Like two ships in the night: quite a lot can happen in eight years

#ThingsSchapelleMissed: My entire career at Fairfax Media, which by the time you read this will have ended the way it began: with a nervous and poorly written story.

#ThingsSchapelleMissed: Twitter, and catchy hashtags, giving lazy journalists a cheap and easy way into their final piece for the Herald.

#ThingsPeopleWillMiss: The point. Of this story. If they didn't see the #ThingsSchapelleMissed hashtag. But I digress …

#ThingsIWillMiss: Having a page-two column in the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald.

#ThingsYouWontMiss: Me having a page-two column in the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald.

#ThingsIWillMiss: My father ringing to tell me how good EVERY Jacksonville column was. Even the very bad ones.

#ThingsIWontMiss: Emails asking why I can't write like Roy Masters or Richard Hinds.

#ThingsIWontMiss: Said emails being copied to Roy Masters and Richard Hinds.

#ThingsIWontMiss: Emails telling me ''won't'' has an apostrophe.

#ThingsIWillMiss: Being right.

#ThingsIWontMiss: Being wrong.

#ThingsIHaveMissed: The mark. Many times.

#ThingsIWillMiss: A winning grand final dressing room.

#ThingsIWontMiss: A losing grand final dressing room, still more gut-wrenching than it is fascinating.

#ThingsIWontMiss: Filing a 700-word match report on the bell when a team scores twice in the final three minutes to steal the win.

#ThingsIWillMiss: Pressing send on that match report.

#ThingsIWontMiss: Waiting by the phone for return calls from coaches and players.

#ThingsIAlwaysSeemedToMiss: Their return phone calls.

#ThingsIWontMiss: Coaches having too much say . . . except, obviously, when I'm trying to call them.

#ThingsIWillMiss: People, upon hearing I'm a rugby league reporter, asking: ''So what do you do from Monday to Friday?''

#ThingsIWillMiss: Bagging PR spin doctors.

#ThingIHaveNotMissed: The irony of me now becoming one.

#ThingsIWillMiss: Knowing I did this job for a while, with plenty of people being unable to tell which colours I wore when I was young.

#ThingsIWillMiss: The chance to see those colours win a grand final from a heaving, frantic press box (that's your only clue).

#ThingsIWontMiss: Knowing I had one chance to write a valedictory piece that is thoughtful, funny, heartfelt, insightful - and not self-indulgent.

#ThingsIWontMiss: Knowing I could have done a much better job.

#ThingsIWontMiss: The phrase ''It'll just be fish and chip wrapper tomorrow''.

#ThingsIStillMiss: Rod Allen, who hired me.

#ThingsIWontMiss: The sports editor, Ben Coady, asking me: 'What's your back-page lead?' at 10am.

#ThingsIWillMiss: Seeing my back-page lead at 10pm.

#ThingsIWillMiss: Newspapers. Working for them, that is. I hope I never have to miss reading them.

#ThingsIWillMiss: My brilliant colleagues, and their enormous talents, tantrums and egos. And I'll miss more than just Andrew Webster, too. I'll also miss managing sports editor Ian Fuge's vision, Brad Walter's passion, the drive, talent and ferociousness of the rest of the league and indeed sports reporters, the editors, the sub-editors, who have saved me more times than I care to count, the photographers who tolerated me attempting to tell them what the best shot was.

#ThingsTheyWontMiss: Me. This'll be fish and chip wrapper tomorrow.