Well done, lad!
Biggest win by someone from Greymouth in a while.
Dave McKenzie won the Boston marathon, but he was from Runanga.
Yep amazing. Max Gawn kicked the winning goal vs Geelong though on the weekend. Dees...I mean does that come close?? 
@mariner4life Or would that be Racketball? 
@mariner4life said in Paul Coll:
squash is the most 80s sport ever
I fucking love riding around NZ, and seeing the yellow "Squash Court" road signs in the tiniest, of fucking tiny, rural towns. But try to get a court in Wellington... fuck off.
It's bizarre... Pongaroa has one. Reporoa, too.. but that's not enough, I'm pretty sure there's one out near Murupara. And I don't think it's even in Murupara itself, but out in the middle of even-more-nowhere.
I've always wanted to get somebody else with a bike, and who enjoys squash - and go on a tour of NZ's ridiculously located squash courts.
@kruse Google has the answer to your dreams....
Fuck me - they've got one at Arthurs Pass!
@chris-b said in Paul Coll:
Fuck me - they've got one at Arthurs Pass!
Right!?
And yeah - that map is just the "unaffiliated courts".
Just looking at central north island... I'm gonna go out on a limb, and suggest that the population of Whakamaru and Mangakino combined - probably don't need a squash club.
Reporoa - doesn't really need a squash club, but it certainly doesn't need one just up the road at Waikite Valley also.
What I really want - is to con somebody into paying me for doing this.
Make a TV programme - based on visiting tiny NZ towns/names-on-a-map, meeting the locals, etc.
- Would make it a shit-ton easier to organise actually getting into the courts, which are probably typically a "key is behind the bar at the local" type places
- I get paid for riding a motorbike around all the roads in NZ where you wouldn't otherwise find an excuse to check out
- get paid for playing some pretty fucking average squash (I don't really know the rules well, we've made up our own rules where it's pretty much a full-contact sport)
- show-case tiny towns, quirky locals, beautiful remote parts of the country
Effectively - yes - just another travel show, with a super-flimsy gimmick premise.
@chris-b said in Paul Coll:
Fuck me - they've got one at Arthurs Pass!
Right!?
And yeah - that map is just the "unaffiliated courts".
Just looking at central north island... I'm gonna go out on a limb, and suggest that the population of Whakamaru and Mangakino combined - probably don't need a squash club.
Reporoa - doesn't really need a squash club, but it certainly doesn't need one just up the road at Waikite Valley also.What I really want - is to con somebody into paying me for doing this.
Make a TV programme - based on visiting tiny NZ towns/names-on-a-map, meeting the locals, etc.
- Would make it a shit-ton easier to organise actually getting into the courts, which are probably typically a "key is behind the bar at the local" type places
- I get paid for riding a motorbike around all the roads in NZ where you wouldn't otherwise find an excuse to check out
- get paid for playing some pretty fucking average squash (I don't really know the rules well, we've made up our own rules where it's pretty much a full-contact sport)
- show-case tiny towns, quirky locals, beautiful remote parts of the country
Effectively - yes - just another travel show, with a super-flimsy gimmick premise.
This is before or after your film review tv show, right?
@chris-b said in Paul Coll:
Fuck me - they've got one at Arthurs Pass!
Right!?
And yeah - that map is just the "unaffiliated courts".
Just looking at central north island... I'm gonna go out on a limb, and suggest that the population of Whakamaru and Mangakino combined - probably don't need a squash club.
Reporoa - doesn't really need a squash club, but it certainly doesn't need one just up the road at Waikite Valley also.What I really want - is to con somebody into paying me for doing this.
Make a TV programme - based on visiting tiny NZ towns/names-on-a-map, meeting the locals, etc.
- Would make it a shit-ton easier to organise actually getting into the courts, which are probably typically a "key is behind the bar at the local" type places
- I get paid for riding a motorbike around all the roads in NZ where you wouldn't otherwise find an excuse to check out
- get paid for playing some pretty fucking average squash (I don't really know the rules well, we've made up our own rules where it's pretty much a full-contact sport)
- show-case tiny towns, quirky locals, beautiful remote parts of the country
Effectively - yes - just another travel show, with a super-flimsy gimmick premise.
With the biggest joke being you don't actually know how to play squash ??
@chris-b said in Paul Coll:
Fuck me - they've got one at Arthurs Pass!
Right!?
And yeah - that map is just the "unaffiliated courts".
Just looking at central north island... I'm gonna go out on a limb, and suggest that the population of Whakamaru and Mangakino combined - probably don't need a squash club.
Reporoa - doesn't really need a squash club, but it certainly doesn't need one just up the road at Waikite Valley also.What I really want - is to con somebody into paying me for doing this.
Make a TV programme - based on visiting tiny NZ towns/names-on-a-map, meeting the locals, etc.
- Would make it a shit-ton easier to organise actually getting into the courts, which are probably typically a "key is behind the bar at the local" type places
- I get paid for riding a motorbike around all the roads in NZ where you wouldn't otherwise find an excuse to check out
- get paid for playing some pretty fucking average squash (I don't really know the rules well, we've made up our own rules where it's pretty much a full-contact sport)
- show-case tiny towns, quirky locals, beautiful remote parts of the country
Effectively - yes - just another travel show, with a super-flimsy gimmick premise.
With the biggest joke being you don't actually know how to play squash ??
Yeah - there'd have to be some really good editing to supply even the obligatory 20 seconds of actual squash footage for each episode.
Could include some of the shit-talking we typically do during a game though... that'd provide a bit of entertaining filler.
@nostrildamus said in Paul Coll:
@chris-b said in Paul Coll:
Fuck me - they've got one at Arthurs Pass!
Right!?
And yeah - that map is just the "unaffiliated courts".
Just looking at central north island... I'm gonna go out on a limb, and suggest that the population of Whakamaru and Mangakino combined - probably don't need a squash club.
Reporoa - doesn't really need a squash club, but it certainly doesn't need one just up the road at Waikite Valley also.What I really want - is to con somebody into paying me for doing this.
Make a TV programme - based on visiting tiny NZ towns/names-on-a-map, meeting the locals, etc.
- Would make it a shit-ton easier to organise actually getting into the courts, which are probably typically a "key is behind the bar at the local" type places
- I get paid for riding a motorbike around all the roads in NZ where you wouldn't otherwise find an excuse to check out
- get paid for playing some pretty fucking average squash (I don't really know the rules well, we've made up our own rules where it's pretty much a full-contact sport)
- show-case tiny towns, quirky locals, beautiful remote parts of the country
Effectively - yes - just another travel show, with a super-flimsy gimmick premise.
This is before or after your film review tv show, right?
I think it should be an all in one, a combo of that Ewen McGregor travel show and a review show.
He could also do a weekly read of the Grumpy Old Man thread as a bonus section.
Lets Kickstarter this bitch.