The first day of winter and we’ve just finished one of the driest Mays on record in Sydney. To underline the fact that it’s winter we were greeted with overcast skies and mizzly rain for most of the day. Fair enough, but the forecast for the rest of the week – right through the long weekend – is for a lot more of the same. It’s a good thing we’re getting out of town this weekend.
We went to the football yesterday to watch the Swans do as they pleased to the Richmond Tigers and were treated to one of the funniest sights in the AFL. As everyone knows, Matthew Richardson is a card-carrying clown. Every possession throws up a new adventure is comedy as he thinks of the most ingenious ways to completely stuff up. To sweeten the pot, and as proof that Swans coach Paul Roos has a sick sense of humour, Richo’s direct opponent for the match was the Swans version of the bumbling idiot Lewis Roberts-Thompson. And so we were treated to 2 hours of Dumb and Dumber as these two fools tried to out-mistake each other. It was worth the price of admission alone.
The only downside for us was that, even though we were sitting in the top deck of the Clive Churchill Stand, when it started raining we were getting wet. What the bloody-well use is it to stick a roof on a grandstand that can’t even protect you from the elements? That was the whole point of forking out the extra dollars. The game was well and truly over by three-quarter time, Richo and LRT were starting to repeat their respective routines and the goofs were starting to grow old, so we decided to head home early.
It would be remiss of me not to mention Collingwood’s 100 point victory over the West Coast Eagles on Saturday. What a game! The Pies are starting to look like the teams of 2002 & 2003. It’s all starting to look very promising, but there’s a long way to go and there are plenty of contenders out there.
