About Me

A thought has struck. For me, that's rarer than lightning. I just realised I can't start a blog without introducing myself. Yeah, I know there's that little 'About Me' thing in the sidebar, but does anyone read that? I don't and wouldn't. Nor should you. It's just silly.

Right - I'm 28, work as a sports reporter at a daily newspaper in my hometown of Wollongong, NSW, Australia and am addicted to crack, erm, uh ... I mean, writing and talking to people.

I don't think I'll write really tight, news-type stories here - I'm basically throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. My early posts are rubbish - read them at your peril. You've been warned.

My background is sports journalism but if a thought strikes re history (my other real passion), movies, TV, ect and I think I can produce a coherent argument, I'll write it. Also, on this blog, "football" is soccer, "league" is rugby league and "union" is rugby union.

I'll probably have a weekly thing looking back at something - with the old school league and cricket on there might be some fun to be had.

Any big sporting event I'll probably have my two cents worth on - it was the massive amount of sport on Friday night/Saturday morning that inspired me to start this thing in the first place.

I plan to do a "World According to Me" thing where I write something a bit more sober about an issue. Probably on Thursdays.

And any time I have something to say, you'll probably find it here. I'll fix up the look of this thing too, promise.

If you follow sports, you follow teams, so here's a list of my favs and the justification.

NRL: Manly. Instinct. I still have the 1987 premiers tshirt. It was big one me when I was four. Instinct.
NBL: Wollongong Hawks. Good blokes. Great ballers.
A-League: Sydney FC. They're the closest to my home. That's all I got.
NBA: LA Lakers. Oi, Kobe haters, I started following them in 1994-95 when the coach was Del Harris and the starting five was Nick Van Exel, Eddie Jones, Cedric Ceballos, Elden Campbell and Vlade Divac. I'm old school.
EPL: Newcastle United. Alan Shearer was the first player I knew about in the EPL (1993-94). He was with Blackburn then, but went on home. I love that Newcastle is a one-team town.

Obviously, I support Australia's national sporting teams (even the cricketers).

If you follow certain teams, you dislike others. Here are mine - and the justification.
NRL: Newcastle. '97 grand final. Nuff said.
NBL: Perth. Brad Robbins. 2010 grand final.
A-League: Melbourne Victory. Kevin Muscat.
NBA: Everyone but LA at play-off time. San Antonio all the time 'cause they're good.
EPL: Liverpool FC. Instinct. I eat, sleep, read, write, hope to make a baby one day and dislike Liverpool. Instinct.

At international level, here are some teams I don't like
Football: Italy. Divers. Boring.
League: England. Terrible.
Union: Seth Efrica. They're better than us. There, I said it.
Cricket: Any nation that embraces match fixing. I'm looking at you, Pakistan.

And I'm spent