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Wow Jason Kenny! Wow Laura Kenny! What a couple.
Have loved the Veladrome events, so fast, exciting, tactical. Aim to go to a live event next year.
Have loved the athletics, the mixed relays, the BMX kids and lots more. Have watered up with many of the winners/losers too.
Many, many issues uncomfortable remain re climate change, expense and event choice, alas.
Thoughts on a very disappointing Lions series Margot?
Don’t understand their tactics and selection at all!! How they missed players like Davies, Sexton. Passing centres like Slade, or even Ringrose who can act as second playmaker. So disappointing!!
Gats doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing any longer. Feel Wales are fortunate to have Pivac now who wants to play attacking rugby.
If only Russell could have played all 3 tests! Fed up with Bigger and Faz and their endless kicking.
Also, why do all the English players concede so many penalties?! It’s maddening.
I agree Amy, its been a very disappointing series. I just don’t understand many of Gats decisions. TBH I think he was past it the last couple of years with Wales.
Chaos in Kabul. Massive miscalculation by Biden. Saigon all over again. When will the West ever learn.
Meanwhile Johnson and Raab on holiday. Words fail.
The fate of women and girls hanging and unknown.
Joe Biden is doing an amazing job 😂😂😂 as President of USA lmao.
What a moron, his supporters and voters are one of the dense people in the world worst than biden himself at least biden knows he is senile and is not running for a 2nd term his moronic minions don’t 🙂
To Nny..if u’re interested in reading this article…
https://lastwordonsports.com/tennis/2021/09/19/laver-cup-zverev-block-allegations/
LET’S GO BRANDON!!!
RIP Harry Reid.
In the summer of 2016 Reid wrote repeatedly to Comey asking him to warn the American people that Trump was colluding with Russia to steal the election. Comey did nothing. Instead he broke the Hatch Act and opened an enquiry on Hillary’s emails 2 weeks before the election.
Reid was a great American patriot and Comey is a pathetic sell out.
Seasons Greetings to you all. My 2022 wishes include better times to come for the world and, on a more local level, for Johnson to be booted into outer space, together with Raab, Gove, Truss, Sunak etc etc.
Good to see familiar faces on the challenge. Big virtual hugs all round.
Happy New year Margot!
I too am hoping to see Johnson booted into outer space..!
Did you see Crace on top form in the Graun predicting just that with Truss becoming leader? Sounds plausible to me..
On a happier note it was gr8 to see the magician Dupont get world player of the year. Looking forward to see him weave his magic for France in the 6Ns..
Happy New Year to you too Amy.
I love Crace and Hyde in the Guardian. The cartoonists are terrific too- Rowson is so dark and Bell so deliciously outrageous!
My Wi-Fi disappeared so that my reply got lost!
I was just wondering if you like Cold War Steve Margot?
I love his Hogarthian retelling of the classics starring the Tory tossers! ( he also regularly has a pop at an inert flag draped Starmer which I deeply agree with 😀)
Please for God’s sake will Biden dump Garland. He is not a good guy. He was never a good guy and Biden should never have appointed him.
I can’t stand any more of this farce.
For those not in the know: Garland was not some liberal who Obama wanted on SCOTUS. He was a compromise candidate after Obama went to Hatch to ask for someone they might vote for. This is who McConnell came up with. His mentor is corrupt and represented Jared and Ivanka and was herself mentored by Dershowitz. Does this sound like a good guy??
Serious question: why did Biden appoint someone like this? There were loads of people he could have appointed as AG who would have indicted Trump, Stone, Bannon and Flynn who plotted a coup through the internet in plain sight.
All of this is beyond negligent and pathetic. It’s a betrayal of the tens of millions of people who voted. Above all it is a betrayal of the African Americans who gave Biden the democratic nomination.
Does anyone believe that Warren or Sanders would allow this to be going on if they had become president??
I can’t stand it.
amy,
This time I have to disagree with you. Warren or Sanders would never have been elected! And you know it! I remember too well what the Progressives in the Democratic Party did to Hillary in the 2016 election. They were as bad as the Trump supporters. All because they wanted Sanders. Well take a good look at the Supreme Court now! Do you think it would be a hard right court if Hillary was elected?
I will never forgive the Progressives because we could have won that election. It was close enough. But the Progressives were not having it. They dud not see the big picture. Only after four years of hell under Trump dud they finally wake up in 2020.
I am not thrilled with Garland. But I also think that Trump may have covered his tracks enough to make it hard to go after him.
Obama governed like a left leaning centrist. The Progressives did not love him either. He picked a candidate that he thought could get confirmed. But McConnell was never going to let him appoint anyone.
Why do you give the Republicans a pass? They have stonewalled everything that Biden wanted to do. They sit there on their asses and do nothing except spread conspiracy theories. But the Progressives always eat their own. That is one big problem I have with them. It’s not the Democrats who are the problem! It is a neo- fascist Republican Party that is enacting voter suppression laws and trying to rig the system to steal the next election. So focus on the real enemy!
Nny, please. I wrote this weeks ago.
Today is not the time to be talking about this. I am absolutely shattered today.
I don’t give the GOP a pass. I hate them.
amy,
Then we can leave it for another day.
I am also shattered. Watching the coverage breaks my heart. Seeing these people suffering for no reason.
I knew Putin was an evil monster and a killer. But even he has surpassed my worst expectations with this.
Amy: Just listening to R4, Robinson is in Kiev and you could hear the air raid sirens. It is simply terrible, no words. Not using my words lightly either, but Putin seems deranged, his threat to the West sounded like a nuclear threat to me.
Trump with his hands on the nuclear button was scary enough but now?
Margot I cried for hours yesterday and I never cry. It’s true he is using nuclear threats but that’s all they are. He is a psycopath.
Germany, Italy and Hungary have blocked the sanctions needed. Well I expect nothing less of Orban but Italy, and above all that economic power house Germany? This is so monstrous I am shaking. Why are the German and Italian people not on the streets demonstrating? Do they know what people in the East are saying about them?? I am sure you can guess.
Thank God it is Biden not Trump.
I am shattered right now…I can’t understand how anyone can’t be.
Experts in the East say that UK sanctions are a joke and that Johnson is in thrall to the oligarchs. I expect Russia has plenty of kompromat on him from the bunga bunga parties he attended where he was apparently paralytic..
The Russian foreign ministry have warned Finland and Sweden they will face military consequences if they try and join NATO.
This is the attempted destruction of the entire post cold war order.
I actually think Putin would attack a NATO member state because he would calculate that other members will back down.
I think he’s gone completely rogue.
Nny, I read that Ukraine has a population of 300, 000 Jews. That’s a lot. And Zelensky’s father and family members were killed in the holocaust so Putin’s talk of “de-Nazification” is especially repugnant and revolting.
amy,
Putin is using the big lie. “de-Nazification is an insult. But this what evil dictators do. Like Trump with the big lie about a rigged election that he actually won.
I guess you’ve never seen the movie “Wag the Dog”.
This isn’t political and it is sort of about tennis. I watched the Masters (golf) event over the weekend. Winning it is one of if not THE biggest prizes in golf. These guys are very competitive and golf is a very stressful game. Over my life I’ve seen dozens of cartoon figures destroying their golf clubs, tossing their whole bag in the lake, going crazy. But I have never, ever seen that in a real golf tournament. Nor have I ever seen a player attack an official or a fan or his caddy. Why can’t tennis pros behave as well as golf pros?
It was a bit of a shock to hear that sort of behaviour -eg Shane Lowry cursing at his caddy – quite normal in his native Irish tongue, at minor tournaments maybe, but never at the hallowed Augusta until now.
Remember that golden haired 17 year old who took Wimbledon by storm? He just got sentence to 4 years for fraud. Will serve two. Seems farcical, silly and sad all at once.
Amy: I reckon the greased piglet will have to be dragged kicking and screaming out of Downing Street, but this is a start! Hope the Tories destroy themselves in the process.
Keep the red flag flying.
Sorry Margot I only saw this today.
I just came here to say that it’s the Ides of March. Who will wield the final knife?
God knows who we will end up with though. Pritti Nasty and the Govester would be even worse. No one would want to vote for them mind. So there is that!😀
It’s a good day Amy. Loving watching those horrible Tories tear themselves to pieces. Amazing they’ve just realised Johnson is an immoral, lying, dishonourable, incompetent, self-serving lump of sh*t.
Pritti Nasty is trying to deport women who have been trafficked and tortured to Rwanda.
No words for this immorality. Haven’t exactly seen KS stand up much for human rights. If Durham police want to fine him so he has to go as well that’s fine by me. He is very unpopular in the polls so I reckon we would be better off.
amy,
I wanted to tell you something and decided to do it here. Last year you had a dustup with Al. I told you to let it go, that he was okay. Well I am writing this to say I was wrong. I should have had your back and supported you. I let you down. I owe you a long overdue apology.
At least with the Ivan fans who are upfront about their hatred for Rafa and his fans. then you know who you are dealing with. But it’s the person who pretends, who is pious and supposedly here for the right reasons. Then you realize he’s no different from the ones who come here as they did last year after Rafa lost to Novak at RG, that he is just the same.
The last straw was when he posted that wretched article by the cyclists saying that Rafa got performance enhancement from numbing his foot. He wanted to actually have a discussion about it. That was when he really showed his true colors. Thank goodness the head of WADA came out and debunked this filth. But he thought it was worth talking about.
It is unfortunate that Mira Andi was thrown into the discussion here. She was used so that it could be said that she no longer comes here because of the Rafa fans. It was unfortunate. But that is her choice. No one will ever be worse than the rabid Novak fans who came here to gloat over his win at RG last year.
So from a blind, narrow minded person who thinks it’s all about Rafa, just know that I was wrong and I let you down and I am sorry. 😘
At least with the Novak fans*
Nny, Thanks for thinking of me! I appreciate it although the truth is that the real reason I had a dustup with Al in 2021 was because I was very unwell and wasn’t reacting normally/ couldn’t think straight. I would never normally let him affect me in that kind of way.
It’s not difficult to understand why I couldn’t say I was very unwell on a public site.
He is who he is. My personal opinion is that he posts aggressive stuff when he has been drinking..
He had annoyed and upset other people in the past which some people simply didn’t want to acknowledge. I think maybe you had just forgotten some of those incidents..? They were clear indicators of the posts you reference from him now.
Anyway, my being ill was the real reason why I lost it and said things I would never normally have said. I don’t usually say anything if he has a go at me.
Thanks again nny!😘😘
amy,
Thanks for explaining why you reacted so strongly to Al. I think it shows your honesty and forthrightness. For me the last straw was posting that stupid article by two cyclists saying that Rafa had performance enhancing benefits from numbing his foot at RG. Thank goodness the director of WADA came out publicly to state that there was no issue with Rafa numbing his foot. Period.
The garbage and fikth I have seen posted about Rafa by some rabid Novak fans is sickening. There has been an attempt to spew out propaganda about the Rafa Fahd on this site. I think overall this site is a great place to discuss tennis. The idea that we are ganging up on Novak fans is nonsense.
People are free to go to whatever site they choose. I still do not think it was necessary to bring up Mira Andi here. I enjoyed having her here. But it is her right to go wherever she feels comfortable. I have nothing negative or critical to say about her.
I disagreed with the idea that Novak has played great quality tennis. But I did not personally attack the Novak fan who said it. Being called blind and narrow minded is insulting and offensive. There is no reason to go there. So I say look at yourself first before criticizing Rafa fans. Making it personal is unnecessary.
My works does not actually revolve around Rafa. I have had health problems that required hospitalization a few months ago. Also out patient surgeries afterward. No one should assume anything about Rafa fans here. I have not talked about these health issues on this forum. I will not be more specific. But I obviously had more to deal with than making my world revolve around Rafa. Those comments were petty and mean-spirited.
This is a decent forum where Rafa fans hairnet to be in the majority. If someone can’t handle that then that’s their problem.
Finally to amy, I do think you were right about Al. I just wanted you to know that. There is this persistent need to pick at anything with Rafa fans in an effort to put us in a bad light. That is unfortunate. I should have had your back. I just needed to let you know that.
😍
Autocorrect strikes again.
The filth I have had to read about Rafa from Novak fans. *
An attempt to sire out propaganda about Rafa fans. *
My world does not revolve around Rafa. *
Thus is a decent forum where Rafa fans happen to be in the majority. *
Nny, I am sorry you have been ill. I hope very much you are better now?
Let’s talk on the Rafa page shall we? I think it’s better to talk among Rafa fans rather than listen to this. I don’t want to post here.
I really really hope Rafa can play USO.
😘😘
Amy and NNY,
There are many times I feel like a square peg stuffed into a round hole, but I enjoy watching Rafa and respect the Rafa fans here; I want to post on the WTA page mostly. And I wish to have a civil and happy relationship with the majority here who are Rafa fans.
No substantial compliments from me about Novak’s performances, just a mild congrats if he ever plays again!!
I realize Novak may not play in a GS for a long time.
Please forgive my past comments if they upset you, and I will take the utmost care, NNY. I care about you and all the Rafa fans here. It has been fun posting with many of you during Rafa’s matches,
Elizabeth,
I don’t know what happened. I thought we were both good. I have always respected you. I never cared that you were a Novak fan. It’s better to have fans of other players here.
I said you would always have my respect. If you think Novak played great, then that is your opinion. I didn’t agree but that’s okay. You can say what you like here. Go in the women’s forum. You really started it. Enjoy yourself.
I have kept quiet about my health problems. This is not the place to talk about it. But I have had more to deal with than Rafa. He is in good hands.
Maybe I overreacted to what you said. I have liked having you here and don’t want to see you leave.
Can we please just put this behind us?
Thank you, done, and behind us, NNY.
And your Health is more important than anything in the world. I had to stop following politics because it caused my anxiety and BP to soar.
Elizabeth, you carry on posting on all the threads here! You have been well liked here and will be again. We all know you have huge tennis knowledge.
Actually, although I missed the first set of the final, I thought Novak was formidable and really stepped up his level. That’s the best I’ve seen him play at a slam since RG 2021. I honestly don’t think he’s been convincing in slams since then. I found the final very difficult to watch because of NK shouting at his girlfriend. &tc.
In any event, it’s absurd that there should be fallings out between you me and nny when we all fundamentally agree on what really matters. IE we all hate fascist Trump,fascist Putrid and passionately support Ukraine.
I am going out now but will post later today…
The problem is , you may not like what I post , that doesnt mean its offensive – just simply theres a point being made that is uncomfortable for you . Its usually related to the physical nature of Rafas game .I remember that long exchange we had last year after RG and the insults were very much from you. At least you come clean here but I dont have a lot to apologise for as far as personal insults go. You may disagree .
I did post an article about painkillers but the point is while they may be legal, I just wanted to discuss the ethics of using them – when it makes the difference between winning, and not being able to play- not to mention the ethics of going through the pain barrier and the long term effect .
So as a non -Rafa fan who loves tennis I will discuss it generally focussing on other players from now on- the bias on here is too much, even a bit nauseating if Im honest.
That was to Amy at 10.09
Elizabeth,
Same here with politics. We have talked enough to kniw where we stand. Things are so bad in this country now that I had to pull back because of the stress. It was exacerbating my recovery.
It’s bad times for sure. Things I thought II would never see here.
Here is to hoping for better days.
😘
Cheers, NNY; hoping for better days 🍷🍷🥰
Meanwhile, on TC, Rublev(in a bad mood) loses the first set to Nishioka, who appears to be in command of the match. And I favor Nishioka to win this and play Kyrgios in the Final tomorrow.
Listen, when AM and I communicated by private message on Twitter, I tried to talk her into coming back to tenngrand. She decided not to come back here ever. She didn’t use any names, but she did not feel free to express a critical opinion about Rafa without having you all make a dog pile attack.
And your collective over-reaction when I posted two adjectives complementing Novak’s demeanor sealed her decision not to come back.
For now, she is still doing the bracket challenge, and I’m grateful to see it.
But I have not heard any more from her on Twitter. The point here is she already read your collective attacks on my Wimbledon post about Novak, and I didn’t need to tell her about it.
Carry on.
Fabulous Lionesses! Fabulous Chloe Kelly. An image for our time, strong, powerful and unafraid. Inspiring women and girls everywhere.
Awesome Margot
And the hockey! Whoop! Whoop!
Sorry about your hubby, hope he’s getting better. Take care.
Hi Elizabeth it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here, hubby had a stroke late last year, I just wanted to say how much I love reading your posts, and your enthusiasm and passion for the WTA, I love the banter between you and Andi Mira ttoo, and hope she will return too in time, its great to see you here, and to have so many strong opionated females, hope I have made sense, have great day ❤️
Ricky why are you letting people post porn links urrrgh
The site is full of people posting dodgy stuff some of which could have viruses on them. I don’t look at any of them.
Ricky will you please try and do something about this?
I have to join in here and ask Ricky to clean up the mess on this site. There was a porn link posted on the site. Other garbage posts are cluttering up the site.
They could have viruses.
C’mon Rick! Sort it out!
I guess he’s really busy during the slams.
It’s really wonderful to be the target of Russian scammers. Not.