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    Great images in cricket.

    Gubby Allen arriving in New Zealand in 1937.
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    Great images in cricket.

    I'm surprised Greg Chappell didn't choose Dennis to deliver the underarm.
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    Great images in cricket.

    Colin Cowdrey visits Sierra Leone in the late 1970s and meets an intriguingly-named local cricketer.
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    It's time Usman

    Is Ussie going to play out the remaining Shield matches with Queensland?
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    Best French films?

    Even though it is listed as a French/Romanian production, the 2006 home invasion film Them is one of my French favourites. Also the 2011 film Livid, which has a similar theme but different outcome.
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    Movie Film Trivia

    Perhaps I should state SPOILER ALERT before typing the following: The 1972 horror/psychological thriller movie The Other has a plot concerning two twin child brothers who live on a farm in 1935. Toward the end of the film it is revealed that one of the brothers has been dead for many years. The...
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    Random Cricket Videos

    A bit of a follow-up to the Sobers six sixes footage. Here is some extended footage featuring Sobers and Nash talking about the over.
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    The obscure XI's you've always wanted to make but never found the appropriate place thread

    A team whose first names are also children's fictional characters
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    Test The Ashes Fifth Test January 4-8 1000hrs @ The SCG

    Steve Smith has taken 14 catches for the series. The record for any series is 15 by Jack Gregory against England in 1920-21. Currently there are 8 Pommy wickets down. I admire Smith's catching ability but I would like to see Jack Gregory keep the record outright. Surely the Poms can find two...
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    Bulldog cricket stats

    I have discovered Rodney Eade played grade cricket for New Town in the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association before being recruited to Hawthorn. He made his first grade debut aged 14 and played between 1972-73 and 1975-76. 44 matches, 50 innings, 10 not outs, 70 not out highest score, 950...
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    Year of the Ox - The Bulldogs curse

    In what year did our ex-coach Mick Malthouse say "the earth is slow but the ox is patient"? Was it spoken during an ox year? The only reference I can find on the web is that he said it after Collingwood had defeated West Coast. If that is true, the only ox year correlating with this is 2009...
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    The Statistics Thread

    Our 100th VFL/AFL anniversary season now over, I thought I would put together our overall win-loss record for all VFL/AFL games. Level Years Games Won Lost Drawn Abandoned Premierships/titles VFL/AFL 1925-2025 2098 962 1114 22 2 VFL/AFL Reserves 1925-1999 1528 769 740 19...
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    Lame Jokes Part 2

    Why weren't Donner and Blitzen sold at the auction? They were two deer.
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    Movies with Christmas in them, but aren't Christmas movies.

    A Simple Plan (there are Christmas trees still up in the living rooms even though it is close to New Year's Day). The French Connection begins with Gene Hackman undercover on the streets dressed as Santa.
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    Bulldogs Photo Collection

    A photo from The Sun, May 2, 1980, page 74. André the Giant visited Footscray Football Club as part of a wrestling tournament he was partaking in. He appears here with Ted Whitten junior, Geoff Jennings and Terry Wheeler. Here is a link to more info about Andre's visit along with other AFL...
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