Many victims of our national tall poppy syndrome could line up to give advice to Penrith NRL captain Nathan Cleary as he seems distracted from doing what he does best. (You do one thing wrong and it flips quickly, 5/9). Conceding that modern living makes social media unavoidable, I expect that its impact might disperse one’s bad news, but it can also just as quickly promote redemption when the successes recur. News that the amazingly charitable Canterbury Bulldogs spent last Monday feeding the homeless at the Bill Crews Foundation restaurant at Ashfield has suddenly thrust them to the top of the league ethically, if not with game wins, in my estimation. Nathan Cleary will surely immunise himself by similar expressions of valiant humility of the human spirit. Such beneficence makes banal challenge from the critics impotent and bestows the moral high ground to his status, which surely becomes less assailable. Alan Sexton, Parramatta. 6Sep2023.