LARRY RYAN: Could this finally be the house that Jack built?

Jack and Wes. The neighbour’s lad and our own. We clung to these slight men this week with a need that might have looked a touch desperate.

But why wouldn’t we? Many more weeks like this and they might be all we have left to lean on.

It was the week sport had its collar felt. The Australian Crime Commission figured out why it had gone up two sizes and Europol discovered where it got the price of the shirt.