Way to much sport going on at the moment.
On Saturday night, I took Claire and Liam as well as Erin, Kyle and Jacob and Cody, to the Melbourne Storm game at Olympic Park.
The game started at 7:30 so we were all rugged up for the cold weather. The game was pretty good. Would like to go to a close game one day. Storm won 34-6. Can’t argue with that. The refereeing was atrocious. I had a laugh today when I saw that Canberra’s coach has been fined $10,000 for criticising the referee, saying he was one-sided. Man, we thought he was one-sided alright. Towards Canberra.
Anyway, the night was spoiled just a bit by a bunch of Bogans who thought it was their right to swear and carry on at every decision the referee made. I turned around at one stage and asked one if he really had to use the ‘f’ word. His reply was “Yeah I do.” However, it had the desired effect, he didn’t swear much afterwards.
Got to ask the question, why people pay money to go watch a game and then spend the entire game swearing and carrying on. If you get so frustrated, save your money, stay at home and watch it on TV.
We saw one Raiders supporter get evicted and when we left the stadium, saw him outside covered in blood. Someone didn’t have a good night.
To top it off, Cody made it on national TV just after Storm scored a try.
It was hard to concentrate just on the Storm though. At the same time the Socceroos were doing battle with Japan and the Swans were up against West Coast. I kept checking the scores on my phone. Bit of a disappointing night really with the Wallabies, Socceroos and Swans getting done. Always next time.
Tonight we played indoor cricket, we got off to a poor start but recovered pretty well to post 90. However, we fielded and bowled really well as a team. We ended up restricting them to about 64.
My bowling has really improved I think. I’m starting to mix them up. Sometimes bowling off-spin and then throwing in the odd leggie. I took about three wickets (including one of the first ball. Coupled with the two I took of the last two balls in my last over the last time I played then it’s a hat trick. I’m claiming it. They don’t come around very often.) At the moment we are sitting top (after two games.) I’m really enjoying myself during the game. I get a bit excited and a few others have a laugh at me but I don’t really care.
Tristan’s a bit happier with me as I finally took a stumping off his bowling. Maybe now he will stop bagging me in his blog.
Haven’t been watching the le tour as much as I’d like. Did watch it last night. Cadel Evans is going really well. Let’s get behind him and hopefully he’ll pull off a first win for Australia. He really needs to pull something out of the bag in the next two stages though.
I enjoyed my trip to Melbourne. Went to Donvale for church. It’s changed a lot since I was last there. Gerald is preaching a series on the Lord’s prayer. Yesterday it was on “Thy Kingdom Come.” He stated that we might get caught in the trap of just praying the prayer and not really meaning it. We need to be careful when we pray “Thy kingdom come” because if we’re not ready when God’s kingdom does come when Jesus returns then it’ll be too late.
I caught up with Alison. Good spending a couple of hours with her and catching up. Wish Ross was there as I wanted to seek his advice, maybe next time.
Got home in one-stop (in Kalkallo for petrol) about 5:45. Then went to church for BG to preach on predestination. Really need to hear it again, it’s a hard one to get your head around and understand.
Overall, a good couple of days. Bit tiring. Explains why I slept in this morning.
Back in the swing tomorrow.
Stay cool.
