The boys have arrived in Perth safely and have settled in. I came over on Friday so I could catch up with some family and friends which has been great. The club’s always been awesome with allowing guys to get home a day or two early when we play interstate.

Although I wasn’t on the plane, I’ve still heard a few stories. Darren Crocker and Brett Allison had their four hour flight all planned and brought along the movie ‘Moneyball’. But halfway through, they realised Crock’s laptop was going to run out of battery. So thinking ahead, they got Brett Allison’s laptop out and put it on standby. However, the battery on Crock’s computer died, but they forgot to eject the DVD first so it got trapped inside with no power left to get it out. Hopefully no-one will tell them how it finishes.

All the boys put in a Subway order for the flight and apparently Daniel Wells and Michael Firrito altered Lindsay ‘Boof’ Thomas’ form. When Boof went to eat his, it wasn’t quite what he expected. It was covered in BBQ sauce and had heaps of tuna. Boof hasn’t spoken to them since.

Now before I move on to other matters, I need to get something off my chest and profess my innocence after being unfairly tainted by Leigh Adams on radio.

‘Patchy’ or ‘Snitchy’ as I like to call him now, told James Brayshaw and Billy Brownless on TripleM’s Rush Hour program on Thursday that it was me who tried to sell our dietician Jona Segal’s horses on the Gum Tree website.

There’s been some serious mudslinging and a few blokes are covered in it from head to toe but Snitchy Adams is squeaky clean.

Jona was always under the impression that Levi ‘Piggles’ Greenwood was the one who tried to sell off his stallions but now he’s got me in his line of sight and is after revenge. Well Jona, it wasn’t me mate. Snitchy and the Pig were behind it all.

The other incident involved the glad wrapping of Tom Curran’s car. Someone unraveled some of the plastic film all around his car overnight and when JB and Billy accused Snitchy, he threw Ryan Bastinac under the bus.

A war of words erupted on Twitter minutes later:

Tom (@tomcurrans) said: “thanks for that patchy.. @rbastinac03 never in doubt as the culprit”

Then Ryan (@rbastinac03) said: “All I know is that Patch Adams purchased 280m of glad rap from Bunnings the other day. He's the culprit!!”

Tom went further: “hmm might just have to get both of you..”

Ryan got angry: “Get me you will get more then glad rap!! You will regret it.”

As you can see, it got messy and nasty at times and little Snitchy came out smelling like roses.

While those relationships may have soured, my friendship with Shaun Atley and Jamie Macmillan couldn't be sweeter. I had dinner at their house the other night and we settled in for dessert; fondue.

We chopped up all the fruit and got the chocolate melting and started dipping. It was a few minutes later when Atts said, "Mmmm, the chocolate really makes the dish doesn't it?" JMac and I looked at each other realising Atts had no idea what fondue was and had never had it before. Without the chocolate it would have just been a fruit platter. So yeah, it does make the dish Atts.

Ben ‘Sawny’ Mabon cooked the steak on the night but wasn’t happy with how it came out. He’s been doing cooking lessons lately and met Rachel Finch during a film shoot in a commercial kitchen a few weeks back. He was lost for words and could only utter, “Ben…Ben…Ben...” when she asked him a question.

Sawny was about as proud of the steak he cooked as our Head of Soft Tissue Engineering Luke Flushrubs Warnett was with his recent haircut. It’s the first one he’s had in 12-years and has been a little bit sheepish about it because he reckons he looks like he should be on stage with One Direction or Justin Bieber. I have been trying to get a photo of him but he keeps putting his hoodie on to hide it from me.
Our website guru Rob ‘Superbob’ Burton should have been ashamed of the lunch he had on Friday, but actually thought it was funny. He was spotted with a giant bag of prawn crackers he bought from an Asian Noodle joint in Errol Street. When asked why he got them he said, “I bought them as an entrée to the pie I already ate.” But the pie was actually the entrée because he ate it first yeah?

It’s a remarkable diet he has considering he polished it all off with a vanilla slice and bottle of coke. I don’t want to know what he had for breakfast.
It's been a bit rainy here in Perth, just like back in Melbourne. On Thursday, it was about 10 degrees outside and wet. We had main skills and I wasn't looking forward to it because of the conditions, so I had a crack at Peter Mulkearns (our head of strength and conditioning) and said jokingly, "If I played for Fremantle I wouldn't have to train in the rain."

Overhearing me and misunderstanding what I'd said, Atts jumped in and asked "Don't Freo have to train in the rain?" He thought they had some sort of clause in their contracts or something but all I meant was that it barely rains in the west and they wouldn't have to worry as much!

I’m heading off to a western Australian supporter’s function tonight with Wellsy. There’s about 150 fans there I’m told so it will be a great night.

To top off what’s already been a good weekend will be a win tomorrow against the Eagles. I enjoy playing back home and you know it’s always going to be tough regardless of where West Coast is on the ladder.