The Edge Documentary
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stephen cartwright
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It’s on my list to Santa on blu ray
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Bump, just finished this. Starts very light and funny and ends up very dark.
It’s a brilliant watch, heart goes out to Finn and Trott. You wonder how much more they could have given if things had been different.
It’s a brilliant watch, heart goes out to Finn and Trott. You wonder how much more they could have given if things had been different.
chopsfc007
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Is it included with prime or do you have to pay extra
sonson
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The Trott bit with the awful screaming music and disorientating angles was the closest media expression I've seen which touches upon the horror of how it feels to experience acute anxiety and panic attacks. It was almost too much for me to get through, having been through a period myself where I experienced those things several times on a daily basis.
Mixed feelings about some of KP's conduct but in hindsight you could also see he was a mess and its astonishing nobody tried to help him.
The really impressive thing about the film I think is that it showcases just how powerful mental energy is. It can power you through to the absolute top but it can also destroy you. I've worked in mental health for over a decade now but theres not many things I've seen or read which deliver that message better than this film.
It's on Prime so free if you have that
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Agree mate, true words. Feel as if KP self destructed in many ways, Colly was quite blunt about him
Yep, feel his record belies the player he could have been. Flower sounded like he took some responsibility for the mental state of some of his players too.
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Agree with your first point mate, been there myself too and it was a good visualization
Could relate too so much of it, the mind is a powerful thing
Agree mate, true words. Feel as if KP self destructed in many ways, Colly was quite blunt about him
Yep, feel his record belies the player he could have been. Flower sounded like he took some responsibility for the mental state of some of his players too.
North east blokes have a good way of summing things up
Agree mate, true words. Feel as if KP self destructed in many ways, Colly was quite blunt about him
Yep, feel his record belies the player he could have been. Flower sounded like he took some responsibility for the mental state of some of his players too.
Absolutely
He was so involved he couldn’t see it
He did speak well at the time when Trott left
The comments by Warner about trott at the time were unforgivable too
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Blokes an absolute kernt but I assume he wasn’t fully aware of his issues ?
Can’t get the bloody thing over here 
sonson
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KP? He comes across as a scared little boy who didbt now how to get help. Dont mean that in an insulting sense.
Seems so
It’s hard to tell with him
He’s intelligent bloke and knows how to play the game, I never trust a word he says
Julio_Schwarz
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Absolutely fantastic, puts things into perspective, i wonder how many of the lads in this current team are going through the same stuff.
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No warner
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Thoroughly enjoyed watching last weekend, a very good insight into the game and mental fatigue that some of the players get caught up in, the difference in how it effects some more than others is interesting, some seem to play like it's just a game (seem to have greater longevity and less stress about it)where others look a lot deeper into it. A piece on sky with Stuart Broad today summed it up quite well that iirc on debut he took a 5 for and he felt like he belonged at test level, however the story of Trott deliberately getting peppered by the bowling machine at 95 mph is quite dismaying.
