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Akhenaten said:
I'm so very glad to have brought you and your Dad some happiness.

I'm also a huge train fan and I'm lucky enough to live less than a hundred metres from the Sydney-Melbourne line which shares the right-of-way with the Shepparton and Albury/Wodonga lines, so there's lots of train watching to be done.

Here's a couple of shots taken out the back gate:


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A train race conducted by the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre​



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A Ghan locomotive ("Sandfly II") enroute from the Junee Railway Workshops, NSW to Adelaide, SA​


As luck would also have it, the Tramway Museum Society of Victoria site at Bylands is a mere 10 minutes down the road from here. As soon as the weather improves a bit I'll head on down there with my trusty Olympus and take a few snaps to post here.


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As Damien said, it's the Sydney Cricket Ground but I don't know enough to get the 'horrible umpiring' reference.

My guess is that it's the Second Test of the 2011-12 Border–Gavaskar Trophy Series. The 100th Test Match to be played at the SCG.


Which reminds me (as have the ads for that cricket show that were on during the Olympics) of a myth I've been meaning to bust for a while.

When I was in my late teens and early 20s we (the class I was going through Army technical training with) were just about fixtures at the matches played at the SCG in the early to mid 70s. We'd rock up nice and early to get ourselves a good possie on the Hill and bolt down the first two (of a great many) 26 oz cans of foaming, frosty Fosters as quick as we could so we'd have something to stand on to get a better view. Obviously the strategy had a few problems, especially later on in the day, but let me tell you - the idea that Australians have never drunk Fosters is totally without basis in fact.

In fact, we had a little song about it which was quite often used as part of the good natured ribbing that went on between us and the Barmy Army.

Sung to the tune of Clementine . . .

Fosters Lager, Fosters Lager
In a bottle or a glass.

It's the health food of the nation,
stick yer ice cream up yer arse!​

This was, as some few among us may remember, a parody of the Peters Ice Cream jingle.
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Great stuff again. Thanks.

I'll try to get a link to my dad's Flicker (I think?!) account. He has some great shots from Tassie.

Yes it was the SCG - Border Gavaskar Trophy. Three generations of my family went to the first day.

I'm not sure about the bad umpiring either, though it wouldn't surprise me. Either way it was a good day to watch cricket - lots of wickets fell (13 I think), and quite a few runs scored. Seeing Sachin walk on to the ground was interesting - a standing ovation even before he was out of the gate.

I believe that another cause for celebration was that the day marked a date when the local military formally offered use of the ground to the local cricket club which is an interesting story in itself - hence the blokes in uniform. Though there may have been a few raised eyebrows from the Aboriginal contingent of the opening ceremony (which was, in my opinion one of the more bizarre starts to a match I have ever seen, but that's another story).

And Akhenaten, we actually sat in the stand that was once the hill. My childhood memory of that particular part of the ground is of a mass of empty beer cans being hurled from one side to the other during "slow" parts of the match. Entertainment in itself unless you happened to be in the middle of it. Thankfully I was on the other side of the ground.

Anyway, cookies for everyone!
 
alfa1 said:
Transylvania is a country, Australia is a island with crocodiles...
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You don't know the half of it, matey.


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Krikkiter said:
And Akhenaten, we actually sat in the stand that was once the hill. My childhood memory of that particular part of the ground is of a mass of empty beer cans being hurled from one side to the other during "slow" parts of the match. Entertainment in itself unless you happened to be in the middle of it. Thankfully I was on the other side of the ground.

Anyway, cookies for everyone!
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The old hill was a deadly place if the scorers made a mistake, the scoreboard would come under continuous fire from beer cans and other refuse until the error was corrected.

I always thought the ground lost some of its soul when they redeveloped it by building the Bill O'Reilly and Trumper stands.

Bonus points to anyone who knows where the original 'Bob' stand is now
 
Akhenaten said:
You don't know the half of it, matey.


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Dude I am really tired of these cheesy photo shopped images. EVERYBODY knows the crocopus lives in sandy regions, not waterholes :boggled:
 
farnarkle said:
Is the game with the horrible umpiring the game when Michael Clarke took the last few wickets quickly to win the match?
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That's the one. Then India had a sook and got both the umpires replaced for the next match. I remember it well as I was at a Victorian T20 game at the time and they showed some of the highlights on the big screen.
 
MG1962 said:
The old hill was a deadly place if the scorers made a mistake, the scoreboard would come under continuous fire from beer cans and other refuse until the error was corrected.

I always thought the ground lost some of its soul when they redeveloped it by building the Bill O'Reilly and Trumper stands.

Bonus points to anyone who knows where the original 'Bob' stand is now
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I'll have a guess... North Sydney Oval?
 
Krikkiter said:
I'll have a guess... North Sydney Oval?
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Yeah, I think that's right. At one stage it was called the Pat Hills Stand, after the former Sydney Lord Mayor and Deputy NSW Premier. He was educated at my old school, and I was mates with his son, when we were both at the same school. I remember visiting their place in Centennial Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Hills
 
Damien Evans said:
That's the one. Then India had a sook and got both the umpires replaced for the next match. I remember it well as I was at a Victorian T20 game at the time and they showed some of the highlights on the big screen.
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Not that that did them much good.
 
lionking said:
Yeah, I think that's right. At one stage it was called the Pat Hills Stand, after the former Sydney Lord Mayor and Deputy NSW Premier. He was educated at my old school, and I was mates with his son, when we were both at the same school. I remember visiting their place in Centennial Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Hills
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I was going to say the Adelaide Oval but that was the old scoreboard I think?
 
MG1962 said:
The old hill was a deadly place if the scorers made a mistake, the scoreboard would come under continuous fire from beer cans and other refuse until the error was corrected.

I always thought the ground lost some of its soul when they redeveloped it by building the Bill O'Reilly and Trumper stands.

Bonus points to anyone who knows where the original 'Bob' stand is now
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I only went to the SCG a couple of times when the hill was still there but watching the mayhem on telle was great.

And I sat in the hill area when it was first made into a stand and that was absolutely terrible. Now that part of the ground with the new stand is "Platinum" seating - roof obstructions and all!
 
The Australian version of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Scene 1, Act 1


Hamlet: "**** it, I don't believe in Ghosts"


The End
 
HotRodDeluxe said:
The Australian version of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Scene 1, Act 1


Hamlet: "**** it, I don't believe in Ghosts"


The End
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No they would be wondering why three guys dressed as poofters are standing on roof of John Elliot's house in the middle of the night. Speculation would be rife the ghost is Mick Malthouse
 
:)

Doreen an' me, we bin to see a show -
The swell two-dollar touch. Bong tong, yeh know.
A chair apiece wiv velvit on the seat;
A slap-up treat.
The drarmer's writ be Shakespeare, years ago,
About a barmy goat called Romeo.

- C J Dennis​


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