Thanks for all the effort Tighty.
I am sure I can speak for hundreds of past a present posters that we really do appreciate the effort.
Here is to the next 100k.

Bushy parkrun report.....

Hillary looks a lock as the Demorcatic candidate, very much still open in the Republican race.

Surely the Republicand need someone from the moderate side of their party, they have real issues that the demographics in the US are changing and there ever increasing amounts of non white voters who naturally socially (if not morally Hispanics tend to be religious) sway towards the democrats.

Yes, very good article. Still leaving Root out of the top 10 is ridiculous.

I think the new member stat is almost as telling as the rest of the stats. Blonde has very little new blood, in the past posters would come and go but now as the natural cycle of people getting disinterested in poker/forum use/blonde in general there is no one to replace that.

Tikay and tighty can if they put the effort in as they did a few months ago, artificially bump the stats but it doesn't change the underlying problems. It's sad to see, but I don't think there is anyone to blame per se just the natural way of things.

Joe Root 22 runs away from becoming Eng's highest int run-scorer in a calendar year

 http://bit.ly/1YBnPeR .

Max three more inns to get 'em

England played a lot of cricket in 2007, collingwood just the 52 matches!

I think this was the official reason for moving the ashes away from World Cup years, obviously nothing to do with having ashes 2 years apart in this country making craploads of money!

From that list it looks most like St. Andrews.

I think the 1st couple of weeks are always the worst in the Apprentice as you have no idea who the hell anyone is. Once you get to know the candidates, so you can mainly laugh at their idiocy it gets a lot better.

Regards

L

I think most americans support the same NFL team for life mainly based on where they came from originally, you only have to look at games in the san diego and arizona to see that the us population which has in general moved west and south over time still support teams from back east.

Dan Marino and therefore the Dolphins.

I was into it pretty young as my dad is a massive fan (his favourite sport) and I would pretty much watch any sport. The first game I can vividly remember is the Chicago Bears 85' teams only defeat which was a Monday night loss to the Dolphins, who's QB at the time was a young Marino.

I always feel more engaged in a sport if I have someone to root for.

Meanwhile, the Gill jog jog jogging excitement continues, & she has decided to do the Bushy Park 5k ParkRun next Saturday.

Much excitement.

Bushy parkrun is massive, easily the biggest in this country. Assuming the weather is reasonable there will be about a 1000 runners there.

For comparison I was at beckton parkrun in east London yesterday and there were 24 people there including a certain mr gatso. Admittedly the weather was rotten yesterday and this really affects numbers.

I'm pretty sure Sky just put the 6pm Eagles games on to tilt me.  Can't remember us being competent in one of them for a long time.

16-3 up in the first few minutes should have been the obvious trigger for me to bet the farm on Miami.

Miami aren't comptent in many of them, we pretty much play all our games at 6......

I'm heading out next week too and will be there for Thanksgiving. Any recommendations about once a year stuff i could get involved in as part of that? Planning to catch at least one of the NFL games but the others i'm with won't be that fussed so don't want to pay silly money for the Venetian sportsbook. Maybe try get a booth in Blondies.

49ers are at home to Cardinals. SFO easy flight from Vegas. Could even fly at 6am and fly back that evening if you can get a ticket.

Won't be hard to get 49ers tickets this season.

England's fast bowling seems in great shape tbf.

Where is Stokes in the ODI's btw?

Injured in the tests

Was due to be rested anyway, as all the players who play all 3 forms get under the current regime.

Think hales hundred today will give the management something to point at when selecting him to open in South Africa, don't think he is the solution in tests but at the moment there doesn't seem like a good solution.

Meh if it wasn't for his England connections I think Middlesex would have dropped Morgan from the championship side this year. In fact when he asked for a rest before the Aussies ODI, they were more than happy to oblige.