Ok ok ok. I know I said I’d try harder. So here it is. Me trying harder.

Before the year runs out and I haven’t posted anything at all, I thought I’d better get my thoughts and expectations for the sporting year ahead. Sadly I’ve already missed the boat on the Australian Open, but if I had had chance to blog about it before the event I would have written about my hopes that Andy Murray would do well. You can imagine my delight that he did very well indeed. It is a shame that Roger Federer still exists! I did manage to catch Murray live in his second round match against Marc Giquel and I was stuck by how much more aggressive he looked on court. I had high hopes. I guess the only disappointment was that Murray couldn’t take that final set against Federer. I guess we all knew The Fed would prevail, but I had hoped Murray would take a set or two off him. Still, I have hopes for Andy. I have no doubt he will win a major one day, I just don’t think it will be Wimbledon. He seems far more at home on the hard courts of Australia and the USA.
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Jenson Button - Brawn GP

It’s been a cracker of a day. The sun was shining and I spent the day cruising around Port Phillip Bay on a yacht listening to the high pitched whine coming from the Albert Park area, contemplating the fun I will have tomorrow, when I attend in person.

My hopes were high for defending Champion Lewis Hamilton this season. There was a part of me that assumed all this talk about MacLaren lacking pace was no more then clever mind games. Yesterday’s practice worried me a little, but then Kovalainen did ok, so I assumed that once MacLaren ironed out the kinks, Lewis would be on Pole for tomorrow.

Oh Dear.

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