specky mcgee

[blues_gibbzy]

Wasn't Specky Mcgge meant to become a movie?

Will there ever be a footy movie?

Is there a footy movie?

If so did any afl players at the time act in it?

gibbzy for prime minister

 

[NewBabyBombaz]

Australian Rules, was a movie about aussie rules football, not the AFL though , based on the book 'Deadly Unna'. My sister acted in the movie

 

[Austin_McCrabbs]

The Club.

 

[SBI]

I hear he's elligible for next year's draft.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Australian Rules, was a movie about aussie rules football, not the AFL though , based on the book 'Deadly Unna'. My sister acted in the movie

Deadly Unna was the only book in 13 years of school that i enjoyed. Australian Rules completely ruined the book, changing over 75% of the actual story.

there is also "The Club" which is an Aussie Rules movie.

Specky might be turned into a NFL film as it is more marketable overseas. Doubt we will see a mainstream footy film ever again

 

[Hawks1523]

Deadly Unna was the only book in 13 years of school that i enjoyed. Australian Rules completely ruined the book, changing over 75% of the actual story.

there is also "The Club" which is an Aussie Rules movie.

Specky might be turned into a NFL film as it is more marketable overseas. Doubt we will see a mainstream footy film ever again

Haha, I remeber that book in school. We had a teacher who didn't speak very clear English and didn't know certain terms in that book, we had good fun with that.

It was funny, they specifically warned us not to watch the movie before the exam because it changed, so the night before I rented the movie and wrote my whole exam essay on it. I got an A.

 

[Little Jerry]

I hear he's elligible for next year's draft.

lol classic

 

[SELFCONFESDAFLNERD]

I remember that book (Deadly Unna) too, i remember it from about 2-3 months ago when i had to read it for school. I wonder when the next Specky Magee book is coming out(if there is a next one), they are much better than that Deadly Unna Book.

 

[Warsaw]

Has Specky hooked up with that chick yet?

 

[SASQUATCH09]

Check out 'The Club' from 1980. Australian movie about inside Boardroom of an AFL club. I think it was based around Collingwood. Haven't seen it for years but it was pretty funny. Mostly commentators and journos in it like Lou Richards, Jack Dyer, Bob Davis and Scotty Palmer.

A few players cameo'd though like Daics and Rene Kink.

Go to your video store, they might still have it on VHS. Gold!

 

[kleos]

Check out 'The Club' from 1980. Australian movie about inside Boardroom of an AFL club. I think it was based around Collingwood. Haven't seen it for years but it was pretty funny. Mostly commentators and journos in it like Lou Richards, Jack Dyer, Bob Davis and Scotty Palmer.

A few players cameo'd though like Daics and Rene Kink.

Go to your video store, they might still have it on VHS. Gold!

Great movie, I brought it just 3 months ago from JB-HIFI for $9 bucks.

 

[Chasing the Dream]

One of the wosre movies I have probably seen was "The Great Macarthy"

Pretty sure Lou Richards and Jack Dyer were in it, Barry Humphries as well I think.

About a country footballer who comes to the city IIRC.

 

[hirthy]

Valentines Day aired on ABC a few months back, was a bloody rippa!
Heres the link from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166826/

Valentine's Day tells the story of Ben Valentine (Rhys Muldoon) who drifts into the small Victorian country town of Rushworth. He quickly finds himself in trouble with the law. As a famous Aussie Rules footballer fallen on hard times, he is given 200 hours of community service coaching the town's "no-hoper" football team. But is he in fact who he seems to be? Teetering on the brink of demise, The Mighty Bears (aka The Growlers) need to win three out of the four next games or they will be forced to merge with their arch rivals, Lucan. Worse still, the town's beloved pie factory, Dicks, which was recently bequeathed to the Bears, will have to be sold. For the proud, close-knit community the future is looking bleak. Embraced heart and soul by the townsfolk, this one-time drifter learns how to live and hope again - as does the town. Valentine's Day is a feel good film to make us all believe it's possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

 

[Austin_McCrabbs]

At school our English class read, 'And the big men fly'. Apparently it was made into a telemovie or tv show.

 

[TassieSaint]

Valentine's Day was pretty good.

But to be honest most of the big budget sports movies are shocking anyway*, so we're probably better off not having too many footy movies.

* space jam the exception

 

[BigBadCam]

It's not all about football, but my favourite football movie is 'Yolngu boys'. One of the main characters is a gun football player and dreams of playing for Essendon in the AFL. Kind of a simple illustration of how life sometimes doesn't work out how we plan it.

 

[BLPC08]

The Club
The Great McCarthy
Australian Rules
and Yolngu Boy are probably the only well-known footy movies out there.

The Club is the best of them

 

[I_Am_The_Lid]

'And the big men fly' - not sure about the suggestion of it been made into a TV movie. Originally written as a play. I went to see it in 1988 at the Atheneum. Was pretty good.

The best was "The Club", again a play originally but the film does it justice.

 

[Wallaby]

'And the big men fly' - not sure about the suggestion of it been made into a TV movie. Originally written as a play. I went to see it in 1988 at the Atheneum. Was pretty good.
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It was actually made into a TV series early '70s. I remember Frank Wilson played the Pres, and Diane Craig played the Lil the Girlfriend - couldn't tell you the rest.
Interesting Frank Wilson also played the evil, conniving ex-coach in The Club.

 

[footyfreak]

Check out 'The Club' from 1980. Australian movie about inside Boardroom of an AFL club. I think it was based around Collingwood. Haven't seen it for years but it was pretty funny. Mostly commentators and journos in it like Lou Richards, Jack Dyer, Bob Davis and Scotty Palmer.

A few players cameo'd though like Daics and Rene Kink.

Go to your video store, they might still have it on VHS. Gold!

Great movie, some classic lines, can't remember it word for word but when Jock is talking about being toweled up in a grand final. He says, "when i got home dulcy said i think you met your match today, so i thumped her, she apologised later but the damage was already done" LOL*

* I don't condone violence against women

 

[Father Jack]

Jock: A marvelous high mark you took last Saturday. You just seemed to go up and up!
Geoff Hayward: Yeah, i felt like Achilles
Jock: Yes...
[laughs]
Jock: ... Who's he?
Geoff Hayward: A Greek guy who could really jump
Jock: Ah, yeah yeah. Well some of these new Australians, you know they could be real champions, if they forget about soccer and just learn to assimilate