Acuna seems to be settling into premiership football after a quiet start!!! Hopefully with a few more games he will continue to progress and become a real tiger in the midfield. The question I really wanted to ask was, Has Bobby discovered a jewel for £1mil or is it still to early as a couple of good games dont make him great!!!

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Answers

If he can show consistency, he's going to be great. I"m still amazed at how much he wins in the air for such a short guy.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

The value for monet question was raised a couple of weeks ago when West Ham were looking for £3.5m for Lomas. But of course Lomas is British therefore better, or so the Cnronicle would have us believe

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

He score BBC's Goal of the week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/football/eng_prem/ newsid_1129000/1129167.stm

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Good buy? Absolutely no doubt about it. In today's inflated market he's got to be worth £4 million already.
Great player - far too early to say, but he looks a good 'un.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Anyone else on here old enough to remember The High Chaperal? (Jonno? Buff? Clarky?) if so, can someone explain to me how one of the leading stars of that seminal tv series can possibly be knocking them in for Newcastle 30 years later.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Yes, me! But I can't remember a Clarence (he was in a different programme about lions) nor an Acuna. All I remember was Manolito and John Boy, plus the owd bugger who always seemed p1$$ed. Faces have blurred into obscurity - are you saying that Wor Boris Clarence resembles one of them (Manolito presumably, un;ess it was one of the horses)?

Actually, I'm amazed at his high-pitched English country accent and how he manages to keep up the day job as well as working in Ambridge. I'm surprised Eddie and Joe allow it.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

John Boy , I can't remember him was it not Blue boy??

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

So howay, which one is it?

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Aye - Blue boy. Second from left in the photo.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Well I've watched TV off & on ever since the coronation of Queen Victoria. I can recall a program called High Chapperal but never watched it, so this reference is lost on me.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Screacher you've found him! Extreme left - can't remember the character's name but he's deffo plying his trade now as an integral part of our midfield. Blue boy is the young bloke he's having a giggle with.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

That's Manolito (an affectionate version of Manuel??). Sorry - I've used up this month's supply of brain cells. Can't help you any more.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

I think the guy second from the right was played by our National Coach, or was it his brother, Leif? What's the guy on the right called? That grin reminds me of Pit Bill on a bad day.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

< td>The High Chaperal


-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Howay man, flush the bliddy chain when yer done!

... Canny font mind

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Screach, try sending that photo in to 365's lookalikes page - I reckon it's got a chance (would do it meself but lack your techy expertise).

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Nah - aah divvent reckon many 365 readers will knaa Pit Bill. Waddytherestofyer think?

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Never got into High Chapparal, actually. Was more into Big Valley/Gunsmoke/Bonanza/Alias Smith and Jones(a pint to anyone who remembers/actually saw that show!). No, I'm not old enough to remember most of them originally! They were among many Westerns on endless repeats in the afternoons after school.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

You owe me a pint Ciara! My own favourite was Cheyenne.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Signs of a misspent youth coming up here. Manolito was played by Henry Darrow - I know this because I was in love with him at the time. I have since discovered spectacles. The bloke on the right was called something like Buzz (Lightyear?) and was the brother of the big chap next to him who was the ranch owner and the father of Blue.

John Boy was in The Waltons, not The High Chapparal.

Sorry this is rather lacking in detail - I'm sh*t hot on Coronation Street if anyone is interested.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

The bloke on the right was called uncle Buck.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

See me next time I'm over, Jonno.

Remembering Smith and Jones means you're either very cool, or sadly addicted to TV Westerns. I prefer to consider it cool! ;-)

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

well, sorry, but for some unknown reason I think he looks like Alvin Stardust.

Possibly...

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

Didn't Pete Duel (Smith and Jones) top himself. Going further back (which I can) what about Maverick, Paladin and the unforgetable? Dale Robertson in Wells Fargo. Those were the days.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Screach
I'm not surprised that pic reminds you of me - it is me.

Alias Smith and Jones was one of the better ones IMHO.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Smith & Jones alias Hannibal Hayes and Kid Curran; the most popular outlaws in the west, they never killed or shot anyone. Pete Dual did top himself (couldn't handle our defeat in the '74 cup final(.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

I also remember Smith and Jones......how about Casey Jones? that was class ;)

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

......not to mention The Lone Ranger. I caught the first ever episode when I was over in the States recently (you'd think they'd be a bit further on than number one, eh?). It was the one where Tonto saved LR's life (stupid bugga!) after being attacked by outlaws (ManUre supporters?). LR then vowed to uphold law and order. Great acting from LR again, Kimo-sabe.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Blimey Screach how far are we going back here? You'll be telling us all about family get togethers around the piano during the black-outs next. What did you do during the war anyway?

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

And Champion the Wonder Horse....I've been trying to get that as a ringtone for my phone....have you any idea how much of a pain in the arse it is converting a wav file to a midi file!!

Like a streak of lightning flashin through the sky, like the swiftest arrow flying from a bow, like a mighty cannon ball you'll see him fly, you'll hear about him everywhere you go.....the time will come when everyone will know the name of CHAMPION THE WONDER HORSE...

Mad me? you're joking....

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Great song Gav. :-)

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Cla-rence Acun-ee-ah scans well with Champion The Wonder Horse.
Problem solved about the Clarence song then?
Like a streak of lightning flashing 'cross the sky ...


-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

I like it!! well spotted Jonno :)))

Now all we need to do is get the other 50,098 people interested ;)

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Sounsd like a job for those of you going to Chew-see next week!

And lots of pints for all you Smith and Jones watchers. :-) The show was never the same with the replacement Hannibal hayes.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Sounds like a job for .......Suuuperrr-man to me! ;-{)

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Do you know Gav, for the last 45 years I've heard that line as "Like a mighty canyon but he seems to fly". It troubled me somewhat that this never made any sense so your version solves a mystery I might well have gone to my grave with.
I know this is is not your usual function but you've made an old man very happy. :-)

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Juvenile dementia, Jonno? As for Gav making you happy, I'd keep that quiet if I were you. He wouldn't want that broadcast around the Baja.

Excellent tune - and very catchy hook. I'll expect to hear you teaching the rest of the Gallowgate against Soton. I'm sure Dougal will join in, and if you can fit come on in there as well, there'll be three of you singing.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

Keeping to the same siding this thread's been shunted into, anybody ancient enough to remember the old cinema matinee serials ? Things like 'Nyoka the Jungle Girl', the 'Scarlet Horseman', who used to charge round the prairie blowing this daft fancy ocarina whistle thing, and obviously, good old 'Flash Gordon'. Eeeee, them wore the days missus.

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2001

Pit Bill, no, but I am glad to have to opportunity to share my joy over Christmas at the BBC showing old Boris Karloff specials like "The Mummy" alst thing at night, then putting Laurel and Hardy on first thing. My cup truly did run over ....

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2001

Uncle Buck was class. Played by Cameron Mitchell and always wearing black in the desert heat. Used to always pull nervously at his neckerchief and drawl, "Weeeeeelll, John, I don't rightly know about that..." In the first episode he had to be dragged out of a bar in Touson and dumped in a trough before he and the rest of the "bunkhouse boys" could be herded back to the ranch in disgrace to face an attack by Apache. Used to recreate it all with my Timpo cowboys and injuns. I was desperately in love with Victoria (Manolito's sister and Big John's second wife - a political marriage to keep sweet with the Mantoya's on the other side of the Mexican border, fact fans). A massive part of my childhood :-)

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2001

Hey hey, Pit Bill, I'm proper cheered up - I'm too young to remember those matinees!

How about the all day cartoon programmes that the Tatler used to put on when it was school holidays, though? You could sit there all day for I think it was threpence - it used to get a bit repetitive the fourth time through the programme mind, but by then we were all speaking the script in unison.

TV Westerns? Nah, nothing decent since the Cisco Kid and Pancho...

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2001

Dr Bill
I should have known better than to leave myself wide open to petty ageist cracks. I expected better from the contributors here who usually see things from a much more enlightened point of view.

Or am I being just a tad over sensitive, seeing as how I brought the subject up ? {:-(o))))-<-<

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2001

Brother Pit

It's such a rare treat for me to feel something other than totally ancient and decrepit that I couldn't resist. Sorry.

Not that I'm suggesting that you.. er... if in a hole, stop digging... so bye...

Other Bill

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2001

Bill (non Dr). Can you remember the tunes the pianist used to play to accompany those matinee films? ;-))

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2001