Cornish Steve

This is how family views the election in Cornwall. http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276272/Article/images/26407886/9952806-large.jpg

Nope. Taxation without representation. Sounds familiar...

I rather agree, although the emergence of limited-over games has helped bring a little excitement. It's also a lot more fun to play than to watch. Years and years ago, along with several other Brits, I worked for a British software company at its office in Boston, Massachusetts. We heard that HMS Intrepid was coming to Boston, so someone arranged a Sunday afternoon cricket match against them. Of course, we all fancied ourselves at cricket, but we needed a couple of Americans to make up our number. The day dawned, and the Intrepid crew went into bat. In their 20 overs, they scored about 160 runs. We went into bat and were all out for 5. Even funnier, one of the Americans had never played before, so held his bat horizontally as in baseball. He scored 4 of our 5 runs, despite facing only 2 balls. We learned at drinks later that the HMS Intrepid crew had played the West Indies national team earlier in their journeys, which made defeat a little easier to take.

The results are in for this week. Several people scored four points, but I just pipped you at the post to take the lead for May. Romey is holding on to a 2-point lead for the season, while TonkaRoost retains the lead for points per prediction. PS - Has anyone yet twigged my "cunning plan" for winning the inter-forum game for next season? Thought it better to post here than there, so as not to give the game away. It's known as the "Wisdom of Crowds", in case no one else has read the book by that name. http://www.toffeetalk.com/index.php?/topic/26483-inter-forum-premier-positions-game-2014-15/?p=456554

All over. Well done to the West Indies team - and especially to Bravo. What a great innings.

Let me guess. You were the student who decided "heads I sleep in, tails I take the day off, and, if the coin lands on its edge, I go to class."

Fewer than 50 runs needed now, still with 6 wickets left and still Bravo to Bravo. It took real effort to let the Windies get back into this game, but England's awful batting and inconsistent bowling strike again.

Wow. Just seen a picture of Moeen Ali, with the - ahem - unusual beard. Does Tim Howard have a cousin who plays cricket for England? A little over 80 runs needed with 6 wicket left. Bravo to Bravo right now.

Right now, it's a nail-biter. Have to go with the Windies, though.

Frustrating that I'm a citizen but cannot vote. There's a 15-year limit for those who live outside the country.

Fascinating game of cricket going on. England are 18-3 in their second innings, and it's only the second day.

Right. A real sign of inexperience. You just don't do that in public, no matter what you might think.

Shouldn't it be Chang Chang?

All the more so given how dedicated are the Gurkhas in the British army. I agree with this very much. Several years ago, I visited Kathmandu on business. Looking at some of the before and after pictures at the BBC website, I recognized where I stayed - and it's now a pile of rubble.

The people of Cornwall, on the whole, are not well off. Houses are expensive because the English come down and buy up many of the houses. Then there's Prince Charles who, as Duke of Cornwall, gets most of his income from his land in Cornwall. In this day and age, it's a disgrace that someone as privileged should be taking money in this way. I know plenty don't agree, but so be it. A colleague knows my views on this and wryly pointed out that the Duchess of Cornwall was visiting the States and would I like to go wave a flag? She's not my duchess, and she probably wouldn't even know what a Cornish flag looks like,

So who's this Kate women who's just had a baby? And why is it all over the BBC news site? Isn't there any important news today?

After how much people have paid for this, I would love to see a knockout inside of eleven seconds (with ten of them being the count).

Both United and Liverpool have played crap for most of the season. It's astonishing that they are fourth and fifth.

At this point, it certainly points to Newcastle going down. They are in awful shape.

Easy to forget that, without that win, Villa would have been in the bottom three. They had everything to play for, whereas we're mid-table no matter what. That's not an excuse, because this was a game we should expect to win, but only the top and bottom teams play with passion at this point in the season. BTW, on current form, I'd hate to be a Newcastle fan.

Villa 2-1 everton Lukaku

And two of you beat me while I was typing this stuff up!

QotS results against Rangers this year (with most recent quoted first): QofS 3-0 Rangers Rangers 1-1 QotS QotS 2-0 Rangers Rangers 4-2 QotS The only defeat was in August last year. Their record against Hibs is more evenly matched: Hibs 0-1 QotS QotS 0-2 Hibs Hibs 0-0 QotS QotS 1-0 Hibs So, based on the season, and especially on more recent results, I'd say that Queen of the South have a decent chance of making that second promotion spot.

And here's another quote about Liverpool from that same article at the BBC website: Their specialist strikers (Daniel Sturridge, Mario Balotelli, Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini) have scored eight Premier League goals between them this season. Everton's back four (Leighton Baines, Seamus Coleman, Phil Jagielka and John Stones) have scored nine.

They won't, so he won't be. Rangers have a lot of problems still to sort out, it seems.