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Honor James

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  • Birthday 03/10/1944

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  1. Help! Now they are being executed and laughed at into the bargain!. Seems a little excessive to me but what do I know.
  2. Oh? Who, what and how should have been executed and communicated? It all sounds rather worse than seeing a leopard in a tree.
  3. I see some people laughed at my remark (quoted above). He he! As for the Leopards, only time will tell but at times it can be useful to remember the old saying: "He who laughs last, laughs longest". Leopards in Africa {for example), for those who don't already know this, can surprise the unwary by slipping silently down from a tree branch above, as you walk past. A circumstance which, if it comes your way, can quickly and very well illustrate the saying, "He who laughs last laughs longest Happy 2022-2023 season to you all.
  4. Not fifteen minutes ago, I finished reading an actual, 'dyed-in-the-paper' copy of the introductory, Leigh Leopards brochure, and to me it looks great; high-quality item, and the new name (Leopards replacing Centurions) great. More modern for a start. Centurions are ancient history. How many people nowadays would automatically think, "Centurions - really snappy name!" Whereas sports clubs using the names of fast, fierce or fascinating animals abound.
  5. Oooops! I just scrolled back and noticed that I was supposed to be naming Ozzies not Brits. Thousand apologies!
  6. I could start one, although players whose names I can remember are few and far between, in comparison with the number of players who's names I have heard discussed, seen written about and even seen playing for 'n' number of clubs over the past 20 years I have worked for League Publications Limited. Almost as many as pebbles on a beach, and I'm afraid that quite a lot of those who came easiest to mind might all be a bit past their prime by now, but here goes . . . . . . .. Danny McGuire, Lee Briers, Kevin Sinfield, Denny Solomona, Henry Paul, Pat Richards, Iestyn Harris, Chris Hill, Ben Westwood, Sam Tomkins, Dom Manfredi, Stefan Ratchford .......... I need two more for a team, but could those make a start at least, if not for a team, for the core of an imaginary Super League team?
  7. Seems that somehow I must have posted a blank page quoting Graveyard Johnny (see above). Thousand apologies, he must know a great deal more than I do, and it is now so seldom that I post anything on any website, anywhere, I have probably just hit 'go' instead of 'stop' somewhere, ........ or something. No problem, there is almost certainly little or nothing I could add to any Rugby League discussion that won't have been read before by almost everyone. Fun reading a bit of it though, from time to time.
  8. I have always been wary of the idea that, above all, Rugby League needs to `get bigger', 'do X to grow'. `do Y to grow' etc. ad nauseum. What is wrong with being `small' so long as your `small' is sustainable? Diamonds are generally on the small side, glass baubles can be considerably bigger but who (with any brain at all) would swap even a small diamond for a big glass bauble? Or, to put that another way: Rugby League is a bit like caviar; you don't need much of it to realise that once acquired, it is a taste you will always prefer to the ordinary.
  9. Thank you. I only work Wednesday to Saturday these days so I only saw your post this morning. Lovely way to work, out in the woods and hills, using only what you find and leaving nothing messy, noxious or toxic behind. I am going to have a look at some more of his work. I assume there will be plenty online.
  10. Fascinating. Does anyone know what the little leaf-shaped pieces are made of? Are they real leaves or petals? Some kind of very light paper perhaps? Although that would tend to make him persona-non-grata in most places. It makes you look, which is good for all of us - looking, I mean.
  11. All the above taken into account, there is still no excuse for arrogance. At least, not for me. My grandmother used to say 'handsome is as handsome does', and no verbal whitewash can ever change what has just happened in the world of Rugby League, into anything other than an exceedingly unhandsome display of arrogance. Not arrogance, I am sure, within the NRL player community. Rugby League players generally learn, at a very early age, that their game does not easily swallow and move on in the face of on-field arrogance. A lesson which, for the most part, they later carry with them for life. But at NRL owner and administrator level? There are currently athletes in all disciplines, from countries all over the world taking part in an omni-discipline Olympic Games. One must therefore assume - from this almost overnight, unilateral decision - that in Australia and New Zealand there has secretly existed a previously unknown, entirely different interpretation of what was once ubiquitously known (within the English speaking world) as `sporting behaviour'.
  12. Cancelled? Why would we cancel and ###### up every other signed-up country's arrangements, hopes and aspirations just because a bunch of molly-coddled Aussies are too scared to travel. Ignore them. They would probably have won anyway (which can be something of a bore at best), which opens the door at last to Tonga, England, France, New Zealand (if they don't 'toe the Aussie dictat'), and every other mother's son on the planet who plays this game and is happy to get down off 'mummy's lap'.
  13. Scared that the Ozzies will penalise them by refusing to play New Zealand some time in the future, if they don't 'fall in line like good little Australian acolytes! Pooo !
  14. Well done Schoey! What a bunch of wimps they have turned out to be `down under'.
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