Josh Walker’s humourous answer when asked what to expect from former club Geelong

BRISBANE coach Justin Leppitsch asked recruit Josh Walker if he had anything to reveal about his old club Geelong. His response had his teammates in stitches.

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IT’S generally a good idea to have something stashed away in the back of the mind just in case the coach puts you on the spot.

That’s a lesson Brisbane recruit Josh Walker learnt before his return to Simonds Stadium to play against his old club Geelong a couple of weeks back.

In a team meeting before the game, Lions coach Justin Leppitsch asked Walker if he had anything to reveal about the Cats which might help his new teammates.

Walker was like a rabbit in headlights, he had nothing. There was an awkward silence before he finally came up with this gem: “Tom Hawkins likes to eat Tim Tams the night before a game.”

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The revelation had his teammates in stitches, but Walker wasn’t finished.

He went on to explain that the number of Tim Tams consumed by the Tomahawk depends on how many goals he thinks he’ll kick the following day.

If Hawkins senses a big bag is in the offing, then the whole packet could be in danger.

MOODY SEEING STARS

DARLING DOWNS stud owners often find random creatures sleeping on their dew-dampened properties — but they didn’t expect to find Peter Moody.

So you could understand the caution displayed by Basil Nolan at Raheen Stud, outside Warwick in southeast Queensland, just after daybreak on Friday when he found a curious package in his front yard.

On a whim, Moody had driven 14 hours through the afternoon and night to reconnect with some of his old mates at Toowoomba’s time-honoured Weetwood meeting.

There he was, hidden away, unannounced and anonymous, nestled deeply in his own trusty swag.

“The Nolans s--t themselves when they found me asleep on the front lawn,’’ Moody told the Courier Mail’s Robert Craddock.

For the first time in his life Moody paid to go to a race meeting — $25 — though he didn’t even see a race after hooking up with some old friends at a function behind the grandstand.

“We sat up the back on the grass at Toowoomba and drank 48 cans,” Moody said. “By the time we got in front of the grandstand, the lights were on but every bastard had gone home.’’

 

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AUSTRALIA’S golden girl of the track, Cathy Freeman, channelled her best Anthony Mundine in Berlin, working out with some young boxers as part of her ambassador role for the Laureus Sports Awards.

Cathy Freeman trains with local children in Berlin. Picture: GETTY IMAGES

 

THE WHISPER

RICHMOND big man Tyrone Vickery certainly saw a bit of the country at the weekend. After being belted in Perth, there was a three-hour delay for the return flight to Melbourne. Vickery then got on another plane to Brisbane to watch his wife, Arina Rodionova, play in the dead doubles rubber of Australia’s Fed Cup loss to the US.