Call up to the national squad

The socceroos were so rubbish against Denmark earlier this year that drastic changes have been put in place. Jono and I have been called up to join the national squad in a gruelling training competition to be held in Dunoon later this year.

If you bothered to click the link, you'll notice that it's not the socceroos (although the people in the video are a touch faster than most of our backs), and the only reason I'll be in the Australian squad is because I'm creating it... I always knew that I'd make it in to a national sporting team provided I found a pond small enough to make me look like a big fish... It's just a shame that the pond turned out to be a bog.

So far recruiting people for the team has been much easier than I thought it would be (the key to selling swamp soccer is: get people drunk!), so the biggest challenge I've got is coming up with a pun-tastic team name, or fancy dress theme. Suggestions of note have been:

• Bogan's Heroes (cheers Dyalan)
• Swamp Donkeys (from who else but Nath)
• The Marais Men (Alessia's)
• Bog-di Surf Life Saving Club (need the caps)
• Steve Irwin uniforms (some people think it's still too soon - pish!)

I'm still undecided and would love to hear everyone's suggestions. If you've got an opinion on those above or a new idea post it here or drop me an email.

At the moment I'm leaning towards keeping it simple... just good old "Australian Swamp Soccer Team"... a bit plain you might think, but I like the idea of having shirts made up with
ASS
TEAM
across the back. Or is that too cheeky? (BOOM TISH)