Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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Downthe36 said:
Very good, I had no idea that Mark Wotte was in that role at the moment.

Just a thought, did you see the recent announcement of a 2nd chance scheme that Saints were launching for youngsters that had not been kept on by their respective academies. It's being welcomed as a step change by a lot of coaches who are convinced a lot of talent is going missing. A piece on players who had been rejected by their academies and gone on to forge successful careers for themselves and the changes a 2nd chance scheme will make would make a very good subject to get your journalistic teeth into. I was thinking of doing it myself, but I'm not giving my Open University work the attention it is due at the moment!
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This is exactly something that I am working on right now!

I've been in touch with some Development Officers from around the Football League and also some independent academies.

Also an ex-player or two who had the same issue. Hopefully I can pick up enough content from them.
 
- Doing The Lambert Walk said:
This is exactly something that I am working on right now!

I've been in touch with some Development Officers from around the Football League and also some independent academies.

Also an ex-player or two who had the same issue. Hopefully I can pick up enough content from them.
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Ha ha...great minds!

Seriously, do it right and that would make a great article!
 
Gay Bacon Strips said:
I don't know how I would react if a driver died these days, especially someone of Senna's calibre. The scary thing is there have been so many instances where a driver could easily have died if they'd had their accidents, say, 20 years ago.
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Marco Simoncelli's crash and death in MotoGP the year before last bought it all home again.
 
Gay Bacon Strips said:
I don't know how I would react if a driver died these days, especially someone of Senna's calibre. The scary thing is there have been so many instances where a driver could easily have died if they'd had their accidents, say, 20 years ago.
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Wasn't long ago that it happened in IndyCar. Didn't see it live, but I switched over to it after hearing that there was a massive crash, and the shot of Wheldon's car getting airborne was enough to know that it was fatal. Those cars do not belong on ovals.
 
TheSecondStain said:
This must some new and, as yet, little known meaning of the word rubbish. Unless, of course, it is the football fan version of the term, meaning that the product/performance is some tiny fractions of a percentage point down on scintillating, and therefore rubbish.

Is that fair..? :)
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I chose not to bite ;)
 
Gay Bacon Strips said:
I don't know how I would react if a driver died these days, especially someone of Senna's calibre. The scary thing is there have been so many instances where a driver could easily have died if they'd had their accidents, say, 20 years ago.
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Don't forget Surtees junior getting killed or Derek Warwicks brother ......
 
Number 1 Jasper said:
Don't forget Surtees junior getting killed or Derek Warwicks brother ......
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Surtees was, unfortunately, the kind of thing that no safety precaution can really prevent, so long as you have open cockpit cars; I cringe every time I see a wheel and suspension (intentionally) shear off in a crowd for that reason.
 
Downthe36 said:
Marco Simoncelli's crash and death in MotoGP the year before last bought it all home again.
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Marco's crash was horrific. Not because it was especially gory, it wasn't. It was that it happened right in front of the viewer, and you knew that, if he came out of that alive he was going to be severely brain injured for the rest of his life, because his crash helmet was pulled off. Personally, I think he ran a size a tad too big to accommodate his huge amount of hair. He was a prodigious talent on a bike. There was also Shoya Tomizawa, in Moto2 at Misano in 2010. I'll never forget that one either. Poor bugger didn't stand a chance.
 
TheSecondStain said:
Personally, I think he ran a size a tad too big to accommodate his huge amount of hair.
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There was probably an element of that involved. Having said that, the impact tore his helmet strap off, the impact needed to do that would surely been enough to kill him anyway. It's not like his helmet was removed, then a secondary impact to his unprotected head killed him.
 
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