Wires on the tele!

Tonight 20:30 Panorama BBC1

What's the occasion? Is this Ian Knott's open and frank talk of contemplating suicide?

Don't know
I don't start till 8.30!

Just looked at the info and it is about suicide.

Good job they didnt show it after the castleford game

Jesus I'm glad duckie.isn't one of them people who do the segues between tv shows. Christ on a bike viewtopic.php?f=21&t=581328

Jesus I'm glad duckie.isn't one of them people who do the segues between tv shows. Christ on a bike viewtopic.php?f=21&t=581328

Drummer boy Tom and tall Dave on the tele!

No sign if Arsenal Al though.

An extremely moving programme

It's obviously nobody elses business that someone's tried to take their own life, but I had no idea, re Knott and Danny Sculthorpe. I'm glad they've managed (are managing) to battle their demons.

It does make those ridiculous expressions to "man up" and "grow a pair" seem totally inane.

A well put together piece by Simon Jack, who obviously had first hand experience of the situation.
Interesting fact about Mr Jack. His father in law was film score genius John Barry.

Good post Lefty

My dad was 37 when he did the deed, i was 17 then.

I had this on reminder, i was a little shocked when all of a sudden Wire popped up.

Bridge's testimonial against HKR i'm guessing.

Superb programme. I can remember a long thread on here a couple of years ago re the subject of MH. There were those who were saying that depression didn't really exist and people should 'man up.' To be truthful, at the time I didn't have the courage to speak up, but as someone who has had 'a black dog' on a couple of occasions, I can say that it is a terrible thing to have, and at the time you feel like there simply isn't a positive future.

Excellent programme, well worth a watch on iPlayer if you missed it: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... the-family

Excellent programme, well worth a watch on iPlayer if you missed it: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... the-family

Never heard of them.

Not seen it yet so I'll watch it on catch up. Having been close to someone who did the deed due to numerous issues, and during some dark periods of my life many years ago I contemplated the same thing, it's something that I can partly relate to.

Was there any mention of Terry Newton on the programme?

Not that I remember, it wasn't solely about mental health in rugby league.

Drummer boy Tom comes on here.
If your a proper wire fan as I'm sure you are. You will recognise them.

Deleted. Can't be d getting involved in the crappy proper wire fan debate, far too much on my mind today.

No worries, thanks. I'll still watch it, hopefully it will still be on the iPlayer.

It raised awareness on national tv but I'll be honest i didn't get anything from it, maybe because I'm quite well read on it...i found the RL section interesting as an aside to the programme.

WF111 I can see how that can be taken to question you as a proper wire fan now. Although I hadn't seen that at the time of writing and it certainly wasn't my intention.
I apologise for that.

I was approched in the Rodney to do a piece on the subject, was to close to home for me and i was going through a real traumatic time in my life when this was being filmed, i could not of done it justice.

10,000 on average turn up
I'd be hard pressed to put names to more than 100 or so

Plus, if he has a drum, I'm not sure I want to know him

Some Wire fans are almost as famous and seen more than some players, like Arsenal Al and his flags. There were two faces that are very familiar in the TV prog.
I thought many would know Tom because for many years he had been banging out that drum every game.
Tom is a member on the forum too, drummer boy. A friend of Geordie who is the forum too, I would guess. Many of you know Geordie.

Is drummer boy the pre adolescent lad that insists on banging the oversized tambourine?

Tricky subject because the sufferer does believe he/she is alone rather like a ghost illness, anyone out there feeling the slightest down just talk before it takes a hold, there's lots of good things out there.