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OLLIE SMITH TALKS JUNIOR RUGBY PLUS LOCAL SPORTS REPORTS · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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This is Kevin Daily, the sports ferret here on one of five point nine
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and bringing you the folks on Hive's sports show. On today's show, we
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bring you reports on the usual suspects. We've got football, rugby and hockey.
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We've got a better basketball, we've got a bit of a wheelchair basketball,
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and I've got some running reports featuring local athletes who ran at the weekend
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at deal Tunbridge Wells and dim Church. And our special guest is Ollie Smith
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who is the chair of the Youth and Minisection at the folks In Rugby Club.
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We'll be having a chat with him very shortly in the meantime. Such
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a genesis and some local music. Local music there that was Daniel mcguinnis and
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a song called right next to Me. Okay, So I'm joining the studio
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now by Ollie Smith, who's the chair of the Youth and Minisection at the
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folks In Rugby Club. Hello Ollie, how are you hi? keV?
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Thanks for having me in very well, thank you good nice to see you
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again. Now tell us a bit about how you got involved with the rugby
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club and how you became a youth chair. Yeah, it's quite funny so
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when my son was about as if you could go and play rugby, which
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I was thrilled about. I played rugby at school, didn't play club rugby,
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always played football. So I thought, oh, brilliant, I can
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go parent one after referee, one after coach. And that lasted for about
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two years, and then got asked if I would help out with the coaching
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when we had a couple of coaches left, and then December twenty two I
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had to think where we were. Then we needed a new youth chair and
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I was asked, and yeah, I took it on. So all right,
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okay, and are you finding it tougher than what you thought it might
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be. I knew it was going to be a big job, massive responsibility
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overseeing children from sort of six up until eighteen, But I'm really enjoying it.
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It is tough, but I'm really enjoyed. Good. That's brilliant.
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Yeah, okay, so yeah, six to eighteen. So give us a
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little rundown on the background of what goes on you know at training. How
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many teams you've got that sort of thing. Yeah, So currently we've got
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under sixes up to under fifteen and they train every Sunday morning, unless they
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have matches or festivals. Some of our youth groups also train on a Tuesday
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and Thursday evenings as well, and we've got a cult section that about eight
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of our cults actually are now playing senior rugby, so they've gone into seniors
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as opposed to playing on a Sunday morning as part of the youth section.
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Yeah yeah right, And have you got many young girls that I want to
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play up there? Yeah? So we've got a number of girls playing within
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our minis which is six up until under eleven's and then we've got a young
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lady still currently with our under twelves team, and we've got plans to reintroduce
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a girls section from September yeah, yeah, to try and get more girls
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in the standalone girls teams back the club. Yeah right, and so how
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are you going to do that? You're going to do a bit of I
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don't know, hadbitizing recruit. Yeah. So there is currently a East Kent
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Girles team which is a number of teams for folks and thanet Dover deal and
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I think sittingbourn All in a similar position to us, all got girls that
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wanted to play but didn't have enough to have standalone teams. So the plan
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is like a collaboration at the moment, a bit like a barbarian side.
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So on the seventh of April, we're actually hosting a Southeast Kent Girls under
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twelves match at Folks And Rugby Club and we're going to put some flyers out
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there to our local girls and say, if you've got an interest in rugby,
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come and watch the East Kent girls team, and then we're going to
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have some open days for the girls with the view of getting a team back
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in for September. Yeah, that's right now. In the past I've had
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various rugby officials in here and they say that everything's in place, the infrastructure
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with changing rooms and stuff like that. That's right. Yeah, absolutely,
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So we've got two sets of change rooms so if we've got boys and girls
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at the same time, we can split them down the middle. So it
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works. It works out really well. Yeah, and you from your experience
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at other clubs, do many clubs have that or they kind of the events
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on different days, so quite often you'll have the girls matches in the afternoons,
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Yeah, to give enough time for the boys to clear out. Okay,
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yeah, yeah, no, it sounds like it sounds like the facilities
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down there are just so wonderful. Really, you're so lucky, aren't you.
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We are really lucky. And when you see the clubhouse that we've got,
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it's stunning. And we go to a lot of other clubs and it
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makes you appreciate actually how lucky we are as a club. Some time ago
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I welcomed Glenn Foreman in here and he was telling me about the history of
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how it went back and all the struggles that you had to kind of get
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where you are. Then you've got an extension to the club and yeah,
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it's brilliant. So you know, we will be encouraging in the next sort
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of twenty minutes of if you've never been up there, then to get yourselves
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up there so you could say, Sunday morning training, I mean with all
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those with all those children, I mean, how many children will be talking
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about it? Do you think so? On average it's about one hundred and
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eighty children, say, like a dance play one hundred and eighty. Yeah,
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absolutely, And I do the pitch allocations so that that takes some going
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sort of sit there and make sure that we've all the teams have got adequate
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space and that we can accommodate. So that's that's the point now for me
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that someone is not hoping to find out more about youth rugby. So if
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you've got if you're like a full sized rugby pitch, obviously you don't expect
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the juniors to play on that, and a lot of times you don't really
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need the goal host. So would you do you play across the pitch?
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You could have two games going on one big pitch at the same time.
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Yeah, So each age group has their size requirements for pitches. So for
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the younger age groups, you can quite often fit for four of different age
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groups on one full size pitch. Really okay, Yeah, Then as we
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go up, obviously the pictures get bigger and then we need standalone pitches.
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But even for training, like the under fourteen's and fifteen that play matches on
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full sized pitches that for training they have half a pitch each and go across
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ways right right, yeah, okay, Well, in the second half,
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we want to talk about the progression because there has been a very controversial statement
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made by a certain professor. That's one of the reasons that I've got you
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in here today. But Obviously, it's great to promote any youth sport.
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And I was overwhelmed when I drove past the rugby club the other Sunday.
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It was just packed with youngsters and parents. So it's lovely to have you
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only. But we're going to have a little musical break now, and then
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we're going to come back and talk about the progression and how the game changes
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from six to eighteen year olds. Supertramped there and dreamer from nineteen seventy four.
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Okay, so welcome back. We're back in the studio now with Olie.
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And only one massive talking point at the moment in youth rugby is in
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a statement made by a professor of sport, Eric Anderson, that youth rugby
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is a form of child abuse. Now that is some Jurassic statement and it
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rooked youth coaches and chair people like yourself all over the country and all over
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the globe. I should think, so, first of all, before we
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get into that, tell us about how your youngsters progress and if they're under
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six, is what they do and when they go to under sevens, and
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I mean the game must change as they develop, and the rules changed very
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slightly. So let's start right at the bottom. What do the under sixties
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do? Yeah, so interesting. Actually off of the back of this,
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it was something we were planning anyway, and this recent study has helped us
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fast track one of our plans. So from September we're at launching a brand
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new team so to speak, was going to be called Little Rutgers. So
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this is going to be focused on reception and year one age students or age
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children as a fun introduction to rugby, and then that gives them a couple
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of years of coming along with their parents, having a little bit of fun,
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playing fun games, and then getting ready for club rugby so to speak,
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which then takes effect from under sevens. So under sevens it is all
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about just getting on the ball, having a little bit of fun and learning
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the basic techniques of passing, the moving and the communication things that are really
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good for that age group. And then it progresses through through through the years
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and as you go up the age groups, the contact then starts coming in
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and it's a progressive route set out body RFU right, So I mean when
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the what's the what's the oldest group? Not the coat was it fifteens at
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the moment? Yeah, it's an under fifteen and sixteen mixed age group.
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Right, so what's their game consist of? How many players and do they
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scrum? They allowed to tackle? Tell us about that. The top end
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of the youth sit up yeap, So the under fifteens is full full fifteen
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a side and effectively it is full rugby rules with lifting line outs, although
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they're not contested, so you're not going to get any hits what while you're
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being lifted up in the air, so you can see as you go through
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under eights you sort of start a bit of contact and then nines and tens
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roucking comes in, but again it's non contested with non contested scrums. The
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age group that our team manager for under four tens is philly contested scrums,
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but the line outs are non contested with no lifting. So there's a real
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graduated approach to make sure that the children have the opportunity to learn each step
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of the game and get used to that contact over a progressive time. Right.
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So so that's great. So progressively the game changes and they adapt and
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so that by the time they're sort of fifteen or sixteen, they're nearly almost
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playing full rugby rules. Is that right? Yeah? Absolutely, so I
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was watching our under fifteens against over on Sunday. Very physical, very disciplined.
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But it's getting them ready for senior rugby. Yeah, yeah, So
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we have to make sure that we're doing things progressively and making sure that safety
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is at the heart of what we're doing. Yeah. But equally, we're
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going to have boys that want to play senior rugby, so we need to
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prepare prepare them for senior rugby as well. Right, and do your coaches
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do they need coaching? They have to go on courses obviously and get certificates,
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but do they as they progress perhaps their child might start off for under
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six and end up at fifteen's like they do. That's how I did with
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my lad at football. Do they have to change their coaching methods? Yeah?
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Absolutely. So there's a number of courses that the RFU have so you
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have first contact and then you've got the English Rugby Awards. There's individual principal
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or scrummaging principal or lineouts, so there are courses that our coaches can do
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at each step of the way. What we're doing as a club as well
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is we're in a process of launching a coaching development program which we're going to
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effectively do a gap andalys what courses our coaches have done, what courses we
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feel our coaches need to do, and then in house as a club look
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at any gaps that we need to feel to try and upsco our coaches because
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ultimately all of our coaches are volunteers. Yeah, yeah, and I do
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hope that if you're not listening today, perhaps excuse me, you're on the
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podcast, that when it does come out the parents that you're being reassured here
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that this statement that was made by mister Anderson that rugby is a form of
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child abuse that must have rocked a lot of parents thinking, oh, you
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know why. And I mean he's obviously got paper figures that say that late
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later on in life they might have some sort of brain type problems, but
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that could go for any sport, boxing, rugby league, especially football.
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Excuse me, so, parents please be reassured that what Ollie and the team
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down there at folks in Rugby Club are doing absolutely everything they possibly can to
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save your trial. Now, Ollie, last year the rules changed in senior
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rugby, didn't they about the height of tackling. Tell me a little bit
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about that. Well, it changed the community game, which will cover senior
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teams from county level downwards, including age grades rugby which the youth section comes
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under. So they changed the tackle heights so it used to be sort of
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anywhere under the shoulders, and then they changed it from the sternum below,
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so the point of contact has to be from the sternum below to try and
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avoid that sort of clear head on collisions. When you're going in sort of
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shoulder height, it's really easy to sort of come it and clash heads where
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with the sternum that the interesting thing was it wasn't just about the tackler,
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it was about the ball carrier. So when you're running with the ball,
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you used to be able to drop your shoulder to avoid a tackle, where
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now you can't. If you drop your shoulder and lower your body height,
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you actually get penalizer as the ball carrier. So at first I think there
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was a lot of skeptics myself included him, but actually seeing it in practice
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this season, it's made a massive difference, massive massive difference, and anything
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that promotes safety and reduced his head contact in any form of sport, I
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think you have to support Now you're dead right there. And one thing that
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I did pick up and all this research I've been doing about this some child
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abuse was they had a senior game in their gum shield They've got a monitor
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and one chap it was picked up and that he was tackled and his head
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there was a bit more whiplashed than they'd have liked, but this gum shield
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picked up the movement of his head and they took him off and a lot
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of players were looking around a bit mystified. But how technology has changed when
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they were safeguarding that player because he had a serious, possible serious injury by
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a simple thing like something in a mouthguard. It's amazing. Yeah, yeah,
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absolutely, And I think it's really important that every opportunity that, especially
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at the elite level, the head impact assessments, the hias as you'll see
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it on the screen are done and the gum Shields will basically promote or send
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a message to say this person needs a HIA. Yeah. Yeah, And
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I think the study that come out, a lot of the examples were at
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the elite level, and actually there's so much being done even at the elite
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level, like the gum Shields to make sure that players are being looked after
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and are being checked for far more than they obviously would have done ten to
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fifteen. Well, that's right because I look back at some of the old
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Lions games with like JJ Williams and that sort of era, and there wasn't
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the physicality there, the sort of three quarters always seem to manage to find
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a gap and get through. But now those those gaps are just close tight,
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and they are just pulled down, aren't they. So the game has
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progressed in so many ways, and it's great to see that the safeguld inside
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of things is sort of trying to keep along with it as well. Right,
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So what else have we got to say about the youth side? I
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know we covered most of it, but do you get many children boys progress
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from the sort of fifteens you said You've got a few playing senior rugby?
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Do you get many drop out? Perhaps they go to university or something you
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never see them again, But do you manage to hang on to a lot
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of your youngsters? I think it's you're always going to get a bit of
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both. So I think once kids get to university age, that's always going
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to be a risk. And folks are not having a university as well,
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is always going to put us at a bit of a hint drants where I
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suppose we hope that our lads and girls when we get the girls sections back,
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that they choose to go to Canterbury University at the weekend. It's difficult
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when they move away. But as we said earlier, we've got I think
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it's eight of our cults from last season currently playing like senior rugby or involved
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training with the senior team, and that's the big thing for us is to
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try and keep them in the club and keep them playing brilliant. Okay,
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Ellie, So we we've discovered, Sorry, we've discussed most of the points
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we wanted to talk about, especially that controversial Is there anything you want to
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say to sum up of you wrote a lovely massive letter on the Rugby club
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website. Is there anything that you want to say to the parents out there
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now about the subjects. I think the biggest thing is just to be reassured
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for our current parents and any parents out there that children want to play rugby.
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And I felt we had a responsibility as a club to sort of right
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to everyone and say, look, we've listened to what's being said, but
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actually this is what we're doing, and the feedback I had from a lot
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of parents on Sunday was really really positive and they felt it was the right
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move. So I just want to reassure that parents that at the club we
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do everything we can to make sure that your children have a platform to come
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and play the game, enjoy the game, develop meet friends, hopefully friends
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for life. Rugby is a really really social sport that I'll see some of
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our seniors have been playing together since they were six seven years old, and
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I think it's really important that we provide that safe platform, and we are
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doing everything as a club to make sure that our coaches are being are going
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on courses. We've got a youth section wide first a course coming up,
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and we're always looking at the ways we can improve our best practice as a
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club. Yeah, brilliant. That's really reassuring for the parents to know.
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Okay, so let's get down to the insecurity. If there's any parents out
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there that their child is eager to play rugby is kind of for one reason
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or another been put off, but how can they get in touch and when
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can they come along? So Sunday mornings predominantly for the minis, So that's
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the I'm currently under six or X sevens up to under elevens and are twelve
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to fifteen's also on a Sunday morning with midweek training as well. Best thing
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is to look on our website, look on our social media, go to
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the contact us section and then that email will come through to me and I
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can put you in contact with the relevant coaches. Okay, okay, before
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we go, We've got to wrap this one up now. But is there
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anything else you want to add? Is there any thank yous? Or is
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there any promotions You're always looking for volunteers anything like that, you know,
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yeah, absolutely, anyone that wants to get involved in coaching, fundraising,
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anything at all with the club then one hundred percent we would love to hear
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from you. Also, a massive thank you to a lot of our sponsors.
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We've got some teams going to London Welsh Festival this coming weekend. We've
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had a number of sponsors that have made that happen, so all of our
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youth sponsors just want to thank you. If there's any local companies out there
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that want to get involved with the rugby club and help sponsor some kit,
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we'd love to hear from you as well, brilliant, Thank you so much
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for coming on. I'm so glad you made it because this was kind of
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hitting the headlines. You know, we think for the wrong reasons and I'm
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just so glad that you've clarified all those points. Thanks a lot, Thank
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you very much, Steven Bishop there and a song called on and On.
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Now, how refreshing was that chatting with Ollie. We were just saying we
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could have been here for the whole two hours because OLiS knows so much about
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the sport and he takes his responsibilities really seriously and passes him on to the
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parents. So parents, I hope you're going to listen to that interview and
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really really enjoy it. Okay, so we're going to stay with rugby now,
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so we're going to bring you some news from the folks and rugby club.
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Now. The first fifteen were due to play Old Dunstonians away at Beckenham,
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but were given a result that is known as a walk over win.
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This could be that the opposition couldn't feel a side, or the illness has
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found its way through the team or something similar. Now, the Dunstonians must
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be going through a bit of a bad time at the moment because they are
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bottom of the league. They're nine points from the nearest team and have had
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a five point deduction. Now this walkover win, I hope I'll get this
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right now. I don't think it probably did focus on any favors as they
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if they had played them, they could have possibly picked up some extra bonus
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points for bonus tries. So currently they first team stand at third in the
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table, a park House a second and seven Oaks a top. The First
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fifteen's next game is at home to make Stone on the second of March,
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who are currently eighth. The year second fifteen had a fine forty five to
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five home win against Medway, placing in them third in the table behind Dover
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and Rye. Their next fixture is a way to Snowden, also on the
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second of March. Now the Thirds didn't have a game last Saturday, and
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their next fixture is on the twenty fourth, which is this Saturday. That's
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at home to Sheppey a two pm kickoff. And don't forget it's the Six
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Nations this weekend. On Saturday, Island play Wales in Dublin as a two
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fifteen kickoff. I tell you that because it's on the Telee's on ITV.
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Scotland play in England at Murrayfield kickoff four forty five, that's on BBC.
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And then on Sunday France Pray Italy in Lille three pm kickoff and that one
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is on ITV. So I'll tell you what, why don't you pop down
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to the folks in Rugby club at the weekend and watch the game alongside fellow
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rugby lovers because they have got a massive one hundred inch TV screen and that
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is what you call a big screen. Five point nine Academy FM folks.
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Then Suzanne Vega there and a song called Marlena on the Wall. Okay,
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time for some hockey news now from the folks in Optimists Camp. Well,
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there's not much to tell you about for a change, as last Saturday is
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what they call a slip week. This is a week where the fixtures that
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are that are played are games that, for one reason or another were postponed
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or rescheduled. So all we have this week are four results instead of twelve.
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This gives our media guru at the club Amy a bit of time off
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so and she deserves it as well. The men's fourth team beat k Sports
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two to one. Goals coming from Freddy and Jack t The six team beat
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Holcombe Hurricanes three nil. Jack Alfie and Harry got the goals, but the
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men's seventh team lost to Holcombe Heroes by three to Neil. The only ladies
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fixture was the third team who drew Neil Neil with the old Williamsonians. Now,
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if you like watching sport, then why not pop down to the Three
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Hills on Sunday twelve o'clock midday and watch the Ops under fourteen boys play against
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Saffron Walden in the quarter final of a National Cup. Yeah, quarter final,
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that is the last eight and they are lucky enough to have a home
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draw, especially in a National Cup. I mean in a way drawer could
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mean well just traveling anywhere in the country. So why not go down there
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and support them. If you've never been to the Three Hills before, you
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can watch the game from the warmth of the clubhouse, having a drink or
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pop down that pitch side for all the close up action. This is certainly
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on my weekend tick list, so I'm hoping to see you down there.
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Okay, So coming up now, we've got to be at over four tops
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and walk away Renee Bruh nineteen sixty six, down four tops walk Away Renee
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that lead vocalist, what a great voice. Hey, okay, well that's
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the end of the first hour. Where has that gone? And we had
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a great interesting chat with Bollie Smith from the Folkston Rugby Club about the chair
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sorry, the chairman and what they do down there. So that was awesome.
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Coming up in the next hour we're going to be talking about I've got
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some running news for you. I've got some basketball news from the Saints and
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also from the Folkston Arrows, and I've got some football news. So taking
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us up to the news we've got. I love this one, not bout
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nineteen midnight mid seventies, I think about seventy five ten CC. I'm not
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in love local music there, phenomenal cat and yours sincerely. Okay, time
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for some football news now. Well. Last Saturday, Folks and in Victor
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were tuning up at Whitehawk, who pulled back to two all, but then
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in the ninety first minute they focused on in Victor conceded a penalty and lost
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the game three to two. Ed Alsop and Dave sharp Per scored for in
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Victor, but Charlie Walker he was holding all the shots, he did the
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damage as Whitehawks. He stepped up in a ninety first minute and scored the
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penalty, giving him his hat trick. We have no midweek game in Victor.
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Go again this Saturday at home to Concord Rangers, who are based in
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Canvy Island in Essex. In Victor are currently seventeenth in the league with thirty
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two points and are in the relegation zone in the twentieth position with eighteen points,
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but have actually played only twenty four games. That's six games less than
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folkused, and so that's six threes eighteen potentially eighteen points there. Moving on
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to Hivetown. Hivetown went one kneel down in the thirty third minute away to
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Burgess Hill on Saturday, but just as it looked like it wasn't going to
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go Hive's way as they piled on the pressure, Johann Caney Brown popped up
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to score two goals in the eightieth and eighty eighth minute to secure the victory.
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However, it was a different story on Tuesday evening when they traveled to
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Chatham Town for a Kent Senior Cup quarter final, losing the game by seven
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goals to two. Hyde went three kneel down within twelve minutes, but managed
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to pull back to three to two, but the Chats were just too strong,
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scoring in the thirty eighth, the forty fifth, the forty eighth and
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the ninetieth the very last minute of the game to take them into a semi
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final. This Saturday is back to league action where they welcomed Sitting Born to
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Richfield's for a three pm kickoff. In the Kent County Premier Division, Hawkinstown
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drew two all at home to Tentendon Town, goals coming from Billy Somerville,
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Luke Reeve and Mandala match going to Josh Hastings, but close rivals Hall's AFC
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picked up three points by beating Bermonsey Town two one. This result keeps Hawks
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at the top of the table by one point, but Halls still have that
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precious game in hand. We have thirty games to play in the season.
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Hawkins have now played twenty two, Hauls have played twenty one, so it's
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going to be an exciting run in now. I was browsing through the football
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results at the weekend and honestly thought this was a misprint, but I was
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wrong. The attendance at the Emirates Stadium for the Ladies game between Arsenal and
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Manchester United was a stagger in sixty thousand, one hundred and sixty So this
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prompted me to ask mister Google what was the highest ever Ladies crowd And it
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seems that when Barcelona Ladies played Wolfsburg Ladies in the YUEFA Women's Champions League on
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the twenty second of April twenty twenty two. Listen to this. Ninety one
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thousand, six hundred and forty eight spectators watched the game at the New Camp
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Stadium and well, congratulations to deal Town who held their nerve and won the
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penalty shootout six penalties to five away at Bridgewatertown in Somerset after the game finished
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two All this was in the FA of Ours. They now have a long
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away day in the quarter finals when they make the two hundred and twenty mile
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trip to play Lincoln United on Saturday, the ninth of March. Of course,
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they are making it really hard work for themselves, aren't they, Bridge
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Walter. I think I quoted last week that was about a five hundred mile
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round trip. Anyway, the fifth round of the FA Cup is due to
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be played on Monday, Maidstone are away to Coventry and that's this Monday,
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the twenty sixth, kickoff seven forty five on ITV and ITV X. The
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allocation for the Maidstone fans was four eight hundred, which have all gone.
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And I'm sure that winner lose, there's going to be a few sick notes
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flying around in the wheels of industry in Maidstone on Tuesday morning. So a
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good luck at to Maidstone. But I'll tell you what I say this every
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time. I still think that Fa Cup Matches should be played on a Saturday
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afternoon at three o'clock and people there ichi coup puck. Well, that particular
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song was released in I think about ninety eight. I think ninety five,
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but the original Small Faces was in sixty eight, so it's an interesting point
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there. Do you prefer the original or the cover version? I think I
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brought this up last week. There was one particular song that I actually preferred
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the cover version, and I might go the same way with this one.
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You know, she's got a brilliant voice. Heads small was the name of
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the people, and so that's a tough one. I think perhaps one week
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that'd be a good idea to get the original version, play the original song
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and then straight away play the cover version afterwards and see what the difference is.
31:52
Now switching the mood a little bit. Talking about the sixties. There
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I was once again looking at heartbeat. I decided to look back on the
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You know, I've got hours on hours of TV shows and have you got
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that You go to watch, you record a show and you never get around
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to watching it, do you. But I had a little bit of a
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binge because I wanted to catch up and all the heartbeat stuff. And there
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was one particular episode, once again the music stole the show. Really,
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it was about a farmer. There was an outbroke, outbreak of foot of
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mouth and this particular farmer had to have his whole herd put to sleep.
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Now the song the show sort of started in a foggy, misty part of
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the milk Fjorkshire Mores and it was quite depressing. You could see the actors
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were doing a wonderful job, but the mood was pretty grim. And it
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started off with this song which I hadn't heard for years. From nineteen sixty
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seven there Simon Dupree and the Big Sound and a song called Kites must have
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been a one hit wonder haven't heard of him since, but it really really
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suited the mood of the program. I was watching last night Heartbeat. Well,
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it was a really really sad episode where the outbreak of foot of Mouth
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and this chap had a really really good prize heard, but they all had
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to be put to sleep. And the next song that came along was also
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very poignant. There was a convoy in the distance of motor cars and it
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was the Ministry of Agriculture and they were coming along to do the deed and
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put all the animals down, whilst they all look perfectly healthy. It was
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foot of mouth. Once it gets hold of a farm or anything like that,
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it is devastating. Unfortunately, the old farmer he couldn't stand it anymore
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and it was a very very sad ending and he took a shotgun and disappeared
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into the barn. And this was the song that finished the show. No,
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it's in White Satin never reaching the from nineteen sixty seven. There the
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moody blues Nights in White Saturn. It's all a bit sixties there this last
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twenty minutes or so, isn't it? And why not? I have said
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a great time. I was growing up in those days and absolutely loved the
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music. It stood the test of time, and songs like that when you
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put them in a series like Heartbeat and adapt them to the story that is
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going on, it is so well done. Now, funny enough, looking
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through my shows, as they call it on my teley, they've all got
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heaps and heaps of recorded stuff that you never get around to watching. But
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I still, for some reason, I still don't record a show A tape
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a show. Do you remember that tape in a show? Well, you
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youngsters won't remember it, but back in the day, we used to have
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a thing called a cassette tape, a VHS tape, and we used to
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tape a show. So that's some things have changed every day, right,
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So we're going to ramp it up a little bit. Now we've got another
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song. I should think this is probably from sixties as well, the Four
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Seasons, Who Loves You five point nine? Bob Marley there waiting in Vain
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in nineteen seventy seven, and it's reminded me that there's a film out,
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isn't there about Bob Marley, and it's called One Love and he kind of
36:22
took the world by storm back in the mid seventies with his style of music,
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the reggae style, and there was a lot of reggae singers out there.
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But if you think of reggae, then you think of Bob Marley.
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And I have read about the film and he led quite they're not an exciting
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life, but it was filled with trauma. Actually you'll have to read up
36:42
about it yourself. But I haven't seen the film. I want to go
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and see it. And something I did I didn't know he actually passed away
36:47
with Kenser in nineteen eighty one, so that was a bit of a sad
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ending for him. Okay, so I think we should get on with some
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sports, don't you. We've be calling this to Kevin Daily Music Show.
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Okay, signed for some running news now as we track down our local runners
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and find out where they've been at the weekend. When I was on the
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mic at the Deal Half Marathon on Sunday, and before I left, I
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checked the forecast and it predicted ninety percent of rain all morning. So not
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looking forward to a wet race, I set off with waterproofs and a change
37:15
of clothing, setting up around eight o'clock. They got it right. I
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was soaked it wasn't a pleasant job. The race was due to start at
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ten thirty, but around ten am it stopped and we never saw another drop
37:28
until around one forty five when I got into my car. I was all
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packed away and ready to go home. So how lucky were the two hundred
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and eighteen runners that took part. First home across the line was the former
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guest of this very show, Tom Bean, and he was representing the Folkston
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Running and Athletics Club, who had fourteen members out there. First lady home
37:47
for the club was Vicky Scott, who was then joined by a Linnea Stockhol
37:52
and Diane Parsons, earning them the Ladies team prior so world done Ladies.
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The sole runner from South Kent Harriers was Marie What who gave me a lovely
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smile and a wave as she crossed the line. Praises must go to hard
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work in race director Jill Cliff and her team of volunteers and marshals from the
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Deal tri Club, who earned heaps of compliments on social media for delivering such
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a good race and added well done. It also goes to Sally Scoggins as
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she worked tirelessly to promote and raise funds for the charity Pancreatic Cancer UK are
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caused very close to her heart. Four runners finished the Tunbridge Walshalth Marathon,
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all from the Folkston Club. That's Nick Steel one hour twenty five forty seven,
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Tom o' murray he came in in one hour thirty five nineteen, Dominic
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Sheppard one fifty one oh three and Tony Scott in two hours, two minutes
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and forty eight seconds. And two runners from the South Kent Harriers also took
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part in their build up to the London Marathon. Melon Royd Powell crossed the
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line would you believe it together like a three legged race as they always do.
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They both finished in two hours, twenty minutes and twenty seconds. And
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there was a ten k race down in Dymchurch which was a run along the
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promenade. Penny Southern from South Kent Harriers took part. She clocked fifty six
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minutes thirty three seconds. But yet another form of guest of the show was
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first part run run. Director Amy Stimpson was first lady home in forty five
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minutes forty eight seconds. So well done to you, Amy, and well
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done to all these guests that are coming in winning races, and that it's
39:27
so good to have them in and see them that they're still out there doing
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their thing. Right. Bit of music. Now is time for a bit
39:34
of Prince and this live in the place like a bit Patchock boys there from
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nineteen eighty six. It's not all about the sixties and they want to make
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lots of money and why not. Okay, so time for some Saints basketball
39:59
news. The under sixteens there we go. The under sixteen's well, they
40:05
lost forty nine points to sixty eight when they played seven Oaks, but coach
40:07
Mark Hinton thought they showed a lot of promise. The under sixteen girls made
40:13
the long trip to Norridge, but it was well worth it as they were
40:15
victorious, winning one hundred and eleven points to thirty six. And the under
40:21
eighteen boys beat Canterbury Kings by eighty nine points to sixty one. And another
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score which I just picked up only this morning. The Saints girls they beat
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Herne Bay fifty nine points to fifty four in the East Kent Ladies League.
40:34
And fifty nine points to fifty four. How close is that? I mean,
40:37
that is amazing. I did follow the progress if you like, and
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it was just necker neck right right until the last minute. And what else
40:46
have we've got something here that I've got? Oh yeah, next month exciting
40:52
news as the under fourteens welcome. Why listen to this? The Welsh national
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under fourteen's team is coming to Folkston for a week of matches on the thirtieth
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thirty first of March. So that really pointed a test, wasn't it our
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local lads. Please check the Facebook website and their Facebook page and their website
41:10
for any further information on that. Now some wheelchair basketball news. The Folks
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and Arrows beat Hampshire Harriers from Southampton at the weekend by forty four points to
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twenty eight, and this Saturday they travel to Chichester to play the Southern Sharks.
41:25
Now, the Arrows are currently top of their league that's the Division three
41:30
South of the National League in the wheelchair basketball section, and the Sharks are
41:36
fourth, that's right there, fourth, So we've got the Arrows atop.
41:38
The Sharks are fourth, but there's only two points in it, so that's
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going to be a really really tough game. Okay, time for a bit
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of music now from a mister al Green. I'm so going to love whatever
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you want to do. It's all happen makes me feel so briend. Want
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to spend my life with you. Let me say baby, since we've been
42:40
together, loving you forever is a w Let me be the one you come
42:59
from cues lover be bar wolf brilliant. Let's stepgr probing you were stern,
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time to good past side. We have a time of goal, had a
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side had to mark the people whom braincome. Oh till all around and lea,
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I just change the suit sho Lets you do that? Would you be
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spend around you is all us. It's where I've got to stop you.
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The state of table nothing you were well? Time for fast noble, Let's
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be well where tap the best has the fast? Three set free of the
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fast, get Bobby well? Where the tablets past the fast? Your sat
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me three s free, warmer fever web, where the tangle little fer some
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bad well as we say goodbye to Albury There it's about the end of another
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show. That's it from me. Saturday, I hope to watch both fan
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and victim play, and on Sunday I hope to get down and watch the
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under fourteens play in the National tournament. Now it looks I was going to
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be a wet, sauy weekend, so please, please, let's hope they've
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got it wrong again, so wrap up, don't forget. If you go
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to the Free Hills, you can watch it from inside the the bar there
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with a pint in your ends. That would be the best thing to do.
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See you next time.