There's been much ado about Mick and Joel this year with the whole race thingy they had going on. But while Coolangatta's two front man were battling in the bright lights, their good mate Dean "Dingo" Morrison, who's essentially the third Bee Gee in this little merry band of Cooly Cat brothers, has been doing a good job getting his own groove back.

Dingo might even creep into the spotlight at Pipeline. He's already in the quarterfinals, matching his best result of the year at J-Bay. He stands a good chance now of making the Top 16, which will earn him a much better seed in 2010.

And on Saturday, in case you forgot, he actually beat Mick in Round Four, just after Mick officially became world champion. While Fanning wasn't exactly trying to grind out a win, had he been, he still would have had his hands full with Dingo, who's been looking very solid at Backdoor Pipeline. There's a reason for that.

"I usually spend about six weeks a year here after everyone goes home," says Morrison. "I feel pretty comfortable with most of Pipeline's moods."

Dean's got an uphill road to make the final. He's up against Damien Hobgood when competition resumes, and will likely have to face Slater in the semis if he can get past that hurdle (though we shouldn't count Flynn Novak out--after all Slater loses to wild cards more than his fellow tour contemporaries.) But there will be two guys on the beach cheering pretty damn loud for old Dingo, and a proud city back home hoping he puts the icing in their cake.