TheTwirler

This thread has gone a little quiet hasn't it

There's also a barracks on Barnsley Road going down the hill on the left hand side, I regularly walk past it with the dog..

There's no way he's got 6/1 when it is generally below 2/1 everywhere unless it's a human error by the bookie. 6/1 is probably on winning the league..

Come on Rob, you know it's unpopular to suggest Football Casuals are anything other than low life drug addicts who would rob the charity tin from their local church! People don't consider the type of lads who get involved include school teachers, solicitors, self made millionaires and even in the past has included ex-players of pro clubs and TV personalities. One of the few subjects in life where everyone thinks they know all about it and have an opinion..

Saying Cook has no talent as a captain is harsh in view of the deteriorating form of Prior, Trott, Swann, Finn et al. Anderson is is performing at a level where he can still play Test Cricket but slowly the signs of age are creeping up and next year I personally doubt he'll be as effective or pacey. England need to drop anyone considered a stop gap and put a team in place who can go into the winter fully fit and ready to progress. Cook does absolutely need to sort his form out ASAP but is there any wonder he's under pressure when so many key players have disappeared in the past 12 months..?

Kevin Pietersen was a divisive figure who often scored big runs when it didn't massively alter the context of the game, he is also desperately susceptible to left arm bowlers. He huffs and puffs on the boundary when fielding and texting the South Africans how to get Strauss out is absolutely unforgiveable I'd also advocate giving Cook time. We saw Strauss go out to New Zealand horrifically out of form but he came back and had 4 or so years batting beautifully at the top of the order. We KNOW that Cook has the talent as a batsman and as a captain and we'd be mad to swing the axe without letting Moores and the new coaching staff work. Now is a time for calm heads.

Eh?! Can working class people not be right wing then?

2.6% return to limp over the line in 6th place in the Newark by-election. How people can back the Lib Dems with a straight face is beyond me. But as a few on here have started harping on about the Conservatives, I've a few points I'd like to put forward. The 'Tories wanted less regulation in Banking, not more. Therefore more derivatives and criminally mis-leading loans packages would have been traded and we'd have been worse off. Nobody on either side of the benches objected to RBS buying ABM Amro in 2007 (and indeed it was a much sought after bank). That was wholly responsible for putting RBS is the poo and why they needed bailing out. Nobody either checked the Halifax's bloated and risky balance sheet, which made Lloyds such a poisonous 'asset' in the years after the crash. But they HAD to be bought out, because the amount of jobs lost would have been irreparable. Interestingly, while the Tories have had the reigns and majority shares in RBS and Lloyds, they never stopped them from putting viable businesses under to increase the core Tier 1 ratio's that the FSA craved so badly. The Conservatives always repairing the economy is a joke also. They mullered it in the 80's and left a legacy which had it faults and left us partly in the mess we are in today. Scaling back all health and safety, green agenda, employee protection and minimum wage, demonising Unions and industrial dispute, forcing people out of social housing into private rented accommodation largely in the hands of Tory voters might well be some peoples idea of a healthy economy, but it isn't mine. It's my idea of a class war. ---------- Post added 06-06-2014 at 05:11 ---------- And do you know what, while I'm at it, why don't you throw in spiteful blanket changes to benefits such as bedroom tax and the cutting of the rate of interest paid to mortgages for peoples housing benefit (usually pensioners in my experience). Trapping people in properties they cannot afford with no alternative is not progressive, it is a complete outrage. Tax avoidance on the front bench (anyone remember the Pamorama about G Osborne and family's Cayman Islands tax havens? ((or was it Bermuda?)). Allowing Vodafone, Starbucks, Google, Dre Beats et al to get away with not paying BILLIONS in tax while trumpeting the achievements in tax collection. Not fooling anyone. Using the London Riots to justify getting rid of workplace Health and Safety laws was an interesting approach to ideological legislative change. Savage cuts to Labour held councils while increasing budgets of Tory-friendly councils and key marginal seats. The Tories (and by association, now the Lib Dems) are the most spiteful, horrible party I've ever known and some might say more Thatcherite than Thatcher herself ever would have dared to be. Trumpeting Gay Marriage on the Lib Dem watch? don't make me laugh, Labour carried that over the line, Tories opposed it in droves and even the Lib Dems couldn't get all their MP's to back it (see Sarah Teather et al). Lib Dems, when they jumped into bed with the above betrayed most of the people who voted for them. But the ones I feel most sorry for is the young student voters who will have been voting for the first time in their lives and had their vote/trust ripped apart and thrown back in their face. Some of them may never vote again. Who could blame them? Disgraceful, both parties. Labour aren't perfect and I don't support them (I voted TUSC) but they are at least well meaning and the best of a bad bunch.

Just tracking it, going to go out in 15-25 mins when it passes over us again, looks like it will be a lot further to the South though on this occasion. Is there anything more to be seen with a telescope rather than the naked eye?

Went out 5 minutes early and it was 5 mins late, so spent 10 minutes looking at the sky wondering what was going to happen. Beautiful when it passed though and like you said, it can't be mistaken. Nice one!

Nothing at all on Twitter - I would definitely expect to see something on there if there was a large scale disturbance going on. Think someone may be having you on, mate.

At that age it is vital that you create an environment where the kids can work on their ABC's (Agility, Balance, Coordination). Create fun training games where the kids can get as much exposure to possession as possible. Never ever make it about results, make your aims to get a certain amount of passes in a row etc. You are in a privileged position, be a role model for kids to play fair and use their experience to solve problems on their own via guidance..

There was a scientific report last year where the conclusion was that players like L Messi and W Rooney were "genius". Presumably because of their quick calculations of angles etc. Not sure I agree with that - sure the maths behind the calculations of angles and speed etc would be complex but in reality they aren't doing the maths - they are doing a practiced routine that they have been doing over and over for years on end. I wouldn't say Paul Gascoigne or George Best were particularly brainy, after all.

I think he's seen Ian Holloway with a similar comment a few years ago about winning ugly being like pulling an ugly girl in town etc. That comment seemed to go down well at the time, maybe he thought he'd get a similar reaction..

Lib Dems win in Beauchief and Greenhill ---------- Post added 23-05-2014 at 12:57 ---------- Shiregreen has gone to Labour. ---------- Post added 23-05-2014 at 13:00 ---------- Labour win Nether Edge from Lib Dem and hold Hillsborough

UKIP win East Ecclesfield too, apparently.

Greens have taken a seat in Central Ward and Labour have held Arbourthorne

To be fair, our aim this year is defo the 4-day trophy. Historically we've used the 1 day competitions to play younger players. We aren't a one day squad, especially bowling wise.

It is so funny this thread has popped up, it happened to me today in Pitsmoor. I was sat in my bay window next to the front door, postie came up and put a letter and a card through my door. I went down to see what had come and saw the card under the letter, I was sat RIGHT THERE and I can tell you hand on heart he never knocked. In the 5-10 seconds it took me to realise what was happening I could see him off round the corner and knew I'd never have time to put trainers on and get after him as we are the end of the round. I called to complain, they denied that would happen but re-arranged delivery. I swear he didn't attempt to knock, maybe just didn't have the package/letter on him. Hmm..

You've too much time on your hands!

Do you get 1,000 lashes in one go or can you have a few a week spread over the 10 years?

This is actually an important issue for our city and deserves to be treated as such. I'd be very annoyed if the World Championships were to move to China. Yes they could probably generate more money and bigger venues but that only benefits the 32 players who make it there and not really anyone else. Snooker is an institution in Sheffield and we need to do as much as we can to keep it here. Is it feasible to make it more accessible? How can we keep the BBC interested in keeping it on the TV? Sheffield would lose a lot of money if it went and to be honest, a bit of an institution.

Manchester has a much larger urban area than Sheffield does. We are limited to visitors from Mansfield, Chesterfield, Worksop, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster. Even some of those might prefer Nottingham, Derby or Leeds. Manchester can call on Sale, Salford, Stalybridge, Walkden, Swinton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Hyde, Leigh, Altrincham, Wilmslow and even Bolton.

And Donny Rovers!

As much as you'd love to think our investment has stalled, they never were in talks to buy us and this J Hope is a complete nobody. Allow me to borrow a quote from Owlstalk from a poster who was a long serving fans group director until recently: