It’s good to have a team to support. Or two, or three … or even four. It makes the weekend so much more pleasant when at least one of your teams wins.

I’m not a sports nut but I love my cricket. I complain about a musical being three hours long but I can watch cricket all day long.

And I enjoy my rugby league. I wasn’t really into sport much when I got married but I kind of had to follow rugby league since my wife’s dad, the late great Ron McLean, was the founding chairman of the North Queensland Cowboys. So, I started following the game and then when our son started playing cricket I came back to the game after a long layoff.

In the coming months it will be all about rugby league though. I have described cricket before as the agony and the ecstasy and same goes for rugby league. The agony was experienced by Broncos fans on the weekend while for Cowboys supporters it was ecstasy.

I follow both teams but the Cowboys take priority. So, it’s the Cowboys first for me, then the Broncos and then Titans. Well, I did go to high school on the Gold Coast after all.

Yes, I know we have another team now but I just haven’t managed to get my Phins up just yet. Give me time I may come around to them. That would at least give me four chances each weekend.

In reserve I have a fifth team, Canberra, the Green Machine. I still have a nostalgic attachment to them on account of Mal Meninga. I can’t get too excited about the other teams and I loathe some of them, the Penrith Panthers in particular. I used to hate Melbourne Storm but I’m a bit fickle.

Sport is an emotional business and supporting a team can be important and can bring a community together. If you have never watched the excellent documentary series Take Us Home: Leeds United, may I recommend it. It’s a fascinating look at how a city supported their team no matter what and it is narrated by rugby league tragic Russell Crowe who does a terrific job.

If Leeds in the UK is passionate about their team so is Townsville. The Cowboys are a force for good in that city and their stadium has become a community hub. Stadiums are not, as some might reckon, a waste of money.

In the early days they played at a ground some distance from the city centre, The Willows. They lost a lot in those early days and even being in the chairman’s box couldn’t dull the pain sometimes. We had some very long drives home to my parents-in laws place after losing out there time and time again.

But they eventually came good (it took a while) and nobody can take away the joy of that 2015 grand final win. I won and lost that day. Sorry Broncos.

This coming weekend all the Queensland teams will play each other which will conflict a lot of people. But I’ll be a winner, whatever happens.