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I have used Take Your Points since I joined the Board when football began in 2002.  On occasion, I used to be confused by some posters with the much more famous Goals Will Come who has changed his username for some reason  .  Someone else registered Take Yer Points and occasionally posts with it and I wouldn't want to be associated with his/her posts.

No particular reason why I chose Take Your Points other than it was a much used phrase heard at games.  In 2005, I was named in a thread created for that purpose by a disgruntled work colleague who didn't like my appointment at that time and who created a username to do so that disappeared shortly afterwards.  I continued to use the same username but have begun using my own name since last week as I had always planned to do so when I retired from work and only just got around to it.

Murphy and Williams looked good
Alex and chin tonight were crap

Definitely the ice hockey guy were instructed to give Chin a fairly wide berth, no one even body checked him never mind any of the usual violence associated with ice hockey.  The team he was playing on was fairly low level given the age profile with some fairly old guys from NHL.  Also he had a head camera fitted which would have precluded anyone from making any sort of proper hockey physical contact.  Alex was too big and immobile for hurling even at a club level.  Some very good editing of an hour of hurling allowed Alex to appear to have had some success.  However, his body language during the game and particularly in the changing room afterwards showed that he had not managed to come to terms with the game.

If Henshaw knew the laws of the game and didn't think the forwards need a big strong lad like himself then the game was won.  Don't know how Rory Best held himself back from kicking him up the backside

Marmion has filled in well.

Is Creative play from the centers is a thing of the past inmodern rugby

It is given the inexperience of Ringrose and the bashing Henshaw.

Just sat down when Sexton was walking off. What happened?

Killing the ball on the line.  He got trapped in the ruck by Davies.  No way out for him but he still got the card.

Murray in difficulties with his arm, affecting his passing of the ball and almost useless for him in the tackle.

Welsh try down to Ringrose and his failure to tackle Webb before he sent to ball out wide.

At the beginning it said Murphy would play a game with the seconds team but that turned out to be a fairly soft if high speed training game with the academy players.  At the same time, Williams was thrown into a full game in horrible conditions and left to get on with it.  Overall, Murphy not exposed to the full force of the modern French club game which is usually quite brutal and has some of the biggest men involved that made Murphy look relatively small or the same size a Morgan Parra, compare Murphy to the size of Rougerie.

Can't understand why he didn't go to an Welsh professional side or an English Championship side to give him a chance to really try out.  Going to a club in the toughest and most physical league was not really a proper trade.

http://www.the42.ie/michael-murphy-shane-williams-toughest-trade-3267539-Mar2017/

For anyone who hasn't been in garvaghy there's striking resemblance to the setup at Clermont

Is that why they are about to build an extension to provide proper training facilities that weren't fitted into the famous T shaped building?

John Surtees 1964 F1 champion also won four motorcycle world titles in between 1956-60

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/10/john-surtees-formula-one-dies?CMP=share_btn_fb

Footerin

Depends on how you usually pronounce foot.  Many of us say fut for foot.

[they need also to persuade nationalists]

SF keep talking about persuading unionists of the benefits, they need also to persuade nationalists although that would be an easier task. Many nationalists myself included whilst holding the aspiration of unity will only vote for it in the right circumstances, for me the worry is creating the troubles in reverse, for others it is the NHS, education and welfare.

Not sure it would be much easier because at least the Unionists are visible.  With Nationalists you will never now how they will go in the voting booth despite what they say and do outside of it.  It is easy to be aspirational while the unionist majority always ensure that the aspiration cannot be achieved.

It just gets worse........

Minister for Children Katherine Zappone

"We must accept that between 1940 and 1965, a recorded 474 so-called "unclaimed infant remains" were transferred from mother-and-baby homes to medical schools in Irish universities."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39224107?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_news_ni&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=northern_ireland

The working of any newly formed executive:

http://www.thedetail.tv/articles/how-a-new-executive-could-look-if-there-is-one