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Post by Rex on Mar 23, 2020 9:36:44 GMT
I'm afraid season ticket renewal is way, way down on my list of priorities at the moment.
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Post by Rex on Mar 22, 2020 12:07:37 GMT
* Favourite food - partridge in calvados sauce. Any kind of goose or duck (sorry shoveler but you were born with a target on your back), grouse or quail * How old are you - on the downhill stretch * How many tattoos - 0 * Ever hit a deer - no * Ridden in an ambulance - no * Ice skated - yes. The last time I did, I was carried off the ice with a dislocated shoulder * Ridden a motorcycle - very badly * Stayed in hospital - yes - several operations * Last phone call- mum * Favourite Drink - single malt whisky * Broken bones - fractured ring finger on right hand * Favourite colour - electric blue/malachite green/fire orange * Sunrise or Sunset - sunset though sunrise on Haleakala was unforgettable * Ocean or Mountain - ocean. Pirates don’t live on mountains * Favourite Movie - One flew over the cuckoos nest * Mums name - Jennifer * Favourite singer - favourite band = the triffids and the blue aeroplanes * First car - Ford Cortina Mk II 1600E 1600 E, you lucky bugger My first car was a Mk 3 2000E Cortina which I swapped for an Mk2 1600E (series 1 with the brolly type handbrake) Recently found some pics of them which I put on Facebook. I used to love cars back then, couldn't give a monkeys about them now! |
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Post by Rex on Mar 21, 2020 9:55:19 GMT
I had planned to tick off Leatherhead last Tuesday whilst working in Guildford. I will also be missing Portsmouth v Rovers and a trip to Celtic Park to see them secure 9 in a row!
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Post by Rex on Mar 21, 2020 9:52:01 GMT
All lower league clubs are worried. Business is worried. Adults are worried about health and jobs. Through my grand children i have noticed real anxiety in children. Doctors,nurses and medical staff have a higher risk of infection so they are stressed. I work in a food distribution warehouse which should keep me employed but no way can i socially distance during work hours.
Also i only have 7 toliet rolls left FFS!4 more than us for a family of 4! |
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Post by Rex on Mar 19, 2020 8:54:38 GMT
I’m finding FM20 quite effective for football fix. Got full version on laptop, it seems quite realistic, immersive, you in office with chalkboard with strategy to win games, but that means managing them temperamental beings in other room to realise your vision in the match. I think FM simulators in past had you too much of the boss, not having to work with the power of the dressing room. It’s opened my eyes too, where the power lies in the different rooms in the building, what the role of manager actually is these days. Also tactics, how you need hooks, connecting your df and sitting midfield to the attack, and you need runners, and pressing. Also you can’t just say play like this, they need to work on it get fluid. And then you actually win a game, fist pumps, after peering through fingers in the closing stages Go for it. FM20 full download from steam. It will feed anyone’s football craving in this coming drought Who was our resident FM expert? Was it Gregory Stevens I hope I'm not the only one who read that and had no idea whatsoever what the post was about ! (It's okay, I have googled it now, so am - ever so slightly- wiser ) |
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Post by Rex on Mar 16, 2020 15:40:23 GMT
I was being sarcastic. Taking my political bias and dislike for johnson and trump out of the debate i Wonder why our medical advice is totally different to china,korea,denmark,italy and spain? time will tell who got it right, for me once its out its about how you manage it, boris following our experts
im ok with that
Yes me too, as I previously stated, to say I am not a fan of Boris doesn't really convey my true feelings for him and his government. However, in the current climate , everyone is guessing to some degree and all Boris can do is follow the advice from the expertise available. Now is not the time for party politics. |
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Post by Rex on Mar 16, 2020 11:56:04 GMT
Just reading Mr.Kilmisters autobiography, he didn’t have it easy and yet he became the behemoth that was Lemmy. I’d have loved to have a session with him when at my peak. Some great names there fella. I’ve met and shared 2 spliffs with John Martyn , absolute lunatic but funny as can be, met Roger Waters but I’ve never had the chance to sit and have a pint with anyone famous or infamous, unless we change tack, for gangsters. It was my brothers who got me listening to wishbone ash, Genesis, pink floyd, Santana, Kaz Lux etc. This is why they were merciless with me that I love T-Rex. When I saw T-Rex play it was at a 3 day and 3 night Festival in Weeley 1971, that attracted 110,000 people at a cost of £1.50 entry fee. The band playing when I arrived were Mungo Jerry singing 'in the summertime'. Absolutely awesome line up (worth goggling ) The reason T-Rex were disliked by 'real rock connoisseurs' was because they considered 'pretty boy' Marc Bolan had let the rock community down by appearing on 'top of the Pops I seem to recollect they only sung three songs then left the stage due to verbal abuse and bottles being thrown. Mad! I grew up disliking T Rex after being influenced by my older sisters , one of whom was (still is) married to the singer with a local band called Jacob Marley who used to do a lot of Wishbone Ash type stuff. Music snobbery is a strange thing although I think many people go through it but grow out of it. |
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Post by Rex on Mar 16, 2020 8:41:00 GMT
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Post by Rex on Mar 16, 2020 7:22:47 GMT
Gas have just got a last minute winner over City at the UWE Stadium - Goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh shi# it was a dream, now back in a place the world has never been to before. I have been and got a sunday paper, its more doom and gloom. You only have to go back a week or so and life seemed almost normal, take last saturday afternoon me and the toteend4 went into town for a birthday session, i tried to avoid handshakes etc , and offered up my elbow - no chance it was handshakes all round , and one dirty bu##er even licked my hand! The pubs were full of hen parties and we had a right old 'knee's up' even the football was predictable with the Gas losing to bottom of the table team at Southend. Walking the streets today there is a palpable sense of fear in the air - where am I going with this? I don't know - i guess what iam am trying to say is, as none of us had to fight in WW2 This is our chance to show courage and leadership, for the sake off all our family and friends. So Stay Strong Stay Safe we all have to get through this! UTG / SSSS and leaving others to struggle to find stuff that SHOULD be readily available .... awkward times ahead but the need to be a bit more thoughtful is also required,,, ...... now is it the Altered Images rendition i need to sing? I suspect time and British war films (which I love btw) made after the event have given many of us a romantic notion that we were 'all in it together' back then, when it is much more likely that there were just as many selfish people as there are today. My mum, who was a teenager during the war years used to do talks at local schools about what life was like then and to be fair she often mentioned the 'war spirit' and that she looked back on those times fondly (probably like anyone looking back on their teenage years would) yet my dad, who served throughout the entirety of the war, told a very different story on the very few occasions he talked about it. I think in any times of crisis, you will see the best and worst in people. |
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Post by Rex on Mar 15, 2020 16:28:16 GMT
Fascist  And very presumptive. To be fair, If he took the ones out that I couldn't give a monkeys on, he had 6 right and 1 wrong- quite a good strike rate! |
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Post by Rex on Mar 15, 2020 15:06:35 GMT
My problem is I dont trust any politician,and as such i treat everything they say with a high degree of scepticism and think what is in it for them.i may be in the minority but that's me,i would have made the same comment whichever party leader said it Mmmm... if you post a thread title that contains the phrase "barmy boris and his numpties" I feel it is safe to assume you have a political bias / agenda. It's sad that the world polarises itself. It's all gone very tribal. So from just that title and your comment I think I can deduce (please correct me if I'm wrong) that: You don't like Boris Johnson (well that's a given). You are pro-EU. You voted Labour (or even the LibDems - there are some funny folk about). You voted Remain. You liked the idea of a 2nd referendum (laughingly re-branded a "people's vote"). You are 100% behind Greta Thunberg and agree with everything she says, and do not think she is a puppet of her activist pushy parents. You hate Donald Trump (again that's a given). You think Meghan Markle has been unfairly attacked by the media, largely due to her ethnicity. You think that Prince Harry is doing a brave thing in leading his own life away from the glare of publicity and should not be a slave to public duty. You do not think Prince Harry is being manipulated by his (far more intelligent) wife. Go on - how many did I get right? Just a bit of fun - I'm not having a personal dig at you. It's the polarisation of debate and the default positions taken by the left and the right (even along non-political grounds) which I am alluding to. UTG! Fascist |
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Post by Rex on Mar 15, 2020 15:04:14 GMT
Using this term nulls and voids any opinion you may have We may need another anchor. so barmy boris/monty python is ok ? No, as previously mentioned, it isn't. |
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Post by Rex on Mar 15, 2020 12:52:15 GMT
The latest coronavirus advise to come from our leader is they are thinking of telling all over 70s to self isolate for 4 months. Didnt know he was being led by monty python remember remoaners saying f the old they voted brexit they will die soon then we can have another referendum ? i remember it !
Using this term nulls and voids any opinion you may have We may need another anchor. |
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Post by Rex on Mar 15, 2020 10:14:17 GMT
The latest coronavirus advise to come from our leader is they are thinking of telling all over 70s to self isolate for 4 months. Didnt know he was being led by monty python Hi irenesfather. As a general rule we try and keep away from politics. Some other Forums are happy with that, but that's not the position taken here. There has been occasional Brexit banter, but that invariably ends up with people having polarised positions that do not change. This then descends into childish mud-slinging (in fact much like the way our politicians behave). In turn that makes things harder to moderate as things stray from Rovers specific topics. If other mods have a different view - then please chip in. I think an anchor probably is appropriate. (And I'm not using cockney rhyming slang for politicians). Just in the interest of balance and before the inevitable anchor appears, I'd like to say that I thought the PM spoke well at the initial news conference and did the sensible thing in listening to and taking the advice of experts. He offered the government advice, which for the large part sporting organisations and others chose to ignore, and now has the tricky task of changing that advice on a daily basis based on whatever crops up during the course of the previous day, all this while many members of the general public panic and spread misinformation on social media. Boris Johnson and his bunch of cronies, I think will prove to be an awful government for huge numbers of the population for a whole variety of reasons, but on this issue, I think he is doing pretty well. This is me, Rex Lowther, supporting Boris Johnson on an issue, make a note of the date, it's a once in a lifetime thing. |
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Post by Rex on Mar 12, 2020 6:47:57 GMT
I see the free pasty deal was too complicated to offer again |
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Post by Rex on Mar 11, 2020 17:17:36 GMT
The George Bowling XI would like to enter a team please |
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Post by Rex on Mar 9, 2020 6:53:29 GMT
If anyone else needs a ticket, mine is going to waste on Tuesday. Who’s going to go to the bar for me? We'll draw you a map. |
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Post by Rex on Mar 9, 2020 6:53:09 GMT
A performance for the supporters tomorrow night ? As the players did during the last season under Holloway's management, when in the middle of a disastrous run which cost us what seemed like certain promotion, the players turned it on and trounced Bristol s***y. I stand to be corrected, but wasn't that City game after just a couple of bad results (reading away maybe) rather than in the middle of that awful collapse. I seem to remember still be very confident of us going up after that win. |
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Post by Rex on Mar 8, 2020 21:17:38 GMT
Don't agree with the op. I do think there are factions now in the dressing room and not sure that garner and the other coaches are united. There is also this nagging suspicion that garner was tapped up well before coughlan left and that coughlan got short shrift when he tried to talk about january targets. This of course is just suspicion. The team are confused and their confidence is shot to pieces. I believe the club can stick to the basic plan if they get a wiser and more experienced manager at the club. I can tell you as FACT Coughlin was told there was no money available for players, I can also tell you that Garner was at the Mem the 2 home games before Coughlin left (eased out) This makes it true |
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Post by Rex on Mar 8, 2020 21:06:30 GMT
DrF, how much do you want to pass on your season ticket for tuesday night? Funny you should say that HG, I'm giving Tuesday a swerve and the good priest of this parish is using the poisoned chalice, aka my season ticket. If anyone else needs a ticket, mine is going to waste on Tuesday. |
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