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Big Eddie 
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 Topic: Sheffield Tigers v CaldyPosted: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:31 |
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A trip to Dore Moor is not the way to ease into the rugby season after returning from a fortnight in the Indian Ocean. It is a forbidding place that chills to the marrow. But on Saturday I will travel with the expectation of a warm and hospitable reception from a very real rugby community and the prospect of a real tussle on the pitch.
The last time Caldy played at Dore Moor was their promotion winning season and they faced a determined high quality Sheffield Tigers side with Broadley, Swatkins and Ireland providing a real attacking threat for the home side. Caldy sneaked the win but it was a very even game that so drained the Caldy players and supporters that even though it was a 2 o'clock kick off it took until about 7.30 p.m for the Caldy coach to leave Dore Moor. The B.S.I. three pronged attack is still there for the Tigers and judging by their two opening games they have added more quality and more experience since the sides last met. Caldy face a real test and will have to improve significantly and cut out the errors they made against Chester because unlike Chester the Tigers have a high quality kicker. This is a big game for both sides and it may even be a big flask day for Degsy snr. |
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Deva Delinquent
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Posted: 17 Sep 2019 at 09:37 |
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Tigers will definitely give you a good game, as they did us on the opening weekend.
It was positively tropical for our visit, but winter comes early to Mordor, so don't forget your brolly! Edited by Deva Delinquent - 17 Sep 2019 at 09:38 |
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 17 Sep 2019 at 09:59 |
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That must be the first time that anyone has ever categorised Dore Moor as tropical.............there cannot be a more extreme example of global warming anywhere on the planet.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2019 at 10:11 |
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22c forecast for Sheff on Saturday, so it may well be in double figures up ont' moor
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Posted: 17 Sep 2019 at 10:21 |
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possibly but only in fahrenheit! I was once in New York with the family and our hotel was opposite the Rockefeller Centre where they film Good Morning America. Jet lagged but eager to take the kids around Manhattan on the first Saturday in February I was pleased to see the show playing on the TV in our hotel room showed the early morning temperature as a sunny 14 degrees with a stiffish breeze. Thinking this was a pullover sort of day I dressed accordingly.........everything froze pretty instantly as we left the hotel lobby into 18 degrees of frost feeling like 30 degrees of frost with the wind chill. 14 degrees fahrenheit is really***ing cold
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 06:14 |
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see you there big eddie be good to share a pint with you and derek again
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 09:56 |
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It should be a good match and good craic. Last time at Dore Moor we all stayed late drinking and singing which impressed the hell out of the senior Tigers committee men as most of the Tigers lads had left an hour or so before Caldy.
However all was not quite what it seemed, on the previous away trip an unfortunate incident with the coach's toilet door had led to a one match alcohol ban which thankfully did not extend to any alcohol consumed at Dore Moor. So a 7.30 p.m departure gave a good 3 hours + of drinking time at the very hospitable Sheffield Tigers rugby club. It would be unfair to besmirch the whole of the Caldy playing squad with a perception of beer induced high jinks on coach trips. Any alcohol fuelled whimsy from the players mostly occurs only on the return leg although such a blanket statement does not extend as far as some of the senior travelling committee men. The toilet door incident was a genuine accident. Caldy's then smallest player had waited for an eternity for the completion of a lengthy visit by one of Caldy's biggest players. Neither a grotesquely distended bladder nor the prospect of venturing into the toxic atmosphere created by the bowels of a behemoth was going to slow the desperado's sniping run to salvation. Unfortunately a somewhat panicky and frantic tug at the toilet door handle removed the entire toilet door from its frame. What desperation, what strength. The rest of the journey was somewhat subdued. An "open door" policy is not to be recommended when the door in question is the toilet door of a team coach
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 12:52 |
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Ah Big Eddie I hope you are well ....... Indian ocean ..... ohhhhhhh .....get her !!!
We will be ahead and waiting for your party and the bar will be open ! The rumours are true and the rest of the county is looking like a high of 22 - 23 degrees, so should be around 8 - 9 degrees up at the Dome. Speaking of the Dome, the weather forecast should allow it to be open on Saturday, which is always a bonus. The weather may however dampen your thoughts of our open fire being on, I know you like this because at Paton Field it can be somewhat tricky with naked flames due to the timber frame of your building. I hope we can match you on the field and it will be as entertaining as the last encounter, a bruising one both on and off the pitch. You will be pleased to know we have recruited well over the summer .... we have a new club steward that keeps the beer ice cold (he just opens the cellar doors to the outside elements), a new serving wench that keeps the beer coming, a new chef that makes a fantastic Thai green curry and you want to see the new predictor score gent .... all great signings that have impacted the club greatly this season !!! Take nothing from the first two games the season is early and you are my tip to go straight back up, however if we can give you a good game on the pitch and we win the boat race after ..... that will do for me ! On the kicking front Mark is a few years older now and not the player he was, he can only just get them from the half way these days !! We only wish we could do a American football style ... bring him on to kick .... and take him off, he has let himself go a bit and really could do with a new fitness programme, can Degsy bring his training routine along, Irish might be able to sharpen up a bit ???? (sorry Mark, love you really .... you know how precious 10s are  )Its a bigger game for you guys as we go into it with no expectations apart from to drink beer in great company and have a fantastic day of Rugby in the 8 degree heat ! Which as a club we will try our hardest to facilitate I do have to point out that Degsy seniors entry to the ground depends upon his flask which he will need to show at the gate for entry ...... its been nearly 3 years, I have been waiting a long long time for that flask. TD2
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 13:45 |
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Absolutely brilliant BE and TD. It's what this forum is all about. Predictors and Bookies have Caldy as out and out
favourites . Having played at Dore Moor for 4 seasons I know that the "Peak District Mist" can inspire the Tigers. lads. |
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 13:57 |
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In light of certain recent headlines maybe I should delete the word "Bookies".
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 14:33 |
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Saturday's match will certainly be the battle of the try scorers with the top two all time try scorers in National 2 North lining up against each other with Nic Royle having scored 195 tries In Nat 2 N and Jamie Broadley scoring 159 however if you add to Nic's all time try scoring record in all National Leagues he currently stands at 278 tries in 330 games not a bad average.
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:30 |
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Clearly the out and out favourites in the game Tulip and not the boat race after ???????
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:33 |
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Great stats Workerbee !!!! There will no doubt be trys in the tropical conditions ! And Jamie is only 22 years old ...... still time yet old boy
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Posted: 19 Sep 2019 at 19:24 |
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Jamie must have been 11 when he played with my lad at outside centre for Yorks U 20 s at Twickenham. But lovely hands. |
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Big Eddie
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Posted: 22 Sep 2019 at 14:13 |
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A tremendous day out at Dore Moor with wonderful hospitality from TD and his mates. A proper rugby club. Such was generosity and warmth of the Tigers' welcome most of the Caldy officials were rather bewildered by the time it came to depart a warm and sunny Dore Moor.
The game was played in breezy but warm conditions and Caldy upped their game from a rather lethargic display the previous week against Chester. The Caldy attack was good and sometimes very good but their defensive game was awesome. Stifling, suffocating, shattering any number of adverbs and adjectives could apply to Caldy's defensive line. It took until late in the second half for a piece of typical brilliance from the evergreen Peter Swatkins to get the Tigers onto the scoreboard but by then the game had well and truly gone. Caldy's defence just removed all hope from the very potent Tigers backline. Whatever they tried nothing worked against the Caldy 'Wall', the Tigers couldn't go through it and couldn't go round it and the odd time they tried to go over it the Caldy attack pounced on any wayward kicks. Tigers did have a chance to press the Caldy line mid way through the first half when they hung onto possession for a good 5 or 6 minutes. However starting with pressure on the 5 metre line the intensity of the Caldy defence drove them back to outside the 22 metre line by the time they finally spilled up the ball. This was the pattern of the match and a good Tigers side had no answer. It wasn't quite a master class form the Wirral side as their electric winger Nick Royle ended the match without scoring when he should have bagged a hat trick if the final ball had been delivered to him at the right time, but nevertheless it was a very good performance from all 20 in the Caldy match day squad. Edited by Big Eddie - 22 Sep 2019 at 14:16 |
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Posted: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:43 |
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Perhaps the only disappointment of a great day out with such a friendly and welcoming club was to miss out on their famous Cow Pie.
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Posted: 22 Sep 2019 at 17:12 |
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nice to meet up with TD and the Tigers Fans again, hope to see them on the return.
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is it stours year yet
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