JonM
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41 minutes ago, Toby Chopra said:
Or was this the same level as at this time in 2013?
They were a touch short of 100K in mid-April, and none of the games had sold out at that point. There was a tv advert in October during the England v Poland football international to promote the double-header later that month, which suggests that a pretty significant chunk of sales happened during the tournament itself.
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27 minutes ago, welshmagpie said:
That’s not the venue mentioned in the article.
It's where the squads are staying. They're all at the resort hotel, and going to the ground belonging to the rugby club in Udine to play the games. The beach resort doesn't have a built in rugby ground.
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3 hours ago, RP London said:
Really? They asked one of the man City women's players about playing at the academy ground or double headers at the eitihad and she said stand alone.
That's a rather different scenario to playing at Wembley though.
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Draw and fixtures released:
https://europeanrugbyleague.com/articles/2175/european-u19s-championship-format-confir
Interesting format with Scotland's withdrawal - a round-robin 6 x 20-minute games for each team over the course of a single day to make up the first round.
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They have had 600-800 for regular fixtures. 1188 when they played Fev. 1835 for the Monday night game against Widnes. They'll have probably 6 clubs below them in the average attendance tables.
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20 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
Nah. The girls love being curtain raisers for the men, don't you, love.
I suspect that, if offered a choice between playing at a mostly empty Wembley, or a less empty ground in the north, the elite women players would choose Wembley. Am I right in thinking this would be the first women's game there?
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Didn't we have this conversation last year when the awesome beach event was on in Turkey too? There was a poster involved with X-League who posted about a Bridlington beach competition.
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13 minutes ago, JohnM said:
friends of hers had concluded she was not safe to drive some years earlier, but not done anything about it.
That's a very important point and one we should all bear in mind, first and foremost when it comes to close relatives.
Not necessarily very easy to persuade people that they're no longer fit to drive, of course.
I may have told this story on here before. Friend of mine had a severe mental health episode. Eventually got him to go the GP. I mentioned to the GP after he'd left that I was worried about his (very much out of character) reckless driving and what could she do. She suggested that pragmatically, hiding his keys was probably a lot safer for everyone than her getting his licence suspended.
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47 minutes ago, JohnM said:
The General Medical Council (GMC) has just announced beefed-up guidance for GPs about informing the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA) if their patients shouldn’t be on the roads. There are 37 million drivers in the UK, and nearly 160,000 notifications to the DVLA last year of drivers being unfit to drive – but the GMC believes doctors should be doing more.
There's a sad news story I've been following. There was an accident last year near Cambridge. A woman in her 70s turned into the path of an oncoming van, forcing it onto the pavement, resulting in the death of a child. The driver of the car is facing charges of causing death by dangerous driving. The facts of what happened are not disputed, but her lawyers are pleading not guilty on the grounds of insanity. Their case is based on the woman's dementia, undiagnosed before the accident. What makes it worse in this particular case is that friends of hers had concluded she was not safe to drive some years earlier, but not done anything about it.
If this defence succeeds, it's quite likely that there will be some new legal requirement that people are regularly checked for dementia. Not obvious to me how that is going to work, given the GP service is unable to cope with the existing workload in much of the country.
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9 hours ago, RSN said:
I've never seen Tee wound up, he's very chilled out. Are you confusing him with Hakim?
LOL.
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18 minutes ago, Cheadle Leyther said:
Ritson must be able to get a chance in Superleague next season with that pace he has.
Yes, I am quite surprised he hasn't already been picked up by a SL club. He does have that slight question mark over discipline winding up/ getting wound up by the opposition. But definitely expect to see him in SL soon.
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Widnes 16 Featherstone R 20 FT. Great game, Junior Moors and Davies particularly caught the eye for Rovers, some great defence from Widnes though - I'm sure John Kear will be very happy with the team's performance.
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Widnes have a try disallowed for offside, with a couple of minutes to play.
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Widnes 16 Featherstone 20 with about 7 minutes to play.
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Game on at Widnes. Interception try for Jake Spedding to go the length of the pitch puts Widnes in the lead, completely against the run of play with Rovers having been camped out on the Widnes line for pretty much the whole second half.
Widnes 16 Featherstone 14 after 68 minutes.
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Fev very much on top in the second half, the ball has barely left the Widnes half.
Widnes 12 Fev 14 after 60 minutes.
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1 minute ago, Fevrover said:
Fev missing quite a few players as well.
Yes. Widnes seem to have 'rested' a couple though.
12-6 HT. Fev do look the more dangerous team though.
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Widnes 12 Featherstone 6 after 33 minutes. Slightly against the run of play, as Fev have dominated for a while but not been able to score. Their try came from a blatantly forward pass though. Widnes missing quite a few players, some of whom I suspect would've played if there was anything at stake.
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32 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
The last native speaker - Dolly Pentraeth - died in 1777. The language was dead as a community language decades before. All attempts to find a speaking community of Cornish people in the eighteenth century failed.
She was the last monoglot speaker, by no means the last native fluent speaker.
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15 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
I could do but then I'm not differentiating between Cornish (recreated from fragments but based on external sources for completeness) and Palawi Kani (recreated from fragments but based on external sources for completeness). They both have their reasons for existing.
There is several orders of magnitude difference in terms of what was preserved though. The various reconstructed versions of Cornish are mutually intelligible without any difficulty and would've been so to the last speakers of it. The differences are mostly in spelling, as there was never a standard orthography for the language. The last native speakers were in the 1890s and linguists at the time spent a lot of time quizzing them and writing things down. It's absolutely not recreated from fragments.
That's a world apart from the Tasmanian languages, where there are some lists of words - and no way to even tell if all the words in some of the lists even belong to the same language as other words in the same list. It's like attempting to recreate 'west european' if all we had was a few dozen words that the Romans had half-heartedly noted down of the various celtic, basque, germanic, etruscan and greek languages they encountered before killing all of the speakers.
As copa said, it's an attempt by indigeneous people to salvage something from the ashes, which I applaud, but it is essentially an invented language.
Of course, Hebrew is an interesting parallel here - the only example of a dead language being revived as a spoken language (after ~2000 years). It would be a rather different language today if it had been revived by North African Arabic speaking Jews, rather than European Yiddish speaking Jews.
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6 minutes ago, Futtocks said:
A bit like Cornish, then.
Except Cornish had hundreds of years of written documents, 19th century linguists who'd got lots of grammar and vocabulary from the remaining native speakers, plus two closely related living languages to compare with. Whereas palawa kani is pretty much made up from a few lists of words, with no grammar at all. It isn't even possible to be sure how many different languages there were.
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I'm at the game in York, glad I brought a deckchair. The ground is rammed. Pretty enjoyable so far, particularly as a Lancashire supporter, although the Yorkshire #9, #10 and #11 batsmen did a great job of recovery. Given the size of the outfield, it seems like 100+ short of a competitive total though, so Yorkshire will need to take some wickets.
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Southend United have a new sponsor for their West Stand, a local estate agency called Gilbert & Rose. Not sure that the Gilbert & Rose West Stand is quite the image they intended though.
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Athletics Weekly has a picture of Keely Hodgkinson (world 800m silver medallist) and Ella Toone, on the track at Leigh Sports Village, as kids having taken part in a school sports day there. Shows what a difference having facilities like LSV can make.
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Sat 13 Aug: SL: Salford Red Devils v Huddersfield Giants KO 13:00 (Channel 4)
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Impressive number of Huddersfield fans.