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Oscar Onley wins on Willunga Hill in the Tour Down Under. Chance of taking the GC victory tomorrow. Pride of Kelso!

I used to love The Greatest Games from the Blizzard (originally on the Football Ramble) with Marcus Speller and Jonathan Wilson. A different guest each episode would pick their favourite match from history and discuss it and other things that were happening around that time. Lots of great episodes and memories of past games. Seems to have stopped a few years ago unfortunately.

Everyone excited for the game here in Melbourne, even the most hardened Aussie Rules fans. Going to be an absolutely huge TV audience for this one.

It was Baltic at the track. 18 with a strong southerly!

Worth visiting the inner north hipster suburbs of Carlton, Fitzroy and Collingwood. Tons of cafes, restaurants and bars hidden away here and quite a nice vibe in these areas. Richmond also has some good eateries. St Kilda is a bit of a hole but worth a visit. The main roads in the CBD can feel a bit lacking in bars and eateries so make sure you head down the lanes and 'little' streets (Little Collins St for example) to find them. Campari House on hardware lane has a decent rooftop bar, best to do a bit of research first to find places. It's worth going to an Aussie Rules game when you're here as the season has just started. All Melbourne teams play at the MCG or Docklands (both located at the edge of the CBD) so there will be 3-4 games on each weekend. Tickets are cheap and available online easily so this is well worth doing. Make sure you pack cold weather gear too. Autumn has arrived and it's going to be pretty cold and damp all next week. Definitely don't turn up with just shorts and flip flops!

I saw The Crystal Method in Melbourne just before Christmas. A banging set for sure, even dropped in the guitar and vocals from Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap at one point!

He is from the Gold Coast after all

Watt ended up lying in the goalmouth with a defender standing over him and he then booted the defender from the ground. Unfortunately the linesman was also watching so a straight red was forthcoming and deserved too. Apart from that it was a fun match to watch with East Fife maybe just shading it, but the Blues were also impressive. Stranraer seemed to just slightly lack the ability to turn possession into a few more meaningful attacks. First time seeing the Blues in the flesh for a couple of years, so seeing Stair Park wreathed in sunshine was fantastic. Oh, and our keeper is absolutely tiny!

Good to see Morrison get his jotters.

It hasn't stopped you spouting nonsense however. Australia (excluding WA) has adopted a living with covid approach months ago once 80 to 90% of the population was double vaccinated, including opening international borders. This approach has held firm despite the recent Omicron surge. The Australian 'aim' is perfectly clear. WA, by dint of its isolated location, has resisted Covid so far. Everyone knows that an Omicron outbreak is inevitable, indeed it looks like it it's happening now. Despite being the laughing stock of Australia, most people in WA support the border closures arguing they have spent most of the last 2 years living a normal life, mostly mask and lockdown free, but not being allowed to return to the state of they leave. They'll have a few lockdown as cases rise, but once the cases hit a few thousand a day that'll stop and the borders will reopen. There's just not the political capital to be gained by opening the borders before a major outbreak.

That was my first earthquake too, what a weird feeling it was.

I suspect it's more to do with potential backlashes to these restrictions - there will be a federal election in the next 10 months and everything is framed around that. The travel restrictions mean travel is something for rich or famous people only and eventually that will have political implications.

Love Gianluca Vialli popping up celebrating!

Ange would be a really interesting appointment. He loves a passing, build from the back game and religiously stuck with it with the Australian national team, trusting it to get results in pressure situations. He did an amazing job with Brisbane, won the Asian Cup with Australia and the J League too. A great record and I excited to see what he can do if he gets the job

It's legal in Victoria, Australia to cycle on the hard shoulder on motorways outside of urban areas. It certainly feels like a weird thing to do the first couple of times but there is a fair bit of a draught when a couple of B doubles blaze past. Only problem is the amount of debris present on the shoulders. Most of my punctures have happened on them, usually caused the thin wire inside of burst tires which seems to litter the shoulders. I once had to ride in lane 1 to get past a car that had just caught fire on the shoulder. The other option was long grass on the verge which looked like prime snake territory so I decide to chance it in the traffic.