Fastest Team to 50 goals

As the title suggests, Wolves recently became the quickest team in Brisbane Premier League history to score 50 goals! Now if only we could keep that elusive clean sheet. Since my last post we have played 3 matches, winning our 2 league fixtures against North Pine and Mt. Gravatt 3-1 and 9-1 respectively. We also had a Canale Cup match against Capalaba and won that game 5-2. As you can see we certainly don’t struggle to find goals but we haven’t been keeping other teams out of the back of the net like we need to. Some of the goals have been unlucky, but we are at times letting our opponents dictate the flow of the game for 10 or 15 minute spells, something that we need to remedy to reclaim our dominant form. Obviously, considering the results we have had I’m nitpicking, but as a defender I really want to keep a clean sheet, regardless of how many goals we score.

I bring up our “poor” defensive form because our next match is against Rochedale. If you have been an avid reader of my blog from the beginning you will recognize Rochedale as the traditional power of the league, so this is the biggest game of the year. This is also a huge rivalry game, both teams hate each other, so I can’t wait to step on the field and feel the atmosphere, knowing that everybody in the stadium wants us to lose (it's an away game). I know that our entire team feels the same way and we are going to have a good week of training leading up to the match to make sure that we are sharp for the kickoff. The game will be recorded so highlights will be available by Sunday morning back in the states on Thewashingline.com.au

Outside of soccer I recently found myself a job as a waiter at an upscale seafood restaurant, of all things. Now, when I think about your typical waiter, I’m imagining an outgoing and talkative person who converses easily with others. Obviously, if you were asked to describe me I doubt that any of those traits would be at the tip of your tongue. But, hey, it will put me out of my comfort zone and force me to work on those things. So maybe the next time you all see me I’ll be super outgoing, doubtful ha.

Either way it will allow me to make some money so I can start knocking off more items on my bucket list.

Although I have already fulfilled my quota of waterfalls I took a trip down the coast to Springbrook National Park early last week to see probably the most stunning waterfall I have witnessed yet. The 4k trail led you down a rainforest covered mountain to the base of the waterfall, where you are then taken under the falls before continuing out the other side back up the side of the mountain and finally ended with a great view over the falls looking west. However, there is a spur in the trail before you go under the falls that leads you down further into the valley, following a small river that eventually pools about 1k from the falls. The boulder strewn river bed offers a great opportunity to engage in some extracurricular off-trail hiking and both Pat and I were happy to take that opportunity to explore some more of the rainforest before returning back to the main trail to complete the hike. Both Pat and I are hoping to return to this hike soon so that we can take in a sunset over the falls that I’m sure will be spectacular.

Anyways, that’s all for now, hopefully the Bulls can pull things together in this next game, play within themselves, and stop turning the ball over at critical points of the game. I think they will! Lets Go Bulls!

Oh, I forgot to mention that I’m second in the league in goals. I now have 9 from 10 games. This is getting absurd but I hope it continues at least one more week. Go Wolves!

Late Night Soccer Games

I’m sitting here watching the Manchester United vs. Chelsea game at 2 am after the completion of my usual janitorial duties at Moreton Bay Sports Club, and decided it would be a good idea to update my blog now that we have started games up again.

However, I’d like to start out by saying happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers that are reading. I wouldn’t have been able to pursue a career as a professional soccer player without the love and encouragement that my mother has always given me. Also, happy 6-month anniversary to my sister Katie and her husband Eddie.

But on to more important matters, the resumption of league fixtures after a 2-week break.Things have gotten pretty bad down here in Australia in the last two weeks, the weather has deteriorated so much that we had rain for 5 straight days and the temperature is only reaching the mid 70’s! I’m really concerned that I might get the flu or something from the cold weather, actually, the only unfortunate occurrence (other than it no longer being pineapple season) was the public distribution of this ridiculous picture of my roommate, Pat McMahon and myself that was taken for an article written about us in the local paper.

The other interesting development is my changing diet over the past few weeks. I already mentioned my love affair with iced coffee, but I have begun to notice that vegetables are making a startlingly frequent appearance in all of my meals recently, not to mention I have started to cook myself stir-fry. That’s right me, taking the time to cook a meal for myself that is much more vegetable than protein. I apologize to anyone who has wagered on me eventually reaching the 400-pound club.

We played 4^th place Redlands last night, which are having a pretty good season so far and have a very talented side. Since it had been 3 weeks to the day since our last game I was expecting us to come out sluggish, but we came out firing and dominated the opening 25 minutes, although we had nothing to show for it, hitting 2 posts and having 2 headers cleared off the line. We ended up finding the back of the net twice before halftime but then conceded a late goal, going into the break 2-1 up. We were confident talking things over at half and knew that if we put the next goal away we could easily rattle off three or four more. We ended up doing just that winning the game handily 6-1. I netted the 4^th goal, making my goal tally 6 from 8 games. I have no idea what’s going on but somehow I’m just finding myself in good spots and the ball is coming to me, so I hope it continues because scoring this many goals is a lot of fun.

I hope everyone has/ had a good mother’s day and I’ll be sure to update everyone again soon.

I Love you mom!