hamster

'Elvis is a Saints fan' chant brought a little brevity to an otherwise drunken weekend. Loved every minute of it, my favourite defeat of the season. My grandson took the **** right up until we left their house about 5 hours ago. can't wait for the fixture list to come out. Had a great walk to the match through Brompton (hamster - 1968 to 1980) walked right past my old house, which brought a lump to my throat iih. Nice bunch of Saints fans, and Gills fans for that matter, in the Will Adams pub. Looking forward to going back.

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The Saints pub would be great, especially as nick has an improved chance of pulling something other than nhis calf muscle in Millbrook. I think it would be too long a trek from the stadium, and let's not forget that some of the s****ier players are poshing it up in 5* hotels. A suite in the stadium would be too formal I'd say but what about the Chapel Arms? Anyone want to give them a bell and see what they could offer. mrs h wants to know how you lot intend making sure that little old me is going to get home safely? Bless her, but she does have a point. How exactly will I be getting home, I have a little history re. sleeping out of doors.

Ageist!

chamois

Eel be alright.

Oh, I shouldn't worry too much about them fellas, I'm sure that they have been 'compensated' iykwim I reckon that the sport is riddled with it. No disrespect to Steve Davis but I think that he woul;d adcmit to being surprised at the ease of his success. I bet there's been a big old stash made by these same unscrupulous shysters. As someone said /\, a shame that the shine has been taken from this true gent of the sport.

Found this this afternoon. Good clean fun. Type a few words in and have them sung back by all of your favourite artists. http://sverigesradio.se/cgi-bin/Src/sing/sing.asp

Shootash is a lovely one especially on a sunny day. The sunlight twinkles through the trees and you have the lovely cooling countryside air wafting around you. We love it.

ha'penny

Good idea Gaffer. Avtually, why not get SWF to rent one out and make it the venue of the SWF end of season bash. Incorporate a 'Player of The Season' presentation; we're bound to have a vote thread coming up in a couple of weeks anyway, so why not make it official? Nicola has said that he is gonna deal with the 'beer' issue and what better way of soing it than by getting a few local breweries to donate a barrel and we vote for the winner; winner being given a one season contract. 'Coast' could do a set for free and we could even have a charity auction with proceeds going to an adopted charity. It would be immense imho. It'll never happen of course!

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DG4 is I am afraid not on my list of places to be seen. There simply must be somewhere that sells proper beer fopr the proper fans! Even their Guinness is the plastic stuff. I'll probably just saunter off home and maybe nip in The waggoners for a swift half. You lot enjoy yourselves.

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Obviously not involved myself (pussy apparently) but the looks on visiting fans faces when they used to arrive at the train station to be greetes by hundreds of Gills fans was a mixture od surprise and fear. I lived at the top end of Balmoral Road MC so couldn;t really avoid seeing it all kick off whilst awaiting clear passage to my house. Do you remember the cinema called The Plaza? It's a Lidl now I think, but was the venue for the early Tube (C4) programme after the cinema closed down. iirc it was there that Jools Holland spoke those immortal words one Friday evening whiocjh got him banned from TV. Can't remember what he actually said though!! Another pub/club that was notorious was the Central Hotel on Watling Street, teams like Southend, Millwall and Sheff Wed would often try to 'take it' on a Friday night before a match, never knew of them being succesful as in those crazy cays Gillingham had an extremely hard bunch of fans. They never seemed to go looking for it but for some reason were seen as a real scalp to be had. If one of my Grandsons came home and told me he'd seen some of the things that i used to see I would ban him from going ever again. Then again, I went to Upbury!

"HE BRIAN MOORE STAND (UNCOVERED) You may sit in any available seat in this area" Excellent news.

Have you lot agreed a post match venue yet? I need to know what threads to iron and which scent to wear.

Grow beards for Rickay and Kelvin, someone could tip them the wink they can give their shirts to the bestest, which will in fact be me.

Frankenstein

Will this act actually stop me and the likes from downloading (say) Beatles albums thus negating the need for me to line the pockets of Sir Paul Macca for something he did nigh on 50 years ago? imho copyright in music and arts in general should last no more than 5 years Max (maybe 10 a sa compromise) Or have I gotten hold of the wrong end of the stick?

(and ) Jones

/\ thank you for enlightening us ls, very interestung reading. Have you considered doing a piece for 'The Back Cabin' in Narrow Boat magazine? Ref the elephants on a swing, I am not sure that mrs h would appreciate the implication that is contained within that remark. I would actually think a better example (less insulting) might be a pair of hamsters on a wheel. Although, when I last studied the sexual practices of hamsters they cam no-where near the 5 minute record that i currently hold on the GU. To summarise 'We Rock' hope all's well you old landlubber gongoozler? Any chance we might bump into each other on my way to warwick? you are always welcome to step aboard for a cuppa my friend, as is anyone on the forum who may be passing.

Erica

There may be some truth to your words however I feel that you may both be confusing Google facts with REAL facts; the current King of the Gypsies is actually none other than Joe Longthorne. I am happy to be proven wring on this as my qualifications only go as far as marrying a part gypsy girl. a couple of generations back one married a bare-knuckle fighter who also had in his family of travelling showmen an escapologist and fortune teller. Proper Chatham girl she is. All above true facts and I am rightly proud to be associated to this wonderful (or should that be wander-ful) race of people. At the risk of repeating myslef (I never tire of telling this fact) many years ago when Watling Street passed through north Kent a group of Gypsy folki settled at the turnpike just south of the River Medway. Trade there was good and in the summer months many many years later the families would sell produce from the farms of The Weald, they could camp on higher shelterd ground in the winter months. The term 'Pikey' comes from this turnpike settlement. Interesting fact for those driving up on Saturday is that if you come off the M" and drop down to the A2 (watling Street) drive a short way further than you need to about 50 yards past Canterbury Street. You'll find a John Barrasss pub named The Old Ash Tree. The road on the left is called Ash Tree Lane and is the ACTUAL road in these photos. And my favourite pic.. Actually I would recomend the Old Ash Tree as it sells decent real ale and does some cracking cheap meal deals. hth. PS Be nice to Gypsies and they may just surprise yo and be nice back, be genuine mind.

Rocket