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Big Ramifications

Remember when Dirk Welham took a swing at the fence with his bat and accidentally whacked the gate attendant in the chops?

Remember that Carlton nuff nuff regular in Nine's The Footy Show studio audience who used to pipe up with "c'mon Kouta!" every time Carlton was mentioned? She had her brief fling with fame when Sam and Eddie used to banter with her for a couple of seasons.

Barb was her name, and she was that gate attendant wot got snotted 10-12 years earlier by the much-captained Welham.

got a feeling I've said that before here on AGB...

Tony

Nice try, Biggus, but you're not going to slip the great man Jim Carter past this petit noir canard. Agent Deja Vu from Top Secret. "Have we met before?"

Carrot

I'm actually a bit surprised that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often, from both players and umpires. There are fewer things that get me angrier than when my integrity is questioned, and yet it seems a daily occurence when all and sundry accuse umpires and cricketers of cheating. It even goes as far as national boards joining in - Steve Bucknor is roundly assumed to have had an anti-India bias, for instance. He made a few dud decisions towards the end of his time, but just as many against us as India, and yet the BCCI were able to push him out of the game because he was supposed to be a cheat. You never want to see violence, but I can more than understand why people would get hot under the collar.

Big Ramifications

In the "introduction scene" where we first meet Deja Vu, one of his cohorts is named Montage. Top Secret is one of my fave comedies, yet I never noticed that until a few years ago, about my 6th or 7th viewing.

Absolutely p!ssed myself laughing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8XQV0PYf3c

Pat Chomsky

Completely OT but one for the tennis buffs to explain, Jake Niall of the SMH reckons "At 1.30am yesterday, an estimated 1.86million Australians were still witnessing a biblical struggle between two men on either side of a net." (http://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/the-great-debate-20120130-1qpqi.html)

Has Tennis turned into a variation of battling Hillsongers these days? Leviticus 9:3 vs John 1:1, interspersed in the grunts and groans?

Usually this sort of epic (apparently, I don't watch tennis unless Sharipova is playing) is regarded as "A titanic struggle of biblical proportions". But, it seems the match was something else entirely.

Pat Chomsky

Oh, maybe the Canaanites turned up to take revenge on the house of Israel. Usually it's the Serbs and Croatians doing that sort of thing, so it's nice to see a return to some truly ancient grudges getting an airing.

Tony

Carrot, I'm just like that - I hate having my integrity called into question, or being called a cheat.

We used to have to umpire matches in which we played. For a start I'm a pretty good, and fair, umpire. In the first match I ever played for a club I gave one of our batsmen out LBW. The skipper said after that no one gives their own players out LB, to which I replied that if I think it's out, I'll give it out. Later in the match I gave one of our batsmen not out for a caught behind appeal down leg side. The opposition keeper gave me a mouthful and the filthiest look and it was all I could do to refrain from smashing him in the teeth.

Nothing gets under my skin more than being accused of doing something I did not do - in this instance, cheating.

Tony

Biggy, my favourite part in Top Secret is when a "giant" phone rings in the foreground.

Tony

Pat, Novak and Raf should have been made to smite the ball with jawbones of asses.

Tony

Speaking of the tennis: Nadal?

Pat Chomsky

Now that's a tennis match I'd pay to see.

Again OT, but did anyone watch that doco last nigh "Miracle In The Storm" about "German paraglider Ewa Wisnierska...sucked 10,000 metres into a massive thunderstorm." ?

It was very uplifting.

Big Ramifications

What is the condition of Sergeant Kruger? [......] Very well, let me know if there is any change in his condition. [hangs up]

He's dead.

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Big Ramifications

Balls! One lousy space.

Nick

Slightly OT but I was watching UFC 142 and one chap belted the other almost unconscious within a minute. The ref stopped the fight but then disqualified the 'winner' for punching the back of his prone opponents head (illegal) as opposed to the side (legal). The winner was very unexcited about this and several thousand home crowd fans were similarly ungripped by the decision. The commentator then jumped into the ring, put his arm around the (ex) winner, pointed to a giant screen replaying the belting, and loudly commiserated with him live, grabbing the ref to ask him whether he thought his decision was still good and that he, the commentator, thought it was quite patently wrong. The ref looked utterly nonplussed - possibly as he was calculating his now reduced life expectancy when he left the ring. Sports adjudication can be dangerous!

Tony

Fans chasing the ref in soccer is almost a cliche; especially in the hot blooded countries.

Tony

OT: Good luck finding a new job, mate: "Coon's Park Rangers."

Big Ramifications aka The Brown Bottle

Bugger. i missed that, Nick.

As a late convert to MMA [I jumped on board after the UFC 100s] I must say Joe Rogan is one of the best sports commentators. Period.

[Joe is the dude who normally jumps into the cage for the post fight vox pop]

I'd be very surprised if Joe meant any disrespect to the ref. Joe KNOWS his stuff, and Joe puts his ego a distant 4th behind the competitors and the rules and the bouts.
eg. He will immediately chastise himself if he makes an incorrect callout and spots his mistake on replay.

Tony

Is that Joe Rogan the same Joe Rogan who was in News Radio?

Tony

Yes. Yes, it is. Google is my friend.

Big Ramifications

The thing I love about Joe Rogan is --- he's the shouter, a la Rabs Warren *shudders* and Darrell Eastlake *SHUDDERS* but he's also the intelligent, prescient special comments dude, a la Gerard Healy and Matthew Lloyd.

Apart from my good self *heh heh* I reckon intelligent shouters are a very rare bird indeed, especially in the comm box.

Tony

Not exactly a fan of Healy and Lloyd; although I don't mind Lloyd, despite the odd wackiness.

Russ

Tony, Carrot... agreed.

Carrot

@Russ: hah! That's pretty familiar. Most of my spells as a player/umpire have been in the UK and people are usually fairly easy-going there - you get the occasional old fellah getting mouthy but that's about it. It's often the Asian (i.e. sub-continental) teams you've got to watch out for, because they take things VERY seriously. I took to implementing the technique of saying very clearly and firmly why I was giving not out as I gave each decision - it tended to head off trouble at the pass.

There wasn't much I could do in Australia though - when I played there I was really young, and that made me a bit of a target. I umpired in matches where I was sledged more than the batsmen - it was pretty full-on sometimes, too! Something I will never understand about the Australian psyche is why a certain breed of fat, unfulfilled bloke has to be such an arsehole as soon as you put him on a cricket field. They travel in packs, and sometimes - *shudder* they even end up in the UK, where as a fellow Australian you just want to top yourself in pure embarassment. Recreational sport is supposed to be fun, isn't it? Why all the aggro?

Tony

This particular "fat, unfulfilled bloke" ended up captaining the side and scammed the stats so that he won the best batsman award. Fat, unfulfilled blokes pull those kinds of strokes.

Big Ramifications


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Big Ramifications

"Has Tennis turned into a variation of battling Hillsongers these days?"

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/hatred-stuns-tennis-great-court/story-fn7x8me2-1226251748152

She has a point. And she has a rough head.

Tony

It is impossible to read "the pastor" and not think "the pasta".

Tony

King Duck: "I used to inhale a hat full of cocaine every day, but I never inhaled."

Hangover Black

Wade used his bat to kill Haddin's short form career last night. And put a fair dent in his Test career too.

Tony

Haddin will go to the West Indies, at least.

Big Ramifications

I saw Wayne King Carey on da news last night. Or maybees on da Today Tonights with Monika Kos. Bailed up on the street as he was leaving his house.

Mate, absolutely woeful performance. Did he have any coaching? Did he run thru a few mock interviews in his head while he was munching on his brekky? He got 1/10 for body language. Scratching, fidgeting, eyes wandering, head bobbling. Bloody hell.

And he also got a 1/10 for content such as "all I know is that I've been hearing that the machines are inaccurate." I cringed.

Tony
Wayne Carey denies drugs despite 'high' reading

WAYNE Carey was refused entry to a maximum security jail after registering a "high" reading for cocaine particles on him.

jail sources say Carey's reading was "high" and authorities did not want to subject him to a humiliating strip search.

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