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Post by Dave on Sept 17, 2008 16:12:23 GMT
Merse I need to pick you up on your last post. You say Its alright for fans to stay away If they do not enjoy whats on offer, for what ever reasons. Lets not use TUFC here, but If the said fan felt that the team played poor football and felt It was down to the manager, what should he do?
He then felt that things were never going to change while that manager was still in charge, why would It not be OK for the fan to say, he will not return, while that manager was still the boss.
There has to be a reason and there will always be someone too blame.
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Post by merse on Sept 17, 2008 16:43:57 GMT
 This has brought another "epic day out to Cambridge" flooding back to me............................ I was once the proud and fastidious owner of "Henrietta" a hybrid Kit Car consisting of a nineteen fifties MG sports car body dropped onto the engine and chassis of a Triumph Vitesse................shiny Weber twin carbs, running boards, - the lot. Jersey Jim Bergerac had nothing on this poser!  How I used to love tearing around the Essex Weald, six skinny inches above the tarmac; rapidly changing down through the gearbox into tight bends then back up through them again as I accelerated out like some demented Toad of Toad Hall. So a spin up to Cambridge was too much to resist one sunny autumn afternoon and I duly set off intent on avoiding the M11 at all costs by routing myself through Epping Forest (anyone done the "Straight Mile" burn up there in the days before speed cameras? Traversing Stansted Mountfitchett and Quendon was a cinch, then BANG!!!!!!!!!! followed by the excruciating sound of bearings grinding, the bonnet flying off and a concoction of steam oil and boiling hot water shooting into the air and back down on top of me so that I instantly resembled a cast member of the Black & White Minstrel Show. A long and doleful return ride to the East End on the back of a recovery lorry was all I had to look forward to now, so gutted was I and so chastised that I don't think I even enquired about the score until Monday morning! 
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Post by crooky on Sept 17, 2008 19:45:12 GMT
Ah the wonderful Henrietta. Would that be the very same Henrietta whose bumper fell off on the A40 in London about 30 seconds after picking me up on route to her Newton Abbot retirement home? ;D
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Post by merse on Sept 18, 2008 2:21:55 GMT
Ah the wonderful Henrietta. Would that be the very same Henrietta whose bumper fell off on the A40 in London about 30 seconds after picking me up on route to her Newton Abbot retirement home? ;D The very same. I guess it was delayed reaction to the "explosion" en route to Cambridge. Other incidents that spring to mind were ripping the exhaust and manifold off on a speed hump in Cambridge (made it there that time!) and again coming off the Greenway Ferry in Devon 'cos the low tide had made the ramp so steep. I used leather brackets rather than the conventional metal ones so the whole system could "bounce" on impact! ;D But the piece de resistance had to be the time she caught fire at the petrol pumps of the Weyhill Services near Andover and I had to physically role my dear friend Henrietta (after whom the beast was named) out to safety whilst she was still comatose wrapped up in a drunken stupor and a sleeping bag.  I reckon you and I looked like Biggles and Algi flying down to NA and that great "retirement garage in the sky" in the poor old girl. Happy days! |
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This has brought another "epic day out to Cambridge" flooding back to me............................
