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Post by reasonabull on Mar 29, 2024 12:27:50 GMT
Whilst this journal obviously has no proof readers this weeks edition sums up how pathetic its become. A report on Hereford Rugby Clubs match against Shipston on Stour is headlined 'FLY HALF DAVIES BOWS OUT IN STYLE AS HEREFORD SECURE LATE VICTORY'. The first paragraph then reads 'Hereford RFC's fly-half DEAN POWELL bowed out in style as his side battled to a 35-29 victory over Shipston on Stour'.
If the reporter, Rob Davies, isn't embarrassed by this he should be! The paper has become the pits!
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Post by Hawkeye on Mar 29, 2024 13:35:42 GMT
Whilst this journal obviously has no proof readers this weeks edition sums up how pathetic its become. A report on Hereford Rugby Clubs match against Shipston on Stour is headlined 'FLY HALF DAVIES BOWS OUT IN STYLE AS HEREFORD SECURE LATE VICTORY'. The first paragraph then reads 'Hereford RFC's fly-half DEAN POWELL bowed out in style as his side battled to a 35-29 victory over Shipston on Stour'. If the reporter, Rob Davies, isn't embarrassed by this he should be! The paper has become the pits! Quite agree. There are spelling, grammar, or identity errors on nearly every page most weeks. I've even spotted the occasional howler in the death notices.* *Yes, I've reached the age when I read them each week, if only to make sure mine isnt included. 🤨
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 29, 2024 13:45:39 GMT
I wish I had never tooken the job now.
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Post by wyesidewiththebulls on Mar 29, 2024 14:37:36 GMT
Whilst this journal obviously has no proof readers this weeks edition sums up how pathetic its become. A report on Hereford Rugby Clubs match against Shipston on Stour is headlined 'FLY HALF DAVIES BOWS OUT IN STYLE AS HEREFORD SECURE LATE VICTORY'. The first paragraph then reads 'Hereford RFC's fly-half DEAN POWELL bowed out in style as his side battled to a 35-29 victory over Shipston on Stour'. If the reporter, Rob Davies, isn't embarrassed by this he should be! The paper has become the pits! Rob Davies is an eloquent stalwart committee member of HRFC, not a HTs reporter. He attends all home matches at Wyeside and writes the match reports on behalf of the club which are then past on to the HTs, he provides the article, they provide the headline (of sorts) The HTs has no sports journalists at any local sports events and simply rely on reports provided to them by the clubs themselves, which they then subsequently "cock up"
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Post by eggchaserbull on Mar 29, 2024 15:39:53 GMT
Whilst this journal obviously has no proof readers this weeks edition sums up how pathetic its become. A report on Hereford Rugby Clubs match against Shipston on Stour is headlined 'FLY HALF DAVIES BOWS OUT IN STYLE AS HEREFORD SECURE LATE VICTORY'. The first paragraph then reads 'Hereford RFC's fly-half DEAN POWELL bowed out in style as his side battled to a 35-29 victory over Shipston on Stour'. If the reporter, Rob Davies, isn't embarrassed by this he should be! The paper has become the pits! Rob Davies is an eloquent stalwart committee member of HRFC, not a HTs reporter. He attends all home matches at Wyeside and writes the match reports on behalf of the club which are then past on to the HTs, he provides the article, they provide the headline (of sorts) The HTs has no sports journalists at any local sports events and simply rely on reports provided to them by the clubs themselves, which they then subsequently "cock up" Might I add that not in any universe could Rob Davies be described as a fly-half; more an enforcer. He used to scare the sh!te out of me on a rugby pitch; and that was just at Tuesday and Thursday night training. Anyway, regardless of that useless rag, HT, thanks must go to Dean Powell for his years of service to HRFC.
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 29, 2024 17:25:02 GMT
Whilst this journal obviously has no proof readers this weeks edition sums up how pathetic its become. A report on Hereford Rugby Clubs match against Shipston on Stour is headlined 'FLY HALF DAVIES BOWS OUT IN STYLE AS HEREFORD SECURE LATE VICTORY'. The first paragraph then reads 'Hereford RFC's fly-half DEAN POWELL bowed out in style as his side battled to a 35-29 victory over Shipston on Stour'. If the reporter, Rob Davies, isn't embarrassed by this he should be! The paper has become the pits! Rob Davies is an eloquent stalwart committee member of HRFC, not a HTs reporter. He attends all home matches at Wyeside and writes the match reports on behalf of the club which are then past on to the HTs, he provides the article, they provide the headline (of sorts) The HTs has no sports journalists at any local sports events and simply rely on reports provided to them by the clubs themselves, which they then subsequently "cock up" So if we can write our own match reports, let's get HFC into the play offs! Plus add a few other flourishes "the game was held up for 4 minutes in the second half due to MT urinating off the roof of the Meadow End, culminating in second half injury time increasing from the usual 13 minutes, resulting in WL missing church".
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 29, 2024 17:30:07 GMT
Didn't some cricket reporter who was somewhere like South Africa many moons ago decide to sack off going to the last day of a test as it was heading for a draw? He then cabled through a really exciting finish to whatever paper he was working for. Something like that.
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Post by Monkey Tennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:41:28 GMT
Rob Davies is an eloquent stalwart committee member of HRFC, not a HTs reporter. He attends all home matches at Wyeside and writes the match reports on behalf of the club which are then past on to the HTs, he provides the article, they provide the headline (of sorts) The HTs has no sports journalists at any local sports events and simply rely on reports provided to them by the clubs themselves, which they then subsequently "cock up" So if we can write our own match reports, let's get HFC into the play offs! Plus add a few other flourishes "the game was held up for 4 minutes in the second half due to MT urinating off the roof of the Meadow End, culminating in second half injury time increasing from the usual 13 minutes, resulting in WL missing church". Remember them car sticker things which featured cartoon-like images of someone dressed in the colours of one team, smiling as he pissed on the shirt of his rival team? Always wondered how many cars were smashed up when parked during a local derby for displaying those stickers. Edit - not that this has anything to do with The Hereford Times.
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Post by White Lightning on Mar 29, 2024 17:55:06 GMT
So if we can write our own match reports, let's get HFC into the play offs! Plus add a few other flourishes "the game was held up for 4 minutes in the second half due to MT urinating off the roof of the Meadow End, culminating in second half injury time increasing from the usual 13 minutes, resulting in WL missing church". Remember them car sticker things which featured cartoon-like images of someone dressed in the colours of one team, smiling as he pissed on the shirt of his rival team? Always wondered how many cars were smashed up when parked during a local derby for displaying those stickers. Edit - not that this has anything to do with The Hereford Times. They should have stated OHTT so no panic. A Bristol lad told me a vehicle related story from the wild west days. Apparently Millwall were in town and had the City 'ard men holed up in "their" pub. Some nutter went out the back, got in his car before ploughing through them. Went to prison according to the story. Not sure if he had any car stickers though.
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Post by GRL on Apr 17, 2024 12:35:01 GMT
WILLIAM Wordsworth’s sister Dorothy would walk six miles into Hereford for a thimble. The Poet Laureate was no stranger at the moated manor home of Brinsop Court, where she lived with her husband. On one visit he was moved to compose the sonnet “Wait, prithee, wait”. It treats of the fate of a dove pounced upon by a kite “of ruthless beak”. In neighbouring Burghill, Wordsworth dallied in St Mary’s churchyard and he is thought to have sheltered in the hollow of an ancient yew with fellow poets Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge. One afternoon in 1906, Sir Edward Elgar reached the church on his bicycle, sketched the Norman font and wrote about it to one of his musical friends.
At about the same time the Hereford County and City Lunatic Asylum a mile away was being enlarged due to overcrowding. Verandahs were added for patients with tuberculosis and its name was changed to Burghill Mental Hospital. For some two thousand inmates who died there, a final journey to the churchyard was conducted without ceremony. Many were carted off for anonymous burial on a wheeled bier donated in 1911 by Mrs.Elinor Woodhouse of Burghill Court.
Point 6 on our Walk. “Twelve Apostles”. Go up churchyard between yew trees. Plaque to airmen is by Memorial Cross. TR to exit just above “Wordsworth’s” ancient yew. (Plaque to St Mary’s dead is in northern churchyard).
GRL, 2012.
It is reassuring to know we treat the mentally ill in a more humane manner these days. I think I'll take my final journey to somewhere similar; Breinton, perhaps, by a relative, and by Elgar's bodyguard.
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Post by greekgod on Apr 17, 2024 15:57:36 GMT
WILLIAM Wordsworth’s sister Dorothy would walk six miles into Hereford for a thimble. The Poet Laureate was no stranger at the moated manor home of Brinsop Court, where she lived with her husband. On one visit he was moved to compose the sonnet “Wait, prithee, wait”. It treats of the fate of a dove pounced upon by a kite “of ruthless beak”. In neighbouring Burghill, Wordsworth dallied in St Mary’s churchyard and he is thought to have sheltered in the hollow of an ancient yew with fellow poets Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge. One afternoon in 1906, Sir Edward Elgar reached the church on his bicycle, sketched the Norman font and wrote about it to one of his musical friends. At about the same time the Hereford County and City Lunatic Asylum a mile away was being enlarged due to overcrowding. Verandahs were added for patients with tuberculosis and its name was changed to Burghill Mental Hospital. For some two thousand inmates who died there, a final journey to the churchyard was conducted without ceremony. Many were carted off for anonymous burial on a wheeled bier donated in 1911 by Mrs.Elinor Woodhouse of Burghill Court. Point 6 on our Walk. “Twelve Apostles”. Go up churchyard between yew trees. Plaque to airmen is by Memorial Cross. TR to exit just above “Wordsworth’s” ancient yew. (Plaque to St Mary’s dead is in northern churchyard). GRL, 2012. It is reassuring to know we treat the mentally ill in a more humane manner these days. I think I'll take my final journey to somewhere similar; Breinton, perhaps, by a relative, and by Elgar's bodyguard. Did you ever enter that Burghill Hospital?
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Post by GRL on Apr 18, 2024 7:05:44 GMT
Would have insisted on a sea view but
On August 18th, 1944, a B-24H Liberator Bomber was engaged on a leaflet dropping training mission. Seen trailing smoke from below the level of Credenhill Hill, one of its wings hit a chimney stack at the Mental Hospital and crashed in flames into the grounds. The chimney collapsed through the roof of the hospital into a ward, and whilst none of the patients was injured, all ten of the American air crewmen were killed. The cause of the crash was probably engine failure. In 2011 a memorial plaque to the ill-fated air crew was unveiled in the churchyard above the Twelve Apostles: yew trees which were planted in 1964 to replace the ones which lined the path to the main porch in Wordsworth’s day. At the highly manicured St Mary’s Park, which surrounds the largely demolished hospital, a stone tablet now marks the crash site.
they nearly did.
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Post by sortitoutwebbbull on Apr 18, 2024 7:51:20 GMT
Would have insisted on a sea view but On August 18th, 1944, a B-24H Liberator Bomber was engaged on a leaflet dropping training mission. Seen trailing smoke from below the level of Credenhill Hill, one of its wings hit a chimney stack at the Mental Hospital and crashed in flames into the grounds. The chimney collapsed through the roof of the hospital into a ward, and whilst none of the patients was injured, all ten of the American air crewmen were killed. The cause of the crash was probably engine failure. In 2011 a memorial plaque to the ill-fated air crew was unveiled in the churchyard above the Twelve Apostles: yew trees which were planted in 1964 to replace the ones which lined the path to the main porch in Wordsworth’s day. At the highly manicured St Mary’s Park, which surrounds the largely demolished hospital, a stone tablet now marks the crash site. they nearly did. Thanks for sharing that - a sad but really interesting story. As you know after the war loads of service personnel guested for HUFC - I wonder if any Americans did? Would they have been good enough? In fact did any Americans ever play for HUFC?
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Post by Incognito on Apr 18, 2024 8:47:09 GMT
Paxton Ballard.
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Post by White Lightning on Apr 18, 2024 8:55:13 GMT
Sylvester Stallone surely played for us that season we used loads of different goalkeepers?
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Post by greekgod on Apr 18, 2024 9:11:05 GMT
Not sure you request your room. Very strange inside.
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Post by sortitoutwebbbull on Apr 18, 2024 9:28:49 GMT
That's an interesting one - what period was this?
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Post by Incognito on Apr 18, 2024 14:53:45 GMT
The End
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Post by GRL on Apr 18, 2024 18:56:57 GMT
As an alternative to the benighted HT one of the boys in the pub tonight drew my attention to something called "Driving or Parking like a Tw@t in Herefordshire." I mean I don't have one of those new fangled smartphones (is that what they're called?) and I don't tend to bandy about words like those in the title - but it seems that posters do at least use their own names on there? Fair enough I'm all for that and one of the tyros likes to rule the roost. Worth a look, I would say.
Much notorious bullying, however.
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