Futtocks

Morning all! Competition newbies the Bulldogs face the Knights. The word is that the home side have recruited very strongly. Georgia Roche starts for the Knights.

Highlights: https://youtu.be/2Y4Fp5OnJxA

A beauty of a breakaway try, finished by Lolohea!

He doesn't have a track record of milking penalties. I suspect some damage has been done to his right shoulder.

Yellow card for Zac Woolford. Probably more punishment to come when the disciplinary panel takes a look.

Westerman tackled late and on the ground in what looks like real agony.

These all lack ambition; I have the entirely mad dream of seeing a match at a new/modernised Belle Vue or Wheldon Road. I'm just joking, before you all start.

Ken Colley, who played Jesus in Monty Python's Life of Brian, an admiral in Star Wars and many many more roles.

Actor Michael Madsen.

Trivia: Oz Clarke, the wine writer and boradcaster, was in the first two Superman films? In the original, he played "4th Hood" but in the sequel he avoided typecasting, credited as "4th terrorist". Other than the first two Christopher Reeve ones, there's always this.

Quite a turnaround, as Cronulla take the lead and look much better than when they started the match.

And another try from a Pearson grubber.

One meeting cancelled this morning and the other is probably (fingers crossed) going to be short, so I can watch pretty much all of today's game live!

Hindi metal band Bloodywood teamed up with Japanese Kawaii Metal group Babymetal for Bekhauf. And a nicely-animated video. Brace yourself for Samurai Ganesh!

Peter Kwong, who played the character Rain in ‘Big Trouble in Little China,’ aged 73. https://variety.com/2025/film/obituaries-people-news/peter-kwong-dead-big-trouble-in-little-china-1236412425/

Cronulla v Parramatta at 10:45am tomorrow morning is the first match: https://www.rugbyleagueontv.com

Our family had that problem with growing carrots too - a shallow topsoil over limestone and we never got more than anaemic little tendrils. Sometimes you just have to give up on some plants and concentrate on the ones that grow best for you instead of fighting nature.

He was unusually eloquent in the pre-game interview. He spoke with a lot of enthusiasm about becoming a two-time foundation coach when he took on the Dolphins job and how fond he'd become of the players he'd worked with there. I suppose that if you spend your days dealing with the egos rampaging around the Rabbitohs' dressing room, you get a bit nostalgic for a squad who knew they had something to prove. The presenters looked a little startled because he can be a bit like the trolley guy in Hot Fuzz.

Tinned bear meat, potato gratin and asparagus. The bear was well seasoned (maybe a tiny amount more salt than necessary) and less gamey than I'd imagined. A tasty thing to try once, but not something I'd have again at the price. The potato gratin was one of those Aldi pre-made ones in a bag, which are really useful to have as they keep for a long time in the fridge. They also taste pretty decent with a bit of pepper and smoked paprika sprinkled on top before cooking.

Shall we have a round by round match thread for the women's game Down Under? Let's see how this flies. I have meetings all tomorrow morning so will be watching the first televised match of the season on catch-up.

Plus any connotation with Rugby is not going to play well in the minds of the public who are also reading about long term concussion effects and the pending lawsuits arising from that.

Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist grifter, prostitution enthusiast and cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis. https://variety.com/2025/music/obituaries-people-news/jimmy-swaggart-dead-tv-evangelist-cousin-jerry-lee-lewis-1236432640/