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Salts - Back to the Future? - Devongone - 16-10-2022
Was Salts suffering from a strange glimpse into the future when he enquired about Luke Shaw of Coalville, thinking he was an ex-Chesterfield player. which he almost immediately realised he wasn't?
Yesterday not only did Coalville manage to win away at Notts County in the FA Cup, but who grabbed the 86th winner for them but Luke Shaw.
Now if the draw for First Round Proper pairs Chesterfield and Coalville, get down to Ladbrokes when Salts publishes his prediction.
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - SaltergateBorn - 17-10-2022
If my powers of clairvoyance were as highly developed as that, Dev, I think my performance in the Prediction League would be a teeny weeny bit better than it is. As it happens, a while ago I did have a friend who was genuinely clairvoyant and clairsentient - and proved it to me more than once. There`s an amusing (to me, anyway) story attached to that - concerning the Prediction League, as it goes - that I`ll post at some point if anybody`s interested. I don`t have time at the moment (I`m off to play croquet this afternoon) but if somebody reminds me at some point when I have more time I will.
Luke (not Lee) Shaw is sticking quite a few away for Coalville and they`re having a decent season so far, along with Tamworth and Nuneaton. A couple of years ago I`d have been spoilt for choice; I used to watch all three of them regularly at one time. So if we get drawn away to them, yours truly will be well pissed off. I`m still hoping for hoping for the Bucks at Silverlands, though. I went again on Saturday and as predicted (correctly, for once) Scott Boden is doing well for them
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - Devongone - 17-10-2022
You may be protesting too much Salts. People with clairvoyant abilities often appear not to be in control of them ...... and quite often not even to understand what was being predicted until the event unfolds .......
Let's wait and see if Lee Shaw has any obvious connection to you after tonight's draw. If Coalville pull out either Buxton or Chesterfield, it might be time for the pricking of your thumbs. Let's hope it isn't something wicked which this way comes.
Clairvoyance should be nonsense, but my dad used occasionally to make a strange passing remark which turned out to be the future. Time just gives you a headache when you start to think about it. I'd be fascinated by your amusing story when you have time to share it.
Are you joking about croquet? Who do you play with the Duke of Devonshire and the High Sheriff? Isn't it too cold up in Buxton for croquet now?
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - spireitematt - 17-10-2022
Remember Paul Shaw who played for Chesterfield back in the mid 2000's. Remember he scored the winner against Crewe even though we were already relegated from L1. Think Aaron Downes scored as well at the Cross Street End from a corner.
Did Lee Shaw ever make a 1st team appearance?
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - Devongone - 18-10-2022
Yes, he made several appearances, but he struggled to score, which was supposedly his strength. He tried really hard. He played under Martin Allen didn't he?
He's now playing for Grantham Town.
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - Devongone - 20-10-2022
So Coalville have now to beat Charlton whilst we take Northampton apart to turn Salts psychic. Looks long odds against.
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - SaltergateBorn - 25-10-2022
No, I wasn`t joking about the croquet and I`ll make sure to pass on to the other members of the team the comment about the Duke of Devonshire. They`ll probably stop laughing by Christmas - maybe. A bunch of people less like His Grace would very hard to find. Along with the pẻtanque - that`s on Fridays - it goes into hibernation next week until April.
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - Dancingwilldoit - 25-10-2022
Petanque seems really popular everywhere. There's a large club at Hasland.
Not sure how you do the little > over the e. I'm impressed SGB.
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - Devongone - 25-10-2022
Did BOK make you play Petanque?
What's wrong wi' Crown Green Bowls lad an' a few pigeons on't allotment, when you're not at brass band practice ........ wi't euphonium?
I've never played Petanque despite my A Level French pass. I'd like to though, but nobody can play at anything round Totnes. The England Hockey goalie's from here though, but that's about it, apart from Ollie Watkins from Kingsbridge and Henry Slade from down the road. We're into green issues and most of us are glued to random structures.
Croquet LOOKS quite difficult.
Did you ever play Fives at school? I was very good at it. Would have been my best sport I reckon if more than about eight other people in the universe had been interested in it?
RE: Salts - Back to the Future? - SaltergateBorn - 26-10-2022
So what is it that you`re impressed with, Dancing? The fact that an old fart like me can survive for several hours in the great outdoors twice a week without a defibrillator to hand, or the fact that I can include an acute accent – `un accent aigu`, as BOK would have put it – in a post? I think it`s a an acute and not a grave, but it`s a long time ago now and I really can`t remember. (God, he`d be so ashamed of me if he knew I`d said that.)
I think you were the one who said a while ago that one of your posts had disappeared without trace. It happened to me a couple of times, so if I`m putting up something more than a one or two sentence post I type it out in Word first then do a `copy and paste` job. I`m doing that now. That way, if it all disappears into the ether it`s easy enough to paste it again. I won`t bore you all with the technicalities of how to include accents, circumflexes, cedillas, tildes, haceks and so on, but it`s not difficult. If anybody really, desperately wants to know how, let me know.
I think the reason that pétanque is so popular is that the equipment and facilities you need are so basic. All you need is a patch of waste ground – although a proper boules pitch is definitely better – and some steel balls. (I was tempted to say `balls of steel` there and am immensely proud of the fact that I resisted the temptation. I wish that this be noted and ask that I be given a certain amount of credit for doing so.) The rules are very simple and it can get as competitive as you want it to. It`s good fun with the right crowd.
Croquet is totally different as regards both equipment and terrain. It can also get VERY competitive – brutally so - and is not at all the genteel game that it seems to be at first glance. As it happens, Dev, we play on a crown green that we rent from a local bowls club for one afternoon a week; one of our number, bless `im, decided that playing on a flat lawn would be FAR too easy and that a crown green would be much more `interesting`. It is, although several other adjectives also spring to mind. We play both games under the auspices of U3A, which is a national organisation and I`d be astonished if there isn`t a branch in or around Totnes. Google it if you haven`t heard of it; up here they`re a good crowd and I can recommend it unreservedly. They don`t just do games; they have a painting group, a walking group, a book group, a history group, a Shakespeare group, foreign language conversation groups and so on; really anything in which two or more of the members decide they have a shared interest. It`s a brilliant way of meeting people, especially when you`ve just moved to the area as we have.
No, I didn`t play fives at school but I do remember watching other lads playing it in the court at Sheffield Road; I can`t remember seeing one at Brookside. To my untrained eye it looked a bit like squash for those who couldn`t be arsed or were too tight-fisted to buy a racquet. I didn`t play squash either; far too athletic for me. I may have tried fives once but decided very quickly I was no good at it and I`d rather be playing football or cricket on the `top lawn` instead.
Went to Silverlands again last night. Bloody awful game and I still can`t work out how Buxton managed to win it. They put together one and a half decent moves in the entire game and scored two goals. Scott Boden scored another; that`s about six in six games now.
I cheered myself up afterwards by waddling off down to the only place I`ve found in Buxton where you can get a pint for less than about £4.30. That`s the Wye Bridge – or `the Bridge over the River Wye`, as I prefer to call it. More of a mouthful, but it amuses me. A pint of Ruddles Best for £1.49 a go; it`s a Wetherspoons – obviously. I read somewhere the other day that some city-centre pubs are expecting to be charging £7 a pint by the end of the year. Seven quid! Bloody hell.