'The Club' (CFC Movie)!!!

Presti35 · Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:02 pm

WOW! Cleaning out my room yesterday and guess what i found?
A movie called 'THE CLUB' staring Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins, John Howard & Alan Cassell.
A movie set around 1980 and the Collingwood Football Club! Even players from that era are in the movie!!

Heres the blurb:
It's tough enough on the Australian Rules Football field, but in the boardroom it's a battle ground! In this club nobody plays the rules.
Outside the fans a cheering the high marks and the low tackles as their team battles towards the premiership. Inside, the executives are wheeling and dealing, back slapping and back stabbing.
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money and, not suprisingly, the team members do not like their new star. Friction develops immediatley, even with the captain whose own playing days are numbered. Geoff expresses his resentment by lack of effort and indifference. Game after game is lost.. until Geoff begins to realise that there is more at stake than just his own career - that what matteres to others, their pride and even their own existence, is bound up with the success of the team.

Man! wouldnt it be something if they made 'The Club 2' lol!!!

Who loves ya Presti?
WE DO!
Lets Go Elvis Preslygiacomo

Pants · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 4:39 am

"He's been up his mum and his legless sister and he thinks he killed his old man!"

Australian Classic!!

NICK THE PIE MAN · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:00 am

Ted: Whos's on strike?
Danny: The whole team. Except Geoff Hayward. It will give him a chance to show what a real champion he is.

Players from the film that were players in real life include Rene Kink, Ronnie Wrymouth, Ray Shaw. Great film and great play.

Geoff Hayward was based on Phil Carman im pretty sure.

KILL FOR COLLINGWOOD

PeterWH · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:22 am

Blimey.....kepp it handy.I remember some months ago,there were a few people looking for the movie,and the ABC quoted $150:00 for a copy.
I think Dr.Alf was one looking for it and there were a couple of others.
Itis regarded as a CLASSIC Now.
Good luck with it and keep it handy.
I shall get a blank and send it to you to get a copy.

PeterWH
PIES FOR PREMIERS 2002

Presti35 · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 8:37 am

Feel free to PM me!

Who loves ya Presti?
WE DO!
Lets Go Elvis Preslygiacomo

MCG27 · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 9:03 am

IVE SEEN THAT!!!!!!!!!

THATS THE MOVIE THAT WAS SOOOOOOO OLD THAT IT STUFFED UP OUR VCR
AARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG BAD MEMORIES!!!!

BUT A GOOD SHOW

P.S THIS IS CLOKEY

go the pies

Dr Alf Andrews · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 12:07 pm

Yep. Great movie.

And what about the brilliant performance by Lou Richards as himself ... the greatest footy commentator of all time.

(by the way, PeterWH, I don't think I was one of the people looking for a copy ... but I love it anyway)

RHYSTHEKING · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2002 4:40 pm

A classic, u would not get as many players these days in a movie of the same standard these days. it was not only a goood collingwood movie, its a classic australian film...and it was not fictional either, board members were arseholes to each other. This is until Eddie come along!

MY FRAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME.....THE CLUB!!!!!

NICK DAVIS IS KING #19

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And for fans of "The Club" (and reading) don't forget to check out Ashes & Envy in The Creative Archives of The Collingwood Rant which can be found @ http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/archives/archivescc.html

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MAGPIRA · Joined: 08 May 2001

LMAO! What a great film! Still crack up at Geoff playing stoned and tripping on the birds all day!

RHYSTHEKING · Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2002 5:45 pm

MAGPIRA,

LORRIE: "MARRIUANA"
GEOFF: "no, Lorrie, Hash"
LORRIE: "well what were ya staring at?"
GEOFF: "a seagul, this was not an ordinary seagull, it was a prince of seagulls!"

Sorry if its not an exact quote but that was my fravorite bit

NICK DAVIS IS KING #19

RHYSTHEKING · Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2002 5:46 pm

If anyone whats to sell a copy give me a price.

NICK DAVIS IS KING #19

MAGPIRA · Joined: 08 May 2001

LOL RHYS!!! CLASSIC!

RHYSTHEKING · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:21 pm

Oi MAGPIRA,
How funney is it when he gives the president (jock) a scoobie and then tells his that he is intimate with his mum and sister and jock beleves him!, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

NICK DAVIS IS KING #19

MAGPIRA · Joined: 08 May 2001

heehee...his legless sister at that! Then the old man comes home and catches them and shoots himself! LOL!! Then old Jock finds out he has 2 brothers and his old man just had a birthday LOL! I haven't watched it for ages, I might have to again soon.