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Big Eddie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Status: Offline Points: 5043 |
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I have just read Austin Healey's article in the Daily Telegraph about Caldy's promotion to the Championship.........he is talking more boll*x than usual.
I quote Mr Healey..."Caldy have got into the Championship based on natural local talent plus a huge amount of support from Sale Sharks who have let Caldy use their young Academy players. Caldy have in turn become something of a feeder club......" Did Mr Healey check with Caldy RFC or Sale Sharks before he wrote this utter tosh? I am sure Sale Sharks will be embarrassed by Mr Healey's crass and hugely inaccurate comments which undermine everything Caldy stands for and through innuendo slights Caldy's incredible achievement and all of Caldy's own players. For the record: Sale Sharks provided Caldy with two players at the start of the 2022 season and the two players played one game before Sale Sharks told Caldy that they were moving the two players to RGC. One player asked to stay at Caldy whiich he did. Throughout the season Nye Thomas (the other player) started two games for Caldy (lasted only 15 minutes before being injured in his first game) and came off the bench for two games. That is the sum total of Sale Sharks' huge amount of support' '...........just pathetic by Austin Healey. Sale Sharks are totally blameless in this but Austin Healey has pi**ed off everyone at Caldy! In one article Austin Healey has just denigrated everything Caldy is about!!! Edited by Big Eddie - 29 Apr 2022 at 09:37 |
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castleparknight ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Location: Doncaster Status: Offline Points: 3007 |
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Hi BE
Please don’t take what that waste of oxygen says as anything other than human waste product, the man seems to have this uncanny ability to talk from his derrière.
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Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny!
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cheshire exile ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Status: Offline Points: 2482 |
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You actually read the Telegraph?
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Stalwart ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Location: Penzance Status: Offline Points: 2146 |
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Typical lazy journalism - can't be bothered to check the facts before mouthing off. Disgraceful.
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Big Eddie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Status: Offline Points: 5043 |
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I am still incensed now.
Sale FC used 10 Sale Sharks dual reg players during the course of their National 1 season. That is fine as that is Sale FC's model and good luck to them. However, that isn't Caldy's rugby model. "As far as we can with our lads"..........that is Caldy's model. Anyone would think that Austin Healey's crass hugely inaccurate spin was prompted by the RFU who want the Championship sides all to be Premiership clubs 'A sides' and don't want the notion that a small rugby club can do it with their own players to get traction.
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HAVANT TONY ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 07 Oct 2018 Location: Havant Status: Offline Points: 560 |
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Austin Healey annoys the brown stuff out of me, his commentary on BT sport can "at times" can be quite knowledgeable and informative but good god I'm sure he thinks he is a comedian and trust me he AIN'T!
His knowledge of Caldy must be pure guesswork so isn't worthy of being taking seriously just like 98% of his pundit commentary
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WEvans ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 08 Dec 2016 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 1456 |
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It would be nice if the discredited Healey offered an apology to the good folk at Caldy but I won't hold my breath.
On my part belated congratulations to Caldy on one of the greatest achievements in English rugby for many years. They are England's club of the year by a country mile.
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Big Eddie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Status: Offline Points: 5043 |
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The cartel that is the Premiership sponsored by the RFU would very much have wanted Sale FC to win through to the Championship because that would reinforce their Premiership/Premiership A side Championship rugby model.
The fact that a small rugby club like Caldy with no RFU funding, growing its own players, providing a pathway for other local players can win through to the Championship throws the 'England Academy' structure into very sharp relief. How could this little club win through against the 'might' of the Premiership Academy resources? By having the traditional values of Club Rugby running through its DNA that's how. The RFU and the Premiership seem hell bent on destroying this at Championship level........and of course for Mr Healey it is unfathomable that this could ever have happened without the 'huge support from Sale Sharks' I reckon Mr Healey and most of those atop of the RFU and in the Premiership do not understand anything about proper Club Rugby
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Big Eddie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Status: Offline Points: 5043 |
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Thank you for your support WEvans. This isn't just about Caldy, in my view this is about the soul of English Club rugby. That is why I am so incensed by the patronising clap trap and nonsense served up by Mr Healey Kind Regards Big Eddie
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Count Ford ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 20 May 2017 Location: WA4 Status: Offline Points: 412 |
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Isn't Austin an ex Waterloo man. Might it be a bit of jealousy creeping out
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Count Ford ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 20 May 2017 Location: WA4 Status: Offline Points: 412 |
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Just checked and yes also went to St Anselms. I suspect then, its just a case of him not having a clue what goes on in 'the community game'
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FHLH ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Cambridge Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Location: Cambridge Status: Offline Points: 5330 |
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I dropped a question to the Telegraph re this. Let's see if they reply!
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"My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts."
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Big Eddie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Status: Offline Points: 5043 |
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Thanks indeed FHLH, this is about our game and we need to ensure that spin and innuendo do not take us down the Premiership A league path
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Deva Delinquent ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 24 May 2017 Location: Chester Status: Offline Points: 1892 |
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This is par for the course with Healey, he's at it for every game he's commentating on and I don't think he'll ever change.
Don't feed the trolls, it's what they thrive on.
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Full Bodied Red ![]() British and Irish Lion ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Location: East Yorkshire Status: Offline Points: 211 |
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Is this the Austin Healey who denigrates forwards’ intelligence regularly in commentary but is never pulled up about it? I wonder why his commentating colleagues put up with his constant carping and snide remarks. We turn the sound down when he’s on.
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Albert Fishwick ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Location: Leeds Status: Offline Points: 1062 |
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He started early. I can remember him strutting around my local in Leeds when he was at Carnegie College and he wasn't short of an opinion then.
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That's easy for you to say.
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tigerburnie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 10 Jun 2012 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 3733 |
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Healey was a great player, but is an absolute duck of a person, was extremely pleased when he was battered by Ben Kay on the tv excuse for a show they used to be on.
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Big Eddie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Status: Offline Points: 5043 |
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I have submitted a letter of complaint to the Daily Telegraph using the link that FHLH kindly provided
this isn't a trivial matter. Austin Healey's article is akin to suggesting that Liverpool FC's fantastic season so far is actually down to the huge support provided by Chelsea because Mo Salah once played for Chelsea.............I am still incensed
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Steve@Mose ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2799 |
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Austin Squealy should never to be taken as a serious source of knowledge. The Leicester Drip occasionally raises a sensible point in match commentary, but his innate bias quickly resurfaces alongside his misplaced self-belief in his comedic skills. He is thin-skinned and despite dishing out his opinions can't take returned banter.
His post-rugby career at Credit Suisse seems to have been the most appropriate career move - becoming a wee merchant banker.
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