Courage is admitting you stuffed up.

It has been pleasing to see once again the volunteer spirit of this country we call home come to the fore in a time of crisis… As a member of the Rural Fire Service for 15 years, I feel for those who have lost family, friends, neighbours and property over the last few weeks. It is with pride that I’ve seen members of the various emergency services (some of them colleagues) give up their time (often away from family and most of them giving up work and wages).

Unfortunately, some members of our society don’t share the same kind of spirit that this country embodies. That brings me to the gentleman who backed into my car on Thursday night, as it was parked outside my father’s Yarramba Crescent home, leaving quite significant damage to the side guard. Only you know why you didn’t leave your details but it’s a good guess that you didn’t want to pay for the damage. There are people in our society whose behaviour is worse than yours my friend, but to not take responsibility for your actions is quite dissapointing when we see the courage and determination that we’ve seen from our emergency services time and time again.

My question to you is: “Do you have the courage to admit your mistake and pay the consequences for your actions?”

Grand miscarriage.

This is going to smack of sour grapes but who cares. The two top football codes this year have shown the flaws in the ‘Grand Final’ system.

Without a doubt, Geelong were the best team this year. You can not deny that. They lost two games for the whole year and either got stage fright, or just had an off day. In any other football league in the world, they would’ve been crowned champions.

The Storm, well they had an off day. For the third year in a row, the finish top after the season. Yet have one premiership. Without State of Origin, they would’ve finished three games ahead of Manly and Cronulla.

Think of a new system.

Also, why hasn’t anyone picked up on the glaring errors committed by Tony Archer. There were three tries with suspect passes. Not taking anything away from Steve Menzies but how can someone receive the ball on the try line and the pass not even look forward? Now not even the commentary team picked that up. This raises the question: Are Melbourne the new Manly, the team everyone wants to lose?

176cm = 5′ 9″

I could survive for 1 minute, 16 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

Four score and three.

On the day before Sir Don would’ve turned 100, South Africa couldn’t even manage that. The game only lasted 37 overs. I wonder if the South African’s might donate their match payments to the crowd who turned up.