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1 How many goals has Jaime Vardy scored for Leicester City in all competitions?

2. David Gower was one of Leicestershire’s best ever batsmen. How many test runs did he score?

3. Martin Johnson of the Leicester Tigers was one of English rugby’s greatest Captains. How many caps for England?

4 A blonde member, arbboy, holds the record for the highest individual points tally in a game for the Leicestershire county basketball league in 2000. How many points?

5. Leicester City’s owners King Power have a string of racehorses in training. How many flat winners have they had over the last five seasons in England?

6. Welford Road is the largest club rugby ground in England. What is the current ground capacity?

7. Who were the only two players who were ever-present for the club in the Premier League in Leicester City’s title winning season?

8. Leicestershire play at Grace Road. On 16th July 2020 a successful pop vocal group who have sold over 45m records are due to be playing an open air concert at the venue. Which group?

9. The Leicester Riders are a professional basketball team in the British Basketball League and in 2018 represented British basketball by playing in the FIBA Europe Cup. In what year were they founded?

10. Gary Lineker played in 194 games for Leicester. How many goals did he score?

Question 8 is it a numbers question?

no, name the group

50 points off your total score if you get it right

question 7

50 points off for each

yes, i hve just thought about that

In.

Low bar set.

Probably just lowered it.

Tighty threw me off with the random no number questions.

Also, if everyone can enter the non-sporting variant in The Lounge that would be much appreciated.

In.  Unfair advantage for me given i grew up in Leicestershire as a kid and one of the questions is about me.   Plenty of variance still in the big number questions to give it a stab.

In and sent

sent  ;carlocitrone;

surely there is no way no 4 is true?

True story fat boy.   Some of us were athletes in our previous life.   Got the scorecard to prove it as well. 

Amazing.

Must have been a shit standard.

Chortle

i made you a 1/2 shot to be the first to comment.  Gamble landed!

:)

IN!

I'm in. Feeling confident.

9 entries so far

Scores are...interesting.

reveal sometime this week

an hour spare he we go

1

Jamie Vardy has scored 126 goals for Leicester City

Answers and scores

karmadope   123   3
sonour   120   6
juperjiper   134   8
rubbish   116   10
arbboy   142   16
dacorb   110   16
celtic           186   60
scotty2hatty 200   74
ripple           201   75
Karabiner   279   153

2 Goiwer scored 8,231 test runs

the haves and the have nots here..

rubbish            8200   31
arbboy            8311   80
sonour            8100   131
karmadope            8364   133
ripple                    7888   343
Karabiner            3079   5152
dacorb            2800   5431
celtic                    1432   6799
scotty2hatty         800   7431
juperjiper            133   8098

it has to be said, gower would be unlikely to be a question with 133 test runs

Scores

medals

rubbish         41
arbboy         96
karmadope         136

---

sonour         137
ripple                 418
Karabiner         5305
dacorb         5447
celtic                 6859

-----

relegation

scotty2hatty      7505
juperjiper         8106

3 84 test caps for Johnno


arbboy                  84   0
celtic                          87   3
rubbish                  87   3
juperjiper                  89   5
Karabiner                  79   5
scotty2hatty               65   19
karmadope                  105   21
dacorb                  105   21
ripple                          55   29
sonour                  50   34

scores



rubbish         44
arbboy         96
karmadope         157
---
sonour         171
ripple                 447
Karabiner         5310
dacorb         5468
celtic                 6862
----
scotty2hatty      7539
juperjiper         8111

4 Arbboy 95 points!

he got his own question right

Karabiner                  39   56
scotty2hatty               34   61
arbboy                  95   0
karmadope                  50   45
sonour                  40   55
dacorb                  60   35
ripple                          88   7
celtic                          56   39
rubbish                  36   59
juperjiper                  66   29

and into the lead

arbboy         96
rubbish         103
karmadope         202
---
sonour         226
ripple                 454
Karabiner         5366
dacorb         5503
celtic                 6901
---

scotty2hatty      7600
juperjiper         8140

166 winners for king power racing

Karabiner                     19   145
scotty2hatty                  80   86
arbboy                     35   131
karmadope                     100   66
sonour                     100   66
dacorb                     30   136
ripple                             60   106
celtic                             0   166
rubbish                     72   94
juperjiper                     33   133

celtic! impressive


rubbish         197
arbboy         227
karmadope         268
sonour         282
ripple                 640
Karabiner         5511
dacorb         5539
celtic                 6901
scotty2hatty      7591
juperjiper         8277

welford road 25,849

big scores, come on in, big scores!

Karabiner                  57179   31330
scotty2hatty               15000   10849
arbboy                  25500   349
karmadope                  25000   849
sonour                  30000   4151
dacorb                  34000   8151
ripple                          34000   8151
celtic                          53001   27152
rubbish                  26450   601
juperjiper                  45678   19829


oh boy

arbboy   445
rubbish   798
karmadope    1051
---

sonour   4433
ripple           8791
dacorb   13690
scotty2hatty 18354
juperjiper   28106
---

celtic          34053
Karabiner   36841

Schmeichel and Morgan everpresent

other answers included albrighton and Kante

Karabiner                  KS, WM   -100
scotty2hatty               KS, MA   -50
arbboy                  KS, WM   -100
karmadope                  KS, WM   -100
sonour                  KS, WM   -100
dacorb                  KS, NK   -50
ripple                         KS, NK   -50
celtic                          KS, WM   -100
rubbish                  KS, MA   -50
juperjiper                  KS, WM   -100


overall



arbboy   345
rubbish   748
karmadope    951
sonour   4333
ripple    8741
dacorb   13640
scotty2hatty 18304
juperjiper   28006
celtic           33953
Karabiner   36748

watlife are due to play grace road this summer

two people got it right and lose 50 points, karmadope and dacorb

sonour passed and has a 100 pojnt penalty



arbboy   345
rubbish   698
karmadope    901
sonour   4433
ripple           8741
dacorb   13590
scotty2hatty 18485
juperjiper   28006
celtic           33953
Karabiner   36748

two rounds to go

the Riders formed in 1967

Karabiner         1979   12
scotty2hatty      1990   23
arbboy         1972   5
karmadope         1964   3
sonour         1980   13
dacorb         1970   3
ripple                 1961   6
celtic                 2014   47
rubbish         1979   12
juperjiper         1996   29




arbboy   350
rubbish   710
karmadope    904
sonour   4446
ripple     8747
dacorb   13593
scotty2hatty 18508
juperjiper   28035
celtic          34000
Karabiner   36760



            

Can I do a Scurlogue Champ after giving everyone a big start is the burning question..

Lineker 95 goals for Leicester

Karabiner            129   34
scotty2hatty         90   5
arbboy            105   10
karmadope            100   5
sonour            150   55
dacorb            110   15
ripple                    124   29
celtic                    101   6
rubbish            95   0
juperjiper            87   7

final scores


arbboy   360   
rubbish   710   
karmadope    909   
sonour   4501
ripple    8776   
dacorb   13608   
scotty2hatty 18513   
juperjiper   28042   
celtic          34006   
Karabiner   36794   

the Leicestershire favourite wins!

The rugby-ground capacity got me bigtime because I'm sure in the Cardiff edition there was a ground that had a record over 50K.

I demand a stewards' enquiry!

Cheers Tighty

mid table ;yippee;

Can I have the details of this basketball game. Who were the other 9 players on the court?

I was too slow to enter this one, but I wouldn't have troubled the top of the table!

Cheers Tighty. I though t the horse racing question might have been a trick question 🙄

Shocker again!

95pts in a game Arb? Wtf?!

18 3 pointers.  Steph Curry before his time i was back then at county league level!   I will dig out the score card to prove it if i can find it!  I got subbed out with 3 minutes left having no idea i was anywhere close to a ton!  To say i was fucked off afterwards with the coach was an understatment.

95 points, jeez, are you 7 foot 4 or something?

Darn, forgot this one and would have done pretty well

Arb, 95 points, thats incred. I couldn't hit 18 3 pointers against a team full of 3 year olds if I played for an hour

Top bombing Arbboy.  Kept that well hidden, and presumably hard to google.  Just thinking back to some of our school matches and very much doubt we ever hit 95 between us (probably including both teams).

Before i entered the gambling industry and had to quit playing at 26.   I played in the national league for 8 seasons before i had to quit playing because of joining 365.  Couldn't play and work weekends.  Previously was 9-5 mon to friday clean living out of uni.   Impossible to google but i will try and find the score card.  I'd already played a national league game in the afternoon for Northampton and drove straight to Market Harborough after that game to take a big drop down in class to play for the team that got me started when i was a kid at 13.  Fun times can still remember it like it was yesterday.  Think the stats guy said i was 18-33 on three point attempts that night.  Was pretty crazy.  I fouled out 5 of the opposition as well and took loads of free throws as well.  just a perfect storm really shame i never made a ton.

http://www.northampton-neptunes.co.uk/home.htm

This was the last national league side i played for.  I part owned them as well in my last season with two of the other players as the previous owner quit and the club would have folded otherwise.  No idea if it is still running now

I've seen European Basketball league matches where the combined score was less than 95 points (actually just skimmed this seasons results and the lowest I could see was 60-55 but very few teams shoot 95 in the entire game).

Final score of this game was 123-122.  I found the scorecard and press cutting for the game in the local rag inside the score card.   Was 16 3's not 18!

The 1990's was the pinnacle of UK basketball albeit on a world scale it was still a terrible standard.  The British league (the BBL) was live on sky sports every week presented by Suzanne Dando if anyone remembers her?  Was married amazingly to the infamous Andy Gray of Sky sports football in that era.  The relative TV money meant much better quality imports were attracted to the league for 5-10 year period riding off the dream team/Jordan's global explosion selling trainers etc.  The british style of play in that era was very Kevin Keegan (we will outscore you rather than worry about defending like the major Euro leagues were).

The coaches in that era looking back were different class we just didn't realise at the time how many talented young coaches we had in the English game.  They played a high octane shooting 3's style of plaay which was 20 years ahead of the curve in terms of the modern game.  The current NBA champions head coach Nick Nurse plied his trade through the 1990's in England.  Coaching Birmingham, Manchester and London Towers who he took into the Euro League (champions league equiv for basketball football wise) which was unheard of any English team even being able to compete at that level financially.  Other coaches in England from that era included Chris Finch for Sheffield who went on to coach in the NBA as well.   Leicester also had a couple of crazy American coaches who went onto much bigger things in the Chinese league whiich is huge money wise.

One of the rolls royce players of the English league in the 1990's is the father of a current footballer who captains a team in the EPL.   Any guesses who the captain is?  His brother plays in the English basketball league now as well.

The boom ended and sent a lot of the teams busto in the early 2000's and the league has never recovered.  Sky tv money ended and ITV digital (remember them?) took on the tv deaal but went bust and left clubs with multi year player contracts that they couldn't afford to pay.

I never watched on Sky but wasn't UK basketball on channel 4 before Sky?  Pretty sure I watched it there, but might be getting it wrong.

Yes think that was in the 1980's when Kingston (now Guildford) were dominating the game.  The main player in that era was a little yank guy called Alton Byrd.   Remember him?  Alan Cunningham and Colin Irish also played for them and i played against them a couple of times when they were playiing down the leagues in their 40s and they were still different class.

Manchester United had a big team in that era who were linked to the football club amazingly.

http://www.bbl.org.uk/leicester-riders-retain-rema-lascelles-for-2018-19/

Answer to the quiz question if anyone wanted to know.

Yeah I remember Alton Byrd, but don't remember much else.   When things moved to Sky I tended to lose interest.  Just found some videos on youtube from the time.  Of course Kabbadi was the nut sporting program at the time.  Used to love the Tour De France with Robert Millar (as was) and the Kraftwerk theme too.   

C4 was mental for sport in that era.  They had Italian football which was easily the best league iin the world then.  Imagine c4 being able to afford the EPL nowadays?

I used to love going to watch the Birmingham bullets when I was growing up at the NIA - massive arena every week. I remember the team still now and I hope I got the details right. Tony Dorsey (scoring machine at forward), Nigel Lloyd (smooth shooting guard), Steadroy Baker (diminutive point guard whose bro also played in the league), Trevor Gordon (big angry centre who joined for the a year or two but left in acrimony when he allegedly smashed the league trophy), Fabulous Flouneroy (spelling?) - great name. Nick Nurse coaching.

Was a great atmosphere to take kids to sport. Very positive family entertainment, unlike over at St Andrews!

Fantastic memory from that long ago.   That was probably the greatest era of Bullets history those couple of years.  Nurse recruited Dorsey from much higher standard Euro league on a huge salary and he was the best player in the league for five years straight.  He followed Nurse to Manchester i think when they were putting 15,000 bums on seats in the MEN arena every week.  He stole Lloyd from the thames valley tigers and that pretty much killed them off as a top team.  The bakers twins were great undersized point guards who couldn't shoot.   5'7'' and can't shoot but were rapid.  Don't think they would fit the modern game like they did back then.  The first national league game i went to watch as a kid was Corby Flyers v Brixton Topcats in 1987 and the baker twins were teenagers playing their debut season in the lower leagues for their home town local club.   Ronnie played over a hundred times for England.  Some rise to fame for a little guy who couldn't shoot.

Trevor Gordon i forgot all about him he was an angry guy and typical of the big strong physical big men iin the game in that era.  Fab kept playing until very recently well into his 40's as player coach of the newcastle eagles in ENgland.  Won everything loads of times.  Pretty sure he is now an assistant for nurse in the nba.

Did you ever watch the bullets at Aston Villa leisure centre?  Before they went big time at the NIA?  If you didn't you probably never saw their greatest ever player.  Home produced local kid called Steve Hansell.  He was the same age as me and went through the junior system and was starting for the bullets as a 16 year old at point guard.   He used to play 40 minutes for the bullet juniors in the warm up game then have a quick shower and start for the senior men's team.  He was a special talent and played all around Europe for a decade in the Euroleague.  Far too talented to stay in England.

One sport I never followed.

Can't believe the coach took you out of the game five short of a century?

I don't remember Hansell. I think I started going when they moved to play at the NIA and I remember a few games at the NEC? But then on the way down I remember them moving back to Villa Leisure Centre when the crowds went down a bit and the money dried up.

No one knew i was that close to a ton.  The game went to overtime.  If i had known i would have missed one of the free throws that i made to win the game to send it to a second overtime to get the ton.  I felt like i had about 75 or 80 points never considered during the game that i was that close until the stat sheets were added up after.  Wasn't electronic back then!

AV leisure centre was my fav all time place to play it was so noisy in there with the wooden seats and the crowds were always mental.   Think its been knocked down now and doesn't exist.

Great memories, basketball was my gsme at school, used to go and watch the Bracknell Pirates (forerunners of the TV Tigers) every week from 82 to 85. Remember Byrd, always thought our Dan Callandrillo was the better guard. The Scantlebury brothers is about the only other name I can remember from those days

The scant brothers i forgot about them.  Didn't realise they went back that far with a different name.   Their arena was another great place to play.  The crowd was right on top of you and really noisy and compact.

I played a lot at school but never became a fan. One guy I grew up with played in the national leagues back then. His family was in the RAF like ours and we followed each other to different camps and our families were friends. Paul Gervais, played with Warrington I think (Google helped) and probably for Manchester when they merged. Not sure if he ever became a big player but you guys might know.

Not a name i am aware of in uk basketball circles.   Probably a bit before my time as Warrington never had a team when i played.

Arb, get a quiz up, I'm bored.

haaha sure no one wants to go through the pain of my manual reveal again!

In.

in

of course we do. get it done.

Focus on your next dinner!