SA Footy

the film the club has just started on fox classics....we'll hear that famous line up his etc etc

legless....

I was wwatching They're a Weird mob before that. Brilliant eh?

"Cam Donaldson, Mickey Dimisch and Andy Payne"

About my favorite Australian movie of all time...although still chuckle at some of the skills of the actors. Jack Thompson's handball technique, where in one scene, he throws it into the air and then punches it, is similar to his kick from the boundary that is going way out of bounds but somehow swings back for a goal

Dogwatcher wrote:I was wwatching They're a Weird mob before that. Brilliant eh?

Oops seems I got a touch of the KGs when posting this.

Dogwatcher wrote:I was wwatching They're a Weird mob before that. Brilliant eh?

Sensational movie. Wish I was alive back in those days. Life seemed a lot simpler... (or is that a false impression?)...

Cambridge Clarrie wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:I was wwatching They're a Weird mob before that. Brilliant eh?

Sensational movie. Wish I was alive back in those days. Life seemed a lot simpler... (or is that a false impression?)...

Wish I was too!!! Take me back to the 1964 grand final!!!!!

CK wrote:although still chuckle at some of the skills of the actors.

They laugh about that on the 'making-of' extra on the DVD as well.

Well worth a look...

Excuse my ignorance but was the players featured actually Collingwood players at the time?

Also another funny thing was the commentry during the whole movie, lame! And when he beats tank in 1st training session then kicks the goal, watch it come off his boot, biggest mongrel of all time headin straight out on the full i reckon!!!

Some were Collingwood players of the time - they were bit players.
Rene Kink was one of them.

Cambridge Clarrie wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:I was wwatching They're a Weird mob before that. Brilliant eh?

Sensational movie. Wish I was alive back in those days. Life seemed a lot simpler... (or is that a false impression?)...

Dunno bout that I'm quite thankful for concrete trucks & forklifts for unloading materials.
Funny movie though, picked up the DVD a couple of years ago.

duncs wrote:Excuse my ignorance but was the players featured actually Collingwood players at the time?

Also another funny thing was the commentry during the whole movie, lame! And when he beats tank in 1st training session then kicks the goal, watch it come off his boot, biggest mongrel of all time headin straight out on the full i reckon!!!

It must have been a big surprise to the MCG Trust when, during the Grand Final at the end (between Collingwood and Fitzroy!), the commentators announced a crowd of 130,000 - not bad considering during many of the action shots during that game, there are rows of empty seats behind the players.

Dogwatcher wrote:Some were Collingwood players of the time - they were bit players.
Rene Kink was one of them.

Others that featured as extras...

Tom Hafey
Peter Daicos
Ron Wearmouth
Ray Shaw

I'm fairly sure i saw Russell Johnston as an extra too, although he didn't appear prominently.

HE BEEN UP HIS MUM AND HIS LEGLESS SISTER AND HE THINKS HE KILLED HIS OLD MAN

CK wrote:

duncs wrote:Excuse my ignorance but was the players featured actually Collingwood players at the time?

Also another funny thing was the commentry during the whole movie, lame! And when he beats tank in 1st training session then kicks the goal, watch it come off his boot, biggest mongrel of all time headin straight out on the full i reckon!!!

It must have been a big surprise to the MCG Trust when, during the Grand Final at the end (between Collingwood and Fitzroy!), the commentators announced a crowd of 130,000 - not bad considering during many of the action shots during that game, there are rows of empty seats behind the players.

More of a surprise would be Fitzroy in a grand final!! haha