Flicking earlier today I saw the best game of rugby league I have seen in a long time - and yes, that includes the State of Origin, which is usually overhyped anyways. Some Queensland club stuff that is always showing on the ABC, well away from any commercial rights - the Queensland Cup final I believe, from Lang Park/Suncorp Stadium, between Burleigh and Easts.
Was a reasonable enough match from the sounds of it, I only started really getting into it in the last five minutes - Easts scored a try to level the scores and then it went to sudden death extra time. For nineteen minutes twenty six men threw themselves at each other with amazing stamina and must have been going on only adrenaline - I will try to avoid the war like analogies, like blood sweat and tears, gladiators and the like.
After nineteen minutes of going from one end of the park to the other, missing drop goal attempts, Burleigh found a hole big enough in the Easts defence and scored a try. The joy from one team, the sheer exhaustion on the other - was the best match I had seen in a long time.
And another batch of channel flicking tonight, I have come across this rather amazing movie on SBS, Dutch, so I have having to follow the subtitles rather than just listen in, about a cancer patient who has decided to go with the voluntary euthanasia route - as they can do in the Netherlands. Has been amazing to watch, the reactions of the guy's friends and family and all.
The day before he has organised to have the procedure done he says it couldn't be tonight, because the football is on. Is called 'Simon' I think, the name of the guy who has cancer, and needs further investigation to see whether I should/can get it on DVD...
Great, in a devastating way.
And the doctors who are going to do the procedure have just come in, and jokes are being cracked still. Powerful stuff.
Was a reasonable enough match from the sounds of it, I only started really getting into it in the last five minutes - Easts scored a try to level the scores and then it went to sudden death extra time. For nineteen minutes twenty six men threw themselves at each other with amazing stamina and must have been going on only adrenaline - I will try to avoid the war like analogies, like blood sweat and tears, gladiators and the like.
After nineteen minutes of going from one end of the park to the other, missing drop goal attempts, Burleigh found a hole big enough in the Easts defence and scored a try. The joy from one team, the sheer exhaustion on the other - was the best match I had seen in a long time.
And another batch of channel flicking tonight, I have come across this rather amazing movie on SBS, Dutch, so I have having to follow the subtitles rather than just listen in, about a cancer patient who has decided to go with the voluntary euthanasia route - as they can do in the Netherlands. Has been amazing to watch, the reactions of the guy's friends and family and all.
The day before he has organised to have the procedure done he says it couldn't be tonight, because the football is on. Is called 'Simon' I think, the name of the guy who has cancer, and needs further investigation to see whether I should/can get it on DVD...
Great, in a devastating way.
And the doctors who are going to do the procedure have just come in, and jokes are being cracked still. Powerful stuff.
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