Monday Buzz: Weekend highlights, lowlights

MONDAY BUZZ: Phil Rothfield’s highlights, lowlights and talking points from another memorable weekend in sport.

CHECK out the highlights, lowlights and talking points from another memorable weekend in sport.

HIGHLIGHT

Sunday’s heavy rain in Hobart which saved us from having to endure another embarrassing day of Test cricket for our national team.

LOWLIGHT

Australia’s pathetic batting collapse in Hobart on Saturday. A difficult pitch but Steve Smith showed it wasn’t impossible to get runs.

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Steve Smith showed it wasn’t impossible to get runs in Hobart.

LOWLIGHT II

The Australian selectors’ treatment of dumped all-rounder Mitchell Marsh. You can’t promise a player two Tests then sack him after one.

SHOOSH

Which former NRL coach punched another man in the head at an inner city pub last week and faces possible police charges? It could become a huge story.

SHOOSH II

There is so much anger around the 16 NRL clubs about funding issues that there is talk of a no-confidence vote on commission chairman John Grant when he returns home from the Four Nations tournament in England.

SHOOSH III

Which NRL club is still keen on signing Wallaby Israel Folau for 2018 but can’t take discussions any further until the salary cap is finalised?

Scotland players celebrate after their Four Nations draw against New Zealand.

CAUGHT SHORT

An upset was always on the cards in the Scotland-Kiwis Four Nations game. The ground in Workington where the Scots drew with New Zealand is 15 metres too short and 10 metres narrower than an official size rugby league ground.