It was a top of the table clash on Saturday night between the Roar and the former league leaders Adelaide United.  This match of the round would pit the two most entertaining sides in the league against each other and promised to deliver fast, free flowing football.  Due to the A-League’s bizarre fixture arrangement, this would also be the Roar’s ...

I started reading A Season With Verona a couple of months ago when it was handed to me by a friend.  Written in 2001, it follows a season with relegation-battling Seria A football club Hellas Verona FC from the perspective of a British author who has lived in Italy for a number of years. It’s a well written book and ...

Casey Affleck’s mockumentary I’m Still Here showcases Joaquin Phoenix’s career path not long after he was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Johnny Cash in Walk The Line.  He publically announces that he is quitting acting to pursue a career as a rapper.  Of course we now know that Phoenix was acting but not unlike a Sacha Baren Cohen film, ...

Ricky Herbert is a man who never loses. Ricky will always make sure that he dumps a girlfriend before they get a chance to dump him.  He always back the horse with the shortest odds and he buys homogenized milk.  It’s this cautious approach to life that has made Ricky a world-renowned football manager.  His conservative, ultra-defensive style of play ...

The Walking Dead It’s finally here!  Frank Darabont’s pilot of The Walking Dead aired on Sunday night in the States.  I’ve just finished watching it and I am absolutely blown away by what an excellent job Darabont’s production crew have done in bringing this comic book series to the small screen. As a huge fan of the series, this episode ...

Football can be a funny game.  Last week’s villain can be this week’s hero.  That was the case if you were a Brisbane Roar fan and you went from being angered last week by Melbourne Victory’s Robbie Kruse who scored against us to this week praising his name when he scored again to help sink Adelaide United to their first ...

I heard some sad news from Al and Jules today.  Unfortunately, their dog Kia passed away this morning.  Jen and I lived with Al and Jules for a couples of years and Kia was an awesome dog to have around the house.  She was a really sociable pup who would always be over the moon with excitement to meet you ...

It’s the night before the big Halloween costume party and my friend Amanda invited us over to her place for an evening of pumpkin carving.  I’ve never done it before so it was quite a novelty (and there’s a bit of a learning curve).  Amanda grew up in America so she’s an old hand at pumpkin carving.  She was able ...

They must be putting something in the water in Brisbane.  Somehow, completely against the run of form, both our local rugby and football teams have transformed from being basement dwelling also-rans into genuine title contenders. Earlier in the year, the Queensland Reds managed to turn around almost half a decade of mediocrity into a fifth place finish in the Super ...

After three long years of waiting, Rock Band 3 was finally released instores today.  Jen was nice enough to pick up a copy of the game for me after work.  It’s the sequel to my favourite game of the past decade or so and as co-operative video games go, there’s nothing Jen and I enjoy more than unwinding for an ...