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Wolford6

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  1. To be fair, Sam's boondocks-league team did well.
  2. I only watched the last 10 minutes and the shoot-out. That was more than enough for me . Apart from the England goalkeeper, obviously.
  3. Confused Olga Klebb with Hans Krebs. Stupid, I never met Olga. Neither did anyone else; it was Rosa Klebb.
  4. England should win this. They've got Olga Klebb coaching them.
  5. Penalty shoot out. Both goalies are small and the first 2 kickers can't even hit the target.
  6. Watched the road race highlights last night (went to the Batley game in the afternoon). Mathieu van der Poel was awesome. The usual dickheads spoiled the race by glueing themselves to the road because of oil-company sponsorship being involved. No spectators relieved themselves into empty bottles for application to the protestors' clothes.
  7. I think Oliphant is the Blackpool prop.
  8. Grant Shapps is a cousin of Mick Jones of the Clash. Shapps' brother played in Big Audio Dynamite.
  9. Where I live in Bradford is about 200 metres from fields and trees. I've got 3 trees in my garden. I feed the birds but haven't seen a jay for at least 10 years. I went to Skipton yesterday and there was a pair scratting for food in Tesco's carpark.
  10. Today, Wilko stores has gone into administration. I drove past their main depot once and it was enormous. Best of hope for the employees.
  11. Here's hoping that Leeds win double blank this season
  12. What's happened to own-brand big jars of pickled cabbage and pickled beetroot. The supermarkets only have small jars at really high prices. I expect you can get imported stuff at Polish shops but their brands are always soggy and sweet. This is a national emergency and if Sunak doesn't do something about it, he'll lose seats all across the rustbelt.
  13. No, and that's why so many over-35 ex-RL players of any range of ability like it. You generally play with a decent bunch of lads on good pitches. Then you have a nice warm shower, go back to a nice clubhouse ... often with hand-pulled beer ... and get a meal. Then, even if you don't get picked again next week, you'll usually play because there are always people crying off in the 1st and 2nd teams. Your kids can play mini-rugby on a Sunday and there's always good conversation and fun amongst the parents group. If you're in the electrial, plumbing or building trade, there's always someone who needs something doing. John Bentley, Graham Steadman, Gary Mercer and Phil Vievers played post-RL for Cleckheaton ... albeit at first-team level. I don't think any of them complained about the place. I once lined up at hooker for the kick off against Huddersfield YMCA 4ths and was faced by the opposite front row ... including Ian van Bellen. He was an absolute gentleman and we all went to work on Monday.
  14. My feelings are that the Conferences should be below Superleague ... a merger of League 1 and the Championship. It would give youngsters more of a chance to develop at a reasonable pace.
  15. I think two conferences would work ... Yorkshire and Lancashire ... with the others suitably allocated. Top three in each Conference going into the playoffs. A midweek cup for each Conference and a weekend cup where Yorkshire Conference teams play Lancashire Conference teams. Add the Challenge Cup and each team would play at least 24 games per season.
  16. Adrian Street was a decent bloke. From the Western Mail: Settling on the Florida coast, Adrian and Linda created outfits for themselves as well as for a clientele as diverse as WWE legend Mick Foley, Elvis impersonators and Hollywood star Mickey Rourke in his 2008 comeback movie The Wrestler. Adrian retired from the sport completely in 2010, having just won the NWA Alabama heavyweight title at 70 years old. In total he performed for 50 years in more than 15,000 bouts.
  17. Clive Rowlands, 85. Hugely influential in Welsh Rugby Union. Not one of our great players but an outstanding captain and coach.
  18. I played lower-level rugby union for thirty years till 1998 and reffed a good few games when one didn't turn up. I didn't know all the rules and explained this in the oppostion dressing room before the game started. I invariably got the response that they didn't know all the rules either but we'd give it a go. These days, I'm assuming the game would probably be (rightly) called off over insurance issues and not having a certificated referee. Result; thirty players wouldn't get a game. It's a safe bet that not one of the thirty players would have had the faintest idea about signing deadlines. In that respect, I think it would be the same today in either code of rugby.
  19. I've always said I'd pay money to watch a Welsh team play tiddlywinks. Well, today I am watching Wales v Sri Lanka on Sky ... my first ever game of Netball, It's a strange game ... both sides have a giant woman up front to catch the final pass and plonk the ball in the basket. Neither team has a giant woman to play at the back to disturb the catch and plonk. Neither team sends it's giant woman back to block the other team's giant woman. Anyway, it's more boring than tiddlywinks.
  20. To me, the spirit of the Eagles died when Bernie Leadon left. Randy Meisner quit two years later. They stopped being a bandin 1980 and reformed in 1994. They spent the next twenty years as a corporation with two Managing Directors. Shame, as a Gram Parsons and the Burritos fan I really liked the Eagles when they first came out. They played Witchy Woman on the Whistle Test and I thought they were brilliant. I was really keen to see them when I was working in Oxford in 1972/1973 ... they played Oxford Poly. Unfortunately, a gang from the rugby team I played for preferred to go and see the Decameron ... an overdubbed Italian soft porn picture ... at the cinema. They later played Huddersfield Football Stadium in 1996 but, by then, I couldn't be bothered.
  21. Hull's halfbacks were below par; that was the difference on the night. I thought the referee did well.
  22. The Oval today is what can euphemistically be called a "results pitch". Neither Lords nor the Oval have produced good pitches in this series. Lords was something of a featherbed and the Oval has the ball seaming with varying bounce. If this Oval pitch had been at Headingley, the press would have been alive with criticism.
  23. As of 2023, there are 800+ cricket clubs in Yorkshire and 125,000 recreational players. (For a bit of context, there are 5,000 clubs in the whole of England and Wales) Someone on the telly last week said that there are over a thousand games every weekend
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