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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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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.
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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?)
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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.