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FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE SPORTS SHOW FEATURING U14S HOCKEY AND MUCH MORE!! · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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This is Kevin Sportsforite Daily with the Folks and a high sports show on Academy
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one of five point nine FM. Unfortunately, after two very chatty guests last
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week, I've been unsuccessful in finding anyone to talk to this week. Let's
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face it, people lead very busy lives these days, don't they. However,
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I've loads of sports and reports to bring you. We've got reports from
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Folks and in Victor, including the under eighteens Hive Town with a report from
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Tom ellerby Hawkinstown Folks in in Victor Disability football team, folks at Optimist Hockey
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Club including a short interview with pitch side with Adrian Rowe after the under fourteen's
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semi final. We've got reports on the Saints basketball, the Folks and Arrows,
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wheelchair basketball, running and trail events, schools, ski racing, rugby,
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netball, and a couple of retro songs from the TV drama The Royal
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and a tribute song from Steve Harley who recently passed away from cancer. Oh
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and I nearly forgot It'll soon be half term parents, so a list of
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half term sports camps for the kids to tell you about. We're going to
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start the show now with a classic track from Dolly Parton Joelane, followed by
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some my local music that I apologized local music there from Kate Winty and a
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song called Weightless and are waiting. Okay, let's crack on now. We've
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got plenty to get through in the next couple of hours, so we're going
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to start with the usual football folksing In Victor beat Canvy Island one Neil last
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Saturday thanks to a Tom Dery headed goal in the sixty third minute. Tuesday
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evening saw an away game at Chessunt where the score ended with a three to
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two victory to Chessant after in Victor went ONeill up with a Dave Smith penalty
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of chessn't hit back with one goal. Then they were awarded two penalties which
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they converted both of them, so that gave them the victory three two.
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This puts in Victor in seventeenth place with fourteen points above the drop zone.
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But listening to Ady and Charlie on Seasider's Radio, it seems once again it
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was a below power performance from in Victor. Now as we head towards the
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end of the season, the games will still be coming thick and fast,
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thanks to all the postponements for all that horrible weather we've had. This Saturday
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in Victor don't have a game, although there is a full fixture list in
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the division. They actually have a game on Sunday away at Cray Wanderers.
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And do you know what I couldn't understand for the life of me why this
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should be. So I contacted Seasider's radio commentator and former guest of the show,
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Amy Dawks, and he told me it was because Cray shared a ground
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with Bromley and they have a home game on the Saturday. So this highlights
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one of the drawbacks of ground sharing, such as the fixture pile ups.
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But luckily enough Bromley have an artificial pitch so cancelations are rare. After the
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Crag game, the next ones are over the Easter period. Good Friday at
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home to Lewis three o'clock, Easter Monday away to haste Things also three o'clock,
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where a big crowd is expected. They've got quite a good home support
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over there at Hastings and the other day they played Chattham I think, and
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have also got a good support and there was over two thousand people there switching
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to Hyghetown now and they welcomed three Bridges to reach Fields last Saturday. So
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let's hear how the game went from our pitch side reporter Tom Elleby. It
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was a pointer piece on Saturday afternoon at Reachfields as hythe drew one one with
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three Bridges. Steve Watt made just one change from the four mill defeat against
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Horndean as Kane Philip was replaced by Kay Grand. The first chance of the
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match went Hide's Away in the twelfth minute as a long thrown from the right
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hand side by Jack Stevenson was headed backwards by ex Hyde striker Noel Layton,
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which keeper Finley Western had to jump to catch. However, it was the
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Visitors who broke the deadlock on twenty two minutes when the bille Gunnam darted past
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the Hide the fence and placed a shot into the corner of the net past
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Jackquest's duty. Hith had an opportunity to level the scores on the half hour
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mark as Franny Colin whipped a curling shot from outside the box just past the
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keeper's right hand post. Colin almost turned the provider ten minutes later as his
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free kick was headed on by Josh Whisson and was narrowly tipped over by Finley
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Western. Hythe had their closest chance at the half in stoppage time when Jake
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Hembery shot at goal was saved and the rebatd and went to Whistan once again,
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who managed to deflect the ball off the crossbar before it was dealt with
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both the Three Bridges back line. The second half began fairly evenly. Hive
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did have a slight edge, but their build up play was unfortunately canceled out
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in the final third. On seventy seven minutes, a melee in the Three
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Bridges penalty area almost resulted in a goal, but in eighty three minutes,
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Jackquest's Duty had to dive to catch a bullet header by Billy Irving from a
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Three Bridges corner. Fortunately for Hive they were able to draw level with just
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three minutes remaining of normal time when Lex Allen's shot resulted in a handball by
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an opposition defender. Fanny Colin stepped up and calmly slotted the ball in,
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so keepers left to make it one to one. Despite this, it was
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a Visitors who came closest to scoring the winner in stoppage time, noel Leyton
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hit a shot which was narrowly caught between the legs of Jackquest's duty to secure
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a point for Hithe. Overall, the result was a fair one, but
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Hide will go aways slightly disappointed with their performance in the penalty area. Well
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big thanks to you there, Tom for that report. Now, last Tuesday
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Hyde made the tree to East Grinstead for a league game where the score was
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three to two to five thanks to a ninetieth minute winner scored by Troy Howard.
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Now fixtures, I mean I have a crammed fixture list coming up tonight
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yesternight Thursday twenty first, it's home to Beckenham Saturday the twenty third they are
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away to Cray Valley Tuesday, twenty sixth home to Herne Bay Saturday the thirtieth
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home to Mursdam and Easter Monday are way to Shepherd United. Turning our attentions
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now to Hawkins Town where they made the trip over to Thunnet last Saturday where
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they played Minster, who ground share with Ramsgate. The game ended two one
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win to the Hawks, goals coming from Tyler Clements and Connor Coyne. Their
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main rivals hals AFC also won beat in Peckhamtown four to one. So the
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table it just doesn't seem to move, you know, they both keep winning,
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so the table stays the same. Hauls are on top a game in
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hand and Hawks are second, two points behind Bury. This Saturday, the
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Hawks have got a really tough game because they're in second and they welcome Idle
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Hill to Hawkins and they're in third place now. On Sunday, the Folks
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in Victor Disability team took part in a tournament in Faversham, entering two teams.
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The Premiership side drew Neil Neil with kings Hall, they lost two nil
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to Maidstone, lost one nil to Chatham, then drew Neil Neil with Southeast
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Goals. Man of the Match for the four games went to Harry Law the
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Champions. The Championship side drew Neil Neil with both Anchorians and Charlton, then
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lost one nil three times over to Southeast Goals, Madstone Silver and Maidstone Copper,
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meaning that both teams never scored a goal, never scored a goal all
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day. That's really unusual for Garrett's side. But to make matters worse,
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former guest of the Show, Garrett Wilson now he scuffed a penalty of the
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post, but fair play to Garrant, who writes the reports himself. He
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actually included this bit in the rite up and I've got to be honest.
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If that had been me and I've missed the penalty, I think I would
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have kept it quiet. But so what does are you? Garrant? The
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end of the match for the championship side went to Graham dre and good Luck
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goes to yet another form of guests of the show, Paul Stanton, and
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he's focused in in Victor Under eighteens. They travel to near Tunbridge Wells to
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play Rustall in the Kent FA Under eighteen's Boys Cup this Sunday. So there
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you go, loads and loads of local football going on there and it's good
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to hear that our former guests are still out there. Okay, coming up
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next, we've got a classic track, the second classic track of the day,
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Remember this one George McCrae and Rocky Your Baby nineteen eighty eight. There
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eurrhythmics, sweet dreams are made of this and what a brilliant voice she's got
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into Annie Lennox. She made some classic tracks and thinking back going there was
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one there must be an Angel that one, and love is a Stranger and
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here comes the rain again. Just you know, awesome stuff from a female
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artist with such a powerful voice. Okay, let's move on now we do
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some basketball. So great news from the Saints camp this week. The under
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sixteen girls won their last game of the season, beat in Norfolk by seventy
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nine points to thirty four. The under sixteen's Girls National League team finished in
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second place after scoring one hundred points against Essex Rebels, who managed only thirteen
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in reply. During the season, they won seventeen games, losing just three.
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The under twelves beat Kent Panthers, who come from Rochester that they beat
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Excuse me, they beat them sixty three points to forty. I can't get
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my words out today. I don't know what it is. I don't know
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if it's the weather or what. Excuse me for stumbling over all these words
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today. Turning our attention now to a wheelchair basketball now. The folks Arrows
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traveled away this Saturday to play Herowood Heat, which is near Cambridge. This
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means a two hundred and thirty four mile around trip. The league table shows
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that Arrows are on top, but there are four teams including the Arrows,
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all on sixteen points after Saturday's game. The Arrows have just two fixtures left,
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both against Cardiff met Archers, but they are second with a game in
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hand, making the end of season a run in looking a really really close
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affair. So good luck to the Arrows and let's hope they can win those
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two games against Cardiff met Archers. So time for some news about schools skiing.
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On Monday Evening at the Folks and Ski Center is an evening of school's
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ski races. Juniors go between five and six thirty and seniors six thirty two
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eight is open to all primary and secondary school children who are able to ski
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in control and use the lift. There is one hour for train in followed
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by the race. It's organized by the National school Snow Sports Association and is
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growing in popularity all the time. I think this is the third one that
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they've held down at the Sports Center there. Basically, you're racing down the
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slope against the accurate timing clock and finishing times are sometimes within just one hundredths
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of a second apart. So for more information on this one, go to
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the Facebook page of either the Folks and Sports Center or folks and Ski Race
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Club and all the details are there coming up. Now, we've got a
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song from Steve Miller band and this called the Joker. Some people call me
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Little Space Come Love Elo there from nineteen eighty six there, and I think
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Jeff Lynne he announced that they're going to do They're going to call it a
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day. It's the Over and Out Tour, I think they called it.
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So they're going to be touring, probably going to take you a couple of
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years. They've got a massive date set up and in America and then I'm
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hoping they'll come to the UK and they do the rounds there. I saw
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him a few times actually once certainly I remember, you know, really memorable
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evening up at the two. It looks like I mean, they started up
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in the seventies, You've got to remember that, and they produced some awesome
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music. Okay, let's turn to rugby now now. The folks from first
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fifteen suffered a heavy forty one points to five de feet away at top of
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the table seven Oaks, putting them into fourth place with just two games left
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to play. Those two games are both at home this Saturday to Gillingham and
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Kourian's then after Easter on Saturday the sixth of April against Sidcup. I couldn't
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find a result for the Seconds, but their final game of the season is
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also on the sixth of April away to Ash. The Seconds are also currently
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in fourth place. No result for the Thirds to tell you about, and
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their last two fixture are Saturday thirteenth of April away to Faversham Castaways and twenty
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seventh of April at home to Whitstable. The Thirds are currently ninth out of
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ten. Well did you watch the Six Nations? Once again it didn't fail
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for excitement. The biggest shock of the tournaments saw Italy beat Wales by twenty
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four points to twenty one, Wales ending up bottom of the table, winning
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only the Wood and Spoon champions. Ireland beat Scotland by seventeen points to thirteen,
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and the very last game of the series saw France beat England by thirty
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three points to thirty one. So final placings saw Sorry Ireland on top,
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then France, England, Scotland, Italy and Wales. Now it's got to
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be said, if you were an armchair spectator on Saturday and watched all three
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games, you certainly had an entertaining day. I mean the modern game of
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rugby now at the highest level. I had the speed, pace, the
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fitness, the discipline they just don't oh give with a referee today, and
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the competitiveness and they just really are there all to be admired. Time for
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some music now, now, this one's from Dan Hartman and it's called Instant
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Replay. Dan Hartman their Instant Replayers definite floor filler. You know when you're
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at that wedding reception, you've got your best suit on and the you spilt
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drink all down front and this song comes on and you do a bit of
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Dad's dancing. What a great track that was. Okay, so it's time
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for me to stay with kind of a retro theme. It's we're going to
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play one or two songs now from one of the TV dramas that I've been
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watching on We used to call it taping back in the day, but now
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it's recording. Well, I've been watching the sixties TV drama The Royal.
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Now tell you this little story about a girl of about six years old who
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was admitted to the Royal after being diagnosed with whooping cough, which you don't
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really hear about that much anymore, do you now? Whilst they were diagnosing
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and waiting for a vaccine, it looked like an epidemic might be on its
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way. Now. The song that was being played while they were thinking about
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this, trying to get this epidemic sorted out, was this one. It's
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Thunderclap Newman, something in the air Underclap Newman there in nineteen sixty nine.
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That was what a powerful song that was back in the day. Now,
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starting with the Royal All, the TV drama set in the sixties, on
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a lighter note. In the show, now, there was a doctor trying
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to do a good deed. He was trying to help a lady by popping
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to a flat to give us some medicine. That was certain. It's like
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her prescription, you know. Now. The janitor gave the doctor a key
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as she didn't answer and he was getting a bit worried. He finally entered
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the flat and found a huge dog in the bedroom who pinned him in the
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corner and wouldn't let him move. In the meantime, the lady in question,
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she went down the hospital herself and picked up her own prescription. She
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was right as rain. But the poor old doctor he had to wait hours
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for the lady to return to call off the dog. Anyway, whilst the
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dog was trying to get into the flat, sorry what the doctor was trying
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to get into the flat, they were playing this song and it's the Zombies
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and so ironic that she's not there. Well, no one telling me from
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nineteen sixty four the Zombies and she's not there. And it was just a
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couple of songs from the TV drama The Royal. It's amazing that I've got
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millions of films on Netflix and I just love watching Heartbeat and The Royal.
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Well, it's been a sad week in the music industry as another singer has
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passed away. Steve Harley was the frontman and lead singer for his group Coutney
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Rebel. He had a long career in the music business, but unfortunately he
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lost his battle to cancer this week. He'll always be remembered for two,
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possibly three songs. I think one of the songs that lesser known song,
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but it will you haven't heard it for a long time. I might try
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and dig it out. In the second half the show was a song called
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mister Soft Remember he went Miss Deserved and another sort of quirky song that caught
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the imagination back in the day was due d teen. Did you remember that
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one? Well, but it's most popular song. You just can't help but
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sing along to this one the way he drags his words. Rest in peace,
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Steve Harley as we play, come up and see me, make me
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smile. You've done it all. You've got your every through Steve Harley and
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Cockney River. There Sadly, Steve Harley passed away this week. Okay,
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Now coming up in the second half of the show. That's right, We've
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got some news on the Folks and Optimists seniors and a special report on the
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under fourteen's boys team. We've got some running news. We got some news
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about some sports camps parents. Pinuri is back on that one, and we've
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got some netball news. So don't go away because I've got this is this
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track we're going to play now. One of is the right thing? Is
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it Summer? It's called the Boys of Summer, Don Henley. It's a
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great track. But are we ever going to see the sunshine? You just
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don't know. I'll see you after the news. One oh five point nine
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Academy FM, The Folkston and Hide Squads podcast every local sport across the district.
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This is Kevin Day the Sports for Folks don't bring you the second hour
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of the Sports show. I'm so sorry we've got no guesting today. They're
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all a busy bunch out there. But when you think back, you know,
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I haven't done too bad. We've covered my sports. We did our
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ator z. There's still a few letters missing. I've got to chase up.
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I haven't forgotten. But yeah, it's a tough time to get guests
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in, especially you're in It's the middle of the week and people are working.
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But coming up on the show this hour, I've got the reusual report
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on the Folks and the Optimists as we run through all the teams, and
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we've got a special report. Last Sunday I went up to Three Hills to
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watch the under fourteens in a semi final of a National Cup, so we'd
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be recapping what happened there. We've got some running news, some trail running.
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In fact, we've got news about some sports camps. And as I'm
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reading this report out, I've realized how many times I've said former guests of
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the show. So I'm going to be doing a little roll of honor and
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telling you what they've been up to. So plenty going on. Don't go
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away if you haven't made it, if you haven't treated yourself to a cup
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of tea yet. And now's the time to put the ket along because we
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got the clash coming up and the local music by Alex Parker. Get that
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kettalong, local music Alex Parker and a song called eight Lines. Okay,
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let's crack on with a second hour, and we're going to start with hockey.
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The senior hockey scene. Well, it was an action pack weekend for
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the Folks and Optimist with thirteen, yes, thirteen senior games being played.
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Now, I just made a little bit of arithmetic there, and it's amazing
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that thirteen eleven in the team, two hundred and forty three players played hockey
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for the Folks and Optimists on Saturday. And that's before you start naming subs
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and trainers and you know, spectators for two hundred and forty three players is
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awesome. Now, the men's fielded eight teams and the ladies five, and
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of course there was the big Under fourteen semi final on Sunday, So I'm
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going to tell you about that a bit later. In the show. So
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here comes the stats. As we said, they played thirteen, they won
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seven, they lost four, they drew two. The goals scored four was
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thirty three and goals against was twenty. The men's first eleven beat Canterbury four
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to three, goals coming from Josh Clifford who's scored a hat trick and one
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from Harvey Little. The Seconds beat seven Oaks three and Neil thanks to goals
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from Lorcan Doyle, James Crooxton and Hugo Ferno, which means the Seconds now
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they sit six points clear at the top of the table and a win next
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week could confirm them as league winners. The third beat Mardern Russet's three to
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one thanks to Freddie Brown, Nick Ward and another former guest of the show,
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Sam Island epop tup scoring a goal for the Thirds. Sam Island was
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our cricket guest back in the summer there at the end of the summer.
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The fourth beat Hulcombe five to one, goals from Archie Richardson who scored twice,
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and one each from Joe Thresher, Jack Dixon and Alfie Ball. The
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fifteen beat BB eight C four to two. The sixteen beat Canterbury three to
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two. The seventh team lost one nil to some Valance, and the eighth
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team lost five to four to gore Court. Now it's the turn of the
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ladies. The first eleven beat Eastbourne four to one thanks to Claire Carter,
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Nicki Ball, Steph Mill and Maddie Timmins. The Seconds lost to Tunbridge Wells
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by three goals to two, but last week's Gets to the Show did manage
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to score. Well done to Adrian Rose. She got a goal, the
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other one coming from Hannah Jones. The Thirds lost one nil to Bromley and
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Beckenham. But another form of guests of the show she played in golf for
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thirteen as Amy Bumstead. Now for a team that loses one nil and the
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goalkeep, the goal gets player of the match, So we'll down to you
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Amy. The fourth team drew Neil neil with Ashford and the fifth team drew
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one. All we've sitting born thanks to a Becca Share goal. Well,
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we're going to play a bit of music now, but we will be back
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after the music with a special report on the Under fourteens semi final game against
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Winchester ABC. There all of My Heart from nineteen eighty two. That's quite
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modern for me. Actually, it's quite a jump up the catlendar. Now
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there is a bit of an overload of music this week because I couldn't pin
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any guests down to come in the show. And it's just the way it
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goes, you know, you get a run of people, they're busy and
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they can't make it, and all of a sudden you've got a waiting list.
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So we're going to move on now to hockey. This is a really
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really special report and last Sunday the folks are not Tomis under fourteen's boys played
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Winchester in the semi final of a National Cup. What we're going to do,
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first of all, we're going to cast their mind back one week when
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their coach Adrien Row came into the studio and chatted about her team. Okay,
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we're back in a studio now and we join once again by Adrian and
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Adrian. There's a massive, massive game coming up on Sunday at three Hills,
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tell us about it. There is. So when we enter into the
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League and Cup with England Hockey, you enter into a tier. The lads
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are in Tier two and Tier four and we also enter into a National Cup
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competition so the competition starts locally, you play against you know, local size.
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We played Cansbury and Noel Park and as you go further along in the
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in the competition, you go a bit further Afield, Winchester, Surry,
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Wimbledon we've been to. Yeah. So we are in the semi finals,
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semi finals and you've got a lovely, lovely homes drawer as well, haven't
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you very lucky homes quarter final and semi Yeah, because last week on the
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program, I think it was that I looked at a Google map out and
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found out where the other teams were and the furvice that you might have had
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to travel was Manchester, wasn't it It was? Yeah, that'd have been
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a bigger way game. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it would have been
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a great experience for the boys. But I mean from an administration point for
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Three Hills and that it's it's nice to be on home territory is obviously an
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advantage. Now have the boys been training this week? They have, We
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train every Monday. We've really been putting a focus on the Cup games without
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putting on too much pressure. Lots of gameplay in training. We're so fortunate
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to have lots of people that have got expert knowledge that have come down to
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help us out. We've got hockey playing parents who have played, you know,
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very high standard of hockey. We've got old club members that play I
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played National league, all been helping us out. So it's fantastic. Yeah,
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and I bet it's really put I don't know, it's almost put the
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club back on the map, really, hasn't it It has? Yeah?
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Yeah, it's she in hockey circles folks and always feels a little bit on
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the edge, I think because we're surrounded by the sea and never sort of
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seen as one of the big clubs. But it's really great to put our
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name out there in the national competition. Oh brilliant. Yeah. So I
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noticed I don't know much about hockey, but I noticed that some of your
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players that were playing that Sunday they looked like they've had a bit more experience.
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And I talking to Brian, he said, I it was a couple
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of those played in the seventheen with us yesterday. So that must make a
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big difference, wasn't it. It definitely does. So when the lads turn
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thirteen, they're able to play in adult hockey. So the ones that are
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in the older age group of the under fourteens this year have been exposed at
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adult hockey. It makes such a huge difference, really changes the way they
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play their game. Yeah. Yeah, because Brian was telling me that the
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day before the quarters, the goalie, your goalie, who didn't have much
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to do really on the Sunday, he was flying about all over the place
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on the setid he was. I believe he got that game. Yeah,
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absolutely, that's that's really good. And I could say from being, if
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you like, uneducated hockey spectator, that some of them definitely had a bit
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of an older hockey head on them, don't they. Yeah, right there
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the opposition. I don't suppose you know much about them apart from going on
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their website and having a little look. Yeah, I suppose. That's a
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good thing about these national competitions is that you actually don't know, but it's
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all very unknown. I think they're a similar size club to ours, their
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lads playing a league the same you know, similar to what you know,
28:30
similar to us. It will just be what comes up on the day.
28:33
Yeah, that's right, And no doubt is they've got the same structure,
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which I think they have. They've got four ladies teams and seven men's teams,
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no doubt some of their juniors that have got senior heads on as well.
28:42
Yeah, okay, so I don't want you to name anybody, but
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do you think you've got any like budding players coming through in your team?
28:52
Yeah? They really do play exceptionally well as a squad or fifteen, but
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there are I think at this age it's hard to tell because of them developing
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at different times. You know who is going to become a star. But
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yeah, there are absolutely some, you know, excellent hockey players in there.
29:07
Yeah. And do you find if you've got a pick eleven, is
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it on a bit of a round robbin system or you do kick off with
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your eleven best players? So in the league we do a bit of round
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robin, you know, depending on the game circumstance, depending who we're playing
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against in the cup, particularly these last three or four games, we start
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with our best eleven. Yeah, yeah, okay, and the and the
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subs if you like, except that if it's a very close game and a
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very tight game, they might not get on. They do. I've not
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known maturity from lads that are just thirteen like it, you know, they
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completely understand they're all about the squad and the team and you know, the
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result the process, rather than themselves. It's fantastic. Yeah, that's great
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sort of gamemanship discipline anyway, isn't It should be like that in any sports,
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And at thirteen that's a very mature way to look at sports. I
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think it's not about me, it's about the team. Yeah, And do
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you think it's really sunk in thirteen fourteen year olds? You know, you
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know it might go whatever, But has it really sunk in that they're in
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a semi final? I think they recognize that it's a pretty big deal.
30:12
They are the most cool, calm and collected group of lads. They keep
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me call calm and collected, and so I think they understand, you know,
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that's probably the biggest game they've played in. But also they're ready.
30:22
Yeah. Well, okay, now you're the coach, but behind the scenes,
30:26
so to speak, there must be lots of people helping you out.
30:30
So I know there's probably too many to mention, and you don't want to
30:33
leave anybody out, But tell me what goes into what else do you need
30:37
to run an under fourteen side apart from a coach? Yes, I mean
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so many people. Really, all I'm doing is keeping the cogs turning.
30:45
But the parents are so dedicated to take their you know, lads to all
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parts of the country to play hockey. We couldn't do it without them.
30:52
We have lots of different coaches. We have a really good junior leader program
30:57
within Optimists where the older juniors come down and help coach. The lads really
31:03
respond well to that because it's a peer almost rather than a coach, you
31:07
know, umpires that give up their time, you know, for nothing.
31:11
And like I said, we've got seven players in the squad who have got
31:15
hockey parents and it's great to have their expertise. I did notice that over
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the years, and I've been reading out these results, some of the names
31:22
that do come around again you think it must be as dead. But before
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we wind up, is there anything else you want to say or any thank
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you God? It's always a tough one, this one, but now's your
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chance to mention anybody that you really really want to, anyone that's helped you.
31:41
Yeah, I mean, I'd like to thank the lads really, because
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they've made it an absolute privilege. It's not a difficult job because they do
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such a good job. They're such a dedicated, committed group of lads and
31:51
they make it thoroughly enjoyable. So so the credit goes to them. Down
31:53
before we go, last little thing, tell us when and where the game
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is and where people have got to be there on on, hopefully for an
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early goal. So the game is this Sunday at Three Hills and it pushed
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back as a midday, right brilliant. Adrianne, thank you so much for
32:07
coming in. I am determined to be down there. I'm really really looking
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forward to this one, and so I want to wish you and all the
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underfourties all the best, and I hope that lots of hockey people are out
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there listening to this and you just get along there. If you've never watched
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hockey before, just go down. You've never been to the three years before,
32:27
just go down. Have a look. This is on our doorstep.
32:30
It's a national competition. So Adrianne, thank you so much, thank you.
32:32
Well, there you go. That was Adrianne last week and I really
32:36
wanted to put in a little bit of that interview just to kind of set
32:38
the scene before we went to the match on Sunday, and I did actually
32:43
get down there. I did manage to get down there, and I was
32:45
just literally a small part of the crowd. There was a huge crowd down
32:49
there. So this report was put on the Optimist website and I kind of
32:54
added a few little bits myself here, but this is how it went.
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Excuse me. Early goals from Harry Row that's Adrian's son, and Will Ball
33:04
in the first half gave the oppos a good start, but they had to
33:07
withstand a lot of pressure from the Winchester side. Winchester won a penalty stroke
33:12
on the very last action of the half, making it two to one,
33:15
setting it up for an intrigue in second half, and that was where the
33:17
game really could have swung either way. You know. The boys went in
33:22
two to one, paying right on halftime and it could have been a bit
33:24
depressing. So at the time I thought, which way is this going to
33:29
go? Because they did have a good few players in that Winchester side.
33:32
In the second half, the Ops started slowly after the break, but a
33:36
well worked short corner routine saw Jude file file one past the keeper, making
33:40
it three to one and kind of relieving the tension a little bit. Harry
33:44
Row made it for to one after rounding the keeper and slotting the ball between
33:47
two defenders. To be fair, the Winchester well, they certainly didn't give
33:52
up and push forward, but Freddie Lowe, Joseph Allen, Arthur Ireland,
33:57
oscar Daily and Finletley were having none of it and their ground to keep the
34:00
opposition at bay. With Jasper Carroll working tirelessly in midfield. The game was
34:06
put beyond doubt when Theo Coombs picked up a loose clearance flicked the ball to
34:09
Jude File who then fit it to a wheel ball to score a second and
34:14
put the game beyond Winchester's reach. The final score was five to one.
34:19
Now the final is against Wallingford, which is just south of Oxford, but
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a neutral venue has yet to be confirmed. The date for the game has
34:27
been confirmed the twenty eighth of April, and everybody at the club is hoping
34:30
that as the two teams are ones in Oxford, ones in Folkston, that
34:34
they will find somewhere yeah, you know, a really really good venue sort
34:40
of somewhere in between. And after the game it was also exciting the crowd
34:45
really really clapping. None of them, none of them went off. They
34:47
all wanted to just you know, cheer the lads. The lads did a
34:52
little lap of honor thank in the crowd. But then I went over to
34:54
Adrianne and she's still a really excited, as they all were, and so
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I up with the pitch side and we had a little check. Prian.
35:05
You're either coach of a team made a national final. How does that feel?
35:08
Yeah, it's so exciting. The boys did absolutely phenomenally well and I'm
35:13
really proud of them. It's brilliant. Now the scoreline says five to one.
35:15
But to be fair, they were a good side, weren't they.
35:17
They were. The first half was really even, actually the most pressure we've
35:21
come up against. Yeah, two one at halftime, I believe. But
35:23
we really stepped up in the second half. Yeah. I mean every time
35:27
that Winchester made an attack, your defense stood started, didn't they They absolutely
35:31
did. Yeah, picked everything up, they came through and I thought,
35:34
I mean they worked tirelessly really and the midfield really did keep the ball from
35:37
getting back there. Yes, I think in the last sort of ten minutes
35:40
they kind of grew in confidence. Their game was open, the passing was
35:45
more accurate, and you know, we were just waiting for a spectacular goal.
35:49
Was It definitely was much more like how they play hockey normally. Yeah,
35:52
really had a lot of gave us a bit too much space, I
35:53
would say, yeah, yeah, okay, but I mean a fair play
35:57
to the opposition. They had some good, good players, didn't they did.
36:00
But your lads come into their own. They kind of rose to the
36:04
occasion as the game went on, didn't they They did, They did.
36:06
They started. I'd say we started slightly slower this week, but they definitely
36:08
picked up as the game went through. Okay, so all we've got to
36:13
do now is wait to see you got in the final and where it is.
36:15
Yes, no details yet, but we do know. The date is
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the twenty eighth of April. Brilliant Adrian. Thank you so much. It's
36:21
been a wonderful journey, but it's not over yet. It's staying good luck
36:23
to you and I really really hope I can get up to the final.
36:27
Thank you, thanks so much. So there that was me chatting to Adrian
36:30
and immediately after the whistle had gone. So she's a little bit excited and
36:35
speaking very fast, and I don't blame her, you know, she still
36:38
being the coach. She was still like picking up bits of kit and Juni
36:42
boys up and making sure everything was neat and tidy. She was the last
36:45
one off the pitch, but the crowd stayed there to give her, you
36:47
know, just a wonderful round of applause. It really was good. So,
36:52
as we said before, the final was on the twenty eighth of April.
36:54
Now, there was talk about the game being going to Nottingham, which
36:58
is kind of a center of excellence for hockey in the Midlands, but hopefully
37:01
that won't happen. I do believe reading has been mentioned, so we've just
37:07
got to wait and see. Okay, so I'm really really out of breath
37:10
now. There was such an exciting weekend, so so time for a bit
37:15
of music now, and we're gonna listen to Joan Arma trading and a bit
37:19
of love and affection. I am not in love, but I'm open to
37:29
the susion Joan Armor trading Love and affection. Now. In the first half
37:45
of the show, I was just doing a little tribute to Steve Harley and
37:51
Cockney Rebel and the big hit was come up and see Me Make Me Smile,
37:55
and they had a couple of hits and I was trying to sing them
37:58
to you Dan down the microphone, which probably didn't go down too well.
38:02
But I've tracked one down and I'll bet you haven't nerd this for a very
38:07
long time. This is another quirky song that he made and it's called Judy
38:10
teen. Judy is the clean up from the early eighties. There Human leg
38:45
Don't you want Me times for Running News Now. Eleven South Kent Harriers took
38:51
part in the Canterbury Riverside ten k on Sunday, two of them finishing in
38:54
the top ten. Another form of the guests of the show, Darrens Grifvens,
38:59
was first home for the club in fourth place first Mail Vett fifty in
39:02
a time of thirty eight minutes fifty eight seconds, and just one place behind
39:07
him was Max Hamilton Andrews in thirty nine a minutes nine seconds. That's right.
39:14
The other Harriers included Margaret Connolly fifty four fifteen, Jenny Spillane recording the
39:19
same time, Michelle Barnes fifty four to fifty six, Rachel Sucklin one hour,
39:23
four minutes fifteen seconds, Louis Pasco one hour, ten minutes fifty eight
39:28
seconds, Liz Shilling one hour sixteen minutes twelve seconds, Kirsty Miller one hour
39:34
seventeen thirty four, Rebecca Edwards one twenty one forty two and Barbara Hunt won
39:38
twenty one fifty. Meanwhile, a run with a difference was the Western Heights
39:44
Trail Race organized by the hell Fire Trail Events that has a bit fiery,
39:49
isn't it now, that was started at the five in Low Barn in Dover.
39:53
The course went up and around the cliffs, even running up and down
39:57
the steps of the Grand Shaft and visiting history eric sites of the Citadel and
40:00
the Grand Redoubt. Mark Savill, when his first race in the Harriers Colours,
40:06
despite a couple of falls in treacherous conditions, finished in two hours forty
40:09
eight minutes. Four athletes from the Folkston Club took part. The Nail Stockel
40:15
finished second overall in two hours twenty three to twenty five, then Neil Adams
40:20
three hours, seven minutes twenty four, Sylvia took Ask three hours, ten
40:23
minutes and five seconds, and Phil Moore three hours twenty two thirty four.
40:30
Now the course was billed as a in brackets half marathon, but a trail
40:34
race is really tough one to measure with the terrain, and even the organizers
40:38
on their website gave it as fourteen point four miles seventy seven percent off road
40:45
with an ascent of one thy eight hundred and sixty feet. So that's one
40:49
pretty tough race. I mean, we've had loads and loads of rain,
40:52
and what I saw of the trails that they had to run on, they
40:53
were absolutely just mud splattered their treacherous. So well done to all who took
41:00
part. Okay, we're gonna have what a bit of queen. Everyone likes
41:04
a bit of queen and a bit of killer Queen. She keeps some more
41:07
shander in a pretty cabinet, Jeeves, she said, just live Maria nineteen
41:22
seventy four, Killer Queen. Now it's nearly half term, which means holiday
41:27
sports camps for kids. Four camps bring to mind, so please check out
41:30
their Facebook pages. I'll probably try and tell you a bit more about them
41:36
in a bit near the time, but please look out for Next Generation Sports
41:39
Camps, Elite Community Coaching, UK, Folks and Sports Center Trust and the
41:45
Three Hills Sports Park, all offering activities for kids starting on or around the
41:50
first of April. And also keep an eye out for Half Yes half that's
41:54
h af now. Half is the initiative that Manster United mind RCUs Rashford footballer.
42:00
He really pushed it over COVID that time. There. It stands for
42:05
holiday activities and food where the children may be eligible for free meals, So
42:09
look out for half now. Interestingly enough, in today's sports report, I've
42:15
noticed the names of seven people that have been mentioned. They're all former guests
42:19
of the show and it's nice to know that they're all still out there active
42:22
in their own right. We mentioned Paul Stanton, the manager of the Folks
42:25
and in Victor Under eighteens as he takes his team to a semi final.
42:30
Cricketer to Sam Island also turned his hand to play hockey for the Ops and
42:34
popped in a goal on Saturday. Amy Bumpstead former guests of the show.
42:37
Now she plays in goal for the third team and whilst they lost one meal,
42:43
she was voted player of the match. So what don Amy and Els,
42:46
We've got Darren Scrivens from South Kent Harri has won his age group for
42:51
a ten k. Last week's guest, Adrian Rowe, is not only the
42:54
coach of the under fourteens, but she also scored a goal for the Ladies
42:59
Hockey's second team, player manager of the Folks In Victor Disability team, where
43:04
we won't mention that penalty, but Garret Wilson is still out there doing his
43:07
stuff and Seasider's radio commentator who travels up and down the country ad Dawks as
43:13
he follows folks in in Victor. So it just goes to show how active
43:16
are the guests that come on this show, how they're still you know,
43:20
they come on the show and they pass the stories on to you. Now
43:23
you know, the meaning of this really is that if you know somebody out
43:27
there that's really passionate about their sport, the local sport, their local club,
43:30
been doing it for a long time, need a bit of recognition,
43:32
then please please please get in touch. From the sixties there, big girls
43:49
don't cry And if you get a chance, anyone says to you, do
43:52
you want to come and see the Jersey Boys, go and see them.
43:55
Okay, So we're getting to the end of the show now, So I've
43:58
just got a cram in this last year bit and it's netball. I've got
44:01
four Ladies Netball results in from last night. Thank you to Hannah Palmer.
44:06
Now this was I had to ask her what they were all about. She
44:09
calls them versatility games. Now, versatility games are where every quarter names are
44:15
pulled out of the hat and players start playing out position. What a great
44:17
idea? Really shovels it around a bit. Now, after the team's the
44:22
results from last night, I will mention the score and a lady's name.
44:27
This is the lady who had an outstanding game, and you'll soon see what
44:30
I mean. Tiger's twenty five, Lola Vipus fifty two, jess Ice thirty,
44:37
Page Scorpions thirty four, Matilda Black Widows seventeen, Amanda Woodpeckers forty,
44:47
Maddie Jets sixty two, Mazie and the poor old new team, the Rough
44:52
Diamonds. They only scored eight. I think all their strikers not strikers,
44:57
well they call them goal shooters playing at the back anyway. The player of
45:01
their game was Natasha. We done to you, Natasha, and big thank
45:05
you to Hannah for that information. Well that's it from me. Now.
45:08
On Sunday I shall be taking a trip to watch the Hastings Half Marathon.
45:12
I shan't be working it, I sha'n't be on the mic. I'll be
45:15
just watching and catching up with some of my running friends. Then me and
45:17
Missus Ferrett will be following the coastline into Eastbourne for a few days, hoping
45:22
the weather will stay fine so we can do a couple of walks over the
45:25
picturesque Sussex Downs. I shall be back and around on Good Friday, where
45:30
I will be on the MIC at the Folkston ten and I hope to catch
45:32
up with former London Marathon winner Mike Granton, who was the very first winner
45:37
of the Folkston ten when it started forty years ago. Yes, it's the
45:42
fortieth anniversary and runners, I'm very sad to say that I've got to tell
45:46
you that it is sold out. So anyway, stay sporty everybody, and
45:51
I'll be back and catch up with you in a couple of weeks time.
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People of the the public,