Trojan
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Moonlight Serenade by the Miller Orchestra (sorry - I can't help it I love swing music)
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I'll Look Around - Billie Holiday.
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I bought a couple of lambs' hearts from the butcher the other day, and used the recipe in Fergus Henderson's 'Nose to Tail Eating'.
- Clean and trim the hearts
- gently fry chopped onions and garlic
- add red wine and simmer
- add chunks of day-old (i.e. slightly dry) bread
- smoosh together
- add chopped sage and allow to cool
- stuff hearts, then cover the opening with strips of bacon and tie into place
- in a covered pot, cook gently in chicken stock for about 2 and a half hours
- take out hearts, allow to rest somewhere warm under foil, while you reduce the cooking liquid
- strain the liquid to use as gravy and serve up the hearts with mashed potatoes and marrowfat peas
...and very very nice it was, too.
Nose to tail eating. A woman went to the butchers and asked for a sheep's head, and would he leave the eyes in. Because it had to see them through the week.
It's too warm for a coat today
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I have a video of the Scrumdown programme of our game at Watersheddings in 1988. At the beginning is a sort of prologue about Fev, and it's on there as bright as day
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was a good day-lol-that bloke ad a reet temper
I heard a story about Murphy from a guy who was the manager of the bar at Wilderspool. The bar had just closed and they grille had just been pulled down, when Murphy entered demanding a drink. My acquantience told him the bar was closed. Murphy said that he was the manager and demanded a drink, my guy said he was the bar manager and the bar was closed. Murphy apparently nutted the grille.
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The Animals - what a fantastic British blues band, Burdon really had the voice for it. The perhaps little known For Miss Caulker (released on the B side of Bring it on Home to Me) has asome fantastic blues piano introduction from Alan Price, and Burdon's vocals are great.
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Zevon was brilliant, and those are two great trtacks from a wide and fascinating back catalogue. You can pick up his stuff quite easily over here.
I have Werewolves of London by him.
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are you wearing a vest?
I'm wearing a blue and white striped tee shirt, that looks remarkably like the old Fev shirt.
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Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw
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According to the Mail if you know what Hummus and Prosecco are you're posh. I quite like prosecco. I've never had hummus. I consider myself the absolute opposite of posh.
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I've been trying to understand the role of the stand-off a bit better.
Easy. The stand-off if the player the defending backrow forward hits as hard as possible as often as possible. (at least it was in my day
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Until there are a lot more people of quality willing to take up the whistle and committ to season after season of abuse, ridicule and threats, I doubt the quality will improve regardless of independent scrutiny Trojan.
However, if you watch a telly game as a neutral - just have a look at how what how you think the ref is performing when the mask of loyalty to your team is removed and impartiality is given a free hand!
It's amazing that the refs tend to get most decisions correct!!!
I know what you're saying and there is some truth in it. But on Saturday, I watched Leeds v Wigan and TBH I thought the decsions on ball stealing were inconsistent to say the least, I also thought that Senior should have been binned. I had no axe to grind whatsoever.
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I posted this:
"We didn't think we were getting a fair shake from the ref. either particularly in the high tackle area. So perhaps he was equally bad for both teams. If Dewsbury can perform like that every week surely they'll win more than they lose.
Someone remarked to me before the game about referees. I said it's a truism that refs. don't miss tackles, don't drop passes, or commit offences.
But British Rugby League fans at all levels of the pro game continue to complain about them. Who's right and who's wrong? Is it a case of the RFL establishment saying "everyone's out of step except us?"
The fact remains that fans complain weekly about their treatment by refs. And refs. can and do materially affect the outcome of games (Fev v Catalan
) and possibly yesterday's and possibly Saturday's cup-tie. So perhaps it's time that their performances were monitored for a while by a scruitineer independent of the RFL or the clubs. And a report produced. Or does that sound too much like common sense for RL. "on the Dewsbury forum - I don't know what Fev fans views are. I daren't put it on the main forum I'd get banned
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TBH I thought Dewsbury deserved to win today. They looked committed and there was some urgency in their play. They took the ball up well and made some intelligent kicks. We seemed to have the attitude that all we needed to was turn up. Hard lines Dewsbury. Lucky Fev.
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Cindy Incidentally - Faces, one of their greatest. Fantastic Ronnie Wood guitar riff to start.
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How long has Fev had a tourist board?
Shouldn't that be a bored tourist?
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I enjoyed the Maroon Beazer home away one we had.
The Tango one was cool.
Old Linpac is always good though. Used to like the old red away linpac as well.
There was a Cronulla-esque one from 80s that was nice. Used to be a pic of Steadman in it in the clubhouse.
I prefer the blue narrow hooped shirt. I used to think the red one looked smart. I never saw us win a match wearing it though. IIRC we played Bradford in the 1989 Yorkshire cup final wearing those shirts and were very unlucky on the day.
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He autographed my programme for the 1961 GB v NZ test at Odsal. Unfortunately I've lost it
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what happened to the term 'rugger'? - always used in our family to describe the union code, 'soccer' for the round ballers and 'rugby' was ALWAYS the game played by Vinty Karalius, Wally Hurstfield, Frank Myler, Ray Owens and co!
You mean pukah ruggah played at Twickahs.
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In Barrovia its always the Soccer or the Rugby .
Does any other town / city that has both codes say those terms to describe the codes / teams ?
Before the advent of Leeds Union, "Leeds Rugby" always meant Leeds RLFC as distinct from LUFC, "Wigan Rugby" always meant Central Park too I believe.
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Sadly I think that all this would make the casual passer-by think is that Wakey, Salford etc have big time rugby union clubs.
The way things are is that in the North, the word "rugby" can be interpreted as referring to one of two games depending on who you are talking to and where you are. It might always mean "league" in Wigan but this certainly isn't true of the North in general; in many parts of the North it would generally mean "union".
In the rest of the UK, there just isn't any ambiguity (except possibly in Wrexham); if you talk about "rugby" then it almost always going to be understood as meaning "union".
Rugby means RL in Wakey - always has done, even when they had a pretty good Union side playing at College Grove. Underwood, Cusworth, Barley, Harrison all played for Wakefield Union at some time in the seventies and eighties. But Wakefield Trinity are a name in RL history and Rugby in Wakey will always mean Trinity. In Fev no explanation is necessary.
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Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with any RU or RL club calling themselves RFC.
That's all right then.
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If we were serious about trying to restake a claim to the word "rugby" then I'm not sure that either Fev or Rochdale are going to make much difference.
It's not the clubs - it's the presence of the roadsigns, which for obvious reasons tend to be in prominent positions at motorway junctions. The sign to Wakefield is at the end of the A650 dual carriageway link to the M1. The brown sign to Headingley on the M62 just says "Headingley Stadium" without mentioning the sports that are played there - given that it's a current international cricket stadium I suppose that's understandable.
Are St Helens still St Helens RFC btw? It certainly used to say that at Knowsley Road.
If all the new grounds come off that would be an opportunity too, for Wakey, Salford, and Saints. There is a Union side in Cas on Willowbridge Lane so that might be difficult.
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These signs don't magically appear once having been created by the anti RL stazi.
I never said they did. What I said (and say) is that if the opportunity presents itself the clubs should try and get them altered, where there is no ambiguity that is. For instance I don't think there's a Batley Union club so a sign to Mount Pleasant could say Batley Rugby Club - or Dewsbury Rugby Club. Clubs like Leeds, Saints, Wigan, Bradford have Union equivalents and I suppose the qualification of the word "League" is required.
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Got a bad feeling. I'm usually right too.