Everything is a competition around here.

Lately my household in La Perouse - that’s me and Mummy and Cambo and Byron - has been having a competition against the Randwick house where Bulldog, Nipper and Dill live.

In case you don’t know, that’s Shane Mumford, Campbell Heath, Byron Sumner and me, against Jarred Moore, Nathan Gordon and Dylan McNeil.

The other day we started off with dinner at their place - a barbeque - and then it turned into a massive wrestling competition.

We try to see if we can make each other tap out, which means you get them in a hold and when they can’t take it any more, they tap out and you have to let go.

I can say I made Cambo tap out three times, Mummy made me tap out once, and Doggy tried his hardest but he couldn’t make me tap out.

So it’s been La Perouse versus Randwick in wrestling, ten pin bowling, and we also go and play pool.

We went bowling the other night and whoever comes last in the bowling has to do push ups…if you only get a score of 80, you have to do 20 push ups, so Cambo and Mummy were down on the floor at the bowling alley, doing them! Mummy is a bad bowler, and Cambo just had a bad night.

But all these games are a good way to build relationships and make close friends…and we can all take a fair bit of teasing.

Then it was real competition on the weekend. The seniors had a really good win - what about Rhyce Shaw at full forward, pulling goals out of nowhere! - and I enjoyed myself playing in the reserves on Sunday, with Byron and Cambo and Nipper.

Byron and I both kicked two goals so of course that was a competition on the field.

I had a good feeling before the game on Sunday. I knew I was going to play a good game. My body felt like I could run for days, which I did.

But Cambo sprained his ankle, so I had to spend the night taking care of him. I had to go up and down the stairs to his room, grabbing stuff.

He wanted compression socks, so I got those, and then he wanted his crutches. He ordered the food and then I went down and got it.

With a lot of us boys new here at the Swans, we look after each other like brothers when we need to - and the rest of the time it’s deadly competition!