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Post by newby on Jan 9, 2024 11:52:08 GMT
RIP, JPR.
It was a very different era when I for one didn't mind cheering on Welsh Rugby players, something I find impossible to do these days.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jan 9, 2024 13:19:47 GMT
people are either dying younger or I am getting older but with the recent deaths of JPR, Beckenbauer, David Soul and Terry Venables, some of the heroes of my childhood all seem to be departing at the same time.
JPR was the first flamboyant full back in rugby that I can remember, brave, skilful and strong in attack and defence. Beckenbauer changed football as the first "libero" who was a centre back who could play football (like Bobby Moore perhaps) and Starsky and Hutch was one of those 70s programmes you never missed (no recorders or playback options in those days!).
Venables was a character, a typical East end jack the lad, but boy did he have a footballing brain
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Post by davemorton on Jan 9, 2024 13:54:42 GMT
Starsky & Hutch! Did English people really watch this? All I remember is some guy jumping off a building onto the roof of a car. Is that the one?
Surely that was the age of Python, and some of them are still around, and so is Sir Sobers.
There was a RL full-back called Ken Gowers - King Ken - who was pretty special. Played for Swinton - imagine that! = and GB, and I played cricket against him, once. About half the size of JPR. Dai Watkins, who played for Wales just at the start of their golden age, then Salford RL. died during 2023. His replacement for Wales was Barry John, who lives, I believe?
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jan 9, 2024 14:12:24 GMT
S&H, Six Million Dollar Bionic Man (we have the technology to rebuild him...), Kojak, Rockford Files, Cannon.....
Those were the days.....
And dont forget David Soul's career as a pop singer after. A little better than that of Telly Savalas!
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Post by karma on Jan 9, 2024 15:01:48 GMT
.......it's not what it used to be
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Post by davemorton on Jan 9, 2024 15:39:07 GMT
It isn't. It's BETTER than that litany of American crud. There was a bald maths teacher at my school, whom the kids called 'Jake', for some reason. But during the Kojak years he became Ko-Jake.
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Post by newby on Jan 9, 2024 22:45:48 GMT
It was the age of only one telly in house and you had to watch whatever other people wanted to watch. Rockford files, Cannon, yes. Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Six million dollar man, no.
They are probably still available but I doubt any of them could stand the test of time so I'll let them lie. Though I do like to watch the odd old American crud on YouTube. Barney Miller's my favourite little vice.
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Post by davemorton on Jan 12, 2024 11:49:30 GMT
A big weekend of club rugby ahead, with European stuff right across the weekend. Sedgley are down in Reading, playing promotion-chasing Rams. Apparently there's a live feed, Saturday 3pm ko. 4kstreamhdlive.com/Rams-Sedgley/Elsewhere, Doncaster v Ampthill (down Bedford way, somewhere) in the Championship. And in Nat 2N, we have three Yorkshire derbies: Hull v Huddersfield, Sheff Tigers v Otley, Leeds Tykes v Ionians Plus: Sheffield at Preston and Rotherham at Lymm. For some reason, Tynedale v Wharfedale is being played later in the season. Tonight (Friday) it's Northampton v Bayonne. Good curtain raiser for Sedge tomorrow.
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Post by newby on Jan 12, 2024 19:59:31 GMT
Looking forward to the games in the Championship down, I can't get enthused with the European stuff. Roll on the Super league and 6 nations, when Spring can't be far away.
All isn't well with the Championship clubs I was reading, they aren't best pleased with the RFU's vision for their future. Is the view that they will have to like it or lump it I wonder.
As always it seems to be about money, there doesn't appear to be enough to go round below Premiership level.
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Post by newby on Jan 13, 2024 16:26:59 GMT
66-15 win for Leeds Tykes against Hull Ionians to continue their, for want of a better word, domination so far this season.
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Post by davemorton on Jan 14, 2024 19:27:15 GMT
I have had a wonderful rugby weekend, enjoying the European festival of excellence. I think I prefer the club competition to the Six Nations, especially now it has been trimmed.
Sedgley's defeat was an expected disappointment, and we were beaten but not stuffed, but today (Sunday) I watched Sedgley Colts beat Waterloo 24-22 in an astonishingly good and high quality game. I had recorded Bath v Racing, which was just about as good as rugby can get. The Rec is one of the great venues of sport. Not the biggest, of course, but perhaps the equivalent of the Basin Reserve cricket ground in Wellington.
The cherry on the cake was provided by Bordeaux Begles, who shredded surly Saracens Sunday evening.
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Post by hawke on Jan 14, 2024 20:09:55 GMT
Heard a little bit of Ilkley’s narrow defeat at lowly Scunthorpe on Drystone Radio….very tight league…lots of close matches…good stuff
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Post by davemorton on Jan 14, 2024 21:01:00 GMT
Scunny had an horrific season in 2019/20 losing all 25 matches in National 2 North, with 1,302 points against. To get promoted and find you're not up to it must be a nightmare. Then players leave, and it gets even worse. But who can look forward to a game that's inevitably going to end 14-52? That was the average; sometimes it was worse. 109-12 at Chester, and 103-0 at Caldy the following week.
They might have been some of the few people who welcomed Covid, along with cabinet ministers and related makers of PPE.
It looks as though they are still struggling, to a degree, but at least they're alive.
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Post by newby on Jan 14, 2024 23:18:57 GMT
Talking about teams without a win I notice Newcastle took a mauling on Friday in the European stuff from Benneton. They still haven't managed a win, or even a draw this season in the Premiership and, after some quite close games early season, look to be getting less competitive as the season goes on.
Of course they have nothing to worry about, except perhaps not making enough money to stay afloat, their place in the Premiership is quite safe.
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Post by davemorton on Jan 20, 2024 10:26:50 GMT
I think there are going to be a lot of games called off today, all round the country. Sedgley's game at Chinnor is off, already. Where there are shorter distances involved, decisions can be made later. Rain rather than snow in Scotland last night, so the thaw is with us.
Huge day in Europe today, final round of group games, and the new, improved format means there are hardly any 'dead' games.
Super League must be starting soon?
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