Member Spotlight on Brenden Woods

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1. Name:

Brenden Woods

2. Nickname(s):

Worm

3. High School:

Farrer, Tamworth

4. What city are you living in:

Cambridge, UK

5. First Fanatics Tour:

April 2001 - Davis Cup QF, Florianopolis, Brazil

6. What do you do when you are not on tour:

Masquerade as an economist for a UK utility company.

7. Favourite sporting moment while on tour with the Fanatics:

Lleyto's straight sets demolition of Guga in 01 DC QF in Florianopolis.

8. Favourite non-sporting moment while on tour with the Fanatics:

Catching the stink in the Brazilian crowd at the DC QF on video. Some Tysonesque air swings and connections before security tossed a couple of the combatants down a few flights of stairs. We hope to have this in a downloadable mpeg file soon

9. One sporting event you haven't been to but would love to attend:

World Cup (soccer) but only if we make it. I am also venturing to NYC for the US Open next week which will be huge.

10. Where would people find you at 3am on a regular Saturday night:

Alone and struggling.

12. Which song will always get you dancing on the bar:

Anything Kylie sings (although most people wouldn't call what I do 'dancing').

13. Favourite drink:

Water

14. Creation or evolution:

Both


15. Coke or Pepsi:

Guiness

16. Capitalist or Socialist:

Anarchist

17. Club or Pub:

Pub! (with a big screen)

18. Which moment has the most significance in Australian sporting history, was it Cliff Young winning the Sydney to Melbourne marathon running in gumboots, Australia 2's winged keel, Pat Cash's checkered headband,the invention of the padded Torpedo bikepants for under rugby shorts, David Boons 56 tinnies on the flight to London, the collapse of the Hobart DevilsNBL franchise, Warrick Cappers pink Ferrari & mullet haircut or something else:

Terry Lamb's cracker on Ellery Hanley in the 88 GF. Go you muts!

19. If you could invite 5 people to share a six pack of long necks with who would they be & why:

I wouldn't want many sporting legends, cause I reckon most of them wouldn't be as good a bloke as we imagine them to be.

• I'd probably go with a couple of mates,
• William Wallace
  
• That dickhead (Peter someone?) who crashed the WC qualifier v Iran, Aus Open final, Melby Cup, etc. I'd tell Wallace he was also a pom and just let them go at it while me and the boys knocked a couple back.

20. Can you give the people of Australia a tip:

Keep your head down, be proud of where we're from (I didn't realise we lived in God's own playground until I saw the screw-ups over here), vote Republic, and separate your colours from your whites. All the brest.