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Is there a helpline I can subscribe to?
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31.Jan 2006 - 11:36
Despite Rugby being the one and only game - when the spherical ball competitions come up the best bit is supporting another small nation.
England is the fourth biggest football country in Europe so it has all the support it needs.
Unlike Joe I'm fairly confident that England has no chance of winning the world cup. In the last European championship it was knocked out before the semi-final stage and the combined population of the four countries left was less than Englands.
In football terms - size doesn't count for everything. Didn't they lose to Northern Ireland 1-0 recently?
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31.Jan 2006 - 11:50
eh?
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1.Feb 2006 - 14:23
Slightly better chances than them winning a game!!!
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1.Feb 2006 - 16:15
Allez les bleus
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1.Feb 2006 - 18:09
*Cornwall
*England
*France
*Ireland
*Any other Northern hemisphere team
*Any one else
*Australia
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1.Feb 2006 - 19:00
Stonefly, you know exactly what i mean!
:mrgreen:
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Just goes to emphasise that BBC journalist and presenters in Cornwall should drop the use of "we" (i.e. suggesting they are taking for granted everyone listening is an England supporter like them). In particular BBC Radio Cornwall staff should remember the "British" part of their organisations name when discussing any kind of UK sporting event. They shouldn't assume that many Cornish people don't support other British teams. I know this has been said by others on numerous occasions, but there's no harm in regularly reminding them.
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4.Feb 2006 - 13:11
You shouldn't be so smug, that would be a good match.
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4.Feb 2006 - 14:20
All in all, Ireland are finding it very difficult to break through the Italian defence. The Italians spent the first 20 minutes of the game camped in the Irish half and were very difficult to have their defence broken, Ireland have really got a game on here.
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5.Feb 2006 - 09:58
Who slaughtered who???
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5.Feb 2006 - 10:53
I like St Ives.
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5.Feb 2006 - 16:55
WELL DONE SCOTLAND - NOW TROUNCE ENGLAND AT MURRAYFIELD PLEASE!!!!
My pecking order
Cornwall
Ireland, Scotland Wales (equal)
Australia
South Africa
New Zealand
Italy
France
England
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5.Feb 2006 - 17:14
Cornwall
Any other Celtic nation
Anyone else
Still anyone else
England
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5.Feb 2006 - 18:07
How sad that you are so embittered for some reason to choose any other nation over England. When you think of the Cornishmen who give their all in the England shirt, Vickery, Woodman, Voyce, Barclay et al. I am proud to be Cornish but, for reasons of my own, I had to work and live in England for some time before returning to my beloved Cornwall and I can assure you the English people are not ogres and I enjoyed my stay among them. If Cornwall were in the6N I would support them before England but not otherwise, I will cheer the Cornish players who play for England before any other nation.
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5.Feb 2006 - 18:21
I'm not sad or embittered FYI and I don't think that all English people are ogres (where did you get that idea from?) I choose not to support them and to support any other nation over them because I find them (sports wise) arrogant, aggressive and overbearing. If I have to endure another summer of English flags being waved at me I think I might scream. England is not my nation so therefore I can choose to support anyone else thanks.
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5.Feb 2006 - 18:34
How many Cornishmen play for any other nation? I still think it sad that you would support the likes of South Africa or Australia over England. And by the way it's not the average English supporter who is arrogant it's the media. Strangely enough if Cornwall were represented as a nation in any sport against anyone other than England that same media would be supporting Cornwall. Why is it so hard for you to reciprocate??
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5.Feb 2006 - 18:49
It feels like it's everyone! On cars, in shops, hanging out of bedroom windows it's overwhelming.....I can't believe you haven't noticed!
It's mostly the (English run) media of course, who are dreadfully biased and I don't believe they would support Kernow if circumstances were different. Maybe the average England supporter who is actually Cornish isn't arrogant but the average English England supporter appears to be...Have you seen the anti Cornish bile on the BBC messageboard?
I agree we should support our players who are in other teams as they have no choice but I'm afraid I can't bring myself to do that if the team is England.
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I too read and occasionally post on the BBC English rugby message board and have not, in all honestly, seen any anti Cornish posts as most of the posts on there are either GP or International based, ND1 and below rugby gets barely a mention.
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5.Feb 2006 - 20:55
Well said Kattell!!
Quote Kenwyn
and Kenwyn if you don't know the answer to that (and the clues are dotted throughout this forum) I don't think running through it all again is going to be worthwhile. We'll just have to agree to disagree as you said. Being Cornish and thinking you're English is a bit like thinking you can only eat fish on a Friday or thinking you have to add salt to boil your spuds properly. More than likely you believe it because that's what you've been told is true from birth and you've never thought of questioning it. (You can tell from this I like my food -
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5.Feb 2006 - 21:29
Being Cornish and thinking you're English.
Ian don't be so patonisingly insulting! I know what I am and I'm proud of it but being so does not make me a one eyed Celt who dislikes the English and everything about them. I'll leave that to the people with closed minds!!
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5.Feb 2006 - 21:41
Kernow
Cymru
Scotland Ireland
Australia
Not that bothered after that.
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(Still celebrating France losing at Murrayfield!)
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6.Feb 2006 - 18:41
To me, that statement says you are not Kernewek which i thought you were, but Sawsnek as my question was,
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6.Feb 2006 - 18:41
So am I
AndyQ:
Yes I believe they would, firstly in my experience Cornish Rugby is held in high esteem throughout the rugby world and secondly as the English think we're English too. They'd probably see us as far preferable to the French.
They'd doubtless think of us as England 'B' or something, cheeky sods.
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Yes it is, but i think the Sawsnek would still support the others over us as they do not believe we are a nation but a county of England and if we were a competing nation in the 7 nations, they'd want us to have our assess whipped every match, because we are "carrot crunching, cider drinking thick yokels!"
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Yes Andy, i've played rugby while at Plymouth University and for OPMs around Devon and Somerset. Also drinking with a rugby crowd around Twickenham. That's my experience of rugby out of Cornwall.
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You certainly didn't seem to be saying I'm Albanian, Andy
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As you can see, i never said you were, i said that's what the STATEMENT seemed to be saying.
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OK, I never said you said I was Sawsnek, did I? 8)
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Oh no, I meant to say ' The FRENCH'
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Alban V Pow Frynk
This is going to be a walk in the park for the French, i'm afraid our Celtic cousins from up north have not a cats chance in hell. Long gone are the days of the David Soul era and the masses singing Flower of Scotland with sheer pride and knowledge that they were a force to contend with. No, i'm going to say it's the wooden spoon for poor old Scotland this year, as for France, well they're going to to take the Six Nations title now.
D'OH!!!
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6.Feb 2006 - 19:30
I think it was the case that the French were expecting a stroll in the park too, took Scotland for granted and ended up getting mugged. I love it!
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Keep saying things like that Andy please and old athelstans descendants will have seen their last win this year.
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The site upon which Croke Park now stands was in the 1870's known as the "City and Suburban Racecourse". The GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association / Cumann Lúthchleas Gael) became one of the grounds most frequent users. The GAA purchased the site in 1913 and immediately renamed the ground Croke Park in honour of the association's first patron Archbishop Croke of Cashel.
Over the subsequent 40 years Croke Park was developed and redeveloped in an ad hoc manner as finances allowed. The Railway End, also known as Hill 16 was constructed from the rubble left in Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) after the 1916 rising. On November 21, 1920 Croke Park was the scene of a massacre by the Auxiliary Division. British police auxiliaries entered the ground, shooting indiscriminately into the crowd killing 13 during a Dublin-Tipperary football match. The dead included 12 spectators and one player, Michael Hogan. The latter, Tipperary's captain, gave his name posthumously to the Hogan stand built four years later in 1924. These shootings, on the day which became known as Bloody Sunday, were a reprisal for the assassination of 12 or 13 British Intelligence officers, known as the Cairo Gang, by Michael Collins' squad earlier that day.
The first Hogan stand was followed by the construction of the Cusack stand (named after one of the original founders of the GAA Michael Cusack) in 1937. The Canal End terrace was constructed in 1949 and was subsequently followed by the construction of the Nally stand (Named after Pat Nally) in 1952. Since these initial buildings, reconstruction and redevelopment of various sections of the ground have taken place.
Following a redevelopment program started in the 1990s, Croke Park (or Croker as it's sometimes called) has a capacity of 82,500, making it the fourth largest stadium in Europe, the largest stadium in the 2007 Six Nations Championship and the largest owned by an amateur organisation outside the United States.
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Upgrading the 'Six Nations Championship' to the proper
'Seven Nations Championship' by the inclusion of the Cornish Team is long overdue.
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