Comments on: Newcastle United – News Roundup – 14 August 2009.

By: Hugh de Payen

Hugh de Payen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:49:43 +0000

lol, you gotta love Rolf.

By: workyticket

workyticket — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:27:29 +0000

Hugh,

My friend had to do some story on Rolf’s house flooding. Apparently it was an annual event, and they covered the same, boring story every year. Anyway, the year before, someone else reported on it and they got something wrong, so Rolf told my friend “If you get it wrong this time, I’ll beatheshiddouddayer!”

By: Hugh de Payen

Hugh de Payen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:41:06 +0000

Really? I can’t imagine Rolf putting much fear into people unless he threatens to whip out his didgeridoo.

By: workyticket

workyticket — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:34:52 +0000

Hugh,

I used to know a journalist, and he told me that Rolf once threatened to “beat the sh*t” out of him.

By: Hugh de Payen

Hugh de Payen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:28:40 +0000

Lol, yeah Sid Waddell’s a talent alreet. He’s up there with Rolf Harris amongst my all time favourite people.

By: workyticket

workyticket — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:20:37 +0000

I miss the sheepdog trials on telly, I used to love watching Phil Drabble and the gang in “One man and his dog”.

But of course, watching Northumberland’s greatest ever linguistic genius, Sid Waddell, commenting on the darts is the pinnacle of all sport. No question about it!

By: UTD111

UTD111 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:57:53 +0000

Ladies Beach Volleyball is a fascinating game – its so complicated, I have to watch for hours to figure out the amazing tactics etc

By: Hugh de Payen

Hugh de Payen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:42:53 +0000

Beye, I don’t actually dislike cricket, I’m just not particularly good at it.

I can watch most sports actually, although I draw the line at things like ice dancing, synchronised swimming and anything to do with horses (I mean, WTF is ‘dressage’ all about?).

By: beyethegreat

beyethegreat — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:35:37 +0000

Hugh de Payen says:
August 14, 2009 at 8:40 am
I do have a bit of a ‘Friday feeling’ and it has been an odd week. I play village cricket for possibly the worst team in the country, yet we won a match this week – our first ever win – which felt like winning the Ashes and has put me in a strange euphoric mood.

Either that or it’s the drugs

hugh ive been there i used to play for u 13s and 15s for 3 years and im pretty sure we were worse than you and in those 3 years we won 1 game against morpeth(i think)and we cheated by using overage players the problem was that no one on our team except a couple actually liked cricket we just played it because there was nothing else to do

By: Hugh de Payen

Hugh de Payen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:06:17 +0000

geordie deb says:
August 14, 2009 at 9:21 am (Edit)

Cricket – now there’s a sport I don’t understand one iota, but well done on the historic win Hugh!

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‘Morning deb.

I’m not sure I understand cricket either, which might be one reason our team is so dreadful.

I am very bad at most sports. I always wanted to be good at football of course but I’m an oaf. I suppose I can bowl quite fast at cricket, which at the level we play is sometimes enough, but I’m not particularly good at that game either. I tried racket sports such as tennis and squash but I was just too uncoordinated. I did some boxing for a while too, which I was a tiny bit better at, although I got beaten up more often than not and eventually quit because it hurt too much. The boxing led me to weight training though and I did some power-lifting for a few years, which I wasn’t too bad at for a while, but my right knee and lower back gave way under a 450lb squat once and the injuries niggled thereafter, so I had to give that up. And my golf is just laughable – I played twice a week, solidly, for about 3 years and the best I could manage was a 24 handicap and a lot of lake work.

So, anyone for a game of darts?