I’ve finally got my new Bulldog, Missi and she is great with the exception of the damage she has been doing round the house, but that’s part of her being a puppy.

She’s a pretty cool dog. She runs around for half an hour or so then falls asleep, which is when I get to clean up her mess.

Missi also snores, so I was sleep deprived for some of the week It was like I had a 40 year old guy sleeping in the same room, unbelievable!

Speaking of animals a few of the boys and I have sold Royal Riff Raff recently, but I still have my harness racer Village Slickers who has been going well running 4th last week and 2nd this week.

Hopefully Village Slickers can crack it for another win soon, as we have just changed the trainer.

In the other part of my life, footy is going well.

Being able to knock off Sydney and Adelaide in consecutive weeks is no mean feat and in doing so we have snuck up to within two points of the top four.

I have said before a top four finish and two bites of the finals cherry is our regular season goal and we will keep grinding away at that.

I think the heavy track the week before in Sydney took its toll on the boys last week as a few of them were cramping up late in the game against the Crows.

As for the game it was a good win, which I felt we deserved. We were certainly aided by the injury to Brett Burton and, while you never like to see any player get injured, when he went off there was a bit of relief in our camp as he was red hot throughout the game.

This week we have had a short week as we prepare to take on the Kangaroos on Friday night.

The short week simply means we really focus on getting over all of the soreness from last week and have a few more massages than normal.

As for the Kangas, well we have to be wary of them. They are coming off a narrow victory over Port Adelaide and will be fired up to force their way into the eight this week.

It’s always the teams on the edge of the eight who present a big danger because they are scrapping that hard to get in, or stay in the eight or stay that they always have that motivation.

We lost to them earlier in the year in a game we could have won and it’s one of those that could have really cost us so this week we will look to turn that result around.

I think Mick Malthouse puts it best when he says “ninth position is the easiest spot to finish in” and to me there is not much difference between finishing ninth or 16th.

Dale