Whitey Grandad

Learning by playing or learning by watching?

Not just yours.

Please don’t tell me that you believe that we’d have got automatic promotion with McCarthy in goal all season?

I’ll settle for anybody as long as it’s just the four.

Ideally your keeper wouldn’t need to make any saves.

I completely agree that we need better but I would prefer him in goal to McCarthy. you cannot isolate a goalkeeper’s performance from the team that’s in front of him. He may be playing in a weaker league but doesn’t that also make mean that the defences are weaker?

And? What’s your point, if you have one? We finished in the playoffs. That’s all that counts.

You cannot possibly say that. It might be more accurate to say that we wouldn’t have been in the playoffs without him in goal. As a goalkeeper he is nothing special but he’s not as bad as some of you make him out to be. It was the move away from Russball that made the difference.

My wife was always telling me that there was a heatwave just after she was born in April 1949. By the time I came along in July it was over. The highest temperature reached 29.4C on 16th April. How on earth did anybody survive?

The longer he doesn’t play for us the worse he gets apparently. He played the major part of a season that saw us promoted.

From Heritage to Outrage

I had a wireman technician called Peter who worked for me over about fifteen years. He was ex FAA and had served on HMS Eagle and one of the Leander class too. He came from near Malvern.

Does it have large sideburns? A few years ago we were on a post cruise trip from New York to Charleston and on the way we spent a night in Gettysburg and we did a battlefield tour next morning. Knowing what I know now I would have chosen to stay there longer but my wife would only allow me ten days altogether. I did managemto squeeze in a couple of hours at Antietam though and ten minutes at Harper’s Ferry.

I was at my unit in Hamble when she came home and we went down to the shore to watch. I remember it being a very hazy day.

I took and passed mine in about 1962. Mind you, this was in Dovercourt next to Harwich where cars were only ever used on the occasional Sunday.

My dear wife and I went down to Lee on Solent on Good Friday evening to watch her leave. A very sobering moment. I was also in Portsmouth Harbour when Invincible came home. I was in my Mirror Dinghy. It was a beautiful late September day and I launched her up Fareham Creek but there was no wind and I had to row the first couple of miles. Down at the Harbour it was bedlam with boats everywhere churning up the water and she came in later than advertised so I slowly sailed down to the Harbour entrance and saw this big ship coming at me with fire tugs spraying all over the place and everything that could move racing to keep up with her. I thought she would come in at a stately few knots but she must have been doing fifteen or so. I decided to nip behind a couple of catamarans that were anchored just off where Gunwharf Quays are now situated and dropped my sails in the hope of protection from the swells. She was soon alongside with all the festivities and bands playing, a sight that I shall never forget. Later, as I was working my way back up the Creek her Sea Harriers took off whilst she was tied up alongside. I didn’t know they could do that. Then they did a circuit of the harbour in a farewell salute and headed west towards Yeovilton. In this photo I am off her starboard side hidden by the funnel.

I always enjoy listening to Shelby Foote. I have the full set of Ken Burns’s Civil War and must have watched it through five or six times. You learn something new every time you view it. I do hope you read Suetonius in the original Latin? 😉 I still have my pocket edition of ‘De Bello Gallico’ by Julius Caesar. I used it in my Latin classes at school in the early 60s. It only covers part of the war but gives an insight into his thinking. He comes across as full of himself.

Such people won’t last long.

Just in case anyone ever forgets 😉

Both, to be honest, but mainly during games. He has a talent for marking space.

How on earth can they wipe out your credit? That’s your money they’re talking about here. Im looking forward to the moment when they call me 🥳

This has to be a joke, right? Always goes missing when needed.

I’m just waiting for the head butt for confirmation.

The similarities are uncanny.

Only if he is resurrected.