Adelaide Tiger

What are you babbling on about my dear chap. At my age it takes me 28 and a half minutes to get on the bar. Then add on 22 seconds to take my socks off. Then add on another 28 seconds to get over the cramp in my toes by rubbing them vociferously. Oh, and naturally there is the compulsory 20 seconds begging and promising I will take her out shopping the following day. Then Geronimo!!!

Hey Johnny if you think that’s a wild night this will blow your socks off!!!!! At the right time of the year after listening to Popmaster we would put on that weeks episodes of HIGNFY and Mock the Week. Pretty stirring stuff you must agree. But now Mock the Week is no more it means we might well be forced to have rumpty tumpty on the bar to while away those 30 minutes

Thank God he is taking popmaster with him. Every Saturday night when me and the missus have nothing on - and I don’t mean clothes …. Ooeeer missus - we open up a bottle of the old vino collapso and listen to the 5 popmasters of that week. Only question for us is whether we can still listen to popmaster when he moves to the new station?

Don’t know if 2blackrooks hit the wrong number button but many families from Scotland and the North East descended on Castleford in the 70’s and early 80’s because of employment in the local collieries. We had two ‘Geordie’ lads in our class and when they spoke to each other it was like listening to the old Smash potato ads on TV. In Knottingley - or Knottla to the locals - just outside Cas there was a working mens club called the SYD club. It stood for Scottish, Yorkshire and Durham miners. It had a reputation as a tough pub. Only went in there once. Halfway through the night someone lobbed a beer glass towards the dance floor. The glass hit the floor and smashed into pieces. All those dancing just ignored what had happened. Good job I wore my shin pads that night!

Just put SKY news on and that was the first story I saw. Absolutely gobsmacked. Just got my Spotify year in review and ‘A Message to you, Rudy’ was in my top 5 most listened to songs. We all get used to the passing of people that were adults when we were young but when it is people of similar age it is sobering. Thanks Terry for the memories.

Just witnessed the most amazing 20/20 game that I, and others, will never see again. Tonight Adelaide Strikers played Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash. On a good pitch Adelaide struggled to reach 139/9. Then the wife rang for me to pick her up. I left the TV on to keep the dog company. Got back 40 minutes later and adverts were on the TV followed by a filler program usually used when weather stops play. Being curious I went on the IPad to see if Sydney Thunder had started their innings. All it showed under their name was their score of 15 in 5.5 overs. Puzzled, I clicked on their scorecard and they were all out for 15!!!!!! Thankfully as we hadn’t changed channels I rewound the program and watched the carnage. Wes Agar, brother of Australian cricketer Ashton Agar took 4/6 but wasn’t even the man of the match. That went to the magnificently named Henry Thomas Raphael James York Thornton who took 5/3. He now has figures of 9/23 in two games. The two main strike bowlers of Peter Siddle and Rashid Khan didn’t even bowl a ball The wicket keeper Harry Neilson - no, not the singer - took 5 catches Amazingly enough not one batsman was out lbw The highest scorer for the Thunder was number 10 batsman Brendan Doggett who scored 4 via an inside edge. The only boundary of their innings. 5 Thunder batsmen recorded a duck including England WC hero Alex Hales. One happy chappie

Oooooohhh! It looks plumb to me …. Jack Leach to the tail ender …… Ball tracking coming on screen ….. It’s out!!!! Jack Leach gets another 1 in a nail biter but this time it is 1 wicket in this innings.

Thanks for advertising the book Rob. Just ordered it from Amazon Australia. Only had paperback version in stock but never mind.

Just got in from the game. Absolute made up with not just the result but how it was achieved. Towards the end I thought I was in a parallel universe as the Indian fans did an excellent rendition of the Wigan Walk.

Certainly was. But just booked two tickets for the semi final at Adelaide Oval for Thursday night. Should be a cracker.

Not a joke but I found this funny. Today was the Melbourne Cup horse race - the race that allegedly stops the nation- and after the race the presenter on ABC National Radio spoke to some bloke called Ian from the Northern Territory. Ian had just organised a saltwater crocodile race day for the same day. The crocs were about 1.6m long and ‘hired’ from a local farm. Ian said that they had held three races. The presenter asked Ian what were the names of the winning crocs. I can’t remember the names of the first two winners but Ian said that the winner of the third race was Croc Sucker! It must have gone over the presenters head as he just prattled on.

A bit off the beaten track. A couple of months ago on Spotify I found a ‘directory’ titled ‘1980’s - Every Song In The UK Top 40 (1 Jan 1980 - 31 Dec 1989). The songs are in date order of release so I decided to listen to all of them in turn. I only listen to them when in the car. My method is; as soon as I know both the artist and song title I skip to the next song. Any song that I know either the artist or the song, or a song that I cannot ever remember hearing I will listen to up to a minute whilst racking my brains for the answer. Anyway the reason for posting this is that I am currently in 1985 and today I listened to Sting and his song ‘Russians’. The words are so relevant today as they were then.

A woman is walking hand in hand with her three year old daughter. Her daughter looks up to her mother and says ‘Mummy, mummy, why are your hands so soft’. The woman replied ‘It’s because I am only thirteen’.

It’s Friday night, the wife and eldest daughter are in the UK for a few weeks visiting family, the other daughter is stopping at the boyfriends house tonight and I am sat watching episodes of Randall and Hopkirk Deceased. Loved the show as a kid but I can’t believe that I could not remember Annette Andre as Marty’s wife Jean. She was an absolute stunner.

Nowhere near the first class record of New Zealander Glenn Turner, when playing for Worcestershire against Glamorgan in 1977 carried his bat by hitting 141 out of 169! A total of 83.43% of the total. After his innings he was interviewed and said ‘I told them - his teammates- that there was nothing wrong with the pitch, but they didn’t seem to believe me!’

Just enjoyed watching Zimbabwe obliterate the Aussies in the 3rd one day international. Ryan (the Earl of Twirl) Burl took an astounding 5 wickets for 10 runs in just 3 overs as the Aussies were skittles for 141 in just 31 overs with Warner hitting 94. The Zimbabweans tried their best to throw the match away but won by 3 wickets.

I was flicking through the films on Netflix yesterday and came across Blood Red Sky. The blurb said nowt about the film except it proclaimed that 50 million had watched it in the first week of release so I thought I’ll give it a go. First few minutes pointed to an interesting film ……………………….. all I will say is it is not Shakespeare esque …………………. but I watched it all

After watching Brentford put four by ManUre the owners of Brighton have sacked their manager Graham Potter. A statement from Brighton said ‘Seeing we only beat Manchester United 2-1 we fear that we might be battling against relegation. So we chose to sack Potter to give a new manager as much time as possible to save our season’.

Recently I read Harry’s Game by Gerald Seymour and today I found the 3 episodes of the adaptation for TV that I first saw back in 1982. Again I enjoyed watching it and amongst some of the cast that became better known in later years was a young Linda Robson whom was cast as a young Irish girl who came to a grisly end.

Shortly after the Bradford City disaster there was a rematch of the 1966 World Cup Final at Elland Road to raise funds for affected families. Uwe Seeler played centre forward and in the first half scored two belters, one a 20 yarder followed later by a bicycle kick. Us Leeds fans were so desperate in those years that after his second goal we all started chanting ‘Sign him up, sign him up’. EDIT - just found a ten minute clip that shows the first half highlights which is light years ahead of the first half dross I have just watched of Leeds v Palace in Perth.

Cheers Johnny for the info. Never really been into music apart from what I hear on the radio or TOTP so I had never heard of Gene Chandler So after listening to his version I would like to doth my Top Hat in appreciation of his great voice. The video after that showed him performing the song live at San Bernardino in 2018 when he was in his 80’s. A performance that brought a big smile to my face and reyt made my day. Thanks for the Den Haggerty clip it could only have been bettered if Sally James was in shot wearing ….. ahem, ahem never mind! IIRC I once read that he had been taken into hospital -and I don’t mean the local Infirmary- because he tried to recreate Bobby Charlton’s first goal in the 1968 European Cup Final by running then leaping up to head-butt a light shade hanging from a ceiling …… unfortunately the light shade was of glass!!!!

Great blast from the past. My favourite of theirs was Duke of Earl.

Just having a night in with the daughters and their better half’s. We had home made pizzas, a few beers and a couple of bottles of the old vino collapso and we introduced them to the classic that is Weekend at Bernies. How Terry Kiser (Bernie) did not beat Daniel Day-Lewis to win the Oscar for that years film is a travesty!

Just switched on the sports news this morning and the breaking news is that former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds has been killed in a car accident in Townsville. Bit of a shocker that.

Currently half way through Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov that are a collection of short stories about life in the Russian Gulags. On the bookshelf is Rob Burrows book but I still haven’t got the guts to read it so next it will be All The President’s Men.