THE WATCHMAN

9 minutes to midnight for... Tasmanian football

First we take Shanghai, then we take Hobart.

LOCAL HERO

Cue the Beavis and Butthead clips whenever the wire services start talking about "rising Australian boxer Jeff Horn’’. Unbeaten in 13 contests, the Brisbane product is the No.5 contender for American Tim Bradley’s title in the glamorous WBO welterweight division previously dominated by the retired Floyd Mayweather Jr and is expected to become a household name if he can make the most of Wednesday’s hometown bout against American veteran Randall Bailey. The fight had previously been postponed after Horn, 28, suffered a fractured larynx in a sparring session. Hard man. Heh, heh.

NUMBERS UP

600 341 games as an AFL coach for Rodney Eade after 259 as a player.

0 premierships with Sydney (1996-2002), Western Bulldogs (2005-11) and Gold Coast (2015-), the most games coached without winning a flag.

4 premierships as a player 1976, 78, 83, 86.

THEY SAID WHAT?

"If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work." — William Shakespeare, Saturday's round of football marked the 400th anniversary of his death.