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Sorry, Dude... I had to take solace in something!
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What the heck did I do to you :-/ ;)

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Let me see... Notre Dame, Colorado and Virginia Tech all lost yesterday, which helped brighten an otherwise dark Saturday!
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Heck, I wouldn't mind talkin' about Aussie Rules!  I miss it because I don't get Fox Sports World!  In case you haven't seen it, it's 18 guys in sleeveless jerseys and real short shorts doing mayhem.

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At the risk of sounding like the comic store guy from the Simpsons "There is no emot-icon that describes how I am feeling right now"

;D
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That's one of my Simpsons AIM away messages :)  Along with "Ah, the joys of mortgaging my future"

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Apparently, he can't run in a touchdown, either. :(
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So tomorrow afternoon, all of Oz stops to watch a horse race (except FB.  He keeps on working) that lasts 3 minutes.  The entire day is one massive build up to it.  I will be going to the Gap Tavern with my girlfriends in our hats!  A great day will be had by all.!
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FB says Bah Humbug to horse racing - sorry Dooley

You have a good time at the Gap Tavern  ;)

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Zella....

This worthless sports thread of yours has not been the raging success you were hoping for so far.....  :(
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Because, Fussy, it's more fun to invade a non-applicable thread and bug the heck outta Zed. ;)

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Oh I know !  ;D  I was trying to rub it in !  ;D

Hee hee

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Oh I know !  ;D  I was trying to rub it in !  ;D

Hee hee
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My guess is Zed will be none too pleased about us rubbing it in. :-X

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She will never find us in here unless someone dobs..... >:(

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She will never find us in here unless someone dobs..... >:(
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Maybe it's because her husband is a sports fanatic and that's why she hates sports…he sits there glued to the tube…
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I thought it was Karen's husband who was the glued-to-the-TV sports nut ?

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I thought it was Karen's husband who was the glued-to-the-TV sports nut ?
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My guess is another woman may dob, but not me. ;)

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What other woman ?

The only one who visits here is Dooley, and by now she is dancing half naked on the tables at the Gap Tavern Melbourne Cup bash with her friends !

After all it is after 9.30 here !  ;D

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What other woman ?

The only one who visits here is Dooley, and by now she is dancing half naked on the tables at the Gap Tavern Melbourne Cup bash with her friends !

After all it is after 9.30 here !  ;D
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Should we be there?

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Well I COULD HAVE been !  The Gap is about a half hour to 40 minutes for where I live

But I didn't want to scare her  ;D

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Maybe it's because her husband is a sports fanatic and that's why she hates sports…he sits there glued to the tube…
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He never watches sports! (I wish he would, then maybe he wouldn't be under my feet all the time... ::) )

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It was Newcastle 2 - 0 Middlesboro here... that's almost a good result.

Man U - Leicester today, with Man U featuring an understrength squad. Opinions?
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Guess who Bobo  ;D

League Cup match huh ?  (I still talk in the old money...)

Understrength or not, Man U will walk it, by courtesy of a hat-trick or so from Solksjaer....

Fergie will complain in the press that United weren't given enough peanlties in the first 1.6 minutes of the match, and a Leicester player will be sent off just to ensure nothing happens 'against the script'....

Then again maybe I'm just mad cos Leeds are having a crap season....

;D

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Guess who Bobo  ;D

League Cup match huh ?  (I still talk in the old money...)

Understrength or not, Man U will walk it, by courtesy of a hat-trick or so from Solksjaer....

Fergie will complain in the press that United weren't given enough peanlties in the first 1.6 minutes of the match, and a Leicester player will be sent off just to ensure nothing happens 'against the script'....

Then again maybe I'm just mad cos Leeds are having a crap season....

;D
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Hey Bobo !

I like this guy's style !   :D

FB  :)

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My guess is Zed will be none too pleased about us rubbing it in. :-X

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She will never find us in here unless someone dobs..... >:(
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HEY! YOU'VE ALL BEEN BUSTED!

(and you all thought I wouldn't come in here.... :-/ )

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Oh my God !  RUN Indy !

Say, what're you doing doin' Z, sneakin' round our 'guys' place anyway....?  >:(

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What other woman ?

The only one who visits here is Dooley, and by now she is dancing half naked on the tables at the Gap Tavern Melbourne Cup bash with her friends !

After all it is after 9.30 here !  ;D
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Now Fussy!! Our celebrations were quite proper and sedate.....almost prayerful really!  And I can explain that partially clad tabletop incident !

What a great day!  Champa's, seafood AND I backed first and second place woohoo!  Then I had a little lie down after all that praying.

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In detail ! ?  :o

Quoting:What a great day!  Champa's, seafood AND I backed first and second place woohoo!  Then I had a little lie down after all that praying.

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Congrats to you !  Well done !  Glad you had a good time.

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Oh no, not really.  Any old excuse will do. :D
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:o :o :o :o :o

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Oh no, not really.  Any old excuse will do. :D
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Excuses, excuses!! ::)

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Oh no, not really.  Any old excuse will do. :D
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Quoting:Sex is a sport!
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Then PLAY BALL !,  TB  

Batter Up !

:P ;) ;D

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... let's think rugby. Why was Jeff Wilson the best winger we've ever had? It definitely wasn't because he was the biggest winger we ever had - our biggest winger can't even get on the field anymore. Jeff made up for being smaller by having a skill level so high no one else could even come close. As I said, it's about playing an all round game, you know…getting amongst it.

:) :D ;D :) :D ;D :) :D ;D :) :D ;D :) :D ;D :) :D ;D :) :D ;D :) :D ;D

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Just thought I would quote this before you get delete happy again... you are, afterall, a Fiordland Crested Penguin at present!!  ;D

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Sex is a sport!
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Uh, did you say you were Mystery Woman?

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... AND Langdon Hughes :-*
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LMAO!!! ;D

I owe you a PM... I will get to it post haste!!

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Bobo ?

As is becoming all the more common this season, all of a sudden I feel the Sword of Democles hanging over Leeds United......

:(
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Golf.....golf is the worst!
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Unless it's Tiger Woods, right? ;D

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YUK!!!!! he has to be the worst one to watch!

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No - John Daly and Craig Stadler are the worst because they are totally obnoxious......
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Hey now.....you are talking about a fellow Arkie!

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Hey now.....you are talking about a fellow Arkie!
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Sorry, SS

They have dintiguished themselves repeatedly in that regard over a long period of time

And just to show my ignorance, which one (although I am guessing Daly ?)

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And just to show my ignorance, which one (although I am guessing Daly ?)
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You are correct!!! How did you guess?? Are we all that bad!!  LOL!

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This is the part of the Worthless Post Thread where we dance.
(ALA Dieter)
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I LOVE him!!!!

*dancing*

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You are correct!!! How did you guess?? Are we all that bad!!  LOL!
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Ha ha !

I had 50% chance of being right - maybe he just had that 'fighting' quality which I have observed here - Stadler is just a slob, but obnoxious with it !

:D

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Ha ha !

I had 50% chance of being right - maybe he just had that 'fighting' quality which I have observed here -

:D
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I will take that as a compliment! ;)

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Bobo ?

As is becoming all the more common this season, all of a sudden I feel the Sword of Democles hanging over Leeds United......

:(
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Just to even up the balance, Wally Lewis (footballer turned TV Sports Compere) is probably the most revered sportsman to ever come out of Queensland

And he has to be the biggest dipstick this side of the black stump.......

There !  :D
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WHAT?? You, you....traitor Fussy!!!

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WHAT?? You, you....traitor Fussy!!!
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Don't take me wrong Dooley....

As a sportsman he did wonderful things for us in helping to even up some scores against New South Wales, and with the Brisbane Broncos, and for Australia...

I'm talking about the person, not the sportsman.....

;)

Go the Maroons !

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As a sportsman he did wonderful things for us in helping to even up some scores against New South Wales, and with the Brisbane Broncos, and for Australia...

I'm talking about the person, not the sportsman.....

;)

Go the Maroons !
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Yep.  I understand.  I've heard a few little tit bits about the King over the years myself.

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What about soccer?
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even though I don't care much for soccer, I consider it a sport to be played.  no it's not worthless.  soccer takes skill and physical play.  

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even though I don't care much for soccer, I consider it a sport to be played.  no it's not worthless.  soccer takes skill and physical play.  
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Alright Sag !

The major complaint about soccer is the lack of scoring, so it helps to have grown up with it.

I love watching Baseball, but try finding any out here..... :(

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even though I don't care much for soccer, I consider it a sport to be played.  no it's not worthless.  soccer takes skill and physical play.  
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Two of the American Pro sports (Baseball, Gridiron Football) do not cater at all to those overseas. And the other two major team sports (Basketball and hockey have limited appeal. Basketball in Yugoslavia, Russia, and Australia; hockey in Canada, Germany, and the Scandinavian Lapland countries.) None of these are popular in Great Britain, as far as I know, although rugby and (unmentionable summer sport) are similar to gridiron football and baseball respectively.
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Alright Sag !

The major complaint about soccer is the lack of scoring, so it helps to have grown up with it.

I love watching Baseball, but try finding any out here..... :(
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So is there also a complaint about hockey too?  I don't know about growing up with a certain sport in order to like it.  I grew up playing basketball since I was in like the 1st grade.  Got interested in hockey when I was like 14.  Soccer I never got into, I don't understand it, that's probaly why.  As for baseball, that's just a HUGE joke to me.

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As for baseball, that's just a HUGE joke to me.
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I can see how you'd think baseball is boring and dumb, and the people who play it are not "real" athletes.  However, it takes a WHOLE lot of skill to be able to hit a 98-mph fastball or a 75-mph curveball...it's similar to the split-second reflexes a hockey goalie must have to snag a 90+-mph puck.  So we shouldn't discredit baseball completely.  To each his own!   ::)

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I can see how you'd think baseball is boring and dumb, and the people who play it are not "real" athletes.  
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You took the words right out of my mouth.  How many  times have they gone on strike?

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You took the words right out of my mouth.  How many  times have they gone on strike?
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Almost one too many times...I almost stopped caring but the World Series was very exciting so I'll give them another chance but they'd better not f**k it up.

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So Bobo, why aren't you out here with the Barmy Army?  They could use a good song writer!
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What's the Barmey Army? Is that one of your Aussie sports teams? ???

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Hi Indy

I'll field that one !

The 'Barmey Army' is a term generically used for English sports supporters who travel to away sporting fixtures.

So named as they make their presence known by being loud, enthusiastic and silly.

One guy at the latest test match was pictured wearing a hollowed-out watermelon on his head !

Well, it was a hundred degrees and it DID keep the sun off him.  ;)

FB  :D

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One guy at the latest test match was pictured wearing a hollowed-out watermelon on his head !
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I love sports and love learning about sports in other cultures and therefore love this thread!! :D
That being said, Fussy, would I be correct in assuming that a "test match" would be the same as an exhibition game?

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I love sports and love learning about sports in other cultures and therefore love this thread!! :D
That being said, Fussy, would I be correct in assuming that a "test match" would be the same as an exhibition game?
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Hi Dude !

Sorry I missed this - I am unsure - but I think the term Test effectively means what it says - a Test of one Country against another.

But definitely anything but friendlies !  Test are the real thing.

In Cricket they refer to competition between countries.

As you like to find out about it the current Test playing countries are :

Australia
England
New Zealand
West Indies
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
Zimbabwe


As you may notice there is a very strong English influence with nearly all of those countries being under Colonial rule at some stage.


FB  ;)

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Hi Indy

I'll field that one !

The 'Barmey Army' is a term generically used for English sports supporters who travel to away sporting fixtures.

So named as they make their presence known by being loud, enthusiastic and silly.

One guy at the latest test match was pictured wearing a hollowed-out watermelon on his head !

Well, it was a hundred degrees and it DID keep the sun off him.  ;)

FB  :D
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Kind of like The Cleveland Dog Pound or The Pittsburgh Terrible Towels of English sports.

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Modesty prevents me from agreeing !

Bobo should field that one !

hee hee

FB  :)

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Modesty prevents me from agreeing !

Bobo should field that one !

hee hee

FB  :)
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So Bobo, why aren't you out here with the Barmy Army?  They could use a good song writer!
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The "barmy army" traditionally refered to the English unmentionable summer sport followers who were just a little off kilter. Now, Sheffield Wednesday are a soccer team, who, due to religious decisions, and so forth, refused to play on other days except Wednesdays, and they, apparently, are responsible not only for the invention of the term "barmy army", to describe their early nutcase supporters, but to describe any nutcases that go around grounds and whatnot. Now, Sheffield, is a big place for its steel industry, and hence the United team, being known as The Blades. Sheffield can also claim to have brung football to the world, founding Sheffield FC Amateurs in 1857. The early supporters of this team were politely refered to as "the barmy army", and the term permeated through to many other teams.

Sheffield, of course, today, have their better days behind them, but of course, used to have them. Now seventh in the second-best division in the country, which, inexplicably, is called The First Division.
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But do they get rowdy like the American nutcases? Do they paint their faces the color of their teams?

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But do they get rowdy like the American nutcases? Do they paint their faces the color of their teams?

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For some reason, Swedish Tennis Fans are quite rabid when it comes to face painting, also....

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Where's Bobo?  He's going to hate missing this conversation. ;)
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Back in the 70's a male streaker ran onto the pitch during a Cricket test match, and the Australian Captain of the time, Greg Chappell (not the most amusing personality in the world), grabbed the guy and started whacking him on the backside with his bat !
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And, today, famous soccer player Bobby Moore appears on a pile of new British stamps...

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I heard about that, but could never believe it was true.

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It was Bobo !  I have seen the film of it !

All of a sudden the streaker guy gets this look on his face like it wasn't such a good idea after all !

Ha !  ;D

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Well Greg Chappell did used to live in Brisbane !

I see he hasn't mended his evil ways then !

FB  :)

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I have been accidently hit on the bum with a cricket bat....and I can tell you IT HURTS!!!
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Oh, totally. I managed to break one once... ;D Makes me appear a right idiot.
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Alright bobo !  You "Have The Power"  ;)

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Totally. It was kinda stupid, heh. LDV last night, in the soccer over here. Seeing Arsenal get another average result made me forget about it entirely.
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Another one !  Tell me about it, Bobo ! please !  :D

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Arsenal 0 - 0 PSV

As I remember, they were lucky to even get that.

Who cares, though, Shrewsbury Town are through to the next round of the LDV.
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Muwahahahaha !

The wheels have come off !

Congrats to Shrewsbury - they should swap comps i am thinking !

;D

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Muwahahahaha !

The wheels have come off !

Congrats to Shrewsbury - they should swap comps i am thinking !

;D
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The NASCAR season is now over and Tony Stewart  :P has won the championship.  It will be February before the NASCAR season starts again…
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Here you go Indy. Back on page one! Sport away to your heart's content! ::)
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The general impression at this end is that your guys just don't have enough mongrel in them Bobo, not enough killer instinct....

Aus is very strong now - you could pick two or three test sides of decent quality.

The big worry over here is that not enough of the younger players are getting a go in the side - look at Hayden for example, how well he is going now, but it took till age 28 to cement his place in the side....
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Richard Dawson ?  Unfamiliar ?  He's no young guy !

Richard Dawson was "Newkirk" in Hogan's Heroes"  ;D ::)

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Richard Dawson was "Newkirk" in Hogan's Heroes"  ;D ::)
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And also the host of "Family Feud" as well!

I'm happy for Mark and Christy, as their teams won yesterday, extending their seasons by one more game…

As for me, I'm going to watch the annual "Backyard Brawl" between WVU and Pitt  :P and then the Marshall-Ball State game…