There’s been plenty going on in my life including the new deal I signed with the club in the off-season. I was glad to get it all out of the way and let’s be honest; I was never going to leave the mighty Kangas!
I was actually in Austria when the media manager rang me to congratulate me on signing the new deal…a pity I knew nothing about it at that stage. My manager hadn’t spoken to me in the previous couple of days and I was unaware that a deal had been done. Fortunately for me the club and my manager Colin Young had been wheeling and dealing while I was enjoying an amazing European getaway with my best mate Dan and wife Elise. Yes, he was the third wheel.
Anyway, we fast forward to now and I’m in Ballarat for our community camp and there’s plenty to talk about.
When I got to Benny Warren’s house this morning, I walked in and he and Daniel Pratt were searching for missing car keys. Benny reckons he left them on the bedside table and now they’re missing. It reminds me of the time in the Gold Coast that he thought he lost his keys but found them in his pocket fifteen minutes later. So we were off to a bad start. We went and had breakfast and then things got worse. Pratty had to go back to the house to put some washing in the dryer, but with the keys missing and the second set given to Benny’s girlfriend so she could feed the dog, there was no way to get into the house - they were locked out. It was almost worth getting Jack Ziebell and Sam Wright over to bash the window in with a large wooden pole.
We weren’t the only ones that would have been running late. I reckon Majak would have been behind time due to the way he’s been doing his hair lately. It’s all carefully groomed into tiny little twirls but he reckons it just goes like that when he gets out of the shower. He basically uses his hand and rubs his head and his hair goes all weird and twisty. But I don’t think it’s that simple. I reckon he twists each individual part to achieve that unique look.
Speaking of hair, Boomer reckons Brad Scott needs a haircut (you didn’t read that here).
You also didn’t read that Michael Firrito recently bought a new dog and in trying to keep his ‘tough guy’ image intact, has been lying about the breed. It’s a Shih Tzu cross, or as Boomer says, it’s a Bitza…Bitza this, Bitza that. Spud had been sending Levi Greenwood pictures of other different Staffordshire Bull Terriers and claimed that was what he bought, but Levi thought something was up after noticing that the dog looked slightly different in all the photos. Levi now thinks he is the toughest guy at the club because Spud has a girl dog.
However Levi isn’t going to be spared here.
He might be one of the toughest, but he’s also the worst cricketer at the club. We played a charity match in Spud’s hometown Gembrook last week and Levi had a stinker. It began with a 10 run first over which included four wides, then he dropped a catch and missed a run-out from a metre and a half away in the one play and finally, he made a golden duck after a full toss hit his middle stump. Have I mentioned that I’m a decent cricketer on here before?
A lot of Levi action and it continues…
He recently stole Boomer’s phone and sent a message to Lachie Hansen. It was something which read as if Lachie had done something wrong and that Boomer was disappointed in him. Lachie received the message while he was in Bunnings buying a lawn mower and a trolley full of gardening equipment and was extremely rattled by the SMS. Instead of proceeding to the checkout, he dropped everything and went home to address the apparent misunderstanding.
When told it was a joke and that he’d been ‘had’, he was relieved but claimed his day had been ‘ruined’.
His day was ruined but the grasshopper in my hotel room had it worse tonight; killed by the club’s Brand Marketing Manager John Murphy after being mistaken for a cockroach. We told him it was a grasshopper but he stepped on it anyway. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone kill a grasshopper before.
I’m actually rooming with draftee Ben Mabon for the camp and feel a bit bad after telling him that the person with the most games usually gets the double bed. If he didn’t fall for that I was going to pull out the ‘Syd Barker Rule’.
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| Michael Firrito, Andrew Swallow and Levi Greenwood |
