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Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    That's the creature - what about the lakes?
     
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  2. yorkshirehornet

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    Lake Bogoria in Kenya and Lake Natron in Tanzania

    We went to lake Bogoria a few years back when revisiting Mme yorkies childhood
     
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  3. Bolton's Boots

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    That's them...

    Over to you.
     
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  4. yorkshirehornet

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    This weekend why and where were 11 for 10 a record?
     
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  5. yorkshirehornet

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    Clue: Watford
     
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  6. Jsybarry

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    At a guess, I would say that in the last 11 games involving Watford where a side has gone down to 10 men, the home side has won.
     
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  7. yorkshirehornet

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    No..............'reverse' it and then look for the actual era
     
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  8. yorkshirehornet

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    Today is the date.....
     
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  9. yorkshirehornet

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    A Watford record
     
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  10. yorkshirehornet

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    Update
    Watford
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    and the reverse of 10 men in 11 games
     
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  11. Bolton's Boots

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    Am assuming by 'reverse' you mean 11 men in 10 games?

    Is it a record run of unchanged starting teams or something similar?
     
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  12. yorkshirehornet

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    yes... keep on it
     
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  13. yorkshirehornet

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    Clue: a run of 10 games
     
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  14. yorkshirehornet

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    Final clue.... and this is now a gimme who fielded the same eleven when for a tenth consecutive League match – the only such instance in the club’s history.
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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  16. oldfrenchhorn

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    Successive away defeats is 11, back in the early 1950's I think. I thought it had happened earlier, but only guessing really.
     
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  17. yorkshirehornet

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    No.... on this date xxxxxx fielded the same eleven for a tenth consecutive League match – the only such instance in the club’s history.
     
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  18. yorkshirehornet

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    I am giving it to BB as I am off now for a few days.

    He was fairly near:

    • Apr 29 1939 … Bill Findlay fielded the same eleven for a tenth consecutive League match – the only such instance in the club’s history.
     
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  19. Bolton's Boots

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    Typical - I only went back to the 1940s...

    Who managed to get a World Cup winner's medal without ever having played an international match?
     
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  20. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    I still have somewhere in a cupboard a cardboard medal as World Plateball doubles champion. A little known sport I know, played with two plastic dinner plates and a small spongy ball confiscated from a student. A row of chairs across the centre of the staff room acted as "net" and the scoring was similar to tennis. My partner and I overcame the Head of History (a bit past any sort of movement to be honest) and a rather portly Woodwork teacher. Sadly we never represented England at this fine sport, though we did annoy several Times crossworders, one or two sleep-deprived Special Needs teachers and an obsessive knitter. Happy days!

    Is this what you had in mind, BB?
     
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