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Rugby League and the Shakespeare Meme
Apr. 6th, 2012 01:23 pmFor those that don't follow the rugby, St. Helens Saints are my hometown team. I support them with a certain frothy madness, as does most of my hometown. Recently, they sacked their coach, Royce Simmons, after their worst losing run for 25 years and a horrible loss to Bradford (see also, things up with which we shall not put). No one was particularly surprised because the team had been playing utterly pants. No one (at least not amongst my friends) had any vitriol for Simmons, he just wasn't the right man for the job. To quote one of my oldest and dearest friends K, he looked lost at half time against Bradford.
Now several media types and one RL friend who is a Southern jessie and therefore would not understand, said we'd rushed into it missing that the next run of games after Bradford went Leeds (our greatest rivals atm in terms of winning things), Warrington (near neighbours) and Wigan (our local derby, quoth Shaun McRae, a man who really got it, 'Saints fans could cope with bad seasons as long as they beat Wigan). These are not matches you want to go into with a dithery, uncertain coach and on a downswing.
So, Saints got rid of Simmons, immediately beat Leeds (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/17447663) and Warrington (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/17526485), and now go into the derby match on an upswing, if missing our club captain due to suspension (the RFL, they're against us. /Saints fan paranoia).
Simmons has temporarily been replaced by Mike Rush and Kieron Cunningham who seem to have been doing alright and will be replaced at the end of the season by Nathan Brown who were pinching off Huddersfield.
The best part of this saga has been the players randomly leaking things to the press, which has provided hours amusement with the guess which player leaked what. After the Warrington game the Times had an article about how the players didn't want rid of him and it was all the board and how they dedicated the Warrington win to Simmons, and it was like 'hello, the Aussie faction'. Two days later there was a different one that was all how much more the Saints players were enjoying it now, and with that one I do feel like telling one senior player who shall go unnamed because I'm not 100% sure and believe in libel laws, that if he's going to write columns for newspapers, I am going recognise his voice when it comes through other journalists. As I said, hours of fun.
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Shakespeare Meme - Day 11 - Least Favourite Play
I have to admit to not having seen all the plays performed. I know the basic plots of most of them because I read up on them as part of my University Challenge revision (not that it did any good, bloody music round on engine noises), but I may well have missed out on subtle nuances (and a lot of the pretty language that I like Shakespeare for). That being said, unless I do a Shakespeare-a-thon like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nwhyte (starting here - http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1081694.html), I have no interest in ever seeing either 'The Noble Kinsmen' or 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona'.
( Other Days )
Now several media types and one RL friend who is a Southern jessie and therefore would not understand, said we'd rushed into it missing that the next run of games after Bradford went Leeds (our greatest rivals atm in terms of winning things), Warrington (near neighbours) and Wigan (our local derby, quoth Shaun McRae, a man who really got it, 'Saints fans could cope with bad seasons as long as they beat Wigan). These are not matches you want to go into with a dithery, uncertain coach and on a downswing.
So, Saints got rid of Simmons, immediately beat Leeds (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/17447663) and Warrington (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/17526485), and now go into the derby match on an upswing, if missing our club captain due to suspension (the RFL, they're against us. /Saints fan paranoia).
Simmons has temporarily been replaced by Mike Rush and Kieron Cunningham who seem to have been doing alright and will be replaced at the end of the season by Nathan Brown who were pinching off Huddersfield.
The best part of this saga has been the players randomly leaking things to the press, which has provided hours amusement with the guess which player leaked what. After the Warrington game the Times had an article about how the players didn't want rid of him and it was all the board and how they dedicated the Warrington win to Simmons, and it was like 'hello, the Aussie faction'. Two days later there was a different one that was all how much more the Saints players were enjoying it now, and with that one I do feel like telling one senior player who shall go unnamed because I'm not 100% sure and believe in libel laws, that if he's going to write columns for newspapers, I am going recognise his voice when it comes through other journalists. As I said, hours of fun.
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Shakespeare Meme - Day 11 - Least Favourite Play
I have to admit to not having seen all the plays performed. I know the basic plots of most of them because I read up on them as part of my University Challenge revision (not that it did any good, bloody music round on engine noises), but I may well have missed out on subtle nuances (and a lot of the pretty language that I like Shakespeare for). That being said, unless I do a Shakespeare-a-thon like
nwhyte (starting here - http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1081694.html), I have no interest in ever seeing either 'The Noble Kinsmen' or 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona'.( Other Days )
