The Ashes 2019

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askewshair said:
I think it had become a cheap curry 'restaraunt by the early eighties? We did a few runners from there, but later read it was done for using Alsatian meat, so probably honours even?
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You might be right - they sold it around 1970-71, but looking at Google Earth, it still looks like a chippy ?

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tigerscanada said:
You might be right - they sold it around 1970-71, but looking at Google Earth, it still looks like a chippy ?

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Ok, The Curry house I remembered was the other side of the road. In fact, assuming the photo is looking towards Skyrack, I think it is the orange 'shopfront' in the background.
Is this the legendary chippy, which over the years, has featured in numerous cricketers autobiographies and whenever at Headingley, is often referred to on Test Mach Special? Although I level there for two years, I never worked out where it was?
 
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askewshair said:
Ok, The Curry house I remembered was the other side of the road. In fact, assuming the photo is looking towards Skyrack, I think it is the orange 'shopfront' in the background.
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Your bearings are correct - Skyrack is to the right on the same side of the road as the orange shop you mention. Directly opposite Chapel Lane where the chippy is. deffo not there in my days (the curry house that is).
 
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x said:
much preferred the skyrack. which is, of course, a corruption of shire oak.
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Used to go in Skyrack when I lived in Headingley in late 1960s. You could leave a deposit and have a mini barrel filled up to take home and get your money back when you returned. Preferred it to Original Oak. Though my favourite pub was the Welcomb (not a typo) Inn in Tinshill. Used to be one of the best fish and chip shops I have ever been to not far from Skyrack.
 
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Looking forward to seeing my cricket loving father in law who is constantly having a pop about over paid footballers who get rewarded for failure.
 
Unless something miraculous happens over the next couple of days the England bowlers should be claiming all of the players match fees for themselves.
 
askewshair said:
Skyrack probably shaded it when we lived there.Over the last six years or so, the lads I lived with have had an annual reunion, and it seems to change every time I go in. All bright machines and flashing lights, wooden floors etc. Whereas the Oak is just timeless.
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more than a third of a century since my last visit, so there's a fair chance it's not what it was.
 
Plum said:
I think Root's batting has gone downhill because he doesn't like coming in when the ball's only 2 or 3 overs old.
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Certainly, he is much better at 4 when the ball is a bit older, but the openers are getting out so cheaply that even at 4 the ball is still usually quite new. I'm not a lover as a person of Boycott, as I have had experience of an altercation on a golf course with him, and he is not a pleasant chap, but cricket wise he speaks a lot of sense.

Basically, he says that they are playing too much 20/20 etc, and today they have too many shots in their head and just can't get the mindset to bat patiently. He said when his first started his uncle told him that you can't make runs if you are out, so first and foremost you need a good defence. See off the early ball, and then you built your inning from there. This current crop of players just can't bat like that, if the scoreboard isn't ticking along, then they start chasing the ball. They have to learn to bat patiently, leave the ball if it is not threating etc.
 
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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
Certainly, he is much better at 4 when the ball is a bit older, but the openers are getting out so cheaply that even at 4 the ball is still usually quite new. I'm not a lover as a person of Boycott, as I have had experience of an altercation on a golf course with him, and he is not a pleasant chap, but cricket wise he speaks a lot of sense.

Basically, he says that they are playing too much 20/20 etc, and today they have too many shots in their head and just can't get the mindset to bat patiently. He said when his first started his uncle told him that you can't make runs if you are out, so first and foremost you need a good defence. See off the early ball, and then you built your inning from there. This current crop of players just can't bat like that, if the scoreboard isn't ticking along, then they start chasing the ball. They have to learn to bat patiently, leave the ball if it is not threating etc.
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Yes, I had to reluctantly admit that Boycott was talking sense yesterday as far as the cricket was concerned but he was making some dreadfully crude and sleazy remarks towards Isa Guha which just confirms his reputation as a misogynist creep.
 
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Plum said:
Yes, I had to reluctantly admit that Boycott was talking sense yesterday as far as the cricket was concerned but he was making some dreadfully crude and sleazy remarks towards Isa Guha which just confirms his reputation as a mysoginist creep.
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I’m happy to file him under ‘Reactionary English Eccentrics’ and enjoy listening to him as he is interesting, amusing in his own way and usually absolutely spot on in his analysis.

His history of assaulting women (allegedly), rudeness and inappropriate innuendo does not paint him in a good light however. I think that the only reason he is still employed is that the likes of Jonathan Agnew know how to firmly keep him in his place.
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
I’m happy to file him under ‘Reactionary English Eccentrics’ and enjoy listening to him as he is interesting, amusing in his own way and usually absolutely spot on in his analysis.

His history of assaulting women (allegedly), rudeness and inappropriate innuendo does not paint him in a good light however. I think that the only reason he is still employed is that the likes of Jonathan Agnew know how to firmly keep him in his place.
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I’ve filed him under ‘Horrible **** who used to be good at cricket and whose analysis is sometimes spot on when I can bear to listen to it’
 
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dennisboothstash said:
I’ve filed him under ‘Horrible **** who used to be good at cricket and whose analysis is sometimes spot on when I can bear to listen to it’
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Interesting filing category Den.

Anyone else in that folder?


Of course, I’m old school here. 4 drawer metal filing cabinet, with cardboard dividers running on little metal hooks which bend if you get more than a few paper folders in them.


You might be all digital and use a tree, branch an’ leaf system or summut.
 
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