Team pick 2001/2002

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Well the new PC is installed and I'm online from home. I now have no excuse for not producing a Team Pick table. Hopefully this will be done before our next league game.

Fast little beast it is as well and it kicks out more heat than my central heating system. must get some software for it ;-)

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

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APologies for forgetting the Liverpool team pick. I was off climbing hills again (daft bu99er ... at my age!)

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

TP or not???

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

que? I'll take the Liverpool thread that was started as valid picks.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

Well Geordie someone has sense in your hoose, making sure you have a mobile phone when out scaling the peaks , you know it makes sense!!!! Saved a few in the Highlands last winter , worrying factor up here is the amount of deaths this year incurred by coastal divers following their sport, ten up to now I think, why? gotta be a reason

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

Buff, no there doesn't, like showjumpers or motor racing drivers, just happens

we once had three lads break collar bones in three consecutive PE lessons at school, coincidence all, unless you know differently

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001



buff, nay problemo.... the mobile was carried around Snowdonia. Useful bit of kit though getting a signal is a bit of a lottery! Didn't use it though.. nor my tent, survival bag, sleeping bag, stove, emergency food, spare clothes, whistle etc..

only kit I forgot was the loo roll wrapped in plastic bag.... nasty stuff having to wipe your bum on grass (though I've never heard of it causing a death!). Basically I'd be fine for a few days. Sadly I didn't get lost and had to get back to work on Monday.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001


Come to think of it buff, I was talking to the Mountain Rescue folk in the Lake District last Christmas and they reckoned that mobiles are causing them more problems. Basically Joe Stupid goes out into the hills with his phone and very little else in the way of survival kit ... even if it's just a day's walk. They assume they can call for help if they get into trouble.

Rule 1: look after yourself and party

Respect your surroundings whether you are messing with hills/mountains or the sea.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001


Welcome back marra.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

Seriously Geordie, forget voice when you're up a mountain. Text is far better and more likely to get thru.

(It can also deliver match updates).

TP?? ThinkPad about it ;-)

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001


Nope I bought a 1.4GHz Athlon 512MB memory (eee when I were a lad we had to proram in 2KB ... if we were lucky!) with about 3 cooling fans and all the DVD/CD-RW stuff etc.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001


... and not a big Blue m/c.

You're right about text in the mountains. even if you can get voice you usually can't hear anything 'cos of the wind. Still, my rations/kit ould last longer than my mobile's battery!

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001


This could be a very debatable thread, I am in a industry at times that is OTT on safety , have been involved in safety for over 20years, more concerned about the real issues , for eg Permit to Work than the chicken sh£t items that are introduced to highlight safety and to my way of thinking end up as competive management league table between different locations of a company.

Mac, You must be speaking from over 25 years ago, three conscecutive weeks a kid breaks his collarbone at PE!! and you say coincidence,nah I realise there is a blame culture prevalent nowadays , there should have been then and definetly would have been now an inquiry into how this preventable spate of injuries should occurr, from a distance I would guess boxwork and wrong technique along with poor equipment.

Reference the amateur divers, nothing is published as yet but I would suggest that it is the case of people taking up the sport overeaching their abilities, A few sessions in the pool is a wee bit different from 70 meters down on the west coast of Scotland looking for wrecks and with minimum supervision present, smacks of poor control and minimum legislation.

Geordie, nowt against you bonnie lad , my son disapears into the wild, but the stories you hear up here and interviews with the Fort William Lochaber and RAF Kinloss rescue teams reinforce this, the knowledge or lack of it of a proportion of the eedjits that set out on their adventures leave me fizzing at their mentality and total disregard for themselves and members of voluntary recue services that are called out to extract them from the pile of sh£t they have got into.

Question, Should insurance be took out by all to cover for the cost of any rescue.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001


Good point buff. It's the old balance of freedom vs. control. Should we insist on a sailing test/licence or a hill-walking test/licence? You hear tales like that "sailor" resued by the costguard 20+ times. Man should be jailed for endangering others. Same goes for eedjits in the hills. As I said, I take all reasonable precautions and would only call mountain rescue as an absolute last resort. They are, as you say, unfunded volunteers. Spent time raising money for them... never know when/if I'd need them!

Insurance may be a good idea. If you are rescued, you should have to pay the bill. Probably only cost a fiver a year to get cover. OR if every walker pays his/her £5/annum as a donation to the Mountain rescue then they'd be well funded and no need to fund the insurance companies. That can cover the financial side but it still doesn't address the danger you stick these good folk in. They do love the job though!!

-- Anonymous, October 04, 2001


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