Yorkshire Carnegie
Busman's holiday
By Almostatyke
March 23 2013
The Almo day job in the past nine weeks has involved writing and editing a near 400 page document for a tender submission for a major construction scheme, which was duly delivered to the Client, about a mile from Billesley Common on Thursday. So returning to the slightly bland city of suburbs, and booting up MicroSoft Word at the weekend looked to be a bit of a Busman’s Holiday. No cliches were allowed in the tender submission, so there just might be a few which might just burst out in this report…….if you spot any, be sure to let me know.
Taking the positives…..
But then it would be a chance to revisit the city of my birth and also bring back memories of when I was a site engineer and later, project manager, in a site hut.
Between a rock and a hard place
As any listener to Planet Rock knows, Brum is the epicentre of the Rock world, with Black Sabbath, ELO, Led Zep, Duran Duran (whoops), Traffic, Judas Priest and many more local connections. It is also well known that the West Midlands Police deal with more Rolls-Royce in a swimming pool incidents than any other force. I wonder if any are rugby fans?
Keep it in the family (and this is not a reference to Ryan Giggs)
I took the opportunity to invite along my son, a student atBirminghamUniversity, and my two brothers-in-law, who are normally wendyball supporters, living in theBirminghamhinterland of Warwickshire.
A hard act to follow
An excellent preview from Leeming, already posted, a hard act to follow for sure. Diccon’s team selection seems largely to have followed advice from TykesRugby and Joe Ford would be starting in preference to Rory (I’ve won the cup) Clegg.
Finding the ground (you wait for one bus and then three come along together)
I seem to recall from my youth that navigation in Birminghamis done by reference to two things, e.g. “follow the number 37 bus route and then turn left by the Horse and Jockey…” Nowadays, in a car and with the pubs mostly demolished, how would I find the ground?
A game of two halves/creating a level playing field
Once found, the Moseley ground has one or two features that make it stand out in the memory. It seems to be about the bleakest and windiest spot in Birminghamand has an end-to-end slope to boot. So if the wind is blowing down the slope, the side with the initial advantage needs serious points and clear blue water between the scores at half-time, in order to weather the inevitable second-half onslaught. The match was unlikely to be end-to-end stuff.
Keeping a weather eye open
The snow in Leeds on Friday was a clear warning that the Met Office had got their forecast right – so was the snow predicted for Birminghamon Saturday going to kill off the game? I did not want to commit the schoolboy error of setting off to find, on arrival, that the match had been postponed.
To be, or not to be?
Unfortunately this match, near Shakespear country, was confirmed by a pitch inspection not to be.
All’s well that ends well/pennywise, pounds foolish
As a converted Tyke it is dutiful to mention that the snow saved me approximately £100 in attendance and diesel costs.
Jam tomorrow/better late than never
Part Two – the match – to follow at a later date (and, who knows, possibly some more clichés).
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013:04:01:07:32:37 by Wildwillie .
Nail on head! I was all psyched-up for a trip down the M1 and now I'm snowed-in at home (6-8") and the TV doesn't even work because the satellite dish on the chimney is snowed up.
At least the proper match report can start at the kick-off and get straight into the action.
Unlikely that I and three "guests" can make it - that's £61 + bar takings lost to Moseley on what I think is a slightly selfish act. I wonder if it is revenge because we made them travel further north than normal to Wharfedale for our "home" fixture?
Any volunteers for "Part Deux - the match" - a cliche-free analysis and report of the actual play?
