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SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:08 am
by Russ
Thon time of year once again.
Murray has it sewn up.
AP McCoy 2nd
Farah 3rd
Thanks be to jesus for the expert panel meaning there will be no more embarrassments like Ryan Giggs.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:53 am
by pythagoras
Russ wrote:Thon time of year once again.
Murray has it sewn up.
AP McCoy 2nd
Farah 3rd
Thanks be to jesus for the expert panel meaning there will be no more embarrassments like Ryan Giggs.
Stopped watching this round about the Niiiiigelllll Manselllll won it.
Like A Question of Sport it belongs to another age
If ROG didn't win it in 2009, I can't see Murray winning it this year, boom boom!
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:59 am
by Cap'n Grumpy
pythagoras wrote:Russ wrote:Thon time of year once again.
Murray has it sewn up.
AP McCoy 2nd
Farah 3rd
Thanks be to jesus for the expert panel meaning there will be no more embarrassments like Ryan Giggs.
Stopped watching this round about the Niiiiigelllll Manselllll won it.
Like A Question of Sport it belongs to another age
If ROG didn't win it in 2009, I can't see Murray winning it this year, boom boom!
ROG couldn't win it - Americans are only eligible for
overseas SPotY
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:08 am
by pythagoras
Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Americans are only eligible for overseas SPotY
That's lovely, They win the war for ye and that's the thanks they get, for shame!
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:26 am
by namron
And you lot were a great help !Thanks for the fire engines Dev but my granny's chippy had already burnt down ya bollicks
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:40 am
by pythagoras
namron wrote:And you lot were a great help !Thanks for the fire engines Dev but my granny's chippy had already burnt down ya bollicks
You've placed me in the impossible situation of trying to defend our neutrality without giving any credit to Dev.
We, er, had your back, OK?
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 1:43 am
by pythagoras
LastKnightoftheproms wrote:namron wrote:And you lot were a great help !Thanks for the fire engines Dev but my granny's chippy had already burnt down ya bollicks
Aye, they switched the lights on in Dundalk so the bombers could line up Belfast.
So who are the ten? Or do I have to look it up?
That's what they say in Liverpool too. We didn't turn on our lights, we left them on. We were neutral you see.
That's what neutral countries do.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:09 am
by Russ
You only need to know them 3 Proms!
If you want all 10 however, including one sheep shagging Warren Gatland, then read this list below
Sir Ben Ainslie - Sailing
Ian Bell - Cricket
Hannah Cockroft - Wheelchair athletics
Mo Farah - Athletics
Chris Froome - Cycling
Leigh Halfpenny - Rugby Union
AP McCoy - Horse Racing
Andy Murray - Tennis
Christine Ohuruogu - Athletics
Justin Rose - Golf
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:35 am
by BaggyTrousers
LastKnightoftheproms wrote:pythagoras wrote:
We, er, had your back, OK?
You know what? My wife's late Uncle Hughie who was from Westport would never shut up about that. He often was heard to say the comfort he felt knowing that "you had his back" as he jumped into the dark over Normandy on the 5th of a June 1944. At least, I think that was the gist of it. Hard to make out what he thought between all the swear words.
I think you'll find not all of the entire 26 counties were at home with their lights on. My father for example was in the RAF at the time.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:42 am
by BaggyTrousers
Russ wrote:You only need to know them 3 Proms!
If you want all 10 however, including one sheep shagging Warren Gatland, then read this list below
Sir Ben Ainslie - Sailing -
for America, international section please for this professional traitor
Ian Bell - Cricket
He ain't Freddie, no chance
Hannah Cockroft - Wheelchair athletics
Fulfilling the disabled & female quotas - result
Mo Farah - Athletics
Only good Somali ..............
Chris Froome - Cycling
They've nominated a whole town in Somerset?????????????? WTF
Leigh Halfpenny - Rugby Union
each way bet
AP McCoy - Horse Racing
clearly should win every year but won't
Andy Murray - Tennis
Tah dah, ladies & gentlemen - your winner unless there is a late entry for a Royal
Christine Ohuruogu - Athletics
Amazing how drug cheats are forgiven if they are Brits
Justin Rose - Golf -
Gowf aye right, possible honourable mention
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 9:00 am
by ColinM
Bit unfortunate for Froome really
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 9:37 am
by AndyB
Has to be Murray.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:05 am
by Rooster
Murray and agree AP second and Month third.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:34 am
by Cap'n Grumpy
BaggyTrousers wrote:LastKnightoftheproms wrote:pythagoras wrote:
We, er, had your back, OK?
You know what? My wife's late Uncle Hughie who was from Westport would never shut up about that. He often was heard to say the comfort he felt knowing that "you had his back" as he jumped into the dark over Normandy on the 5th of a June 1944. At least, I think that was the gist of it. Hard to make out what he thought between all the swear words.
I think you'll find not all of the entire 26 counties were at home with their lights on. My father for example was in the RAF at the time.
You'll also find that Allied shipping were able to use southern ports with more ahem .... "flexibility" than they should have had when in a neutral port. RAF and Coastal command planes were able to overfly Donegal with impunity thus extending thie range over the Atlantic significantly and helping considerably to win the war against the U-boats, and also Allied flyers that came down in the republic mysteriously found their way back across the border quite quickly and able to re-enter the war (albeit not in the early days of the war) whereas German flyers who put down there were interned for the duration.
The Free State sided in many ways with the Allies more than a neutral country ever should ... albeit, much of that was under threat of invasion by Churchill through Norn Iron to extract those concessions by force if necessary!
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:00 am
by big mervyn
FFS! It didn't take this thread long to go down the "traditional route".
Still, It's (marginally) more entertaining than SPOTY.