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LOCAL SPORT CATCH UP WITH CRICKET,HOCKEY,RUNNING AND FOOTBALL · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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This is Kevin Sports very Daily, back in the chair after my annual holiday,
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and it's all changed. You know, we're now radio focused on But
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then you knew that, didn't You go away five minutes and they turn everything
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around. Anyway, Whilst I was away, I missed all the fun of
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the open day and all that live music, but I was keeping an eye
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on it from sunny Cypress. So yes, I've been in Cypress for the
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last three weeks. Landed in the early hours of a Wednesday morning, so
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I've not had a great deal of time to prepare the show. So it
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speaks a bit more music than sport as I catch up with what's going on.
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Well, the cricket season has kicked off. Well does a cricket season
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kick off? Doesn't really does it? It kind of bowls off anyway.
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Our small reports on our local Saturday cricket insides. That's Folkestone, Hawkinge,
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Hive, Hive Green, Saltwood and Simpton Park. We've bit of news from
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our local senior football clubs folks in a Victor and Hive Town, including a
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special mention for the Invictor under eighteens. We've got some hockey news from the
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folks on Optimist Hockey Cup and runners from Folkston Running and Arthletis Club have been
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busy at various locations around the globe. And I have a special report on
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the two park runs that I actually started. That's the keywords started in Cyprus,
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but the two runs couldn't have been much more different anyway. Let's start
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the shadow with a great track. This makes me feel that I'm back in
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a chair. The feeling never belowly, folks feeling there never be lonely,
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you know. I've seen them a couple of times that The first time it
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was a bit of a surprise. Actually we went up to see Elo at
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the O two and they were the front band. I was really I got
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in there and didn't expect to see them and they were brilliant. So we
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saw them again when they came to the Marler, which was a bit closer.
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Okay, now it's summer, so they say, so it's time for
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the sound of leather on willow as the local cricket season gets underway. In
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fact, most of our clubs have played two fixtures already, so let's crack
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crack on with some updates. Just had a little core for fee. I
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think I'll come back with her. You always come back what full of you
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with something, then you always catch something in the last few days anyway.
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Last Saturday, Folks on first eleven beat Bromley Common by twenty seven runs.
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Folks then won the toss and batted first, making two hundred and six all
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out, Chinwei Suta being caught out just too short of his century on ninety
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eight. I mean, how cruel is that you bat away and you get
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into the nineties. It often happens with batsman. I don't know whether they
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lose concentration or they kind of the bowlers step it up a little bit,
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but it was just too short of a century anyway. Bromley were then bowled
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out for one hundred and seventy nine for the first eleven. It's been a
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positive start to the season after relegation last year, having played two and won
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two. This week they welcome Sidcup to the Three Hills for a twelve o'clock
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start, and it looks like Saturday is going to be a sunny, breezy
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day, so a good cricket in day. In the local derby down at
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the Grove High Cricket Club batted first against Hyde Green making one hundred and ninety
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four. Troy Harding top scorer with fifty eight. The Green were then bowled
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out for ninety eight, Troy bowling out Action for seventeen and going on to
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make two catches. Now I've highlighted that little section there because it's good to
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see local sporty people playing more than one sport. Troy is a regular goalscorer
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for the Folks in the Victor's Disability Football Club and Henry runs for Folks and
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Running and Athletics Club, often winning the park run fixtures. Next week see
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Hive traveling away to Egerton and Hive Green face another local derby as they make
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the short journey to Saltwood. Saltwood, by the Way lost last week they
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lost by eighty four runs to Willsborough. Hawkins beat Betsanger Colliery by ninety seven
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runs, making one hundred and sixty two then bowling out their opponents for sixty
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five. This week's it's a home fixture on Saturday against Wire and finally Sipton
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Park traveled to Raynham but lost by four wickets. Now this week it's a
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home game as they welcome Borstal Cricket Club who come from just off the M
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two in Rochester. And when I say bors Stall Cricket Club, there is
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a place in Rochester called cricket called ball Stool. It's not a prison,
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it's just a little hamlet's little village there. So there you go. That's
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my first cricket report of the season. But these clubs have got so much
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more going for them than just the first team. So in the next few
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weeks I should be chasing our local cricket teams for somebody to come in and
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tell us what goes on behind the scenes at their club. Okay. In
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the meantime we've got the Stereophonics and a bit of a crash test dummies from
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two thousand and three. There's the crash Test Dummies and a song with a
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strange title was called well that's where it says here. Okay. Now I've
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just got back from Cyprus and I want to tell you about a tale of
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two park runs that I took part in whilst on holiday. Now, over
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the years me and missus Ferrett have been going to Cyprus and we've got to
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know a very friendly bunch that are the Pathos a running club. They have
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their own independent park run based on the same principles as a UK Park Run.
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It's a five k course for all ages and all abilities, is held
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once a month at eight o'clock on the first Sunday of the month along a
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traffic free paved coastal path and all you have to do is register once for
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your barcode, which recalls your time, how it compares with others in your
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age group, and of course it's free. Sounds familiar, Well, it's
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the same principle as the UK Park Run, but they only do it once
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a month now. They start at eight o'clock to try and beat the hot
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weather. So on the first of May I went along with Sue Elkins,
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but the forecast wasn't good. It said storms on the way around eight o'clock.
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A bit of a coincidence that volunteer and good friend of ours Andy Bashford,
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jogged off with an armful of signs to the two and a half k
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turnaround point, while Sue and I decided to do tail walking duties with and
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his wife Jane. The run started just as it was about to rain.
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We'd been out about ten minutes when the rain turned into hale, and then
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a few minutes later this turned into a hailstorm of biblical proportions, coming straight
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into our faces. Some runners decided to turn around and head back. However,
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we carried on, but not for long. With hailstones pounding us like
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the machine gun, we reluctantly turned round. At least the hailstones hammered into
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our backs and not our faces. Now, I would say, and I'm
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not sure about this, but at least twenty five percent of the runners decided
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to do the same. However, many hardy souls carried on, and they
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actually did the whole course. I suppose they got out there so far and
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what's the point of turning back, because they were the fast runners, though
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mirs ahead of us. Anyway, when we got back, people were diving
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into their cars, or they were huddled into any on a bit of shelter
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that they could find. As the fierce storm carried on for another twenty minutes
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or so and slowly slowed down, but it didn't really abate for about another
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half an hour. Now you had to remire people like Andy at the turning
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point and the finished Barco team, who stuck to their posts like true park
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run professionals. We found out later that Andy had tried to find the start
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line as he could see the potential dangers as he got soaked first, but
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he couldn't get through. He was trying to warn him not to start,
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but hold off for a little while as the storm headed along the coast.
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Now it has to be said, this flash storm has never happened to us
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before in any of our visits to Cyprus, and it's just a shame.
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It coincided almost to the minute that the park run started, and in all
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of my years of running, looking back, I've never encountered anything like this.
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Now Pathos Running Club not only have a running section, they also have
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a walk in and a cycling groups within the club and their own club runs.
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Ay always end somewhere near a bar or a cafe where you can get
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breakfast or club members turn up with copious amounts of cake. Now they hold
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fundraising coffee mornings for various worthwhile causes, and the biggest one they support is
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a charity called Breast of Friends with this offers friendship, support and advice for
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people who've been diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, over the years they've raised
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more than twenty thousand euros. That's around seventeen thousan pounds to support this worthwhile
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cause. So if you're every on holiday in Pathos and fancy apart run,
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just contact Pathos Running Club dot org. Or if you're taking a break around
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October time, you might like to join the team on their fundraising Breast of
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Friends five k walk, where you will look out a place if you don't
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wear pink. Okay, So it's time for a bit of music now,
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and you know what I was thinking about this one. I thought it's got
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to be a running type song, so I found this. I think this
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one that sums up that I'm at home now. But I did run for
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home, so what better song than to choose? This is for all the
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Pathos Running Club members. Lindis Farm Run for Home, travel with the guitar,
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I run for Home. There from Lindis varm lovely gentle running song.
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Now the tell you about the second part run. Now this one was again
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different. It was This one was under the what can I say, the
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UK banner. It was an official UK part run, but it was in
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a place called Happy Valley, lovely aimed place. And now that's in Episcopy
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in Cyprus. It's about thirty miles from Paphos. It was technically on UK
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soil as it was set in an Army garrison. Now you can't just turn
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up at this one. There's a lot of security around and so you have
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to be invited. They take your part, sport number and all that sort
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of stuff. So the Army invited all of the Pathless Running Club along and
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around fifty of its members turned up and ran, including myself and Sue Elkins.
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Well, mine was more of a walk really. You know, it's
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a long time since I did a bit of running of had injuries, so
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I running career was curtailed early to speak. Anyway, to add a bit
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of spice to the morning. It was also was known as a color run
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where this is where at various points along the route you're pelted by powdered paint.
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Now, these stations were manned mainly by the children of the garrison families,
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supervised by their parents of course, but one would say how can I
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put it? And they were very enthusiastic when it came to spraying us adults
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with the paint. But the Army had a great idea, you know,
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when we got there, they provided everybody with a plain white T shirt it
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was a brilliant idea. Now the run started, they got great facilities to
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forces I don't know. The run started on a lovely running track at eight
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o'clock and this time it did get but there was no storms. There were
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some classic tunes being pumped out on the PA system, and then there was
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also some traditional sounds coming from the Army band. The corpse was flat,
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thank goodness, but the temperature did start to rise. There was a cake
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stand. There's always a run and cake in Cyprus go together, I'll tell
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you. There was a cake stand and they were all raising money for a
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services charity called SAFFA which stands for Soldiers, Sailors and Airman's Families Association.
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All this added to a carnival atmosphere and all the Pathways runners entered in the
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spirit of things. Now the Services fire station, they had a fire station
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on board. There was a big fire tender. Even they provided a water
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spray just when you needed it right at the finish. Myself and Sue felt
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very lucky being invited by the Pathways Running Club and we're very grateful because it
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was a brilliant fun event. Now, Matt, the run director, in
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his brief in welcomed the pathfors runners and the club president Sue Audrey, made
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a short speech and presented Matt with a yellow engraved plaque, which is a
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lovely idea because yellow is the club colors and this was in thanks for the
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invitation. On the running side of things, two hundred and eighty seven runners
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took part, and they were all invited. Let me tell you they couldn't
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just turn up and listen to this bit. This is the Pinuria's back.
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Sit down, make yourself a cup of tea and listen to this bit.
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I came two hundred and fourteenth, Yes, and out of two hundred and
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eighty seven, I was fourth in my age category. That category is a
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male seventy to seventy four year old fourth. I thought, do you know
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what I'm really tough with that? I was really pleased after I hadn't been
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running for years, and then I looked closely at the results and discovered there
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was only four in my age category anyway, so never mind, I was
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there now. They must have had it in for one of my friends,
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Andy Bashford, at one of the paint stations, because he came in looking
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like the jolly, enjoyant absolutely plastered in green paint. But this was a
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holiday memory that only runners could understand, running around an army base in twenty
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eight degree temperatures at eight o'clock in the morning, getting plastered in paint.
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Once again, Sue and I want to say a big thank you to the
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Pathways Running Club and all its members for making us feel so welcome. The
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eagle eyed amongst us are like myself, Andy and Darryl all spotted a sign
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that said the Nag's Head. And I'll tell you what a point of Kiyo
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would have gone down really well even at that time in the morning. So
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start for another song now. And because I've been out in Cyprus for three
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weeks and the temperatures have been lovely. In fact, it was getting a
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bit too hot just before we left, I just want to play a little
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bit of a beach boys. It's got to be a summary sound, doesn't
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it. So have a little listen to this. This might take you back,
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wouldn't it be nice? Melanie? See there a northern Star. You
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know what that sort of title is just reminding me that it's probably old news
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to you now, But while we was in Cyprus, you saw the Northern
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lights, didn't you. They all came down over folks, And I can't
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believe the amount of pictures I saw on social media saying, oh, look
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at this, you know, but in Cyprus. No, we're too far
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away, too fast south. I think now I've got to pay thods thousands
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of thousands of pounds if I want to go and see the Northern Lights.
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You're so lucky, you save yourself so much money. Okay. So I'm
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trying to catch up with a bit of local football news and I see that,
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folks in Victor captain has decided to leave the club. Callum Davis has
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been within Victor for eight years and we're be sadly missed after making three hundred
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and forty eight appearances. Meanwhile, manager Andy Drewy assigned experienced goalkeeper Johnny Henley
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from Tunbridge Angels position, which is over the last few seasons, let's face
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it, they've been in and out. If we haven't had the consistency in
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goal there, it's been a vulnerable position and some of the defenses in recent
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seasons have looked a bit shaky because they haven't got a wonderful goalkeeper behind them,
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Whereas going back we had Tim robertson goal. What was he in goal
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for about six seven years when it so everyone was settled. Still, let's
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see how this one goes in. Victor have six away friendlies booked in against
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Shepard United, Whitstaball, Ashford, Sittingbourn, Herne Bay and Tumbridge Angels and
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home games against deal Town, Margate and Maidstone. And once again I can
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remember back in the day going to watch the pre season when Folkston used to
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I don't know how they did it. It must be down to money now,
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but used to get teams like Brighton reserves or Brighton youth team. You
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know, Charlton Brentford youth team used to come down for friendlies and certainly roast
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life out of Folkston, but it really kept them on toes now down at
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Hive. They've in place for the next season. They've got a new chairman
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in Matthew Smith. They've got a new manager in Sammy Moore who brings along
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the backroom team of Darren Beale with several youngsters in pressing. At the end
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of last season, if you remember that last season they were injury you know,
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the season was over. Injuries crept in and they were struggling to put
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a side out and they put a lot of youngsters out and they all did
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very well. So the thing is, will they have a new look side
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to start their campaign and two many youngsters. Congratulations go to Paul Stanton's in
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Victor Under eighteen's as they won the Kent Youth League Premier Division. Now you
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can't get much better than that in county youth football, and you really do
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need to go to the folks in the Victor's website and read the story of
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how they actually won it. It was very very nail biting by the sound
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of it. They had to rely on other results. The kickoff times were
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different. It must have been a really tense morning. But at the end
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of the day you you can't sort of take away from the lads. They
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are champions. And the thing with under eighteens is that some of them now
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might I don't know that. I won't say they're lost, but they need
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somewhere to go. They need to get straight back into senior football. I
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expect some of them are only like seventeen anyway, and they get another season
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in the under eighteens, but this is a sort of in between time for
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a lot of the youngsters. So let's hope they all find the good clubs
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or even go on to stay with in Victor and get a chance to have
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our runout in the first team. Okay, so that's enough for other football.
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I'll be back surely after a bit of music. We've I don't know
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what we've got coming up, what we've got left. We've got a bit
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about hockey. We've got a bit about this half term coming up. We've
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got a bit about some part run at UK where the runners have been and
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we want to wish you good luck to the Blister sisters as they take on
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a relay. And I'll tell you about that shortly. That's the Sugar Babes
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there and a song called Freak Like Me. Now all about youth football.
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It wasn't just the under eighteens, that folks in the Victor that have had
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a good season. And I'm going to try and track down Paul Stanton and
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see if I can get him in because I think the under thirties won a
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cup or they won the league. I'm not sure. I'm a bit out
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of touch, so I need to do some homework, but it'd be nice
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to get Paul in to give us a rundown of everything that's happened at the
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Folks and in Victor youth section of the football there. Now it seems like
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the Folks and Optimist Hockey Club never sleep. Last weekend they hosted the women's
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Masters over forties tournament on behalf of Southeast Hockey. Now it's interesting to note
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that now the Ops have got such splendid facilities there, they're getting on more
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and more to host tournaments. We went down there, I don't know before
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I went away on holiday and there was a that is and masses of kids
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as they hosted a Kent on the Saturday, I think it was the Kent
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Boys under tens and then on a Sunday the Kent Girl or anyway, it
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was absolutely packed and that's only because they've got the facilities to do it now.
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They've got the pitches, they've got the space, they've got the refreshment
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places and good luck to them. In this particular tournament, seven regional teams
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traveled to the Three Hills, each playing six games over the weekend. Now,
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the teams came from all over the place. They came from London,
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the Midlands, the Southeast Yorkshire, in the northeast, the East, and
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the west and south central. All these areas of England converged on the Three
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Hills, so it really was a very high profile competition. Now, without
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going through all the scores, after two days of hockey, London were announced
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as the winners. So, to be honest, that's another feather in the
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cap for our very own local hockey club, the Folks and Optimists. Now
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it's approaching half term. Parents don't forget it's coming up soon, so why
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not keep your children active by letting them be part of the many half term
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camps that offer a great choice of sports and activities. Now, the one's
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to be fair, I haven't looked into it much, but I know is
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half term and there's the next generation a coaching company, Elite Community Coaching,
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Folks and Sports Center and the Folks and Saints Basketball at the Three Heels.
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They all do something for kids, so please please check them out. And
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I'd also like to just say that no doubt there are lots of others out
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there that I don't know about that might be local to you, and I
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do apologize if I've left anybody out. So I've been trolling the playlist because
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I'm really still having summer mode. I'm sitting there and the sun's out,
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okay, probably ten degrees fifteen degrees cool at the new I was used to
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for been a couple of days after having three weeks in Cyprus. But I'm
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looking for some summer songs and this one will just and I bet you do
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the little bit of the end. John Travolta Summer Nights, Folks, the
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radio station one five point nine radio Folks, I love it. Well,
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did you do that bit at the end there? You know where you're at
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that disco? Oh you're you know there's a barbecue in the back, Golden
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or your old wedding reception. This one comes on and everyone does that last
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little bit. Come on, we've all done it. Okay, we're getting
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I'll tell you what. Running out of time? Where is this hour going?
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So just a couple of few more things before I go. Folks and
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running club athletes have been very active at park runs around the globe at venues
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such as Folks and of course they've been to Ashford, Pegwell Bay, Dover
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Waterfront, Margate, Dartford, Warmer and Deal Rhodes Park Run. Now to
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look this up, that is actually in Australia. Some of the folks and
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runners were there in Australia, and of course Sue Elkins was in the Happy
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Valley in Cyprus. On Sunday, I'm straight back at the sharp end.
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I'll be on the mic at the Folkston nearly sold out Coastal ten k which
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is organized by the Folks and Rotary Club with Ray Johnson as a race director
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and one of which Sha good luck to the Blister Sisters relay team of Joe
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Bonner, Luise Leggett, Tika Barrow, Sarah Walker and Becka Young As they
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ran a half marathon a day this weekend and they end up in Paris.
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Believe it or not, Yes, Paris. They're raising funds for Parkinson's UK
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and SAFFHA, the Armed Forces charity. So we're running out of time,
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but I found another Sunshine song and this to take you back because you want
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nothing more than this for the weekend. Here comes the Sun, so there
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to put you in a summer move for the weekend, the beatles Here Comes
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the Sun. What a great track. Okay, that's about it for me.
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I do apologize if I've been sort of tripping over my tongue and coughing
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down the microphone. It's back of the chair, but it just takes a
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little bit of getting used to. And so this is radio focus, and
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I've got to get used to saying that radio focused on on one oh five
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point nine. And now, if you've got a local sporty story to tell
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me, then please get in touch. There's lots of unsung sporting heroes out
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there and I want to start getting them back in the studio. I'm gonna
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i am to try and get Paul Stanton back in and I want to go
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do a round of the cricket clubs if I can. And so there's a
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lot of stuff that goes on at cricket clubs and I want to share it
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with you. So as we play out another kind of we never think of
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the Eagles, I think of Summer. So what better song than Hotel California
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And I'll see you all next time. When a dog doesn't alloway my head