RIP 2022
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Ah fuck
Always seemed like a good guy. Told Greg Chappell to pull his head in to no avail in 1981.
First off, RIP Rod.
Secondly was that the case ? I was three and a half years old when the underarm happened so to be fair the memory is a bit hazy but I’ve read a bit on it and don’t recall that happening ( again, recent memory might be a bit hazy for different reasons ) Pretty easy for the kiwi press to label all Aussies fluffybunnies I guess…..
I find it interesting that he didn’t make the list of 100 greatest cricketers in my favourite cricket book I have ( keepers like Gilly, Alan Knott, Jack Blackham, Godfrey Evans, Syed Kirmani, Les Ames, Wasim Bari, Ian Healy and Andy Flower all ranked above him ) but he always seemed highly rated elsewhere ? ( others of his generation like Jeff Dujon and our own Ian Smith missed out too )
I suppose wicket keeper is a really tough position to gauge “greatness”…….but 96 tests behind the stumps to Lilliee, Thommo, Pasco and whoever else plus a cheeky trio of test hundreds speaks of a pretty fucken decent cricketer to me.
RIP once again.
I actually saw him keeping to Lillee and Thommo at Lancaster Park. I swear he was in position probably half way to the boundary and he was within earshot of the renowned number 5 stand and was able to take plenty of the sledging with good humour
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Peter Bowles, actor best known for To The Manor Born, but a heck of lot more than that.
One of those British actors you see everywhere and you know will always be excellent - from Shakespeare, thru TV drama, experimental films to sitcoms.
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@mn5 There is good wrestling out there. In the link below is this weeks weekly tv show All Elite Wrestling Dynamite. Pretty much all the matches in this, a weekly free show, are better than any of the pay per view matches that WWE has put on in the last few years
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/basketball/300549740/kiwi-basketballing-great-kenny-mcfadden-dies
Mr Basketball NZ dies. I'm very saddened by this. Back in the 80s when I was a lad, the Saints were my team, the glamour team of NZ basketball. And at the head of that was Kenny McFadden, along with Angelo Hill and later Kerry Boagni. Since then he has done much to foster the basketball youth, most notably mentoring Stephen Adams. Another great taken far too early
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Bugger. Decent drummer in a decent band.
That one has come as a bit of a shock to be honest. I thought they were all wholesome teetotal family men now ?
News reports it as a drug overdose.
He said this in 2001 - "I was partying a lot. I wasn't a junkie per se, but I was partying. There was a year where the partying just got a little too heavy. Thank God on some level this guy gave me the wrong line with the wrong thing one night and I woke up going, 'What the fuck happened?' That was a real changing point for me."Perhaps not.
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Fuck. That is absolutely shithouse
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Very sad, saw them live in 2011 with Jack Black opening, was an epic night and Taylor did great solo half way through. RIP.
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@no-quarter yeah the Sydney show was fucking amazing with Tenacious D opening
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That little English girl who’s ace on the drums can replace Hawkins.
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@billy-tell said in RIP 2022:
That little English girl who’s ace on the drums can replace Hawkins.
Yeah if YouTube has taught me anything it’s that, with a few exceptions, there’s always some precociously talented little shit who can rock it out and you’ll close your eyes and be none the wiser !