soldiers who died?

Is it because the dignitary are otherwise engaged and would have gone if they could?

Did they attend a couple of these expecting that there would not be too many to go to?

At the risk of being offensive is it simply because the election is over?

Can anyone fill me in here, what has changed?

Takeover Target gave punters a heart attack with a last meter effort to beat Dance Hero on the line in the Arrowfield stud sprint. Had you invested your house on him you would be sitting here with a tidy two to two-and-a-half houses to your name!!

The 16 leg million dollar all up challenge kicked another leg home with a total of $128.00 landed and ready to put on leg 4 next time round.

Our punters club face off of Maximus V Fat-Simon turned into a fizzer with Fat-Simon neglecting to punt at all this weekend. Messy darts Fat-Simon, messy darts. For the interested, Maximus returned a big fat ZERO for the weekend.

Muralitharan has equalled Shane Warne’s test wicket world record. Chucker or not this was always on the cards, I for one, am happy it did not occur on Australian soil.

Garth Tander has won the V8 supercar championship. I must admit, I never thought this bloke would win many races let alone a championship. Credit where credit is due.

And lastly the sad news that Evel Knievel has made the biggest jump there is. A back flip off the roof of his house into his own coffin. As per normal Evel missed the landing and holds a new Guinness World Record of first stuntman to snap his back on his own future coffin. RIP Knievel, your antics will be sadly replaced by other morons.