It was an explosive start to the trip this time around. Shane Watson (defensive coach) asked me for my water so I handed him the spare one I had. Little did he know, it was sparkling water and not still. When we took off, the pressurized cabin caused a massive build-up in the bottle and it sprayed all over him when he took the lid off. He thought I set him up but I swear I didn’t mean it. He made a mess of his pants and he was still pretty thirsty.

He could have just bought his own because the very nice crew at Virgin Airlines gave us each a $20 voucher to buy food at the airport because the Velocity Lounge was closed for refurbishment. I saw Aaron Edwards with a noodle salad, three muffins, a coffee, banana bread and a boost juice. All the boys were just buying food for the hell of it. Boomer was trying to cash his vouchers in and get the money back.

Money isn’t an issue it seems for some of the boys. I want you all to tweet me at @andrewswallow and tell me what you would think is a reasonable amount to spend on a first date. I think all the ladies out there will be happy to hear that one of the boys spent a whopping $300 on dinner at Nobu at Crown on a first date. I won’t name names but his brother plays at Freo and he must have too much spare time on his hands at the moment. I wish he’d concentrate more on that group assignment we have to get done for Uni by Tuesday! Oh, I should mention that despite this incredible outlay, he is still single. So any women out there looking for someone, or just a nice meal…you know where to go.

While Ed likes to spoil his partners, Liam Anthony takes a completely different approach. He took his girlfriend Ellie to see Carl Barron at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda but realised he’d booked separate seats when they rocked up. One was in the dress circle the other was in the stalls. Apparently they had a good night though.

Goldy has also loosened the purse strings after buying a new house in Pascoe Vale. He wanted to buy in Caulfield but had no luck. According to the Gumtree website, I have been trying to rent out a bungalow. Last week my phone started going nuts with people asking to come and have a look at my bungalow that was on the website to be leased. I had no idea what was going on until I finally figured out that it must have been the boys in rehab again. It’s led to Levi being nicknamed ‘GumTree Greenwood’. He still denies any involvement but smiles and laughs every time I pull him up.

It’s all smiles too at Spud’s joint. The Italian stallion has finally been tamed and got engaged to Bonnie over the bye weekend. He had a really nice BBQ to celebrate with some friends and family. Unfortunately he forgot to mention it to half the boys so only a few got to turn up to the party. When quizzed about the exclusive invite list he claimed that he only had time to text players in the first half of the alphabet. Luckily my name must have been saved under ‘A’ for Andrew and not ‘S’ for Spitta or Swallow.

It’s all happening down at Aegis Park…even Daniel Pratt’s (aka ‘The Chewman’…because he is known to do the ‘fake chew’ when he’s happy with himself) new girlfriend has come down from Queensland and has shifted in with him. Benny Warren, who is Pratty’s current housemate may have to find somewhere else to live.

That though could be a good thing and may enable him to move closer to Aegis Park. The other day, he took two hours to get from Seddon to training because the heavy rain caused road closures around his local area and he couldn’t find a way through.

Boomer has been telling everyone that he no longer lives the furthest away from the club because it’s never taken him two hours to drive in.

I was lucky enough to go out to Boomer’s house the other day. I had to fill up with petrol half way there…maybe Puffing Billy would have been a better option. I couldn’t believe the joint…it was massive. His son Cooper’s cubby house is bigger than my place. Boomer has four horses, a BMX track, a small four-hole golf course, motorised buggies to take you around the estate, a six car garage, solid marble lobby, a bronze statue of himself in the driveway, tennis court, three-lane lap pool complete with a waterfall and slide, basketball court, about eight plasma tellys and a full-time butler named Jeeves. I also noticed that he is anal about making sure everything is neat and tidy. I looked in the pantry (which is the size of Coles) and all the food items were lined up and in alphabetical order - it was concerning. He’s been trying to get MTV Cribs to come out with an Australian version so he can show it all off.

Just on a side note, I want everyone to know that as I’m writing this potentially award winning blog, I am diligently hitting ‘save’ every few minutes after a soul destroying experience last week. On Sunday I hit the books pretty hard and was smashing through an assignment. Four hours in, and after having poured my heart and soul into it…it was gone. I thought I was pressing save and had closed it down to attach it to something but I couldn’t find it anywhere. All the work I had done somehow didn’t save. The same thing happened to Ed, or so he says. He claims to have lost his entire assignment and had to start to scratch. I reckon he was just out to dinner again.

Another thing that’s gone missing is Lachie Hansen’s moustache. He got rid of it after learning that “The Mowman” has already been registered as a business name…he also had a bad review from Wellsy. Apparently he went out and did some mowing for Wellsy’s but had to go back because there were complaints that it wasn’t good enough. Lachie blamed the equipment and has been eyeing off a top of the range Husquvana model. So we need to help him out a bit and I want some suggestions for a name for his business - again, you can tweet me @andrewswallow.

Last time I asked for your suggestions for a new Clinker flavour. The overwhelming feedback was that you all thought my maroon plum offering was a disaster. I will take that criticism on the chin, dust myself off and move on.

I had some interesting suggestions from my tweeps too; @WillEgan likes the sound of a peanut butter clinker. @JesseC thinks there should be a blue and white filled clinker with blueberry and mint as the flavours. I like the sound of both.

I capped off my Saturday with some dinner before heading to a function with the loyal Roos’ supporters in WA. It was a wonderful night and was fantastic to see so many supporters there. They had a chance to catch up with me and some other boys with Brad Scott and Eugene Arocca there also.

We love coming over to Perth and having such great support and thanks to everyone that attended.