Adelaide Tiger

The first item that came up on my Facebook earlier today. It was a big shock. Best wishes to Tom and his family in his battle against the disease.

Ooops, just seen your comment. From memory the final started at around 6.40am. At the moment Adelaide is ten and a half hours ahead of the UK.

Don’t think I have ever seen someone go from being unable to hit a cows ###### with a banjo to rattling off 3 legs like that. I might be a bit late setting off for work this morning.

Not got the foggiest about the content in the first 4 pages …. so I thought I would tell you about my first Math class in High School in 1976. Each High School class consisted of lads and lasses from three local Junior schools. One Junior school was regarded as far better than the other two, including the one that I attended. So in trying to work out what Math level the class was at she wrote on the board and asked ‘what is a+b’. One third of the class raised their hand. The rest of us had no idea what was going on. My mate sat at my side whispered in a panicky voice ‘######, we are in the wrong class, we are supposed to doing maths now’. P.S. This was also the same mate, who - in a Geography class - watched the Teacher draw the east and west coast of north England on the blackboard and ask the class ‘If this area is Yorkshire, what is the area to the west called’. No one answered. The Teacher then said ‘They are our biggest rivals at cricket’. My mate shouted out ‘The West Indies!’. Mind you the Windies had just thrashed England 5-0. Happy New Year to all.

For me, a player few on here will have ever heard of, or even remember. Terry Richardson the Castleford winger in the 1970’s.

Every Christmas Eve - thanks to YouTube - I watch the Michael Miles animated short The Happy Prince. I must have first seen it as an 11 year old at Christmas 1974 the year it was made. A wonderful adaptation of the Oscar Wilde story. I still feel the same devastation as I did as a kid when the Swallow dies.

……. ‘We’re doomed’ unless we can find a Mainwaring, Jones and Walker so that all 6 games will be covered! P.S. Yes, I do realise that the surnames were actually Pike and Frazer!

Don’t know what the figure is for Cas but on the recent podcast the club said that they had sold 8% more season tickets than they had by the same date last year.

But the irony of the article is where it states ‘and they (NRL) score tries, not touchdowns - although tries ironically involve a player touching the ball down beyond the opposing teams tryline’. The writer is obviously oblivious to the fact ‘and in the NFL they score touchdowns - although touchdowns ironically involve a player never touching the ball down beyond the opposing teams tryline’. But I can forgive that as it is a good article overall.

I assume that you are just having a laugh with that response ……. if not you must be in Junior School.

The article states that the investment will be spread on ‘little wins’ relating to improvements on ground facilities over the next year or two. So, I wonder if this means that club will not be using the £2m Rugby League Resilience Fund from the Council for short term improvements and put the £2m into the pot with the hoped money from Axiom? But, overall it seems a good outcome for the club.

Listening to, I assume the ABC National radio station this morning, the person doing the sports news had a fair crack at the surname then moments later called him something like ‘Marky Mark’.

Last Thursday, as my car was in for a service, I spent the morning watching the Russian anti-war film Come and See. The young lad playing the central role of Flyora was outstanding. A film both distressing and disturbing in equal measure but riveting. After lunch I watched the Wham! documentary which I also enjoyed.

………….. yet there has been 144 pages of comments from people who are not at the ‘sharp end’!

That brought a smile to my face. Great PR for the game as the Wiggles are absolutely massive over here. Good to see Captain Feathersword involved as well. Bah, can’t find an emoji to show the Wiggles Finger Guns!!

Thanks for the translation. I did German at school so reading the last three words of the French text I thought he had replaced Boy George in Culture Club!

Spot on. It’s hilarious, that we seem to be in an era where Australia and New Zealand would rather play in a SH based tournament rather than play a lesser nation such as England and some on here are up in arms about it. Then some of those posters on here are steadfastly against a NH tournament because England are far better than anyone else or moan that France will easily beat Kenya. In my many, many years watching many sports I have yet to see a sport that is so unsure of itself; so insecure; so sensitive to possible criticism from non-RL people if a blow out score appears.

Am I one of the few remaining people on the planet - apart from my dog Alan, I think - that have never personally bought anything on line. Therefore I do not have a Paypal account either. Hooray!!!! I have never paid a bill online and can’t be bothered to learn how to do it - my wife works in finance so she sorts all this out. In addition I have no idea of the password my wife uses to sort out our bank accounts. Doesn’t interest me at all. All I need is my EFTPOS and Visa card and some cash - which came in very handy a couple of weeks ago when Optus crashed for 9 hours and those poor card dependent bu$$ers couldn’t pay for their mocha-mocha-wocka-chocka lattes. Oh, I was distraught for them! P.S. On the very, very odd occasion I cannot find what I want locally I do get one of my daughters to buy it online. The last item my daughter got me online was a Flamengo football top a couple of years ago, as I wore this to a 50th birthday party for my mates wife who is an ardent Fluminese supporter - yes, she is Brazilian. P.P.S As long as I die before my wife does - and she says that is eminently possible - then life is a doddle

I suggest that the IRL adopt the rules that we had in the squash league consisting of male and female players where I worked. So, if like Serbia in the IRL rankings, you were in 10th place in the squash league, you could only play someone who was a maximum of three places higher than you in the league. You would issue a challenge, then the game HAD to take place within one week on a lunchtime. If the game did not take place, the person that was unable to play - without a reasonable excuse - was automatically demoted to the bottom spot. If you won you swapped places. That would liven up the international game! The shenanigans that went on were funny. Some players would find out if an opponent had a diary full of 11am meetings, then challenge them to a lunchtime game, hoping that the opponents meeting ran over time so the game would be forfeit. Also there was a few attractive female players in the league. So you would organise a game against them, deliberately lose, so that you could play against them a few weeks later

In the 80’s one of my mates dad had a large static caravan at Primrose Valley. Six of us went there for a weekend. On the Saturday night we walked along the beach to Filey just in time for the pubs to open. The first pub we came across had a sign out front ‘Eurovision Song Contest on the Colour TV’. So we walked on. Another pub had a sign out front saying ‘Stella and Dennis 8.30pm’. So we opted for Stella and Dennis hoping it might be a raunchy act or something like that. Come 8.30, and after a few pints, in walked this couple of sixty year olds. The bloke sat at the piano - Dennis - and Stella belted out songs that were older than Vera Lynn. And then we understood why we were the only people in the pub.

Ok, 115 alleged financial discretions …… you never know they all might be false accusations ….. but I seriously doubt it.

Everton get docked 10 points for breaching the EPL’s profit and sustainability rules during the 2021/22 season. Apparently, the ruling Commission declined to follow the Leagues proposal of starting at a 6 point deduction and adding one point for every £5m over the loss limit. Meaning Everton could have been docked 60 points. Manchester City are now terrified that the Commission may indeed chose to follow the Leagues proposal when addressing their 115 financial discretions and they may end up playing in Moss Side Saturday League. Imagine Haaland getting changed in the back of a pub.

The original with Henry Fonda. I didn’t even realise that there had been a remake until you commented

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