"Beefy's Corner".......For all off Topic threads

Do you partake of the most excellent Fighting Talk on R5?

 

Anybody get into the London marathon for next year? Fourth consecutive year I've been rejected! Sucks because when I first applied they had a system in place whereby if you were unsuccessful 3 times then you were guaranteed a place in the next one. But they ditched that because of the sheer number of people that apply. I'll keep applying though, and in the meantime apply for the Brighton one instead.

 

Are you a CB with pace?

 

I'm not a CB...but I do have pace. I suppose compromises must be made

 

......Hampshire Hawks that is!.......Sorry if this is off topic, but for those interested, Eurosport are covering the whole T20 tournament.
The Hawks play their first match in the qualifying stage against Aukland Aces at 12:30pm tomorrow.
Come on U Hawks!

 

Oh dear you may be getting a slapped wrist! And by the way it's Hampshire Royals!

 

Ah yeah, I keep forgetting that Uncle Rod sold out to the "Royals" franchise...

 

Hope you enjoyed it. They are better than that usually. Yes, why indeed do the pundits persist in thinking Cortese will act just like any other Chief Exec..? Because they have almost nothing to go on. Cortese doesn't give away any clues, and keeps a low profile. And I am so pleased he plays it that way. So the pundits adopt default position 1 - not winning enough games, so must be a favourite to be sacked. Never mind the fact that Adkins is acting within a strategy that He, Cortese and Reed are working with. I also note that Lawrenson adopted default position 2 - don't know anything about the present day club, but now they're rich and seem to be well run, hence default position, Saints are a well run club. Just like they were said to be when Lowe and Co were in charge, except this time the default position is accidentally correct..!

 

Thanks for that, I was wondering if it was being shown over here. A massive ask for the Royals to win this thing given the quality teams from the IPL and Big Bash plus Saffer teams playing at home.

On a side note I wonder if there are any players that have two teams in the competition and who they would represent if this is the case as some players play in the big bash, IPL and our own T20 comp. I know luke Wright did this year but not sure if his teams made it.

Good to see the Hampshire brand being exposed on the world stage, with Saints signing the likes of Gaston, Yoshida and Mayuka to expose us to different corners of the world the area is certainly being put on the world map. (had to try and slip a Saints related point in I guess!)

 

Not massive, a big ask but with "Boom Boom" Afridi in the side anything can happen! And Maxwell is playing - 2 very good spinners and both can hit the ball out of the park.

 

Evening all - anyone have an idea when Liverpool away tickets (01 December) are likely to be on sale ?

 

How does Hampshire acquire the Royals tag?

 

It's happened when Shane Warne was playing for Rajasthan Royals in the IPL. I don't know the exact details but I assume it was Warne who created the link between Hampshire and Rajasthan.

 

Is anyone else having problems with this site ? Using my phone ? Keeps crashing .

 

Are you using the default internet app on your phone?, if so that's why.

 

Sorry poorly written again , I mean I am using the phone as a substitute , my pc for this site only was really really slow and nothing else was , seems fine now though , bizarre .

 

It happens from time to time. Not sure if it's due to traffic or maintenance but it's pretty annoying.

 

Arh so i am not going mad , I thought this is very strange as I had others apps all fine working but this one was slow , tried my phone and it worked fine ? All good now though .

 

Yes there was a franchise agreement between Rajastan and Hampshire where both sides would be called the royals and wear the same colour kit (blue). The idea was to also share players, Dimi Mascheranas played for them in the IPL. There was something dodgy that went on with them so the franchise idea didn't go as far as they wanted.

 

It is early.