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The loss against the Bulldogs was a pretty disappointing one so after a pretty honest and open review early in the week, we’ve really knuckled down and put our focus into turning it around. 

After arriving safely this afternoon, the boys have settled down in Adelaide in our hotel rooms, but not before some early-morning controversy for Scotty Thompson.

Scooter told us a story on the plane of what he described as the ‘morning from hell’.

Getting ready to chow down on two foot-longs from Subway, he made a rare clanger by dropping one on the ground! Not to be alarmed, he went inside to pack his bag, but couldn’t find his shorts to wear on the plane. While Scotty went searching around the house, Michael Firrito who he car-pools with was apparently standing right next to his travel bag waiting.

On top of the bag was the second foot-long which Spud was supposed to be guarding, but he must have forgotten the old ‘touch and feel’ rule. When Scotty came back into the room with a smile and shorts in hand, the sub was gone. Our old-team-mate Ben Ross’ dog had snuck past security and destroyed Scooter’s lunch!

Then, while he was cleaning up the scraps of lettuce, his phone dropped on the floor and smashed. He was a bit down in the dumps after that and made the most of the Virgin Lounge buffet which wasn’t a surprise to anyone given how tight he is.

Speaking of down in the dumps, Brad McKenzie was a little flat after his debut when the boys told him substitutes only receive half the match payment. While he was checking his bank statements to confirm, Levi Greenwood made the joke fall flat when be brought up that he’d in fact received the full amount a few weeks ago - way to ruin a gag!

Some of the boys think Brad, or ‘Baz’ as we like to call him is getting a bit ahead of himself sitting in the front row of the plane after one game, but if there’s a bloke really showing some ‘head wobble’ it’s Cruize Garlett who tells us he is a bit of a rock-star in his home state of Western Australia and has all the ladies chasing him.

I often talk about the antics of Shaun Atley, and I’ve had to wait a couple of weeks to share this one. A couple of the guys went to a circus in Perth before the Eagles’ game and one of the topics of discussions was ‘how long would it take for one of the elephants to walk to Melbourne?’ Scotty Thompson thought six weeks, to which Atts responded ‘I reckon it would be longer than that…more like a month.’ He’s lucky he can play footy!

We'll be without Hamish McIntosh this week which is a big loss. Back in Melbourne I'm told he was offered tickets to go and see the 'Wild Will' fight tonight. It’s filtered back that he rejected the offer as he already “has plans”. He’ll no doubt tell us he’s icing his knee, but a little birdy has revealed he’s got a romantic night of wining and dining planned.

As I’ve been writing this, I’ve been hearing a lot of weird banging and crashing on the wall. It just so happens that Ben Cunnington and Ryan Bastinac are roomed next door. I don’t know what they are up to, but it’s distracting and I need some help with revenge. Tweet @andrewswallow with your ideas.

Mentioning Cunners reminds me of something that made me laugh. In a conversation with Jack Ziebell who was studying vision for the upcoming game, he claims he asked Ziebs ‘are you looking at the dangerous players’ vision?’ referring to the Power’s midfielders. Jack tells another story though. He swears the conversation went more like this; ‘Jack, are you looking at Dangerfield?’ Right city, wrong team Ben!

Rumour has it that Cunners is also looking to sell a bed in his spare room. I’m told his aim is to turn it into a fishing room to house his 35 fishing rods. I’m not sure how true that is though.

I was seeking more answers during the week when my bag was dim-simmed. For those who don’t remember, dim-simming is when you get a bag, turn it inside out, pack it, and then zip it back up. I thought the culprit was Majak Daw and was plotting my response, but it seemed one of the boys had already got him back for me. He came up to me saying someone had stolen his keys and he was going to be late for a meeting. I was framed!

Anyway, off to bed now and to look forward to a big game tomorrow. The Adelaide crowds are always pretty loud and passionate, so we’ll be hoping to get off to a good start to silence them early.