In the latest episode of Old Bull, Young Buck it became apparent to hosts David Mundy and Griffin Logue that guest Andy Brayshaw has far too many nicknames.
Depending on the context, Brayshaw could go by the name ‘Snea’, ‘Bray’, Steve or Murray and the podcast hosts got to the bottom of the matter.
Brayshaw said ‘Snea’ originated from Brayshaw’s original nickname of ‘Sneaker’ when he was a kid.
“It was a family nickname. My parents and brothers used to call me ‘Snea’ growing up. The real reason was I used to sneak around the house and hide in weird places so I was ‘sneaker’ and then that just got shortened to ‘Snea’,” Brayshaw said.
But in a recent radio interview on Triple M with his commentator uncle James Brayshaw, Andy was referred to as Steve for the full interview.
“One of Dad’s mates, and Uncle James’s mates, was the umpire for an APS game when I was playing in year 12,” Brayshaw said.
“All my mates were calling me ‘Snea’ on the ground. I played a pretty good game and after the game the umpire went up to my dad and said ‘your boy Steve played really well… he got a fair bit of the ball!’
“All of my Dad’s mates found that hilarious and they’ve been calling me Steve ever since.”
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Brayshaw was then grilled about why a lot of the staff at Fremantle call him ‘Bray’, and he explained that he didn’t have the heart to get his nicknamed changed.
“(Justin Longmuir first) called me ‘Bray’ in the team meeting and everyone was saying ‘who is Bray?’” Brayshaw said.
“After the meeting he asked ‘do you mind if I call you Bray?’
“I’m not proud but I said ‘yeah whatever you want to call me’ so now he goes with ‘Bray’ and a few of the staff too, and it hurts me every time I hear it.”
Discussion soon switched to Freo’s poker crew, where Logue has been the dominant player and Brayshaw a frequent runner-up.
The successful Logue said Brayshaw’s poker skills mimicked that of Scottish tennis player Andy Murray.
“You’ve got your guns (in tennis), (Novak) Djokovic, Rafa (Rafael Nadal), Fed (Roger Federer),” Logue said.
“There’s always that one poor bloke who’s coming second and a lot of the time it’s Andy Murray. In this case it’s ‘Snea’.”
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