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LISTEN BACK TO ADE DAWKES CHATTING TO FELLOW RADIO FOLKESTONE PRESENTER STEVE B ABOUT TABLE TENNIS. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Okay, Steve, you normally are presenting here on a radio focus,
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  Speaker 1: but tonight today you're a guest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, on the other side of the desk.
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  Speaker 3: Today I do present Sunday Rewind for between six and
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  Speaker 3: eight Monday morning between ten and one, and I've done
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  Speaker 3: that for a number of years now, still enjoying it.
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  Speaker 3: It has its moment, So I prefer the rewind stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm honest, because I like the music. I'm from the
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  Speaker 3: sixties and I used to work in a record store
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  Speaker 3: then and I remember, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we're can have a good, good chat about that.
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  Speaker 1: In no doubt. I love the sixties and seventies and
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  Speaker 1: eighties as well. But for me want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: tables then don't you sports show today? So we must
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  Speaker 1: talk to table Teddy Sun. It's a game that I
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  Speaker 1: used to play in my youth, I must admit not
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  Speaker 1: too well, but we used to play with me and
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  Speaker 1: my cousin. We used to play quite a lot. His
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  Speaker 1: dad used to work at the post office and he
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  Speaker 1: used to have he's got teams probably a table up there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we used to play up there quite a lot in
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  Speaker 1: summer holidays and Easter holiday and things like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it used to be quite good.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what I found with table don is it something
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  Speaker 3: that everybody's played at some stage. Everyone you find, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's a youth club back in the day or in
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  Speaker 3: a works canteen. A lot of folks and companies used
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  Speaker 3: to have teams based in where they worked. You know,
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  Speaker 3: in the insurance company start Round was here they had
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  Speaker 3: a table, and some of the hospitals have had tables
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  Speaker 3: in the recreation rooms.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm assuming it's sort of doing a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a deaf nail, was it.
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  Speaker 3: It's really taking a dive in terms of competitive table
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  Speaker 3: turn since COVID, like so many things have I mean,
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  Speaker 3: in Folkston we've got a league with twenty four teams.
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  Speaker 2: No, but we did have way back.
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  Speaker 3: If you go back twenty years, there were probably sixty
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  Speaker 3: teams from COVID. Though it's stabilized into three divisions of
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  Speaker 3: eight playing competitively. The top players are very good, they
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  Speaker 3: played for the county, very good local players, and the
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  Speaker 3: bottom division is people playing for fun and.
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  Speaker 2: Not very good but enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: That would be me.
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  Speaker 2: The more you play, the better you get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, as I say, I used to play
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  Speaker 1: with my cousin and used to. You know, after a
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  Speaker 1: while we got better with the rallies and not chasing
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  Speaker 1: the ball around the room.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you that A is doing some
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  Speaker 3: demonstrations of some of the shops used to play like that.
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  Speaker 3: But table tennis in Folks then, because we should talk
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  Speaker 3: about Fucson really thrives reasonably well. I mean in Kent
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  Speaker 3: there's thirteen leagues, of which Folkston is one, and it's
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  Speaker 3: not the biggest, but it's certainly not the smallest. So
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  Speaker 3: we've got twenty four teams, got about one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: thirty players, play regularly every week, and they play in
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  Speaker 3: village halls.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the best.
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  Speaker 3: Venue is the one I play, which is a sortwood
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  Speaker 3: village hall because there's a room for three tables. It's
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  Speaker 3: got very good life on a very good floor, and
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  Speaker 3: flooring is a big thing because you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: be slipping over while you're playing table tennis and you
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  Speaker 3: could have nasty accidents that way. But twenty four teams,
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty players not bad.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty years ago. It is more popular.
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  Speaker 3: But so many sports have found that COVID, yeah, about
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  Speaker 3: ten percent, I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, has it made any difference with the sports center
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  Speaker 1: being closed. No, no team's played out of the sports center.
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  Speaker 1: Years ago the sports center did have a thriving table
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  Speaker 1: tennis and his home room upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: You could go three tables up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In recent years, no, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're either village halls or recreation centers and that
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  Speaker 3: generally is the case for local leagues. What we don't
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  Speaker 3: have in the South of England, which is really sad,
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  Speaker 3: is we don't have any like national venues because the
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  Speaker 3: councils in the South don't provide anything. If you want
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  Speaker 3: to get a good venue, you've got to go to
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  Speaker 3: Derby or Manchester and quite a journey. And the national
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  Speaker 3: tournaments that I mean, they're they're not around here. If
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  Speaker 3: I want to play in a national tournament, then the
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  Speaker 3: nearest venue would be Crawley, and the next nearest would
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  Speaker 3: be Norwich and then you're into Sunderland Stoke. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not easy to play nationally. Not that I'm good
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  Speaker 3: enough to play nationally really, I'll play a tournament. But
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  Speaker 3: admin wise, Folks does okay. There's a lot of areas
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  Speaker 3: that do worse than Folks and a few that do better.
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  Speaker 3: But if people want to play. Then they folks in
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  Speaker 3: table Tennis has got its own website so people can
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  Speaker 3: golong onto that through Table Tennis England or directly and
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  Speaker 3: find a club.
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  Speaker 2: I get.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the secretary, so I get occasionally people contact me
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  Speaker 3: and say, we've seen your details, I'd like to join
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  Speaker 3: a club, I'd like to play.
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  Speaker 1: What do I do?
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  Speaker 3: And I say, well, the best thing to do is
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  Speaker 3: have a look at the venues and the clubs that
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  Speaker 3: we are on and then you've got to talk to
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  Speaker 3: the clubs and say are you looking for any players?
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  Speaker 3: Have you got any space in any of these teams.
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  Speaker 3: It's typically a problem for people who've moved into the
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  Speaker 3: area that played league table tennis where they lived before,
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  Speaker 3: and they want to join team that plays in Folkston,
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  Speaker 3: and most teams are already full up, so you only
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  Speaker 3: need three people for a team in Folkston, and often
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  Speaker 3: you've got teams of three people the same three play
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  Speaker 3: every week and if somebody wants to join them, the
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  Speaker 3: better teams have got four or five and they rotate them.
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  Speaker 3: My own club sortward, my team we've got six players
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  Speaker 3: and we only need three for a match, so we
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  Speaker 3: don't sort of regularly play every other one. The captain
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  Speaker 3: will say who's available when and you tell him I
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  Speaker 3: can do this one, this one, not that one, and
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  Speaker 3: you get picked and you play your games.
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  Speaker 1: Cool. What sort of age you know? Obviously that's adults,
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  Speaker 1: is it children?
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  Speaker 3: And we don't get many juniors. The Ashford League which
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  Speaker 3: I'm chairman of as well, gets lots of juniors, but
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  Speaker 3: they do a lot of stuff in the schools which
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  Speaker 3: we don't do. In Folkston. We have a practice session
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday mornings from ten to twelve. Anyone can go
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  Speaker 3: in Hawkins that will be on now right now as
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  Speaker 3: we're speaking. And young players we don't tend to get many.
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  Speaker 3: There is no age restriction. I mean the oldest player
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  Speaker 3: in the league is probably eighty five playing regularly and
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  Speaker 3: the youngest one we've got a young girl, Lydia, who
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  Speaker 3: is good. She's about seventeen I think now, and she's
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  Speaker 3: also been recognized by Kent. I don't think she'll get
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  Speaker 3: to England level, but she's certainly county level. And we've
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  Speaker 3: got quite a few folks and players that play in
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  Speaker 3: the County Championships for Kent against other counties at different
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  Speaker 3: age levels, but is not thriving for young players. So
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  Speaker 3: if any young listeners get yourselves to Hawkins on a
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  Speaker 3: Saturday morning between ten and twelve and will you can
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  Speaker 3: have a game, have a go, and if you're looking
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  Speaker 3: to play competitively, we'll find an option for you. Although
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  Speaker 3: it's only really September to March, so halfway through the season.
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  Speaker 3: I mean some clubs practice in the summer, but the
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  Speaker 3: competition season is September till March. We've just finished the
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  Speaker 3: first half, so that's second half ago January.
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  Speaker 1: Ye. And where's the venue? You say, Hawkage, but whereabouts.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkage Community Center is for the practice training session and
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  Speaker 3: Saturday mornings. The club's playing different venues. Village Halls Posting.
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  Speaker 3: Village Hall Posting got four teams. I think Sort would
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  Speaker 3: have got six. The Dover Road Social Clubs got a
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  Speaker 3: couple of teams. I'm trying to think Selsted School a
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  Speaker 3: couple quite a few teams play out of there, so.
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  Speaker 1: That there are plenty of venues for people to get
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  Speaker 1: it's not just restricted to one of plenty of clubs.
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  Speaker 3: I would say that if I can give an idea,
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  Speaker 3: anyone wanting to play competitively table tennis go on a
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  Speaker 3: Saturday morning to Hawkins where the development officer probably runs
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  Speaker 3: that session and if you're looking at playing the team,
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  Speaker 3: he will probably let me know. And then if people
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  Speaker 3: are looking for players to join the team, that's how
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  Speaker 3: we do it cool.
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  Speaker 2: And people do it.
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  Speaker 3: People move into the area they lived somewhere else, they
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  Speaker 3: played somewhere else, and if they're proactive, they'll have a
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  Speaker 3: look for teams. And then, of course the hardest thing
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  Speaker 3: for me is if somebody gets on to me as
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  Speaker 3: the secretary and says, just moved in the area I
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  Speaker 3: played I played before, I'd like to join the team.
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  Speaker 3: And my first question is what how good are you?
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  Speaker 3: What level do you want to play, because there's there's
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  Speaker 3: no good me putting a low level player into the
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  Speaker 3: Premier division team where they get hammered every week, and
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  Speaker 3: equally the other way round is just as bad. So
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  Speaker 3: you've got to say, have you got an England ranking,
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  Speaker 3: have you got anything? Have you tell me where you
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  Speaker 3: played before, and we can look at your standard and
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  Speaker 3: try and find you a team will that will fit
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  Speaker 3: that standard? Yeah, and it works pretty well most of
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean someone like myself who yeah, I know
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  Speaker 1: table tennis, but I didn't have no idea, how many
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  Speaker 1: leagues and what we were going on going on in
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  Speaker 1: the town. And you know, it's a bit of an
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  Speaker 1: eye opener for me that there are so many teams
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  Speaker 1: and so many people playing you know, table tennis, Steel.
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  Speaker 3: Or twenty four teams in Folks in the Folkston League.
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  Speaker 3: And then I've got thirteen leagues in Kent, Ashford, Dover.
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  Speaker 3: That's close to us here thanet and the top end
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  Speaker 3: players are really good. I mean they're good enough to
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  Speaker 3: play for Kent in the county. We haven't had an
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  Speaker 3: England player level player for a long time. We did
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  Speaker 3: have one years years ago played for England and lived
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  Speaker 3: in Folks, played in the Folkston League. But you've got
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  Speaker 3: to be pretty good. If you really want to be
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  Speaker 3: very good, you've got to pretty much play about six
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  Speaker 3: hours a week and practice nearly every day. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's no six hours a day of practice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like all.
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  Speaker 3: Sports, to be honest, I mean, if you're a professional
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  Speaker 3: footballer or even a top level amateur, you've got to practice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's not you say amateur. Nothing's amateurist these days.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to get on, you've got to be
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: more professional in it. Like you say, any sport. I
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  Speaker 1: mean a classic example, it's on at the moment that
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: the darts on. I mean, you know that's come on
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  Speaker 1: leaps and bounds since Sky decided to do the Premier League,
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  Speaker 1: and that young lad Littler has come through, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's what seventeen eighteen years of a but
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: looks about forty two, and you know he's just outstanding.
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  Speaker 3: I find dance a strange sport because it's the only
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  Speaker 3: spot where every shot is the same shot from the
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  Speaker 3: same place, the same target. Yeah, which he wouldn't let that,
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  Speaker 3: he would go down football penalties.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's very true. I mean, and again, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, you say, like table tennis, I mean I
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: used to play it, but I used to like watching it.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there's not a great deal of TV coverage, but
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: you know, the Olympics come on. You know, there's two
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  Speaker 1: hundred channels now you can watch every sport you like.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't always flick on to the old table tennis.
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  Speaker 1: And I can remember the old what was his name him? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I remember him watching.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I played him and my my fourhand shots a
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: bit iffy, and he said to me, the best the
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: only way I can sort your Foian out is to
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  Speaker 3: break your arm and said, well, I don't think I'll
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  Speaker 3: stick with what He was an unusual player in so
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  Speaker 3: far as he stood ride up the table, he hardly
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  Speaker 3: moved back at all because he learned his table tennis
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: in a small room where there was no room to
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: move back. So we came up at the table blocker. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: which was quite rare in those days. That level of play.
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  Speaker 3: It was very effective.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean you see the Chinese and having their playing,
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  Speaker 1: they're like ten yards behind the table. The table looks
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: like it's a tiny little object in there. It's very
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: good for spectators that sort of stuff. It's not a
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: great idea when you're playing to go back from the table.
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  Speaker 1: It's not wise to do that. Matthew said. Who was
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  Speaker 1: the England number one from while he he was what
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  Speaker 1: they call a defender, so he didn't play attacking shot.
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  Speaker 1: So he did go back from the table and just
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: got everything back. But generally speaking, the further away from
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  Speaker 1: the table you are, the more like you are to loose,
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  Speaker 1: because you're giving the opponent much more time to see
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  Speaker 1: the ball. If you're standing at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: table and hitting back straight away, they've got.
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  Speaker 2: Less reaction time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, hints, But what I found aid is in table
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  Speaker 3: ten it's like in every sport that I've been involved in,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's cricket, played badminton years ago, however good you
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: think you are, there's always someone better, So you're always
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  Speaker 3: in the middle. There were better than some people and
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: worse than others. And you can go to a match
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  Speaker 3: and you can look at the three opponents who you've
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: played over the years, and you know them, and you
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  Speaker 3: can think, well, i'll beat him or lose to him.
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  Speaker 3: He'll beat him, and the final score of the match
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  Speaker 3: will probably be five four, and you're pretty much right
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  Speaker 3: because the results don't tend to change over the years
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  Speaker 3: about who you're beating who you don't beat. There's like
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  Speaker 3: a ranking list, and you know that if you're number
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  Speaker 3: fifty five and you're playing number twenty three, the likelihood
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  Speaker 3: is he's going to win, and if you're playing number
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  Speaker 3: eighty five, you're probably going to win. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: can pick it that way pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, we're going to play first Christmas song on
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  Speaker 1: our playlist today. We must admit I can't don't remember
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: this one. This is the Carpenters and Merry Christmas Darling. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's a seventies study, don't we Yeah, of course. The
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  Speaker 1: late Karen Carpenter's no longer with us said some great songs,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't actually remember the Christmas one. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: back after this with Steve when we're gigna find out
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  Speaker 1: exactly how he got involved all those years ago. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thank Youkay. This is the Carpenter's then and Merry Christmas Darling.
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  Speaker 2: One five point nine.
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  Speaker 4: Radio Folkstone, Vintage and Vinyl have adopted this lovely songs.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of their personal Christmas faves and they'd like
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  Speaker 4: to wish all their customers and followers are very merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Folkston's radio station, Radio Folkston.
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  Speaker 1: Greading cards then sent the Christmas rushes through the Carpenter's
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas Darling. Yeah, I quite like that one.
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  Speaker 2: She was good at Karen Carpenter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was, well, she did some good chunes unfortunately. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no longer with us unfortunately. And yeah they do leave
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  Speaker 1: her really young though she wasn't she Yeah in our prime?
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: I believe the cheeriold subject in it. Yeah, well, Steve,
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: how did you get involved?
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: In table tennis. Well, where do we start with that.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: I used to play badminton at quite a good level,
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: you know, county sort of level. And I was working
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: at the time for a company called Townsend Torrescent, which
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: became at one point remember and one of our ships,
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: the Herald of Free Enterprise, turned over. Remember, And as
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: a result of the accident, I was heavily involved in
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: a great deal of extra and difficult work as part
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: of the follow up to that accident. So I stopped
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: playing badminton for a year, and I thought, right, I'll
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: start again the next year, and I found that not
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: only had my standard deteriorated a lot in the year, well,
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: I thought it was never going to come back to
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: what it was, and also I didn't really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: And some of the mates of mine that I had
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: in the cricket club that I was a member of said,
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: it's a shame we don't do anything in the winter.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: We only meet up in the summer and play cricket.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: And one said, well, I used to play table tennis
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: for a company called Richmond Dairy's, which apparently was Folks
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  Speaker 3: the dairy that I'd never heard of, and still had
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: never heard of it, and he said, why don't we
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: form a table tennis team and we'll go in the league.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: We're going to folks to the league. So we said, yeah,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: we could do that, and so we formed a league team,
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: and then we formed a second team. And I was atrocious,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: but I did have a bit of an eye for
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: the ball from Babington, So how do I co an
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: ordination from playing cricket and from playing badminton? Became okay
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: and did all right in the bottom division and got
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: a bit better, got into the next division, and I
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: sort of improved faster than some of my teammates did,
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  Speaker 3: and I got very frustrated when we got to Division two,
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  Speaker 3: which was really division three because the Premier is the
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: top one, and I felt I should play in division one.
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  Speaker 3: I was getting better and my two teammates will not
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: get quite good enough, and we always kept coming third
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  Speaker 3: in Division two and the top two got promoted. And
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: then I spoke to a friend of mine who was
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: a better player, and he said, well, I'll come. I'm
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: playing your team, but I'm not going to play in
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Division two. He said, if we form a team, he said,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: it's got to be in the premier division, and I thought,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: I'll never be able to play at that level. You know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: I maybe play Division One, but I wouldn't be able
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: to play Premier And he said, yeah, actually will You'll
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: be okay? And I started winning games in the Premier Division.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: And I still do win a few, not many as
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I've got older, but I still would do something. And
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: that's really how I got into table tennis originally, how
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: the team formed, and then I became secretary of the
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: league and chairman of the Ashford League and.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all a knock on, is it. Once you
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: do one, you find that you can do this one,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: and you do that one.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: And yore.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: And all sorts of other stuff. Yeah, and no one
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: wants to take it on. The chairman of the folkus
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: In League is a good friend of mine and I'm
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: the vice chairman and secretary, and we keep saying, is
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: it about times? We've done this for twenty five years?
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: You know, it's about time somebody else did it. No
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: one wants to do it. And what do they say
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: the same thing every time? But you do it so well?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah before, yeah, so what's the answer. Then I do
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: it badly? It badly, and then there's someone on it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I think you've just got to make somebody guilty enough
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to take it on. I think the only answer is
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: saying I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm not
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: going to do it. Find someone else or the oil collapse. Yeah,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and then you don't like to see it collapse, so
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you so well, I'll do it for Yeah. That reminds
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: me of five a sidely when we used to play
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that one Yeah, summer six aside. I started up a
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: league in the eighties and that ran for about eight
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: ten years, and then I moved up to Oxford and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I gave it to my friends and said, you know
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you can carry it on. Yeah, you'll be all right.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Two seasons folded. Yeah, you know I get where you're
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: coming from.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Certainly in Ashville, we're on the chairman there, which I
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: never particularly wanted to be, and I play games at Ashford,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: so it's okay. I've said every AGM. Look, I'm not
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: going to fight an election. You know I never wanted
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: this job and I don't really want it. So anyone
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: wants to be chairman speak now and the answer is oh,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: you do it so well?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: No, no one.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: And so I know that my wife and grandson are
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: listening to me in the car outside. So sorry, Jackie,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: but I am trying to give some of these jobs. Yeah.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I mean it's also very time consuming, isn't it, all
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: these jobs, and you know with the radio focusing as well.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: And yes, radio folks, then yep, get another plug for
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Monday mornings free Wine show tomorrow at six. But there's
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: all these little jobs, whether it's tavior, tennis or radio
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: or whatever. On their own, they're not very long. Well
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: that's okay, I can fit that in. But when you
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: add them all together, that's when the problem comes in.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: You think you really give something up.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Jackie.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I know you're listening. So if I'm going to give up,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm going to give up, but
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I'll try.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Well, we don't want to keep you much longer than
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Stavid you obviously you've still got things to do today,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: but we really do appreciate you coming in. Well we
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Kevin's not here this morning, obviously he's doing the fun
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: runner up at the Lee's at the moment, but we
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: really do appreciate you coming in. And I hope that's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: given an insight to a lot of people in folks
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and about table toys, a sport that he's normally overlooked.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid, but you know you are right, Yeah, you
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: are right. He's a little message toward the schools, you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: start playing table will help things. Yeah, we need we
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: need the youngsters.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: We will certainly help schools if schools have got a table,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: we'll send people into work with the kids and work
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: with the teachers and help them give up because we
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: want some juniors to come in and play.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: So where would be the the ultimate the best place
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to actually get in contact everything sexual media these days?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: So what what sort of platform will be the best
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: for someone to get through to. We've got Facebook page
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: there you gohere, everybody.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: They can go through Table Tennis England where our websites
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: are table tennis folks. Then Google search it and we'll
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: find they'll find us that way. No, that's not difficult.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: They'll find people do find me and say, you know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: where can I play table tennis? But we'd like more players.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: We would spectically juniors and particularly lady players, because I
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: out of one hundred and twenty, we've got maybe eight
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: or nine women and the rest of all men and
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: very few juniors. Part from the one I mentioned earlier
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: who's playing for Kent a bit.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: So you know you've had it here first you fancy
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: playing table tennis, get in touch. Steve will be more
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: than happy to hear from you. And as I say,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: once again, thank you very much for coming in this morning, Steve.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: It's been a very enlightening for me and I've really
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you A So you're going to use the
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: phrases by Henry the Eighth. They won't keep you any longer.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I won't keep off with their head. Well. Thanks, thanks
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: for the opportunity. No, not a problem with all, Steve.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: But as I say, it's much appreciated you coming in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and giving up your time. I know, like you say,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: every time pressures, times pressures. It is great Christmas. We
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: will do yeah, and I'll probably see you in the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: new year. We've got lots of things coming up, so
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll all be.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, keV and listen to me rewind show tomorrow.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Shall be yeah. I love the oldies. Talking of the oldies.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Last night, I was lucky enough to go to the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Shepherd's Bush Empire and I yeah, what a venue, What
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a venue? And I saw one of my favorite bands,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and I hadn't seen them since nineteen eighty nine, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: when I saw them at the Story, it's the wonder Stuff.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: That's the one we don't talk about. If you're a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: wonder Stuff size of a cow, this is see you
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: must have seen that.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't see it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: This is the one I'm going to play now. They
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: did it last night. They unfortunately they haven't got give Give,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Give Me More, More and more Unbearable on our playlist,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: but they have got size of a cow. And I
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: make no excuses for playing this one because the wonder
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Stuff are fantastic. They're brilliant live. You ever get a
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: chance to go and see them, I would really recommend it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: But this is the wonder Stuff and size of a cow.