Trojan
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Been in north Wales all week, not a cloud in the sky for 7 days....
We were all in shorts and t-shirt playing cricket on the beaches of the Llyn Peninsula, yet you could still see plenty of snow on the Snowdonia peaks from there.
Fantastic week.
I remember flying into Venice in July 1988. We were over the Alps and the snow in the valleys looked really deep. Ten minutes later we were on the ground and the heat and humidity was just like a wall. 90 degrees F.
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Shame about Cas!! lol
Comeon Rovers!!! Lets do it for West Yorkshire 
Creditable perfomance by Fev at Wire today.(according to Jack Dearden on Radio Manchester) Wish I'd gone now
Cas fans are already talking about Powell for them on the main forum. :glare:
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I think we'll be ok now.
I snowed heavily in Leeds on 23rd April, 1981. Cast not a clout....
It certainly snowed briefly in Buxton in June 1993 - I was there.
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Poor game for the neutral but decent game for the rovers!
BRING ON THE WIRE !!!!!
Can't see the point myself. Turn up, go through the motions, take the money and concentrate on the League. If we put up a decent performance and look like giving them trouble the ref will make a decsion like the one Thaler made against Catalan. IMO it's pointless the players risking a season ending injury in these games when we know from the start what will happen if we look like winning.
I recall the cup game against Leeds in the late nineties. The only time I've ever seen a player sin-binned for "persistent offside" They were always going to win but were a bit rusty not having played a real competitive game and Rovers (well into their season) were giving them a bit of a run-around. Until the sin-binning that is. After that it was no contest and no longer a competitive game.
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Iko Iko -Dixie Cups
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Cindy Incidentally - Faces - classic seventies rock - great guitar riff too - Ronnie Wood presumably.
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Tough one to call. Fev are the form team. 'Fax seem to be struggling but they have the talent. Whatever the outcome should be a great atmosphere under the lights. Recalling the great Regal Trophy encounter of 1991 where Fev with 11 men beat 'Fax who for quite a lot of the second half (due to Brendan Hill being in the bin) were down to 12. I recall Pearson outpacing Preston (no slouch) to score under the sticks at P O Road end. I used to have a video but lost it,. If it's as good a game it'll be great. If the result's the same even better. I'm a bit of a closet 'Fax fan (after Fev)
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Last season 'Haven had us beaten after twenty minutes. What a difference a year makes.
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I didn't think he did badly. When you've won 54-18 you can't really complain about the ref. I don't know how many penalties he awarded, but there weren't many.
I used to have a customer called Leatherbarrow in Kirkby (Liverpool) It is an unusual name.
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What'd I Say - Jerry Lee - greatest white blues man no error.
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Hunslet 16 - 26 Featherstone
I think the attendance will be pushing 700 tonight dependent on how many you bring?
Parkside - wow!
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We were stood right at the point where Ross put the ball down, unlike the Catalan game 2 years ago, the ball this time was grounded 6 inches short, definately no try.
Well I had a side on view from the railway end terrace and he appeared very briefly to ground the ball on the line. However, I'll not argue about it - but I was not alone in this opinion.
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Well, who expected that?!
Not me. I thought it would be tight. As it was second half. But then with all the penalties Batley were awarded how could it be any other? Plus Divorty's disallowed try. Hicks said knock-on - no way it was right in front of me and he put the ball firmly on the line. Not to worry good result for Fev.
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Robert Hicks is from Oldham. He was featured in GameOn the other week. It says it in there
If it's the same Hicks who sent Handforth off at the end of the 2008 season then he's from Lancashire. I thoroughly detest him. I'm not justifying Handforth's behaviour but it was mainly provoked by the referee's "puzzling" decsions including allowing a Leigh try when the player was clearly (to everyone else anyway) in touch.
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Quail is farmed (more fat), and can be roasted pretty vigorously. I tend to just season them well with salt and pepper, stuff a couple of cherry peppers inside, then sear them in a pan before roasting.
I've had quail - off a van at a market in Italy - very tasty.
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More of the stuff.
I am currently drafting a letter to God pointing out that we're in the Home Counties here and the only proper snow we're meant to see is on Christmas cards and skiing holidays.
I started work for a company at Cherstey in Surrey, based right next to the River Thames. It was March 2nd 1970. I travelled down on the train to Kings Cross and then Waterloo to Weybridge. There was snow everywhere. When I arrived the flood plain of the Thames at Chertsey was frozen. I was reliably informed that this was somewhat unusual in the Thames Valley.
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Yorkshire's first 2010 fixture is 6 weeks on Friday.
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Haha i'm doing similar but just with Fish and Meat.
Had Plaice for the first time and have had it again recently. I know it's not that wild but like I say I haven't had it. Good luck with tripe!!
I know that IKEA have Moose lasagne and Reindeer salami. On my list I have Goose and Pheasant and both are easily accessible. I saw quail in a local supermarket too. Try a fresh meat market and ponder at the "back row" of the butcher's stall as the so called less popular/known meats are there.
We nearly had goose at Christmas. But it was sooo expensive compared to an Asda turkey. I'd bought all the tackle for having goose, including a fat separator too. However, a day or so after we'd bought the turkey we saw frozen geese in Lidl at about half the price of the Asda turkey
I'm still not sure I'd have had the confidence to cook it though.I've had pheasant. It's a few years ago. I used to work with a guy who shot (and smoked) so I swapped him 200 Regal Kings bought in Spain for a brace of pheasant. Can't say I was impressed. It seemed dry and tasteless.
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I once ate steak tartare. We were on a long weekend trip to Paris. We'd been to Versailles Palace and went into the town for lunch. Sat outside the restaurant, the menu of the day was a choice of steak tartare or stewed tongue. Helen opted for steak tartare - she's not fond of tongue (yes Mick) She thought steak tartare was steak with a tartare sauce. The other thing to remember about Helen is that she absolutely hates eggs served in any way except baked in cakes or Yorkshire puds. Imagine her face when a pile of raw minced steak with a raw egg on it appeared in front of her. She ate the tongue - I ate the steak - with tabasco. It was ok. I'd have it again.
Another French egg dish best avoided IMO is oef's flotant. Which is an egg custard with poached egg whites floating in it. A bit slimey TBH.
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Emu.
Snails.
I wonder if emu tastes like ostrich? There used to be an ostrich farm on Toftshaw Lane, Bradford, but I wouldn't know if it's till there.
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Oh, and it doesn't matter if it's not the most delightful thing ever, just something I haven't tried, like tripe.
Tripe is very nutritious. If you have honeycomb tripe cold and put pepper and vinegar on it, it taste of pepper and vinegar.
I've eaten frogs legs deep fried in batter in the Turin area of Italy. They have the texture of chicken but taste a bit fishy.
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Very disappointed with the result yesterday. Ronnie wasn't to blame for us failing to win, it was the decision making on the field by our own team. Twice in the first half we had an overlap (or two) on the left side with the try line beckoning and the pass wasn't made. In the second half when we had the 6 point lead we had a couple of kickable penalties which we didn't take and should have gone for the drop goal earlier just in case we missed the first attempt.
When I got in the car I listened to a bit of the Chelsea-Arsenal game and thought we were pretty much like Arsenal yesterday. Looked good but lacked that killer finish. I know there's plenty of time but if we are to do well this season we should be finishing teams off.
Credit to Sheffield they stuck in there and never gave up.
I couldn't go because we had visitors
But at least it sound better than the first home performance v Dewsbury last season - when we were dreadful. (they were good mind) -
According to Paul Hudson it'll be back next week with a vengence
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The weather forecast for Leeds for midday is +2 degrees - + 3 by 3 o' clock, so if it gets a bit of sun on it through the morning I reckon it should be on.
"Rugby"
in The General Rugby League Forum
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There are always a lot of contentious posts on here and in the "other place" about the term "Rugby." I went to watch Fev on Thursday and as you come off the M62 at Jct 31 and go under the motorway there's a signpost to "Featherstone Rovers RLFC." I went to my daughter's in Salisbury on Friday evening and as you drive down the A34 past Oxford there's a signpost to "Oxford Rugby Club."
It occurred to me that in cases like Fev, or Hull KR or Rochdale Hornets, or Wakfield or anywhere else for that matter where there's absolutely no ambiguity what it means, why these signs couldn't read e.g Featherstone Rovers RFC or Rugby Club. Wouldn't this be a step in the direction of our game preventing the other lot from claiming total possession of the term "Rugby" as they seem to be trying to? And in the case of the "Rugby World Cup" already have done?