RIP 2018
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@catogrande there was an obvious pun about the first post not getting past the Congdon going begging there mate. Up your game.
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Does 59 wickets in 61 tests make someone one of NZs finest all rounders? I thought throwing that label around willy nilly was a more recent thing. Still, Hadlee spoke very fondly of him and said he was a great servant for NZ cricket. RIP.
We were totally shit back then so the bar was set a bit lower I guess
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@catogrande said in RIP 2018:
@JC you not read the thread JC? 😎
@catogrande Shit no. Other people’s opinions offend me.
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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
R.I.P.