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Pan Breed's Windy Pool Team 2018-19 1. Ted Dabney – co-founder of Atari 2. Tessa Jowell 3. Leah Bracknell 4. John McCain 5. Kulsoom Nawaz 6. Stefan Karl Stefansson 7. Kathleen Blanco 8. Dean Francis 9. Matt Cappotelli 10. Denis Goldberg 11. Marieke Vervoort 12. Joe Vento 13. David DiChiera 14. Bill Heine 15. Bishop Francis Quinn 16. Mike Higgison – sports historian 17. Doug Lachance – former Mayor of Rochester NY 18. Bruce Corbitt 19. Sen. Breene Harimoto 20. Fred Rister 21. Le Duc Anh Not a massively exciting team, the punts are down nearer the bottom.

Semis Deadsox vs DDT Sir Creep Vs Dead Cow Deadsox (Anh, Bighetty, Da-Ren, Jose, Mack, Manan, McCain, Remigino, Stefansson, Thibodeau, Vento) Vs. DDT (Steffanson, Mark, Goodall, McCain, Job, Moss, Bracknell, Quinn, Da-Ren, Anh, Blanco) Sir Creep (Nawaz, Pratley, LaChance, Quinn, McEwen, Bowlen, Goodall, Killian, Dabney, Manan, Cox) Vs. Dead Cow (Silsbee, Thakur, Quinn, Muoi, McCain, Lang, Hunter, Nawaz, Anh, Salisbury, Da-Ren) Oh, and the final draw is Deadsox OR DDT vs Sir Creep OR The Dead Cow, you'll be shocked to hear.

Commiserations to YWillz, Sean, Joey and Heef. You all did well. Maybe next year's the charm? On to the final four. Jake the Snake's finisher vs a pile of socks (dead) vs a knighted Creep vs a departed bovine. Only one can take the Cup, however. The, err, metaphorical Cup... Semifinal masterlist 1. Le Duc Anh – Dead Cow, Deadsox, DDT 2. Leonard Bighetty (Indigenous artist with local fame) – Deadsox 3. Kathleen Blanco - DDT 4. Pat Bowlen – Sir Creep 5. Leah Bracknell - DDT 6. Sean Cox (Gaelic football exec) – Sir Creep 7. Ted Dabney – Sir Creep 8. Fu Da-Ren – Dead Cow, Deadsox, DDT 9. David Goodall – Sir Creep, DDT 10. Larry Hunter (basketball coach) - Dead Cow 11. Dr Morgan Job (Trinidadian MP/radio star) - DDT 12. Jose Jose Jose Jose - Deadsox 13. Sean Killian (thrash metal singer) – Sir Creep 14. Doug Lachance (Mayor of Rochester) – Sir Creep 15. Meng Lang (poet) – Dead Cow 16. Return of Ted Mack - Deadsox 17. Azreen Manan – SirCreep, Deadsox 18. Rev Violet Mark (last Welsh missionary in Africa) - DDT 19. John McCain – Dead Cow, Deadsox, DDT 20. D Mc3w3n (singer) – Sir Creep 21. Stirling Moss - DDT 22. Du Muoi – Dead Cow 23. Kulsoom Nawaz – Sir Creep, Dead Cow 24. Marsh Pratley (British casting champion in 2001 – c competitive fishing!) – Sir Creep 25. Bishop Francis Quinn – Sir Creep, Dead Cow, DDT 26. Lindy Remigino - Deadsox 27. Graham Salisbury (Horses) – Dead Cow 28. Doug Silsbee – Dead Cow 29. Stefan Karl Stefansson – Deadsox, DDT 30. Vinod Thakur (Indian celebrity) – Dead Cow 31. Gary Thibodeau – Deadsox 32. Joe Vento - Deadsox

Clyde fans, plural? That's a shock. *looks innocently at the admin team*

I went back to that Junior thread and it had sort of spiraled into some guy who apparently runs Twitter for Lochee threatening some other guy on the forum not to come to Lochee or else. I think Joey thinking Bonnyrigg was a guy was one of the best bits of this experience tbh.

Do people talk about prognosis when it's not cancer?

We have teams in from 3 of the likely Semifinalists, and the person currently behind in the 4th game. Just @DevonDeathTrip left to complete the Semifinal set, but he tends to submit late in the day. One more thing - how the fuck is it May tomorrow? Pretty sure it was March hours ago...

Seemed to be literally the only thing keeping May's Premiership together (other than the DUP) for most of the last 18 months. Now lost her bulwark and her bodyguard, politically. Wont last much longer.

Also, apparently, very Peter Falk these days.

Ah, that's an interesting one. I agree, one to watch.

Mrs msc a huge fan of Rory.

Like Bowie's appearance and Rickman's sudden marriage in 2015, Martin's taking time off from the Lords last year did make me wonder, but not long enough. Well done on the unique.

Should have ran a forum poll on Boothroyd outliving him. Slam dunk imo. Anyhow, one of the first replies on Sky's Breaking news tweet about him dying? "I hope he's OK!" It's like fucking clockwork!

I've met him! As a substitute guest speaker at our school, because Donald Dewar, who we were meant to meet, died instead. He came across as a smarmy sod. And this was long before his fall from grace. RIP.

I hate Rangers and I hate Steven Gerrard so I am quite hopeful about this appointment. Joey, Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic are one of the top non-league sides in Scotland. The juniors (a league structure entirely independent from the Scottish league, due to... reasons and pride) refused to be involved in the league system, but last year Kelty decided to jump to the East of Scotland league and pissed it easily. So that, combined with the SJA apparently having a Chief Executive shite even by football exec standards, meant a survey was done of club chairmen in the junior system. "Do you want to join the league system and leave the Juniors?" And like Brexit, they didn't get the answer they expected. Something like 66% of junior clubs went "Aye, sounds a plan to me", and now 17 of the eastern (ie Edinburgh/Lothian) sides have applied to join the East of Scotland league, and a bunch of the top Clyde valley sides (like aforementioned Arthurlie) want in on the act if they can sort out a West of Scotland league within the pyramid. So yeah, big if it happens. And yeah, if Bonnyrigg fucking Rose (sorry its not a juicy scandal you expected! ) and Pollok want in the league structure, the junior system is long term fucked. Right, kept that succinct, but my favourite bit so far is this bit at the end of the BBC statement from Auchinleck Talbot opposed to the merger: Translation: we don't want to join up, but since we're going to, we're going to fuck up the rest of the league, get it right up yas...

Recently a mod who will remain nameless asked me if I'd looked up the Pie n Bovril forums lately. So, given Cove Rangers won 4-0 earlier in a promotion playoff, and the Beeb were giving it fuck all coverage (insert "cuntos here) I thought I'd go check out the non-league forums there. Find out Threave won the South of Scotland league (6th tier) but also see a reference to the "junior football shake up". Me being a curious sod, I go to the junior football section. (My first game was a trip with the Auld Yin to see Arthurlie nearly 30 years ago - and they were shite...) What's that? A thread with 302 pages, covering a month? Let's have a wee glance at the gist. That was 6 hours ago! I'm on Page 178, it's nearly 2 in the bloody morning, and I'm going to have come back to it in the morning to find out what happened to Bonnyrigg fucking Rose and their league application so far.

He was said to be "still in a highly critical condition" 3 days ago and still unconscious, which as you can imagine for someone who had a serious stroke on 1st April, was akin to Sean posting !

Has apparently died. And I need a Windy sub before I even send the team in.

So I see! Damn, that Facebook link is almost tempting... (but not quite enough, sorry B!)

Don't we all? Have the Cmme ever admitted someone was one of the "last few axed" apart from iirc Tony Hart in 2009?

Bobby had a great bit of punditry for the 2004 Copa America at the time. Random Sky Presenter - So, Bobby, who's your money on here? Bobby - Venezuela. I think they'll win. Presenter - Tonight? Bobby - The tournament. They look good. Presenter - Uhm, you know Venezuela haven't won a Copa America game in their history?* (Bobby Gould goes a bit white) Bobby - Oh. Right. *They actually won a single game in 1967 before someone corrects this, but Sky didn't know this. Also vastly improved in the last decade, of course.

Forgot about this! Right, better start putting a team together today then. EDIT - Team sent in, awaiting Chorizo's OKing of said team.

Going for Gould is a brilliant pun there. Love it. Also, Eliot's a bit on the young side. Only 80-ish? Give him a decade imo.

Yep, I believe any good forum game should have a healthy transfer of host every few years to stop it being reliant on one person. (There are obvious exceptions like the Deathrace, of course, but not many games are synonymous with one person imo.) I am happy to see the "forum list" idea had legs, and I wish Joey all the best in totting up the scores (and in dealing with many many sock account votes) for 2019!

JR looking great on the Greatest Rumble pre-show