Craig Bellamy has made a phone call or, SOS if you will, to Trent Barrett to make a possible return for Origin game 3 in Sydney July 2nd. The rumour mill is running rampant with reports that Bellemy and Nine network commentator Phil Gould have made over night calls to the current Wigan five eighth.

A phone call to Braith ‘down syndrome’ Anasta revealed some bitter dissapointment with this latest rumour. “Its a bloody slap in the face” said Anasta, “I have been pretty dominating this season and to hear rumours like this is just very dissapointing”.

Former Queensland halfback Alfie Langer was contacted for his thoughts “Yep I think they should get him over, I did it and it worked out pretty well, cept for Benny giving me a kiss and a cuddle at the end” Langer reflected. He also likes the idea for selfish reasons “if they get Barro back across at least I might get some decent odds on our boys, this Qld favourites crap is giving me the shits, I want some real odds”.

It is an urgent and desperate move to try and turn the tables on a dominating Qld side. It will be interesting to see.

I was amused yesterday at the release of the latest Iphone from apple. A trend is growing that I noticed at the release of the Macbook Air. Steve Job’s, Apples co founder and apparent messiah stands in the middle of a packed media conference, announces his latest product release and reveals it in some manner. Out of an envelope of from his pocket, the presentation of said product is always met with resounding applause.

Yep, that’s what is happens, the worlds media come to the release of a new product and immediately, on the products first glimpse, randomly snap into fits of cheers and clapping.

Perception is a powerful thing, especially for Joe Public. My perception is that Apple are a crafty bunch of marketers who release average products. Obviously the “press conference’ is just a group meeting for company staff dressed up to be perceived in a media grab as a ‘press conference’ release. Microsoft have tried this approach before as well, except someone kept putting failing products in the hands of Sir Gates allowing for hilarity to ensue.