Find the old Am radio as here we go for 2010

Well when you start to see in the headlines that the Bunnies have managed to hold onto the charity shield

and

"NRL has stars in lock down" lest they get shitfaced at the season launch party and force them to abandon the season opening TV promo.

This can only mean that either the Rugby League season is about to commence, either that or Souths have already peaked for the year - or maybe both. And thank god for that finally something to watch on Tv after a very boring summer.

The Cricket season has fizzled out to nothing with the West Indies slipping out of the country mere hours after being thrashed by Australia in the final twenty20. And what a crap summer of cricket it was. Thankyou very much Pakistan and the Windies for wrecking summer.

First up it was the west indies who bowling attack was so placid that Shane Watson topped the batting averages. This was enough name him player of the year - whats going on. Against a decent opposition Shane's personal physiotherapist would get more time on the field than him.

Being Cricketer of the year entitles you to a lot benefits, not least of all is the cricket Australia issued regulation cricketer of the years 'girlfriend'. These are of course guaranteed to offend your mum and are dressed exclusively by the Pamela Anderson fashion range. Lucky for them thats not combined with the Britney Spears range of underwear and the Lara Bingle moral compass.

Back to cricket though - although I am struggling to remember the season already as the mind tends to block out trauma. As soon as the Windies were out of the country they were followed up by Pakistan. Well done for the first team to tour Australia to make more money per player in on line betting wins than match payments. This isn't always easy when your even money to lose each match, you would have to... oh I don't know.... send all your players to field on the fence enabling opposition tail enders a decent crack at a test 50.

This however explains why each match against them took so long as it can take a while for the whole team to run on and off between balls to lodge those "Highest test score for Peter Siddle" bets.

Also some cricket is happening in New Zealand although we are not exactly sure what that is since its all over by the tim eyou can get to a pub to watch it.

The only interesting thing was Dave Warners batting 40 runs off 10 balls. Eventually out for 67 off 29 balls, fifteen of which were bowled so far away and were so slow that most commentators suspected Trevor Chapple was the bowling coach.