Someone has started a fake Twitter account targeting Boomer’s frugal personal financial management and it’s causing problems at Arden Street.
The followers are coming fast with The Age journalist Emma Quayle, Boomer’s own brother Shane and Channel 7 reporter Nathan Templeton among them.
Naturally, the finger is being pointed at the players and Ryan Bastinac is front and centre. He was one of the first to discover the account and has been talking incessantly about it – this could get ugly. It’s a bit rich coming from Basty…he is also known as a tight-arse and may have been trying to shift the attention onto someone else.
In my opinion, it’s a bit below the belt. Boomer has always been generous with his money in my experience.
If the person responsible is found out, they’ll have to roll the dice. That’s our Kanga Lotto these days – a giant dice with numbers that correspond to punishments for doing wrong.
Usually you roll the dice when you’re late to a meeting or something, but in Taylor Garner’s case, he had to roll after being dobbed on for being late to physio appointment. He almost got away with it until Mason Wood accidentally let it slip. Now Mason has a new nickname; ‘Snitch’.
There are head shaves, washing senior players’ cars and ‘beat the blender’ – Majak’s favourite…only because he’s done it twice already. Beat the blender is basically a challenge where someone gets to put as much stuff into a blender in 30 seconds and you have to drink it.
There are plenty of other blokes that actually deserve to be called out but haven’t committed serious enough offences. Like Luke McDonald who only has one jumper in his wardrobe…or so it seems. Every interstate trip and even after training, he wears the same navy blue Vic Metro hoodie.
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Someone said to me tonight it’s because he captained a state side and I replied, ‘Who hasn’t?’
It’s time to let go Luke.
Maybe he’s wearing it to hide his skinny arms?
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Kayne Turner has pretty skinny arms too, but he went and got a Viking haircut to take the attention away from his light frame. Apparently he took a photo of Travis Fimmel, who plays Ragnar Lothbrok in the History Channel series ‘Vikings’, into the hairdresser and asked for the exact same look.
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Aaron Mullett’s new haircut is similar and Aaron Black has also been known to go Viking-like.
Lachie Hansen also deserves to cop a bit of flak for posing for this photo with his partner Prue.
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And Shaun Atley has to explain what the hell he was doing holding a stop sign on a roadwork site.
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Michael Firrito is on a high after winning a weekly fantasy football competition. His team ‘Woogie Simmonds’, named after North supporter and Big Bash star Craig Simmonds, was the highest scoring team for the week in the entire competition and hasn’t stopped talking about it. Today he was whinging about not having received the prize of $1,000 yet. He wanted to be presented with one of those large novelty cheques and even asked our footy boss Geoff Walsh to follow it up for him – like Walshy doesn’t have anything else to do. I think he should donate it all to charity.
Spud has been focusing too much on it – even at the airport he was seen giving Boomer tips on how to win.
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Anyway enough about all that, and onto some real footy.
We arrived in Adelaide this afternoon and headed straight to the new Adelaide Oval. It’s pretty awesome. They’ve done an amazing job. We had a really light training session just to familiarise ourselves with the surroundings and a few hundred fans came to watch which was great.
In our midfielder meeting, Leigh Tudor was giving us all the measurements of the ground and he was comparing them to Etihad. Lurka loves using stats and numbers but got himself a bit confused ending his info session saying, “So this ground is eight metres longer than Etihad, but four metres shorter…” Um, yeah Lurka…that doesn’t really help us mate.
We were all impressed with the surface…except Goldy. He was complaining that the grass was too long. So if you see him trip over during the game with no-one around him, it’s probably because of the long grass. He must have an issue with surfaces in general. At our hotel, he was complaining that his room was completely tiled and there was no carpet.
I don’t see the issue. The grass was fine and tiling is an acceptable method of flooring in my book.
We’ve been told to expect noise like we’ve never heard before against the Crows. Brad spoke to us at the ground and told us that Collingwood couldn’t believe how loud it was there. They said it was similar to eighty thousand at the MCG which is remarkable. Brad basically told us what to expect and said we should embrace the atmosphere and thrive in it.
I’m excited to have Robbie Tarrant back in the side, and also Lindsay Thomas. There’s still a lot of upside to come with Wellsy, Jamie Macmillan, Nathan Grima in our best 22.
But before we can look to far ahead, we have to concentrate on Adelaide. They’ve been pretty good at time this year and this is a must win game for them to stay in touch of the eight. We know they’ll come out hard, like Richmond last week, and we have to absorb the pressure and counter without delay. Having a slow start could cost us away from home and it’s an area we’ve been trying to rectify.
I hope all our South Australian based supporters can get to the game and cheer for us.
