Re: Kerry Packers War...

by skully Mon 20 Aug 2012, 06:39

embee wrote:

Viv and Andy ....Fail

Defo MM (who was still in nappies ATT) and Crofty. Shocked

by JGK Mon 20 Aug 2012, 06:52

skully wrote:
embee wrote:

Viv and Andy ....Fail
Defo MM (who was still in nappies ATT) and Crofty.

Not enough bling for Viv and Andy.

by Mick Sawyer Mon 20 Aug 2012, 06:56

skully wrote:Oh and BTW, didn't Pumpkin Head come across as an indecisive qunt.

aye, at age 21 he should have been all over it.

by JGK Mon 20 Aug 2012, 07:28

An interesting take on it all by David Lord who was balls deep in the saga at the time...

http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/08/20/howzat-kerry-packer-vs-david-lord-and-the-world-series-battle/

by horace Mon 20 Aug 2012, 07:51

cannot believe people have watched that self serving pap...the shorts put me off...let alone a slavish nein portrayal of one of the most loathed Australians of the last 40 years

by Fred Nerk Mon 20 Aug 2012, 08:03

horace wrote:cannot believe people have watched that self serving pap...the shorts put me off...let alone a slavish nein portrayal of one of the most loathed Australians of the last 40 years

But Steve W would have only just started high school in 1977...

by skully Mon 20 Aug 2012, 08:10

JGK wrote:An interesting take on it all by David Lord who was balls deep in the saga at the time...

http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/08/20/howzat-kerry-packer-vs-david-lord-and-the-world-series-battle/

That was a good read.

by Big Dog Mon 20 Aug 2012, 08:35

horace wrote:cannot believe people have watched that self serving pap...the shorts put me off...let alone a slavish nein portrayal of one of the most loathed Australians of the last 40 years

At least when Packer ran the show, nein was occasionally worth watching.

by lardbucket Mon 20 Aug 2012, 13:44

skully wrote:
JGK wrote:An interesting take on it all by David Lord who was balls deep in the saga at the time...

http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/08/20/howzat-kerry-packer-vs-david-lord-and-the-world-series-battle/
That was a good read.

as were the comments/responses

by G.Wood Mon 20 Aug 2012, 22:59

"Even though Kerry Packer had shunted me to the back of the pack, I was at the head of the far queue."

Noice

by skully Mon 27 Aug 2012, 03:55

Cricket re-enactments were a bit lame but the story was pretty good. A lot of enmity between Crappelli and Greigy.

2.09 million tuned in to part 2. TGW would be stoked if still around.

by JGK Mon 27 Aug 2012, 04:55

Have both epis recorded. Will try to watch this week.

by Mick Sawyer Mon 27 Aug 2012, 05:52

hmm. I was motivated to go and you tube some Delvene Delaney/Strop/Hoges clips. Sheeesh she was gorgeous.

by skully Mon 27 Aug 2012, 06:47

Agreed, Mick. DD was a spunk.

by G.Wood Mon 27 Aug 2012, 08:00

I never realised how much double Ds played a part in my ruination

Between Delvene and Daisy Duke I scarcely had a clean pair of socks

by lardbucket Mon 27 Aug 2012, 08:07

Mick Sawyer wrote:hmm. I was motivated to go and you tube some Delvene Delaney/Strop/Hoges clips. Sheeesh she was gorgeous.

seminal television

by G.Wood Mon 27 Aug 2012, 08:13

lardbucket wrote:
Mick Sawyer wrote:hmm. I was motivated to go and you tube some Delvene Delaney/Strop/Hoges clips. Sheeesh she was gorgeous.

seminal television

Hoges dry retching as Stropp downed his hangover cure is a cherised memory

by skully Mon 27 Aug 2012, 08:15

G.Wood wrote:
lardbucket wrote:
Mick Sawyer wrote:hmm. I was motivated to go and you tube some Delvene Delaney/Strop/Hoges clips. Sheeesh she was gorgeous.

seminal television

Hoges dry retching as Stropp downed his hangover cure is a cherised memory

Aye, a true Aussie classic. Very Happy

And the skimpy bikinis DD used to wear on the Hoges show were indeed sticky sock material.

Strop certainly came across as a major part of the eventual success of WSC.

by JGK Mon 27 Aug 2012, 08:49

skully wrote:
G.Wood wrote:
lardbucket wrote:
Mick Sawyer wrote:hmm. I was motivated to go and you tube some Delvene Delaney/Strop/Hoges clips. Sheeesh she was gorgeous.

seminal television

Hoges dry retching as Stropp downed his hangover cure is a cherised memory
Aye, a true Aussie classic.

And the skimpy bikinis DD used to wear on the Hoges show were indeed sticky sock material.

Strop certainly came across as a major part of the eventual success of WSC.

He's also one of the country's great tax avoiders.

But the hangover cure was a classic. An oyster, a raw egg, salt, pepper, Vegemite and beer.

by lardbucket Mon 27 Aug 2012, 08:50

that hangover cure doesn't sound too bad

by JGK Mon 27 Aug 2012, 08:58

Actually, I forgot tomato sauce.

by Fred Nerk Mon 27 Aug 2012, 11:39

It took till this morning but I finally twigged: 'Gavin' was a fictional version of Packer lackey Christopher Forsyth, author of 'The Great Cricket Hijack' and the mouth behind that classic utterance after day 1 of the first 'Supertest' that the WSC game was superior to the official Test because more fours had been hit.

by skully Mon 27 Aug 2012, 11:57

Ah, cheers Nerky. I Googled "Gavin Warner" without luck. Makes sense now.

by embee Mon 27 Aug 2012, 12:57

The credits list warner and Rosie the secretary as fictional characters

by lardbucket Mon 27 Aug 2012, 12:59

embee wrote:The credits list warner and Rosie the secretary as fictional characters

surely they'd be composites (and/or blank canvases) of several characters around the time

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