Daniel Ryan

Went to watch Interstellar at IMAX yesterday. What a film. Haven’t seen it since it was first released. Sat there thinking about how far fetched I thought the premise of crops dying and humanity starving was. It doesn’t feel close but it feels the pace we are going, more probable.

There’s no backstory to how the world in which Interstellar is set, or rather it’s light on details about that. But I was a bit taken aback by all the themes of the film all going on at once. Sustainability, family, parenthood, survival, ego, bravery, fear, betrayal.

Went to watch Interstellar at IMAX yesterday. What a film. Haven’t seen it since it was first released. Sat there thinking about how far fetched I thought the premise of crops dying and humanity starving was. It doesn’t feel close but it feels the pace we are going, more probable.

The initial shock is dissipating following the incident involving Helen Haines, though I’m sure that’s not yet the case if you live in and around Wangaratta. It’s stunning, that such a thing can happen to both a person in general, and an elected official.

That this is the world we live in where people with mental health risk can pose dangers to the community and enough support isn’t there to prevent such things.

The initial shock is dissipating following the incident involving Helen Haines, though I’m sure that’s not yet the case if you live in and around Wangaratta. It’s stunning, that such a thing can happen to both a person in general, and an elected official.

I look at how politics are treated in by politicians in America, and feel lucky to have a generally genuine set of MP’s here in Australia, even if one might not agree with all of their views.

Found myself a bit more motivated, and a bit clearer in my thinking, to talk about City again, now. I was eager to see the fan response in a home game, but the Champions League has always been a bit weird at the Etihad, if I’m honest.

I get Maresca’s siege mentality. He’s paid to get results for Manchester City. Fair play. So stand with him and the players and cheer them to victory. Don’t be getting involved, on the terraces with the rest of it, until it’s clear.

Found myself a bit more motivated, and a bit clearer in my thinking, to talk about City again, now. I was eager to see the fan response in a home game, but the Champions League has always been a bit weird at the Etihad, if I’m honest.

Surely we should be saying, as fans of the sport (as well as well as the club) we want a fair competition. The energy should have gone in to supporting the lads who are also caught up in this, not chanting support for the owners.

Found myself a bit more motivated, and a bit clearer in my thinking, to talk about City again, now. I was eager to see the fan response in a home game, but the Champions League has always been a bit weird at the Etihad, if I’m honest.

He’s a visionary, and what’s alleged to have been done (and proven so as far as the Premier League is concerned) isn’t criminal, but it’s not ethical, or fair. He can be smart, and clever for seeing the picture he’s created AND be a cheat at the same time.

Found myself a bit more motivated, and a bit clearer in my thinking, to talk about City again, now. I was eager to see the fan response in a home game, but the Champions League has always been a bit weird at the Etihad, if I’m honest.

I think you can say, it does look like we cheated. I’m going to keep supporting the club, and the lads, but not the board. (In the Tevez situation, he was a contracted player, and provided he met the managers conditions was entitled to play again, but he needed to earn my applause again).

Found myself a bit more motivated, and a bit clearer in my thinking, to talk about City again, now. I was eager to see the fan response in a home game, but the Champions League has always been a bit weird at the Etihad, if I’m honest.

Were the bananas an embracing of “we are bent and we know we are”? Or were they a nod to the eighties and early nineties? “We were here before all this, and we’ll be here long after.” It felt the former.

Found myself a bit more motivated, and a bit clearer in my thinking, to talk about City again, now. I was eager to see the fan response in a home game, but the Champions League has always been a bit weird at the Etihad, if I’m honest.