The Club

Question 1

Danny to Ted when they discuss the team’s hostile treatment of Geoff (Act 1)

Answer 1

“We were all going to give him a big kiss, but we thought he’s be in a hurry to get home and count his money.” (6)

Question 2

Ted to Gerry, when he’s getting angry over Laurie’s statements to the press (Act 1)

Answer 2

“He resents the fact that I’ve brought a level-headed business approach to the Club.” (7)

Question 3

Ted to Gerry, discussing tradition vs pragmatism (Act 1)

Answer 3

“Tradition, tradition, tradition. We’ve been strangled by it.” (7)

Question 4

Jock talking about when his wife said he met his match in a younger player (Act 1)

Answer 4

“I thumped her one.” (17)

Question 5

Ted to Laurie about his connection with the club while they’re discussing the press statement (Act 1)

Answer 5

“Right up until the time I was twelve I used to cry every time we lost.” (23)

Question 6

Laurie to Gerry while they’re discussing the possibility of selling players (Act 1)

Answer 6

“They’re men, not pigs.” (27)

Question 7

Jock to Geoff after he gets stoned and he talks about how Laurie was ‘standoffish’ (Act 2)

Answer 7

“I was one of the boys.” (37)

Question 8

Jock to Geoff when they talk about Laurie’s injury that stopped him playing (Act 2)

Answer 8

“I laughed me bloody head off.” (37)

Question 9

Jock to Geoff when Geoff starts making up a story about his sister (Act 2)

Answer 9

“Woman has become the hunter and man the hunted. Bloody unnatural.” (39)

Question 10

Jock about the effect of the cigarette Geoff gave him, dramatic irony (Act 2)

Answer 10

“The bloody tobacco’s made my eyes go funny.” (42)

Question 11

Gerry to Ted when the truth is revealed about Ted’s actions and Gerry wants him to resign (Act 2)

Answer 11

“It isn’t so much about whether you’re innocent or not that counts–it’s whether the public think you’re innocent.” (49)

Question 12

Jock on Ted’s decision to resign, after Ted has left the room, example of hypocrisy (Act 2)

Answer 12

“Mongrel. What kind of man hits a woman?” (51)

Question 13

Laurie and Gerry on their attitudes towards the game (Act 2)

Answer 13

“I love this Club and I love the game”

“I don’t love the Club and I don’t particularly like the game.” (56)

Question 14

Laurie to Gerry on his plan to win games to maintain his position as coach (Act 2)

Answer 14

“Despite what your economics books tell you I’m not convinced that pragmatism is absolutely irreversible.” (60)

Question 15

Gerry to Laurie about Ted’s situation, foreshadowing (Act 1

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Answer 15

“There’s a storm coming up and I doubt whether he’ll weather it.”