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Well, the rumours doing the rounds are that a number of Championship clubs (and Sheffield aren't in this group) have taken the "sh** or bust" option with regards to assembling squads next year, in order to guarantee being in place for promotion/in the SL split mix-up. How true that is I don't know. Traditionally Sheffield have been able to punch above their weight because the corporate side of things is usually quite good, plus Mark Aston is from the Gary Hetherington school of management and therefore good at wheeling and dealing, getting stuff for nothing/cheap etc.
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Yere sets new Eagles record
West Country Eagle replied to League Express's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
45 tries for the season for Menzie (I think) - top try-scorer in all levels of pro/semi-pro RL, I think. Only Charnley is close. -
The council aren't the people behind the prospective new ground at Don Valley. They are supportive of the idea, but it's not their money that will be building it, if it happens - it would have to come from other sources. Hence all the other proposed things around it/on the same site - e.g schools, college, more sports science related stuff to tie in with the English Institute of Sport site there. Owlerton isn't a great ground, but if it's a choice between that and playing somewhere miles away, it will do for the time being. It's not a long term solution, but nobody at the Eagles thinks it is (as far as I can tell). We'll see what comes of the meeting with the owners and the council on Friday.
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That's pretty much it as far as I can see. Many in the council are supportive as far as I can tell, it's just that the Eagles need them to actually do something rather than just say they will "try". Full page in the Sheffield Star today. Local papers love a good campaign and this one ticks all the boxes (opportunity for them to get comments in from readers, doesn't cost the paper anything, a convenient stick to beat the local council with). They'll stay in Sheffield. One way or another they'll sort something out, probably at Owlerton. Not ideal but it's a start.
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The original plan for next year was to play some games (I.E the matches against Fev, Fax, Leigh etc) at Brammall Lane, and the rest at Bawtry Road (new Sheffield Hallam sports facility). For some reason the University changed their mind and that's what's caused the current situation. It's not great, to be honest, but the club needs to make the best out of a bad situation. Knowing Mark Aston, Ian Swire and the rest of the directors, they'll be working 24/7 on this to sort out a solution that helps them stay in Sheffield.
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Why would they have to drop into Championship 1? The capacity at Owlerton is around 4,000. The Eagles already own a temporary stand (was secured for use with the proposed move to Bawtry Road), which would be put under the "Panorama Room" to make a main stand. Owlerton has some issues - as STix Rooster says, the terracing on the far side needs sorting, the pitch, changing rooms etc - but these are things that could be sorted without hundreds of thousands of pounds of investment. The players form has nothing to do with uncertainty over the ground - they're just knackered. They've played a lot of games and the Eagles squad is quite small. It was always going to be a big ask to expect them to maintain the level we saw earlier in the season. This statement from the Eagles is obviously designed to put pressure on the council to help out by finding a small amount of money to help with renovations to Owlerton. The council have already stated that they will "do all they can to keep the Eagles in Sheffield". Now they've been given a chance to follow through on their promise.
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I went to their shop in Elgin a few years back - astonishing range of little-known single malts, including ludicrously expensive bottles (£1,000-plus!) and bottles filled from casks bought off long-closed distilleries. For whisky enthusiasts it's a bit of a thrill. At the time I couldn't afford to splash out too much, but picked up a couple of reasonably priced bottles from obscure distilleries. There's also an excellent whisky shop in Bakewell, of all places. They often have good offers on little-known brands. I think the place is called the Wee Dram. *Edit: Yep, I'm right: The Wee Dram, Bakewell: http://www.weedram.co.uk *
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The TV Thread
West Country Eagle replied to Bedford Roughyed's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Good, positive coverage of RL, too, with an (unbiased) explanation of how the game came about, plus Big Eorl explaining some of the history, and Nick Crane getting smashed (in slow motion) by Giants players. The 'facts' Crane used about the game - numbers of supporters worldwide, number of players, how big it is in Australia etc - were all positive. Shows what you get if someone with no axe to grind features the sport. The whole porgramme made me quite sympathetic towards Huddersfield, which I never thought would be possible! -
Fantastic result for Wigan yesterday, but they've got it all to do to save themselves from relegation now, given that almost all the teams around them got decent results this weekend (aside from Villa, of course). Lets see what their crowds are like in the Championship next season…
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The TV Thread
West Country Eagle replied to Bedford Roughyed's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Yes, but they were comedy geniuses, whereas Michael McIntyre is a ######. -
The TV Thread
West Country Eagle replied to Bedford Roughyed's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Excellent. I think I could whip up a pretty handy and sizeable mob - I don't know a single person who finds him remotely funny. Most other stand up comedians don't, though I suspect some will be envious of his enormous success. He is coining it in - not as much as Peter Kay (someone who needs to change his material IMHO), but almost as much. There was a series on BB2 about the business of comedy just after Christmas. Some of the sums being discussed were astronomical. The amount McIntyre could make from a week at the O2 is staggering. -
The TV Thread
West Country Eagle replied to Bedford Roughyed's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Yes, sorry. If I had three choices for 'Room 101' it would be Inverdale, Inverdale and Inverdale. And possibly Michael McIntyre. What do people see in him? STOP LAUGHING AT YOUR OWN JOKES! -
The TV Thread
West Country Eagle replied to Bedford Roughyed's topic in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
Steady on. It might be all those things (it's certainly a waste of airtime), but surely the Six Nations coverage and the fawning smugness of Inverdale is worse? -
John, I'd argue that the best bits on 'Elysium' sound like 'Behaviour', which is, in my opinion, the strongest PSB studio album (though 'Actually' runs it close). Having said that, some of the other bits on there are pretty dreadful. A mixed bag, but not their worst album. Having a Kraftwerk day today - lots of their albums back to back. Now on to "Computer World". "When I press a special key, it plays a little melody" etc etc
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Recently wrote a book for schools (11-14 year-olds) about the history of hip-hop, so that inspired me to revisit "De La Soul is Dead", Public Enemy's "Yo Bumrush The Show" and A Tribe Called Quest's "People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm". The last couple of days I've also been checking the forthcoming Land of Light album on ESP Institute - beautiful layered sounds, hard to pin down what exact sound they're pushing 'cos there's all sorts going on, but it's lush, sort of like a modern, next level Eno or something - and the new LIndstrom LP, whose crazy Norwegian name escapes me. Also, quite a few mixes - one from my friend Legendary Tone, which is superb, and another from Psychemagik, which is brilliant and full of odd, stupidly expensive records.