COMMENT: There are fine words written about less tasty topics but this week, the clicking was all on Adams and Hayne.

It's difficult to find much sympathy for Konrad Hurrell at the moment. The prevailing opinion is that he has wasted his talent, writes Michael Burgess.

COMMENT: Blues coach needs to get tough and find alternative troops who have stomach for battle and are willing to show fight.

COMMENT: Highlanders five-eighths Lima Sopoaga is running a mean game and is also the most accurate goal-kicker among the New Zealand teams.

COMMENT: What do Cole Aldrich, Daequan Cook, Lazar Hayward, Jeremy Lamb, Kevin Martin and James Harden have in common?

The animal rights protesters were still there as Warrnambool's iconic three-day jumps meeting began on Tuesday.

WYNNE GRAY: Did the All Blacks suffer food poisoning? I have absolutely no doubt about that. Was that toxin deliberately and intentionally delivered? I can't be sure.

COMMENT: The fairy tale of Leicester City is the sports story of the year but it could quite easily be the horror story if Tottenham chase them down.

South Africa's resistance to playing a pink-ball test in Australia in November may also be a grim pointer of hopes of playing a day-night test in NZ next year.

Super Rugby is a dud which is failing to properly showcase the brilliant new talent which abounds.

There has to be a reasonable chance that Sanzaar, against unbelievably stiff competition, runs the world's worst judicial system writes Gregor Paul.

While the rise and rise of Lydia Ko continues unabated, a Kiwi about twice her age is staking a claim as one of our greatest sporting exports to much less fanfare.

ANDREW ALDERSON: If the Black Caps could be deemed "the masters", their apprentices trumped them again.

COMMENT: A new downtown footy stadium needs you in full voice rather than a whisper.

"The club wants to grow and I want to help them win trophies."

Twitter turned 10 this week. Popped a cork? Pulled a party cracker? Weep a single tear for the decline of the feel of real human interaction?

COMMENT: Four games in and the new-look Blues look a lot like the old-look Blues, which is not a good thing, while the other New Zealand sides are springing to life.

COMMENT: One of the big shifts in the game is the evolution of the bench and the fact all 23 players in the match day squad have big parts to play.

The best of this weekend's round four might be the last game tomorrow when the Jaguars are in residence in Buenos Aires against the Chiefs.

Another week of massive selection changes at the Blues, but this time coach Tana Umaga is sending out a side that looks like the right one to take on the Hurricanes.