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The Fitz Files

What does our country need? More fun runs

There he is! Wally was one of the fancy dress characters spotted in the crowd.

Meanwhile, far away from match-fixing, from dodgy deals and bodgy people, well away from big-time contracts, from bitter disappointments and furious factional fighting, sport, totally removed from soul-less corporate crunching, real sport goes on . . .  

The attitude to concussion is still in the dark ages

Obviously concussed: Dale Copley leaves the field during the match against the Broncos.

You had to see it to believe it. A minute before half-time in the Roosters vs Broncos game Dale Copley goes into a tackle, gets his head in the way of an inadvertently flying knee, and falls to the ground like a sack of spuds.

'Why do you write all that s--t about me?': Tomic

Tomic v FitzSimons

Yes, I had seen the yellow Ferrari outside the Palazzao Versace hotel last Saturday arvo, but still, nothing twigged, and I had no clue that it was the first crack of lightning on the horizon for what looked like a mid-level storm approaching.