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His films are so visceral… I feel clammy just watching them. Lighthouse is an amazing piece of art with a plot that is mind bending! Willem Dafoe is his usual brilliant self… he has become possibly my favourite actor now, if not for all time. And yeah, my health is not great, but in Nield speak, it is what it is. I go back into chemotherapy on the 29th, so I’m enjoying my current toxin free state as much as possible before they hook me up again 😁

Unfortunately, with my current state of health, I’m unable to get out to the cinema, but it is one film I will definitely be getting on Blu Ray the day it’s released… I’m a big fan of director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northmen and Lighthouse). I already have the original Friedrich Murnau 1922 release and the Werner Herzog versions of Nosferatu, so apart from the fact it is an Eggers film, as a completionist, I am compelled to add it to my collection!

Yes, you’re both correct… perhaps it was a game we were playing that could have secured us a place in the finals? Or perhaps I’ve just lost the plot, along with my memory. With regards to his height, I noticed that of the entire list back then, our two tallest, and only players above 187cm, were just 193cm. i wonder where all of the high 190’s and over 200’s, were hiding back then.

Yeah, mine were Tassie as well as Townsend and Stan Alves, and then along came Greg Parke, Max Walker, Greg Wells and Gary Hardeman; all favourites of mine from that post premiership era. I have a vague memory of Hardeman being knocked out early in a final (can’t recall who the culprit was), something that pretty much knocked us out of the running.

I once had an ale with the whale.

Same! (outranked even Brian Dixon who was our local hero, and was just up the North Croydon end of Dorset Rd, where I was growing up at the time)

Should be ok if he ducks.

I thought he was doing an ‘homage’ to Peter Allen.

Hey, nothing against AoB, but I thought my comment above was good enough to get the Bronze (based on the fact that Tim’s Silver resulted from a comment) 🤣

The old FILO approach (first in, laughed out)

Thanks matey… I look forward to the training reports to follow in the weeks ahead. I’d love to get down to attend a session or two with my son, but that’s looking unlikely now. Happy New Year to one and all and thanks Andy, for providing and maintaining this platform for so long… you’re an absolute marvel!!

Unfortunately other than linking to the clip in YouTube, I have no idea how to free it from the grip of Instagram… and even more unfortunately, and after much searching, I have been unable to turn the clip up in YouTube!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEJD9JxA-Wj/?igsh=MTVtbnAyN2Uxb2Jibw==

Ok, a few relatively recent acquisitions on disc (I’m a mad collector): Classics: In the Heat Of the Night To Sir With Love The Great Dictator The Seventh Seal Stalker Godzilla - the Showa Era Films Tampopo The Funeral Kurosawa’s Dreams Ikiru Nightmare Alley Alice’s Restaurant Easy Rider Paris Texas Grand Prix Le Mans Red Sun Jacques Tati Essential Collection Recent: Godzilla Minus One The Boy and the Heron Bong Joon Ho Collection Loving Vincent Furiosa Monster One Cut of the Dead Oppenheimer Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus

And the fact that the drone manufacturer is actually ‘dji’ makes it even more awkward… however, I will leave my original comment in place, as a form of punishment for my blatant stupidity!

How do you think my family feel?

The first thing that springs to mind for me when I think of such occupations, is Patrick Swayze as Jim Cunningham, the motivational speaker, in the film Donnie Darko.

Further to this, I should say that a portion ($5) of the sale of each shirt goes to the buyers choice of either Cancer Research or MND Research.

off topic, but with a profile name of ‘djr’, could you possibly be the drone operator at training? (don’t mind me, I have far too much time on my hands, and I love a bit of intrigue)

Shouldn’t that have happy faces? Or are they that much of a handful?😉

Isn’t there a positive to be taken from these turnovers, in that the players applying the pressure that leads to said turnovers, are doing their job extremely well? So, what we have are players learning what is required to retain possession of the ball or successfully get it to (or be in position to receive it from) a teammate, while at the same time, we have players applying the kind of pressure that is required to create turnovers. (maybe I’m just a guy whose glass is overflowing, because I was too busy looking at the tap and not at the glass.)

How about a Mc Adamia… that’d be nuts!

Unfortunately I’m going to be jumping back on board the ‘Chemo Bus’ in January due to my test results showing that my health has been heading south over the last three months. As a result of that news, I stacked our final two gigs with as many guests I could find who were willing to join in with our band. No doubt you won’t be familiar with some or all of them, but on the Saturday we had among others, Richard Burgman (Saints and Sunnyboys), Marcus Phelan (Brave New Works, The Numbers and Western Distributors), and Jonny Gretsch (Wasted Ones). It was a fantastic afternoon, the joint was packed, and I couldn’t have asked for any more… at least so I thought. On Sunday we played a friend's xmas lane party he holds every year for the residents in the street (we were neighbours until I moved). As usual I had applied my scatter gun approach to inviting musicians to join in, working on the theory that maybe half would front up… how wrong was I. Most did front which left me with the dilemma of trying to fit them all in somehow. There were Mick Daley (The Remains and Corporate Raiders), Terry Serio (The Elks and acting in various TV productions), Murray Cook (The Wiggles), Richard Burgman again (Saints and Sunnyboys), Dom Turner (Backsliders and The Rural Blues Project) and Bob Spencer (The Angels and Skyhooks). The accompanying vids were taken by a friend and I ran them through iMovie. The sound is not a great representation of what it was like actually being there, but it does at least give you a taste. These are the first time that Bob and Dom have played together, and they’re accompanied on bass by our guy Frank Grubisa (a brilliant luthier by the way), and on drums by our guy Joe Breen and his occasional sub in our band, Luke Robinson. Oh, and if anyone is interested, I’m selling t-shirts I’ve designed for my band; all the info can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1WgnFDSy1m/

What’s with all of these father/son players popping up everywhere? I mean, my father was an aeronautical engineer, but me…

I was hoping for something more in the vein of Hunter S Thompson!