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Post by Croc on Apr 27, 2007 12:07:10 GMT
Cheers Darrell - thanks to the info provided by PM - I'm on the coach for tomorrow
IT'S ON!!!!
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Post by Croc on Apr 27, 2007 10:15:47 GMT
Bit late in the day I know - but I can't get a hold of Phil G.
Are there any seats left on the coach to Harrogate - or is there anyone going up with a spare seat in the car.
I don't fancy having to fork out £60 to National Rail for a 12 hour round trip
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Post by Croc on Apr 27, 2007 15:23:24 GMT
items have been sourced
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Post by Croc on Apr 27, 2007 14:28:50 GMT
PM me just to confirm Dave
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Post by Croc on Apr 27, 2007 13:42:34 GMT
had my healthy lunch before the game: Egg,mayo and lettuce baguette from foregate patisserie followed by bacon and egg smothered in tomato sauce from tilleys, and a bottle of water. I have had a cold over the last few days meaning that my asthma is bad at the moment, crap timing, I am still going to play tonight though. f**ks me off I aint had a cold all year meaning my asthma has been fine until now, when the dream will become reality. I had two pints of porter and a chip buttie Although I'll only be on the touchline shouting at people / undertaking the role of physio
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Post by Croc on Apr 18, 2007 13:47:31 GMT
Dave - I have also been in contact with a top level football club with regards to motivational items that will be pinned up around the dressing room on Friday week.
There are some very good 'uns
As for the team talk - I will, with your blessing, do the bit at the end when the Assistant normally roars "Let's go out and ******* do them"
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Post by Croc on Apr 18, 2007 12:08:43 GMT
Belief Focus Committment
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Post by Croc on Apr 18, 2007 10:24:28 GMT
Modern football is akin to a turbulent sea. Changes come fast and furious. One may be riding the crest of great waves before being engulfed in enormous crescendos of confusion. Sometimes is can be like surfboarding in the South Atlantic. You do the best you can to stay afloat while all the time fully understanding the fact that things can come crashing down around you. If you worry about the consequences you miss the thrill of the ride.
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Post by Croc on Apr 17, 2007 20:16:46 GMT
Whether one is blessed with a prodigious flair for articulacy or merely entrusted with a basic monosyllabic uttering of contentment, the relevance of this coming Big Match will stimulate in every blue and white heart at least a temporary escalation in embellished eloquence, so as to allow all an opportunity to express the most wondrous sense of anticipation and excitement that lies within.
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Post by Croc on Apr 17, 2007 11:18:44 GMT
Dave - best for you to read up on this in preparation. www.ronglish.com/I shall be effecting the verbal stylings of Damien Richardson ( www.dangerhere.com/hallofguff/damien_richardson.php ) and the managerial style of Seán Connor... I am also awaiting a delivery of flares for use by the sparse crowd - I expect to also see plenty of flags and such...
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Post by Croc on Apr 16, 2007 11:36:47 GMT
I am also pulling out of Big Match, so there's a managers vacancy if someone wants it. I'm afraid the Morrison debacle has greatly diminished my interest in the club. I'll take the family out for a meal that evening instead. I'll gladly fill the managerial void if that's possible RW
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Post by Croc on Apr 16, 2007 10:32:24 GMT
If cash allows then yes
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Post by Croc on Apr 16, 2007 9:47:28 GMT
I spotted him at the game yesterday - I would have thought he may be at the game tonight
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Post by Croc on Apr 15, 2007 15:04:17 GMT
BM1 - 2,051 BM2 - 739 BM3 - 11,629 BM4 - 72
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Post by Croc on Apr 12, 2007 21:44:43 GMT
I'll have to withdraw as I sustained a nasty back injury yesterday.
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Post by Croc on Apr 16, 2007 22:15:50 GMT
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Post by Croc on Apr 16, 2007 13:09:44 GMT
I'm there!
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Post by Croc on Apr 16, 2007 11:29:42 GMT
Any idea of admission fee tonight?
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Post by Croc on Mar 10, 2007 12:48:28 GMT
The Argus was quicker
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Post by Croc on Mar 9, 2007 18:48:33 GMT
I'd wager on a draw or narrow defeat
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Post by Croc on Mar 9, 2007 18:46:25 GMT
Who exactly sanctioned the interviews that certain people have given to the Press in the last few days?
Seems that the journos involved have just printed anything juicy or controversial just to get decent circulation numbers - trampling all over the relationship that the club and fanbase have worked damn hard to build and maintain since the early days...
One question - will the fans on the receiving end of all this get similar column inches for a right to reply - I somehow think not...
He's been pretty much all over the papers the last few days. It's handy for the hacks who don't want to spend too much time or effort on local football to have a rentaquote at their beck and call.
He's doing plenty bigging himself up - it will all end in tears, mark my words.
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Post by Croc on Feb 14, 2008 20:34:28 GMT
The famous O'Tardelly family of Athlone iirc
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Post by Croc on Feb 6, 2008 18:55:10 GMT
i'm currently registered to vote in Irish elections (Local Council, Dáil and European Elections) - and we use the PR-STV system.
And it works pretty well tbh
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Post by Croc on Feb 6, 2008 9:13:48 GMT
I like to keep abreast of almost all current affairs - mostly political stuff.
You should see me during the Irish Elections explaining Single Transferable Vote and the Quota System.
Plus I've worked with and speak to a helluva lot of American colleagues regularly - some of whom are heavily involved with campaigning.
Lastly - I love The Daily Show
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Post by Croc on Feb 6, 2008 8:45:43 GMT
MSNBC's Chuck Todd estimates that Obama and Clinton's delegate counts from tonight will be basically split exactly down the middle. If that is what happens (we won't know the real numbers until tomorrow) it's a huge, huge win for Obama, considering that people were talking about keeping the delegate deficit under 100 as a win. He also won the states 13-8, with New Mexico still undecided.
Obama, at the moment, seems better positioned to win a war of attrition. He brought in significantly more money than Clinton in January, and if he keeps that up, he can really press his momentum.
Hillary's pollster said earlier Tuesday that Hillary wanted to debate Obama as much as possible going forward, going so far as to say that they wanted to debate once a week. One of the pundits speculated that she's looking to get free air time because she doesn't have the money to get on often otherwise.
Not a brilliant night, but you have to be happy with it if you're for Obama. His speech was fantastic, by the way.
Bankruptcy of the Clinton strategy is showing tonight. If you only focus on the 'big' states, you lose everything else.
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Post by Croc on Feb 5, 2008 20:17:58 GMT
In simple terms - a Caucus is when the grassroots members of the parties get together in a meeting and decide amongst themselves who they will back as a candidate. Primaries are a straight vote-off (as in a traditional election scenario).
Delegates to national party conventions are selected through direct primary elections, state caucuses, and state conventions. The process continues through June, but in previous cycles, the Democratic and Republican candidates were effectively chosen by the March primaries. This is due to winning candidates collecting a majority of committed delegates to win their party's nomination. Most third parties select delegates to their national conventions through state conventions.
Both systems send a number of "delegates" to the National Conventions held in August/September - there they will carry out the "will of the Primaries" and select which candidate goes forward to the US Presidential Elections in November.
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Post by Croc on Feb 5, 2008 18:22:18 GMT
Tim - let's just hope Iran doesn't annoy old Georgie Boy before he leaves office - then some people may actually get their wish...
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Post by Croc on Feb 5, 2008 14:09:58 GMT
as i said before - if you don't wish to contribute in any useful way - then don't be wasting my bandwidth with comments like the above.
You're quite welcome to stay in your insular little hovel, getting excited about some footballer's legs and wondering if that big flaming ball in the sky will come back the next day - some of us are actually following this type of thing that WILL have an effect on world events over the next few years - to paraphrase the well-known saying "When America sneezes - the rest of the world catches a cold"
Or I could simply start deleting such stuff - doesn't bother me either way.
All I can surmise is between some people in this thread and the one on the press coverage a couple of days ago - this place has noticeably gone downhill.
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Post by Croc on Feb 5, 2008 13:59:07 GMT
Reports I've read just now - Obama leads Clinton by 12 points in California according to a CNN/Zogby/BBQ/Reuters/Sheinhardt Wig Company poll.
One of the projected "too close to call" states looks like it's swinging Obama's way.
Very interesting...
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Post by Croc on Feb 5, 2008 13:55:48 GMT
Projections show that a candidate needs about 2,000 delegates from the Primaries to win the outright nomination for progression to the Main Elections:
of the states above, based on raw estimates and not district and precinct math, I come up with roughly
13 states for clinton 9 states for obama
832 delegates for clinton 802 delegates for obama
add the numbers I spitballed for the unpolled states (very difficult to figure out since half of them are caucuses)
and the total is
1046 delegates for clinton 1018 delegates for obama
clinton + 28 delegates
since around iowa they've called a 80-120 delegate gap for obama, I would say this is good news. especially considering he's far better at retail politics and will be able to go back to a campaign that suits his style.
I don't know if/how this will affect the race for superdelegates (who can switch their nominations at any point).
(this also doesn't include the democrats abroad or american samoa)
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