 I've got the help of the local filmmaker Paul McCarroll to produce a documentary, a 36 minute documentary of the history of the club and some highlights and memories from down through the years and a lot of interviews as well and you can see that video up on YouTube and Paul actually joins us now and we're streaming online as well if you want to go to our Facebook page and YouTube channel Paul good afternoon here good afternoon John how are you doing good well done on the video it looks great and it'll be well a lot of memories we visited for a lot of people who played for the club who supported the club or would have been activists both behind the scenes yeah yeah I we're getting a lot of views we've over 1100 views the last time I looked so we're all really happy with that I'm quite surprised you know this fella tried the official population was about 240 I think so and it's obviously getting shared with the diaspora and the people who are abroad and weren't able to come back for the 17-year celebration so I think it's kind of it feels like mission accomplished that it's getting out to the people and that they seem to be enjoying it as well you know it was a for me it was really to be honest that I'm an honor and a privilege and a pleasure to get to make this film because I'm a supporter of the football club and I could down the car drop every Sunday afternoon along with the rest of the leads you know and it is it's a as a filmmaker you're always on the lookout for fantastic stories you know and listening to the people and the the brands around you and I just consider myself lucky to be in the right place at the right time to tell the story of a magnificent football club in a small village and the community effort that really conspired to make it something epic and bigger than probably anybody imagined at the very start and sometimes the big stories are the important stories can be right on your doorstep and you don't realize just well how important they are how important they are to um to a lot of people until you start telling that story and you you put in obviously a lot of effort because you've interviewed a lot of people and there's also a lot of footage Paul um off the off the village down through the year so even if people haven't got an interest in the club or in football it'll be interesting to look at it and see and see some of those images yeah absolutely I was very lucky uh my friend uh Seema Sordano from Canada has been a social historian I think over the last 30 40 years so he gave me a lot of old archive footage that I was able to use in the film and we probably didn't have enough of the early years but it's very lucky to see the old cars and the old characters walking around the village and it gives you you know the context and I suppose the span of the the club you know 50 years a long time and I think you know it's like any football club or anything that lasts 50 years it's a bit of a roller coaster with ups and downs but what really impressed me was just the the volunteering effort you know and from from committee members players and the ladies who support all the fundraising efforts you know it's it's a hundred percent the community involvement and you know it to me it just shows what what people can do by by volunteering and and when that kind of local effort is is a lie to the kind of vision that the the early committee members had you know from the very start with David McAndless and the Calaf youth club and the brandini and and and those guys you know like um 13 years after they were formed they they opened that pitch with Pat Jennings in 1985 and Pat Jennings the great Pat Jennings was here and Derry said he came down for the day and there was huge crowds down there and you know that that football pitch at Calatra Park is probably one of the most beautifully located football pitches in the world everyone knows how beautiful our beaches are here and I suppose my one of my goals was to say well yeah we're beautiful beaches but we have a beautiful football club and even more importantly we've a really beautiful community where everyone is donating and supporting and giving off their time but you know to just have the vision of you know and Burnham McAndless and would have played a huge role in helping to make that football pitch happen and various other people you know a good friend of mine, Hugh Diver, came to Caldaff after a glittering career with Swilly Rovers that came from Remelton to Caldaff and he got involved in the committee too in the early years and also as a player and then he became a manager and then a trainer of the youth teams and when I kind of look at what has happened you know Hugh was a player then a son there was a player and now he has two grandchildren there I play them with the underage teams so and that's not that's only one family there's a bit 10 families like that that have you know the McBellies have their father themselves and now their children are playing and it's just a beautiful kind of a generational flow you know. Having been a supporter you could probably tell a lot of these stories yourself but you interviewed most no one's going to ever know and everything that that happens so you tell it to a lot of people and then they had to say about the club and about you know some of the games and some of the characters. Yeah yeah I as I said you're only as a filmmaker you're only as good as the story and as the contributors you know but we had an excellent bunch of contributors from the from the community and a lot of more committee members and John McBellie and Edward Roddy and those guys you know and they were you can see from when they're on camera the passion and the belief they have in the club and the commitment they have to it so you know I think the kind of effort was community-wide and people it's I think it's just like during the pandemic I think everybody realized that community is probably the most important thing that we have in the world and I saw that you know when I was living here during the last three years and but the truth the matter is that that community spirit in Caldwell has been alive for for the whole 50 years as far as I can see. Well it's a great club and a beautiful part of the world and a pitch that as you say one of the most idyllic of locations and if anybody wants to watch the video it's on the Caldwell FC Facebook page we also have it up on HighlandRadio.com Paul thanks for the money and Paul for chatting to us. Thanks John all the best have a good day. See you Paul. Thanks a million. Thanks John. Minds yourself. Bye.