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News Of Buzzards’ Hilarious Escapades And Drinking Stories

Issue 12 - July 2017 [email protected]

[email protected]@gmail.com

Leighton Buzzard RFC

Wright’s Meadow

Leighton Road

Stanbridge

Bedfordshire, LU7 9HR

President: Mr M. Hardy

Chairman: Mr G. Fletcher

Steward: Mr D. Pearson

Tel: 01525-371322

www.buzzardrugby.co.uk

The views offered in this publication do

not necessarily reflect official LBRFC

opinion or policy.

You stand waiting for a bus … Having waited a shade over two months between Issues 10 and 11, here we are 7

days later and there’s another one! The reason for this being that the date for

the Former Players Reunion has been confirmed, and it is not as I guessed last

week. See separate panel later on for details. In the meantime, here’s a

photograph of Adrian Carne singing “Under the Moon of Love”.

Cheers

Tools

Midlands Division 1 East 2017/2018– LBRFC fixtures 2nd Sep Oundle (H) 6

th Jan Peterborough (A)

9th

Sep Paviors (A) 13th

Jan Syston (H)

16th

Sep Peterborough (H) 20th

Jan Bedford Athletic (A)

23rd

Sep Syston (A) 27th

Jan Bugbrooke (H)

30th

Sep Bedford Athletic (H)

3rd

Feb Huntingdon (A)

14th

Oct Bugbrooke (A) 17th

Feb Kettering (H)

21st

Oct Huntingdon (H)

28th

Oct Kettering (A) 3rd

Mar Wellingborough (A)

10th

Mar Market Rasen & Louth (A)

4th

Nov Wellingborough (H) 24th

Mar Melton Mowbray (H)

11th

Nov Market Rasen & Louth (H)

25th

Nov Melton Mowbray (A) 7th

Apr Northampton Old Scouts (A)

14th

Apr Old Northamptonians (A)

2nd

Dec Northampton Old Scouts (H) 21st

Apr Oundle (A)

9th

Dec Old Northamptonians (A)

16th

Dec Paviors (H)

17th

Dec Newbold on Avon (A) Kick off times typically 3pm Sep, Oct, Mar and Apr. 2.30 others

Oh the shame!!! Having re-read the last issue, sadly

after distribution, I was shocked to

the core when I read “…failed to

illicit a response”. Of course it

should have read “elicit a response”.

I have since fired the proof reader

for not being pacific enough.

I also made liberal references to

Midlands 2 East when of course I

should have been referring to

Midlands 1 East…. and it turns out

that Wellingborough didn’t get

relegated. I blame the RFU for

continuously buggering around with

the League structure.

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Old Buzzards Newsletter Issue 12 – July 2017 [email protected]

Former Players Re-Union Day

This has been confirmed as 4th November 2018 on the day of the 1st XV’s home

fixture with Wellingborough. The pre-match lunch will take place at 12.30 (possibly

12.00) and tables of 10 or 12 are available for booking. The per head cost is £15.00

If you would like to book a table to fill please send a cheque for £150 or £180 to

Richard Dillamore, LBRFC, Wright’s Meadow, Leighton Road, Stanbridge, LU7 9HR.

If you want to book a single slot, again send a cheque for £15. Your cheque will book

your table/place. Dilly’s procedure is that he doesn’t bank the cheques until the week

before the lunch, so there’s your cash flow worries sorted.

If you can’t make the lunch then at least come along at some point of the afternoon.

Have a think about it. In the meantime, here is a photo of Chinny singing “Smack My

Bitch Up”

Back Issues All previous issues of these irrelevant musings can be found on the club’s official website, the link to

which can be found at the top left of Page 1 (place cursor over the link, press the Ctrl key and click).

Once on the home page click on Information (top right) and select Old Buzzard Newsletter from the

resultant drop down menu.



Our current merry band These are all the folks that are on the distribution list in surname order. If you notice any glaring omissions for whom you have

contact details please let me know. We are not that far off 200 subscribers (186). Let’s get past that milestone.

Dave Albertella, Pete Arthur, Roy Barton, Lee Beaumont, Nigel Beaumont, Chris Beer, Dave Beer, Richard Beer, John

Bettle, Graham Blower, Stephen Boyd, Diccon Brearley, Liz Briggs, Doug Burch, Keith Burchell, Phil Burton, Kevin

Byard, Adrian Carne, Mike Cato, Jon Chapman, Jonathan Chinn, Nobby Clark, Henry Clark, Eric Cohen, Russell Cohen,

John Colleran, Steve Cooper, Andy Courage, Anthony Crowther, Jimmy Davidson, Hugh Davies, John Dilks, Ged

Dollard, Leigh Draper, Steve Draper, Steve D'Sylva, Phil Eddy, Keith Edmunds, Pete Ellam, Tim Elvin, Mark Emond,

Mike Evans, Paul Evans, Paul Evans, Jon Fairweather, Gordon Fletcher, John Fraser, Chris Fripp, Rod Giltrow, Mark

Godsell, Paul Gore, Tony Gore, Stuart Gore, Mel Gray, Tony Guerrieria, John Hall, John Halstead, Dave Hanson, Mark

Hardy, Ralph Harper, Kelvin Healy, Stef Healy, Matt Heast, Sean Heatley, Dick Henkes, Jon Henkes, Ian Heys, Paul

Hills, Alan Hodey, Tim Hodey, Mat Hollas, Tony Horne, Joe Hurley, Dave Hyde, Luke Ilic, Ben Irvine, Stuart Irwin,

Chris Janes, Steve Jay, Olly Jenkins, Taff Jenkins, Lewis Jones, Rod Keating, Gerry Kelly, Tom King, Andy Komenda,

Stuart Langhorn, Steve Leng, Nick Levkouskis, Adrian Linden, Mark Llewellyn, Steve Llewellyn, Andy Long, Gary Low,

Steve Maddison, Hayden Male, Steve Mann, Mario Marrone, Andy Mason, Howie Matthews, Steve McDade, John

McDougal, Graham Meller, Andy Micans, Keith Minor, Simon Mundin, Neale Murton, James Neal, Dave Newton, Bee

Pargeter, Fred Pargeter, Maurice Parker, Chris Pearson, Dave Pearson, Sue Pearson, Mark Penwell, Kieran Perry, Bill

Pragnell, Keith Prosser, Andy Purr, John Quigley, Mark Rayfield, Neil Rayner, Bob Reeve, Meg Reeves, Jon Roberts,

Robbie Robinson, Steve Rogers, James Ruault, Trevor Russell, Bunt Scott, Trevor Scourfield, Richard Sear, Steve Sear,

Roger Sevantes, Ian Shaw, Pete Shephard (snail mail only), Pete Shirley, Carl Siddon, Leigh Siddon, Dave Siddon,

Malcolm Skeels, Chris Smith, Ian Smith, Melissa Smith, Peter Smith, Phil Spratt, Adrian Stephenson, Robert Stirling,

Neal Summerfield, Ian Summerfield, John Surguy, John Tarbox, Giles Taylor, Marc Taylor, Gavin Taylor, Taff Taylor,

Max Thomasson, Liam Tiddy, Trevor Tift, Jez Tobin, Tim Tobin, Mike Turner, Alban Turney, Ray Vernon, Matt Vincent,

Dean Vinden, Steve Vinden, Adrian Wagstaff, Paul Walshaw, Andy Walton, Cliff Ward, Mark Ward, Nick Watkins,

Barry Webb, Steve Webb, Stewart Webb, Andy White, Paul Whiting, Grahame Wild, Steve Wilkes, Jody Wilson, Stuart

Wilson, Ben Wood, John Wray, Dave Yirrell, Paul Young.

I can think of a few it would be nice to rope in: Pat Hawkins, Julian Porter, Phil Kitchen, Basil Quinn, Chris Gibbons, Dennis

Hardy, Ted Holmes, Terry Clancy, Bob Meekey, Graham and Pinhead Jarman, Jamie Mair, Steve Rice, Stefan Swift so please

plunder your address books or get email addresses of anyone you may bump into as you go about your daily business. In the

meantime here is a photo of Ben and Alban singing the backing vocals to “The Shoop Shoop Song”

Interesting Facts

The current Lions tour will be done and dusted in 35 days. Conversely in 1971, the only time the Lions won a series

in New Zealand, there were 45 days between the first tour match against Queensland and the first test in Dunedin,

with the last test of four 6 weeks after that.

Since Clive Woodward became England coach in October 1997 England has capped six players with double barrelled

surnames: James Simpson-Daniel, Paul Doran-Jones, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Steve White-Cooper, Jordan Turner-Hall and

Richard Pool-Jones. Doesn’t seem to promote a long run as they only have 25 caps between them.

In terms of time span, Simon Shaw has the longest England test career: 14 years, 10 months and 15 days

Victor Ubogu’s middle name is Eriakpo (remember that one Rod?)



Pete Arthur’s favourite

theodolite One of the benefits of having two issues in such quick

succession is that queries raised in the last can be

quickly answered in the next and so it is with this

burning question. I’ve been reliably informed that the

winner is the Wild T2 (pronounced “Vild” ... and “Tee

too”) which was manufactured in Heerbrugg,

Switzerland from 1973 to 1996.

Next time Pete tells us which is the stripey stick that

beats all other stripey sticks.

I’m sure you’ll agree this is a lot of valuable information

to digest, so in the meantime, here’s a photo of Alan

Hodey singing “Ave Maria”

... and as promised for the very

oldies... Russ Conway was born Trevor Herbert Stanford in Bristol on

2nd

September 1925 and was a popular pianist who had two

Number 1 hits both in 1959. The first and probably his most

remembered was Side Saddle, the second being Roulette.

His career was blighted by ill health which was not

surprising as at times he drank heavily and would smoke 80

cigarettes a day. After his golden year of 1959 his career

went into decline and was restricted to occasional TV

appearances the last of which was probably in 1994 when

he appeared in the French and Saunders spoof of the Oscar

winning film The Piano. He never married (aye, aye) and

died on 16th

November 2000 aged 75.

Frank Ifield, born 30th

November 1937 in Coundon,

Warwickshire. In 1946 his parents and he emigrated to

Australia which was where he had his initial success. Known

for his falsetto voice and tendency to yodel he returned to

the UK and had a number one hit with I Remember You in

1962. He had three more number ones. In the early 70s he

visited Stockton General Hospital where my auntie was a

sister on the childrens ward. She thoughtfully got a signed

photo of him which she sent to me along with one of Leapy

Lee, a one-hit wonder with Little Arrows and last seen on

daytime TV in the early noughties in Living in the Sun, a

diary of ex-pats living in Spain and presented by Nadia

Sawalha. Funnily enough the photos got lost in a move.

And it is a lesser known fact that Meg used to live on the

same street as Matt Monroe!

Acknowledgements First off an apology to Melissa Smith and the Pargeter brothers. Having been very pleased to have garnered their email

addresses I then seemed to lose them as I swapped information from home laptop to memory stick to work laptop and

probably back again. That error has been rectified.

Many thanks also to Paul “Bob” Young who has once again plundered his drawers to provide me with another splendid

collection of photographs, some of which make up 100% of those used in this issue. I went on about four tours with Youngy

and I never remember him having a camera. I guess that’s the whole point of tours eh?

Remember,

remember the

4th of

November!!

And finally!! Your free gift!!!! ... is attached to the email. Turn your sound up and

click/double click on it. It probably infringes the IRB’s, sorry

World Rugby’s copyright but who cares?

It’s probably of most interest to the English amongst you, so

in the meantime, for those of you with a Celtic persuasion,

here’s a photo of ...... Oh bollocks! You can push a running

‘joke’ to far sometimes.

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