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Port Said Red

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  1. Bhanuka doesn't look built for quick running between the wickets does he?
  2. "Just don't use Photoshop to make me look stupid"
  3. Surfin' Bird (Bird is the Word) - The Trashmen
  4. I can't believe you haven't gone with The Royal Scam, but then again it should be in my list too, the title track is one of my favourite tracks of all time.
  5. French Kissing in the USA - Blondie
  6. I don't see it as a rant, just an observation as to why they changed things. Seems fair enough to me.
  7. The muddy pitch actually helped him, the ball just stopped and begged to be hit. Ricky George? The lower league George Best...
  8. My wife thinks this is the funniest thing she has seen lately.
  9. T20 is amazing really, you wouldn't think that fortunes could fluctuate so much in such a short game. Teams will say that they are relaxed about getting 8-12 an over from about halfway, but it's so difficult to maintain a lot of the time. Kiwi looked like they were just cruising along, then as soon as they started to open up a bit, it all fell apart.
  10. This might go to the last ball. That helps! Poor decision making by Neesham
  11. Claiming he made him, may have been a step to far if he said it, but recognising that there are skills in other sports that can help yours is no big thing. I remember Frank Bruno's coach saying if he could get him to use his legs as well as his arms that the first 3 rows of the crowd would be in danger. He took him to golf tournaments to show him how smaller men can hit long distances by using their whole body. Their are lots of other examples as well.
  12. Finding the big athletes that can also play, you're right, that's the hardest. It doesn't have to be that way though, Scott is a good example of a player who uses his physicality well, he might be smaller but he has worked out that if you hit someone in the right place it can be just as effective, the much maligned Dasilva is similar. Then you have the gentle giants like Taylor Moore. Some of the others need to watch or try some judo.
  13. I think there is another side to this as well. I have always thought there was a section of fans who are too close to the club and see it as "their club" I don't mean in the way most of the fans think of it, but almost like we are some little local league team, and that they should have some sort of say in how things are done. It's something that Harry Dolman referred to in his journals and I don't think it's really changed much. He said that there were complete outsiders turning up at Board Meetings, Harry had to almost become a dictator to get the club moving forward. Of course we should have overall view of how things are progressing, but sometimes it feels that there are some who think the club should be run by and for them, and that's not how a professional football club works.
  14. I don't think its about the brains as you put it, the problem with increasing frequency as I understand it is the lack of passing places on what is mostly a single track line. Others might have more detail?
  15. It must have been an interesting moment when they discovered that Cider here is alcoholic, they probably had the opposite reaction to me when I found that Cider is what Canadians call unfermented apple juice with the pulp still in it.
  16. It's not just work though, looking at the traffic too and from the Gate the last couple of months has been depressing. When the Conference Centre project is up and running it's only going to get worse. Somehow we also need to persuade them to reconsider Ashton Gate Halt, it would be convenient for sport, but it's almost a 'must have' for the Conference crowds. If you are suited and booted or carrying display equipment, you don't want to be walking from Temple Meads or even Parsons St, you want the most convenient route in.
  17. Who are they going to be playing that would bring 21000 away supporters with them?
  18. I think distribution is the key, I don't think there is much to choose between the goalkeepers in the Championship and possibly only 3 or 4 that stand out in the Premier League when it comes to shot stopping and commanding the area, so it's that additional ability to start moves or spot an early opportunity that makes the difference. I can't quantify this, but it seemed to me on Saturday that the players were more alert to the idea that Max would look for them quickly if they made themselves available, there seemed to be more animation than when Bents gets the ball. What I have seen of the U20's games Bajic is even more keen to move the ball quickly, and again the outfield players seemed to have picked up on that. If Pearson is hoping to find a new Kaspar Schmeichel though, we could have a long wait.
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