Meeting Players current and ex and other celebrities

[Tom Verlaine's Ghost]

That crim that PaddoColt mentioned Stewart John Regan from the 50's who was from around Paddington was a bad man.
The name I associate with Katingal is Russell mad dog Cox. Incredible to break out of there & stay on the run for 11 years.

Yeah Cox had some balls. He and Ray Denning. There's a new book out on them both, called Public Enemies. Very good.

Yeah, Regan was scum. No redeeming qualities whatoever, from what I can gather. A psychopath. Very different from someone like Ned Smith who, despite his violent nature, was also able to be a decent father, to form relationships, etc. A few years ago, Ned's ex wife, Debra, started writing a book about her life with Ned. She wanted to show his softer side, his decent side. She got partway through but never finished it. I offered to help her write it and even publish it. Part of her wanted to do it, but I think another part knew the book would bring her unwanted publicity. I can understand that. The book remains unfinished.

[King Salvo]

Bernie was another well known intractable. He was the first person sentenced to Katingal when it opened. Bank robber. Escapee.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&u...AAAAAdAAAAABAD

Reminds me of Bernie Rhodes the Original Manager of The Clash.- Later came back to Manage them on the insistence of Joe Strummer who threatened to quit the group if he didn't.

Rhodes had an idea in a press release for The Clash to stage a bank robbery thinking if they got away with it they would have all that money and if they got caught think about all the publicity.

Not long later The Clash sent out a press release of their own in reply announcing that they had parted ways with Bernie Rhodes and he was no longer their manager.

That episode did produce a great song though - Bank Robber produced by the late great Jamican Mikey Dread you can see him in the Video

My daddy was a bank robber
But he never hurt nobody
He just loved to live that way
And he loved to steal your money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttJBdr6eBuo

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Are any of them related to Doug and Dinsdale Piranha?

[redwhiteblue]

I worked in retail and also the bank at Bondi Junction back in the 90's where we had a lot of very famous faces as regulars. Notable mentions go back to my days working at Gowings from 1989 to 1994 where me and my trusty tape measure looked after the likes of Peter Garret, Ian Roberts (I used to manage the shirt department and did all the buying, so he would order specially sized shirts and my job was to ring his Mum when they were ready) and the late Paul Hester. I also had worked in the school uniform department and my last customers there on the day I finished up were Judy Davis and Colin Friels getting uniforms for their son. Sadly, I missed the day Slash came in to buy a Drizabone raincoat - some twit called security because they thought he looked like a shoplifter . That place was a retail institution for many years on the corner of George & Market Sts with Mick Simmons just a few doors up. We used to go drinking at least 4 nights a week at Centrepoint Tavern and one Friday night I met Ray Higgs at the bar who used to play for Parra, my childhood team.

On a musical note, my favourite was the late Steve Prestwich from Cold Chisel who gave me a set of his drumsticks which I have near me right at this minute on the coffee table. I'd gone to a gig of his at a pub in Annandale with another girl I was friends with and he gave her a set too. It had been a Friday night during a really bad thunderstorm so hardly anyone showed up. so he came and talked to us afterwards for an hour as we were the only sober people there. Amanda Keller I've mentioned a few times on here now as she used to support my small business also along with Ally Fowler (whom I'm rewatching again now as Sons & Daughters is on 7Plus ). Lots of politicians, newsreaders, media people use to come in too as I was near Bronte/Clovelly and they tend to live around that area. Malcolm Turnbull used to come and visit us all along Bronte Road when he had his office there and I'd still stop and chat to him a lot about the Roosters when I saw him down at the Rose Bay ferry wharf. Jessica Rowe and Peter Overton live around the corner and he's a Bears fan he told me because he grew up over there. Told him that is almost following the Roosters..
Roosters wise, Jake is probably the one I've known the longest as he used to live with friends when he first moved here from Qld and then he moved around the corner from me so he'd still stop and have a chat, plus we used to go and visit him at Jman's cafe when he was working there. SKD spent half an hour talking to me when I was living in Melbourne and then he remembered me when I moved back home at the end of 2012 and said "Oh shit, you've moved back to Sydney - we better win a premiership for you next season" - and they did so I will always have a very kind soft spot for him and everything he went through on a personal level. Met Freddy quite a few times and have a few photos with him too, Willie and Mini sat with me and my girlfriends once at a club dinner (Willie was nothing but a gentleman and a good story teller too) and another time they seated FPN and Aiden Guerra with us. Wayne Bennett I've mentioned before as a school friend of my sisters', sitting with Wayne on a plane going back home to Qld for both of us as he's from Warwick like me.

The best though was meeting Russell Fairfax at another club function as my friend went to school with him so she introduced us and he told me that even though he played for Souths, he will always be a Rooster and would never support them when they play us - no contest he said.

Oh I did wave to Joan Collins once when I was standing on a street corner and she went by in a limo and called out "hello darling!"

[Rooster1908]

My youngest Daughter WAS a hostess with Qantas . Domestic and lastly International , hence the Was . She has met many famous footballers , sports people and politicians many of whom she said were absolute pigs.The three she said where absolutely fantastic and PColt will hate this was Julie Bishop, and John Howard and his wife Janet . Treated everyone with respect unlike apparently KRudd

[Johnny Tobin]

I dragged my wife to a Wu Tang concert a couple of years ago. She had no idea who they were or even their style of music. She was dancing in front of the stage. Method Man took off his T-Shirt and gave it to her. I had noticed the T-Shirt and liked it before that happened.

[Johnny Tobin]

Haha. Unsettling!

I didn't really get that feeling from Neddy, apart from the icy stares. Mostly he just came across like an old style South Sydney crim.

That’s what he was.

[zac]

I worked in retail and also the bank at Bondi Junction back in the 90's where we had a lot of very famous faces as regulars. Notable mentions go back to my days working at Gowings from 1989 to 1994 where me and my trusty tape measure looked after the likes of Peter Garret, Ian Roberts (I used to manage the shirt department and did all the buying, so he would order specially sized shirts and my job was to ring his Mum when they were ready) and the late Paul Hester. I also had worked in the school uniform department and my last customers there on the day I finished up were Judy Davis and Colin Friels getting uniforms for their son. Sadly, I missed the day Slash came in to buy a Drizabone raincoat - some twit called security because they thought he looked like a shoplifter . That place was a retail institution for many years on the corner of George & Market Sts with Mick Simmons just a few doors up. We used to go drinking at least 4 nights a week at Centrepoint Tavern and one Friday night I met Ray Higgs at the bar who used to play for Parra, my childhood team.

On a musical note, my favourite was the late Steve Prestwich from Cold Chisel who gave me a set of his drumsticks which I have near me right at this minute on the coffee table. I'd gone to a gig of his at a pub in Annandale with another girl I was friends with and he gave her a set too. It had been a Friday night during a really bad thunderstorm so hardly anyone showed up. so he came and talked to us afterwards for an hour as we were the only sober people there. Amanda Keller I've mentioned a few times on here now as she used to support my small business also along with Ally Fowler (whom I'm rewatching again now as Sons & Daughters is on 7Plus ). Lots of politicians, newsreaders, media people use to come in too as I was near Bronte/Clovelly and they tend to live around that area. Malcolm Turnbull used to come and visit us all along Bronte Road when he had his office there and I'd still stop and chat to him a lot about the Roosters when I saw him down at the Rose Bay ferry wharf. Jessica Rowe and Peter Overton live around the corner and he's a Bears fan he told me because he grew up over there. Told him that is almost following the Roosters..
Roosters wise, Jake is probably the one I've known the longest as he used to live with friends when he first moved here from Qld and then he moved around the corner from me so he'd still stop and have a chat, plus we used to go and visit him at Jman's cafe when he was working there. SKD spent half an hour talking to me when I was living in Melbourne and then he remembered me when I moved back home at the end of 2012 and said "Oh shit, you've moved back to Sydney - we better win a premiership for you next season" - and they did so I will always have a very kind soft spot for him and everything he went through on a personal level. Met Freddy quite a few times and have a few photos with him too, Willie and Mini sat with me and my girlfriends once at a club dinner (Willie was nothing but a gentleman and a good story teller too) and another time they seated FPN and Aiden Guerra with us. Wayne Bennett I've mentioned before as a school friend of my sisters', sitting with Wayne on a plane going back home to Qld for both of us as he's from Warwick like me.

The best though was meeting Russell Fairfax at another club function as my friend went to school with him so she introduced us and he told me that even though he played for Souths, he will always be a Rooster and would never support them when they play us - no contest he said.

Oh I did wave to Joan Collins once when I was standing on a street corner and she went by in a limo and called out "hello darling!"

great stuff.

roosters players i've had in the cab were -
chris flannery the day after the 02 gf and we were all walking on air. i admired his ring, so to speak.
ricko a few times - lovely bloke
morley - lovely bloke
toddy payten going home to the house of sin or whatever it was - lovely bloke
and probably a few others. also had uncle nick one time - very intense. you can see why he's been so successful

[redwhiteblue]

How could I forget Fletch? He used to come and clean my shop windows and steal all my crystal ball footy tips and make money (he still owes me for Cronulla winning in 2016). He told my sister and I that he loved playing in the UK and had to go there because of 'the bunch of thieves, aka South Sydney' not paying him correctly - a story he repeated at Fitzy's farewell in 2009 at the club. My sister is quite a bit older than me and she rang her husband saying 'Bryan Fletcher just called me a GIRL!" She's been a grandmother for a while now so she was so flattered..Funniest day was when he asked me if I had any metho and I pointed to my cleaning cupboard and said "Yes, in the South Sydney minibar over there"..Every time I hear Van Morrison's 'Cleaning Windows', I think of Fletch.