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Post by vlogdance on Nov 12, 2016 17:20:44 GMT
Done! * shakes hands * And let me tell you something else: I'm so confident on the Pumas that if they lose, I'm going to bake Welsh cakes and post the photos of whatever comes out on the forum. Wow! That's real confidence! If this happens, I'll send you my own recipe by private message. Then you can do it tidy, heh.
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Post by Helmut83 on Nov 12, 2016 19:41:12 GMT
Well played, Wales! Tough team with great fans. Their fullback is worth more than half a penny and their fly-half was biggar than ours. Enfys is having some Brains while dancing to Tom Jones beside me, I'll send you a few pictures soon. Uh, as for the Welsh Cakes, let me some time to analyze the recipe and prepare myself both physically and psychologically for it.
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Post by Helmut83 on Feb 14, 2017 19:29:41 GMT
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Post by vlogdance on Feb 14, 2017 19:46:55 GMT
I knew it, Helmut83 bach. I just knew it. "Bl%dy baa, innit?" Says it all. What a brilliant website!
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Post by Helmut83 on Feb 14, 2017 19:55:43 GMT
Yeah, seriously! I've been reading some of it's news and they are just brilliant, I'm having a good laugh. The magician spending a full weekend at Rhyl cracked me up, as well as the lorry overtaking another lorry for 5 hours.
I thought maybe the website was well-known in Wales.
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Post by vlogdance on Jun 3, 2017 11:52:31 GMT
Apart from the football, there's another big sporting clash today - this one's in Paris. No Cause For A Llama and I are cheering on on our respective players. But who will be singing at the end of the match?
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Post by Helmut83 on Jun 3, 2017 18:15:24 GMT
No Cause looks so concentrated on the match, surely rooting for Delpo, although he seems a bit puzzled by his yellow socks. I'm sure in the end she found his countryman's defeat hard to swallow, hope you didn't dance in his face or anything similar, Vlog bach. But hey, why is a Welshie cheering for a Scottish guy?
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Post by queenofthehours on Jul 29, 2018 13:58:59 GMT
Well done to Wales's own Geraint Thomas who will win the Tour de France in Paris today!
He's the third British winner of the Tour and this takes Team Sky's tally to six Tour wins since 2012. But don't let this success belittle the magnitude of what Geraint has achieved. He might not be the first British winner but he's the first man BORN in Britain to win - Bradley Wiggins was born in Belgium and Christ Froome was born in Kenya but Geraint was born in beautiful Cardiff!
I started watching the Tour seriously in 2007 which was the year Geraint, Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish joined the three-week race. I knew those boys were great riders from their success in the Commonwealth Games and Olympics so I knew there would be some great entertainment to see. Cavendish was like a secret weapon, the Manx Missile, that first year he didn't do so well but I had faith he would blow everyone away once he got going and he did, he's now third in the all-time TdeF stage winners list.
Bradley took some time to show his success too but I knew that if anyone could win the Tour he could. But Geraint...he was just...just Geraint! He came 140th out of 141 finishers that year and was the youngest rider on the Tour. He was certainly someone to keep an eye on and was one of those riders you couldn't help but love and everyone had affection for him but I can tell you now that never in one-million years would I have had G down to win Yellow in Paris. It was unthinkable.
Seriously, the first Tour was in 1903 and a British rider had NEVER had a sniff at winning until 2012. When Team Sky was set up with the intention of winning Yellow it seemed possible but still a mad, crazy dream. Then Bradley won (Incredible! But Brad is the Jeff Lynne of bikes so it wasn't so surprising that he was the first British winner) and then Chris won (He's the Roy Wood - a bit odd but immensely talented). This year Chris was all set to win again for a fifth time, which would have been magical, but Geraint came through and proved what we'd all hoped he was capable of all these years and won!
I'm so proud of him! I feel like I've watched him grow up, his achievement is incredible. He's the Richard Tandy of bikes - quiet and at the back but when centre stage blows everyone away. I'm sure he's going to be teary on that podium tonight. From interviews, I don't think he can quite believe he's done it. Not only did G win the Tour he was this year the FIRST Brit to win on Alpe d'Huez which is a noted stage in the race and a killer mountain which would be the cherry on top of any rider's career but G now has that yellow jersey to add to it making him a legend!
Forget the World Cup. If you want to celebrate an underdog achieving something unthinkable and fantastic then watch the TdeF final on TV tonight and enjoy all the Welsh joy that will be on the Champs-Élysées.
With this amount of success surely Team Sky should be coaching the England team for the World Cup next time?
To prove just how hard the race is, here's Philippe Gilbert's crash -
And, for fun, here's the highlights of that 2007 Tour complete with dogs, devils and the most descriptive choice of music I'd ever heard in sport -
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Post by Buttler on Jul 31, 2018 21:04:19 GMT
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 15, 2018 16:40:44 GMT
Talk about upsets in this weekend's Rugby Championship action: - Springboks beating All Blacks in New Zealand - Pumas beating Wallabies in Australia
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Post by queenofthehours on Sept 17, 2018 18:54:29 GMT
Congratulations to Simon Yates who has won the Tour of Spain this weekend!
That means all of this season's Grand Tours - Spain, Italy and France have been won by British riders. Not only that but DIFFERENT British riders. This has never happened to any country before in cycling history .
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Post by Helmut83 on Mar 16, 2019 19:41:35 GMT
Congrats Wales on winning the 6 Nations tournament, and with Grand Slam! Damn, that defense was like crashing against a red wall, no way of getting past that! We are lucky that the Pumas aren't in the same group as them at the World Cup because they would get thrashed.
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Post by unomusette on Mar 16, 2019 21:38:12 GMT
Thanks Helmut83 , it was a brilliant victory and all in a classic Welsh downpour. Bara brith and Brains all round!
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Post by vlogdance on Mar 19, 2019 10:44:41 GMT
Here you are, Helmut83 bach, I've designed a logo for the forum rugby team. Note the reference to cats (winners of a forum popularity poll) and of the name of a certain inspirational band. I'm not sure I'd be any good at playing, but I could sing the forum anthem ("The Diary Of Bev Bevan") before each match, if you like. And perhaps Sanchez could be our official mascot?
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Post by Helmut83 on Mar 19, 2019 17:57:50 GMT
Love that logo, vlogdance bach, great idea to kick off our rugby team. And of course Sanchez could be our official mascot, he has like 30 owners already so what harm could 15 more do? As to your function, didn't you use to cycle through Wales matches? Well, let's do that on our matches, only this time "cycling through the match" will have a more literal meaning. When they are killing us -which will be most every game- you have to act like you are one of those field-invading nutters from the crowd who instead of entering the field running does it on her bike, that way the game gets suspended and we lose with some dignity. What do you say?
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