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Post by merse on May 16, 2010 7:45:26 GMT
 I've stopped bothering with following any England team at either cricket or rugby as I can't stand constantly losing out to Aussies and South Africans of far harder mentality and superior will to win................... Who the feck wants to spend an afternoon surrounded by hee hawing Nigels and Tarquins, a bunch of twarts dressed up as Super Gran, or middle class bullies who delight in a rampaging attack that leaves someone with a smashed nose and losing blood like it's going out of fashion? Well you will stay cheesed off because that's how it it as the price of admission to these games has been pushed right through the roof, way past the ability of the ordinary down to earth supporter. It's the same at Wembley for any football match and what happens is that you get the idiot factor who wander in late and spend five minutes in a gangway blocking everyone's view trying to locate the seat and the row any person of minimal intelligence could find with their eyes shut ~we had to suffer these twats when we went to Wembley last season ~ ten minutes later they're off to the loo, before half time they go to buy twenty five quid's worth of junk food and then we have the whole performance again as everyone has to put up with them standing in that ruddy aisle once more looking like Simple Simon on a day trip to Normal Land whilst everyone's trying in vain to watch the game these loopies have no interest in. Heaven help you if your losing because ten minutes from the end they're pushing past you to "beat the rush"  I'm afraid "those who play the game" wouldn't fill up enough seats to warrant playing major cricket or rugby at all..................that's just how it is. |
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Post by kipper on May 16, 2010 9:05:44 GMT
I did a Mike alright, Brearley though. Fielded like a showroom dummy, dropped a catch, and got out in the third over with my team trying to chase down 250.
Always next week and maybe tomorrow Aussie
Or Merse. GIVE UP
Plymstock 252-5 (D Moffatt 60, J Williams 36, J Brailey 32, J Collins 36no; A Richards 2-82, P Hooper 2-29) South Devon 169 (N Matthews 46, D Ball 34; m Thomas 5-45). Plymstock (20pts) bt South Devon (5) by 83 runs
but see Dickie did well:
Torquay 97 (D Lear 47; P Douglas 5-36, Berry 2-25, Hammond 2-16), Kingskerswell 100-3 (Hancox 40no, K Gormley 22). Kingskerswell (19pts) bt Torquay (1) by 7 wkts.
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Post by aussie on May 16, 2010 9:12:57 GMT
40 not out is a respectable knock in anyones book, is it the one and only Dickie Handjob though? If it is then fair play to him!
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Post by chelstongull on May 16, 2010 19:00:44 GMT
I see we beat the convicts by 7 (SEVEN) wickets!
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Post by capitalgull on May 16, 2010 19:17:31 GMT
You must remind us of what you said Merse!!
Ashes, World Twenty20, whatever next?
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Post by merse on May 16, 2010 21:45:28 GMT
 Beware the Ides of Merse..........................I may yet be proved right ;D I only said "may"  Well done England!
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Post by aussie on May 17, 2010 5:57:59 GMT
Yep I`ll agree on that, well done England!
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Post by keyberrygull on May 18, 2010 13:20:00 GMT
Merse I'm also talking on behalf of the young and old sportsmen who play these games at grass roots level not sporting clingons like you who associate yourself with games that you do not take part in but purely spectate. In my cricket match on Saturday two young lads shared a 10th wicket partnership that lasted for well over an hour and nearly saved the game for the team. It was a superb effort that eventually came to an end in the fiftieth and final over of the innings. Neither educated at Eton or Harrow but working class football supporters both educated at Coombeshead college. The twats you refer to exist in most sports and they tend to be about your age  |
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Post by merse on May 18, 2010 13:49:24 GMT
Merse I'm also talking on behalf of the young and old sportsmen who play these games at grass roots level not sporting clingons like you who associate yourself with games that you do not take part in but purely spectate. The twats you refer to exist in most sports and they tend to be about your age Well I'm too old and knee knackered to play any outdoor sport now, but I was very happily playing cricket twenty years ago in very working class conditions that were a million miles from the ivory towers of Lords and Eton. I wouldn't say acting like a thingy at a sporting event is perculiar to any particular age group, but I would say it is extremely disrespectful both to the heritage of any sport and it's participants on the day. Why fully grown human beings find it necessary to wear fancy dress is beyond comprehension to me, gets on my tits and turns me away from such events. |
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Post by capitalgull on May 18, 2010 13:54:45 GMT
Although I do love my days out at both the cricket and the rugby, and of course do see the people Merse refers to as the Tarquins, I don't really mind them so much - as he so eloquently says it's the idiots in fancy dress that really pee me off.
I'm going to be at Twickenham on Sunday for the latest event in the IRB World Sevens series, the London Sevens, which really is a fantastic couple of days of rugby. The only problem - Sunday is fancy dress day, and I've got a feeling I am a) going to be the only person there who looks vaguely 'normal' and b) the only person who by the end of the day will still be enjoying the sport, not rolling around in the aisles drunk!
It may make me sounds old before my time, but I love my sport, not my people watching!
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Post by keyberrygull on May 18, 2010 20:52:50 GMT
Merse I'm also talking on behalf of the young and old sportsmen who play these games at grass roots level not sporting clingons like you who associate yourself with games that you do not take part in but purely spectate. The twats you refer to exist in most sports and they tend to be about your age Well I'm too old and knee knackered to play any outdoor sport now, but I was very happily playing cricket twenty years ago in very working class conditions that were a million miles from the ivory towers of Lords and Eton. I wouldn't say acting like a thingy at a sporting event is perculiar to any particular age group, but I would say it is extremely disrespectful both to the heritage of any sport and it's participants on the day. Why fully grown human beings find it necessary to wear fancy dress is beyond comprehension to me, gets on my tits and turns me away from such events. Sitting in a ground near to a foul mouthed Milwall football fan who chooses to wear a cardboard box on his head with two eye holes cut out would get on my nerves but it is obviously not disrespectful in your eyes! just part of the experience  |
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Post by merse on May 18, 2010 21:12:32 GMT
Sitting in a ground near to a foul mouthed Milwall football fan who chooses to wear a cardboard box on his head with two eye holes cut out would get on my nerves but it is obviously not disrespectful in your eyes! just part of the experience Can't lay claim to ever having done that Brian, but I have sat next to TB1  who it is believed does have a cardboard head! |
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Post by keyberrygull on May 19, 2010 7:27:50 GMT
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Post by Rob on May 19, 2010 13:03:20 GMT
Does the F stand for Fairy?
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Post by keyberrygull on May 19, 2010 19:53:51 GMT
 Time to move on Alan but if what you say is indeed true and the integrity of an idividual sport can only be gauged by the spectators who decide to watch, footballs in trouble. |
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