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We had a bit of a delay to our flight this morning out of Melbourne due to all the fog, but it gave us all a chance to chill out in the Virgin Lounge and have some breakfast and grab a coffee so no-one was complaining.

It’d be a different story if Ben Speight was travelling because they don’t allow animals into the lounge or serve them for that matter. I’m hearing that Speighty and his girlfriend Melissa have a cat called Izzy and he is particularly fond of it. So much so, he actually takes it for walks and to cafes. But it gets worse. He orders it a babyccino type drink because it loves to lap up the milk froth - they call it a ‘catuccino’. Get a grip Speighty and if it’s true you have to kiss it every night before bed I will throw up.

Our chief massage therapist Luke ‘Flushrubs’ (aka Flushie) is also an animal lover and owns two goldfish called Max and Trevor. He was talking about pet insurance and reckons there’d be a market for specific fish insurance. His reason being that, “There wouldn’t be many fish surgeons around, so it’d be expensive if your fish got sick or injured.” He also pointed out to some of the boys that if they were thinking about getting a fish, you can’t just tip it into your new tank because they will, “get scared and die. You have to leave them in the bag, in the water for a period of time.” Gee, I thought it had something to do with allowing them to acclimatise to the different water temperature. You learn something every day.

Anyway, back to the airport and Ben Cunnington was the happiest about our little fog delay because he’d set his wake-up alarm for PM instead of AM. It wasn’t until Ryan Bastinac arrived to pick him up that he actually got out of bed. It meant he didn’t have time to strap his head bandage on so don’t expect him to be wearing it at the SCG on Sunday.

Basty was probably struggling too. He’s been having some late nights recently after meeting a new female acquaintance. She has the last name Swallow apparently, so I had to quickly check my family tree and make sure it could all go ahead. There’s no relation, that I could find anyway, so no need for me to intervene there. I gave him the green light.

You spend a lot of time at airports and get pretty accustomed to everything that goes on…well most of us anyway. Superbob Burton called the tail of the plane a ‘back wing’ this morning, so clearly he still has much to learn. On the plane, Superbob was saying he was worried about putting on weight and when someone mentioned that his legs were pretty big, he turned to our physio Steve Saunders and asked “Steve, how much does a leg weigh?”. It was a remarkable question…as if they all weigh the same!

We landed and went straight to the SCG for a light training session. Some however, chose to do their own thing. We were sitting in the meeting room waiting for Scott McMahon to come in…and we waited, and waited, and waited. It turns out he was out on the ground having a kick with some staff. That’s why we call him ‘Loose’ because you never know what you’re going to get with him.

The new doc Andy ‘Brit’ McMahon was one of the ones out there having a kick but he busted his thumb. It’s now heavily bandaged but he reckons it’ll be right by tomorrow.

This is the first time I’ve been in Sydney since the AFL Season Launch and it reminded me of a funny story about my wife Elise. When we were getting ready to head out to the official function, she jumped into the lift and was greeted by a familiar face…or so she thought. Chris Scott hopped in and Elise started talking away to him but quickly realised she was getting very little back. Then it dawned on her. “You’re not Brad are you?…You’re Chris,” she said slightly embarrassed.

On Tuesday she’ll have another brush with a celebrity. Rachel Finch is catching up with her for the morning to do a shoot for Channel 7’s footy coverage - she’s pretty excited. Rachel is also going to a cooking class with the boys on Monday night, but the numbers have blown out for some reason. The first few lessons have only had about 12 blokes attend, but after word got out that Rachel was coming, about 46 players and 35 staff have tried to get in saying they harbour ambitions to become chefs after footy. It’s a disgrace. However, I will be going to keep them in check and because I’m captain and can do whatever I want.

Nothing like a supermodel to attract a bit of a crowd. I haven’t seen a reaction like that since Drew Petrie jumped on Twitter earlier today (@drewpetrie20). The big red has finally joined up but declared, “I’m not Tweeting until I get 1000 followers.” We’re not sure how long the novelty will last because his Facebook experience only lasted about two weeks. After about an hour on Twitter, he had about 300 followers so he’ll be Tweeting in no time, but if you aren’t on board yet and love tomato sauce and red things…jump on.

Ben ‘Sawny’ Mabon also needs a bit of a plug after the recent launch of his Facebook fan page. The man more commonly known as Greg Sawn is a bit of a cult figure at the club, much like Adam Marranello. Jamie Macmillan and Shaun Atley always hate travelling interstate and leaving Sawny home alone…not because he gets lonely, because he never does any dishes or cleaning. Sawny has about 180 ‘likes’ at this stage but we’d love to see that number skyrocket in the coming weeks.

So if you’re not on, get on! And that goes for North Melbourne too!