Saturday turned into a long one. Back at the Telstradome for the footy. Saints were taking on the Kangaroos. An important game for final placings as both teams had the same win-loss record. The 'roos also having recently taken to letting teams get ahead in the first half of games and coming back at them after the long break. They tried, getting back to 10 points but the better team (with some help from the dodgy umpires) won in the end.

This week is also the Heritage Round in the AFL. A week where the 16 teams all wear strips from their past. Some don't look so different, some are radically altered. The Saints went back to their 1915-1918 guernsey's. A chance from the regular red-white-black to red-yellow-black which came about during the First World War. German colours were red-white-black and the St Kilda team changed the white to yellow for a few years.

Dinner with my brother, sister-in-law and a couple of other friends gave rise to a few fun discussions about the antics of T.O., cricket, adverts, Melbourne's public transport, Humpty, Grand Finals and gay AFL players.

I got around the opening night of the Premiership during the West Ham-Blackburn match. I had an interest in the game due to a rather beautiful female friend back in the England being a Blackburn supporter. Sadly the Hammers won 3-1. The Middlesboro-Liverpool game that followed wasn't much to write home about either. Two points dropped there.

Still, it was an eventful match and in a bar full of Liverpool supporters, even if the Irish bogans were out in force.  

Photos from the Kangaroos-Saints match

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