RIP 2018
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@mn5 I remember Congdon as a tough bastard - didn't throw his wicket away ever and a useful 4th seamer.
His captaincy set us up for the great things to come in the 80's, by introducing an expectation that we would be competitive in every game we played and would adopt a professional ethos even though only Turner (and Parker) made a living from the game.
In the context of often going straight from club cricket to test matches we won our first matches ever against Oz and England (although Burgess was capt for that Congdon played) and really should have beaten them away as well.
Never heard anyone say a bad word against him. He was definitely old school - more a product of the 50's than the 70's (like Pinetree) but I think his stats don't do him justice.
I met Seear about 15 years ago when he sold me an industrial property in Chch and he seemed cut from similar cloth to Congdon - archetypal humble and understated Kiwi bloke even as areal estate agent! Being instantly recognisable due to his height and name (at least to those of my generation) can't have hurt his sales.
He started out as a lock and was always there or there abouts but was never going to make the test side so switched to #8 where he was a safe option for a couple of years after Lawrie Knight pissed off to France until Mexted emerged.
Definitely a journeyman but hey he was an AB and played all 4 tests on the GS tour in 78! and a toe kicking penalty taker at that.
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One foir the Aussies.
Seemed a top bloke. And obviously a man of discernment, taste, intelligence and character being a front rower.
Sir Nicholas Shehadie. RIP.
Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91
One of the architects of the inaugural Rugby World Cup, Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie, dies in Sydney aged 91.
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One foir the Aussies.
Seemed a top bloke. And obviously a man of discernment, taste, intelligence and character being a front rower.
Sir Nicholas Shehadie. RIP.
Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91
One of the architects of the inaugural Rugby World Cup, Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie, dies in Sydney aged 91.
Bit of an underachiever really ...
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One foir the Aussies.
Seemed a top bloke. And obviously a man of discernment, taste, intelligence and character being a front rower.
Sir Nicholas Shehadie. RIP.
Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie dies aged 91
One of the architects of the inaugural Rugby World Cup, Wallabies great Sir Nicholas Shehadie, dies in Sydney aged 91.
Great australian, looks like he didn't waste a minute of his life.
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Dan Gurney, the man who introduced spraying the crowd with champagne after winning a race.
Tribute to Dan Gurney, 1931-2018
One of the sport's greatest innovators and free-thinking spirits, as well as a world-class driver who survived and excelled in one of racing's most deadly eras.
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Charles Emerson Winchester III retires to The Swamp in the sky. RIP
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12006240
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Roger Bannister, the man who broke the 4-minute mile, dead at 88. R.I.P.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43273249
I remember (and recommend reading) the century-ending Sports Illustrated piece by Frank Deford about athletes of the century; he selected Bannister alongside Ed Hillary.
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RIP Sir Roger
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Robert Buchel, the reality TV star who weighed 842 pounds at the start of TLC’s “My 600-lb Life,” did not survive filming. Dead at 41.
http://kdvr.com/2018/03/03/star-of-my-600-lb-life-dies-during-filming-of-reality-show/
RIP.
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Charles Emerson Winchester III retires to The Swamp in the sky. RIP
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12006240
Just a few of the main cast left now..
Hawkeye
Hot lips
BJ
Radar
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
Robert Buchel, the reality TV star who weighed 842 pounds at the start of TLC’s “My 600-lb Life,” did not survive filming. Dead at 41.
http://kdvr.com/2018/03/03/star-of-my-600-lb-life-dies-during-filming-of-reality-show/
RIP.
Gosh, that one is a surprise.
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A very strange kind of obesity. HIs neck/face and arms look big, certainly. But it’s that gut that defies imagination.
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
Robert Buchel, the reality TV star who weighed 842 pounds at the start of TLC’s “My 600-lb Life,” did not survive filming. Dead at 41.
http://kdvr.com/2018/03/03/star-of-my-600-lb-life-dies-during-filming-of-reality-show/
RIP.
Two things. First off , leading the article with the words “ heartbreaking news” when the landwhale died of a heart attack is perhaps inappropriate. Secondly he had a fiancée?
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NME ends print edition after 65 years as magazine "no longer financially viable"
NME ends print edition after 65 years as magazine "no longer financially viable" - The Mirror
The music magazine is no longer 'financially viable'
R.I.P.
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
NME ends print edition after 65 years as magazine "no longer financially viable"
The music magazine is no longer 'financially viable'
R.I.P.
Used to be my must read mag when a teenager (even if the copies we got in NZ were about 6 weeks old)
Nowadays it is just one of many free handout mags to commuters and I flick through it in a couple of minutes.
Will pick up the last one though.
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New Zealand rugby lost an unsung hero today with the passing of Mac McCallion.
The 67-year-old fashioned a particularly successful record as coach of Counties Manukau and as an assistant coach to Sir Graham Henry's Blues teams in the 1990s.
He also coached the Fijian national side.
McCallion had a reputation as a hard bugger fashioned from a career in the New Zealand Army. He coached that way and immediately had a big impact on an under-rated Steelers team in the mid-1990s that saw them become a major force in the provincial game.
The Steelers went to back-to-back division one finals under McCallion, who presided over the side during the emergence of star wingers Jonah Lomu and Joeli Vidiri.
While those two players had a massive role in the success of the side, McCallion came up with a style of play that got the best out of the try-scoring superstars on each wing.
Players like Tony and Glenn Marsh, George Leaupepe, Blair Feeney and Danny Lee thrived under McCallion's tutelage but it was McCallion's ability to get the most out of a little-known forward pack that led to much of the side's success. Players like John Akurangi, Chris Rose and Lee Lidgard matched seasoned professionals while being coached by McCallion.
The Steelers forwards epitomised everything McCallion stood for – they were tough, uncompromising and they weren't after headlines – they simply got the job done without any fuss.
As the game became professional his old school ways perhaps became out-dated and he drifted away from the top level less than a decade into professionalism. It might be fair to say the game left him behind but I'm not sure that was actually a good thing for rugby.
McCallion got results and a number of stars in the early days of professional rugby owe their success to his grounding.
His passing will have a massive impact on a huge number of people, especially those that he coached and the people of Counties Manukau.
Rest in peace Mac.
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New Zealand rugby lost an unsung hero today with the passing of Mac McCallion.
The 67-year-old fashioned a particularly successful record as coach of Counties Manukau and as an assistant coach to Sir Graham Henry's Blues teams in the 1990s.
He also coached the Fijian national side.
McCallion had a reputation as a hard bugger fashioned from a career in the New Zealand Army. He coached that way and immediately had a big impact on an under-rated Steelers team in the mid-1990s that saw them become a major force in the provincial game.
The Steelers went to back-to-back division one finals under McCallion, who presided over the side during the emergence of star wingers Jonah Lomu and Joeli Vidiri.
While those two players had a massive role in the success of the side, McCallion came up with a style of play that got the best out of the try-scoring superstars on each wing.
Players like Tony and Glenn Marsh, George Leaupepe, Blair Feeney and Danny Lee thrived under McCallion's tutelage but it was McCallion's ability to get the most out of a little-known forward pack that led to much of the side's success. Players like John Akurangi, Chris Rose and Lee Lidgard matched seasoned professionals while being coached by McCallion.
The Steelers forwards epitomised everything McCallion stood for – they were tough, uncompromising and they weren't after headlines – they simply got the job done without any fuss.
As the game became professional his old school ways perhaps became out-dated and he drifted away from the top level less than a decade into professionalism. It might be fair to say the game left him behind but I'm not sure that was actually a good thing for rugby.
McCallion got results and a number of stars in the early days of professional rugby owe their success to his grounding.
His passing will have a massive impact on a huge number of people, especially those that he coached and the people of Counties Manukau.
Rest in peace Mac.
Probably THE last guy to pick a fight with on the pitch. RIP
