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 Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: diegos big heid |
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| diego wrote: | | maddog wrote: | | No be long noo till aw the mugs are queing up to swell Diegos coffers by another £25.Instead of entering the singles league,we should all set up a standing order of £25 yearly straight into his account,save us the bother of turning up to play our beloved pub sport which has been hijacked by Irn bru drinking leeches like him.We could do wae a seperate comp where the rules are you must have at least 3 pints before every match,that would sort oot the men fae the boys.That would leave oor Diego oota pocket for a change,mind you he probably wouldnae enter. |
my account no.079712389654325812 and its the men that drink irn bru the boys drink at least 3 pints to calm the nerves |
I cant speak for everyone here Deegs but none of our team drink to calm nerves, we have a drink because it is for most of us a social night out, i work every weekend and never get a chance to have a drink so Tuesday is my weekend, as for 3 drinks , are you talking about the first hour? 
The point Mike is making is that pool is a pub sport, pubs need to sell beer to pay wages and survive, if everyone drank soft drinks, pubs would cease to exist, its getting harder and harder to get local publican sponsors on board, probably due to the irn bru brigade who give little return to the publicans coffers after the publican putting up good money for the prize in the first place, there are other factors as well like cheap drink in supermarkets and the smoking ban which have all combined to hurt publicans but Mike does have a valid point, it's fair enough to not drink alcohol if you have to drive to work every Tuesday night after the pool or if you live a distance away and dont want to pay taxis, anything else smacks of winning at all costs by staying sober all season in every game you play, the irn bru brigade are sending out a very clear message to other players stating you need to keep sober to win, if everyone follows that message league pool will eventually end up like the snooker league with little or no prize money and no atmospheres at venues, probably driving all the snooker players back to where they came from.
To put Mikes arguement in simple terms, if we split the league and all competitions into a drinking league/competition and a non drinking league/competition, you guess which one the publicans would all want to sponsor , answers on a postcard!!!!
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diego
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: diegos big heid |
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| theFuzz wrote: | | diego wrote: | | maddog wrote: | | No be long noo till aw the mugs are queing up to swell Diegos coffers by another £25.Instead of entering the singles league,we should all set up a standing order of £25 yearly straight into his account,save us the bother of turning up to play our beloved pub sport which has been hijacked by Irn bru drinking leeches like him.We could do wae a seperate comp where the rules are you must have at least 3 pints before every match,that would sort oot the men fae the boys.That would leave oor Diego oota pocket for a change,mind you he probably wouldnae enter. |
my account no.079712389654325812 and its the men that drink irn bru the boys drink at least 3 pints to calm the nerves |
I cant speak for everyone here Deegs but none of our team drink to calm nerves, we have a drink because it is for most of us a social night out, i work every weekend and never get a chance to have a drink so Tuesday is my weekend, as for 3 drinks , are you talking about the first hour?
The point Mike is making is that pool is a pub sport, pubs need to sell beer to pay wages and survive, if everyone drank soft drinks, pubs would cease to exist, its getting harder and harder to get local publican sponsors on board, probably due to the irn bru brigade who give little return to the publicans coffers after the publican putting up good money for the prize in the first place, there are other factors as well like cheap drink in supermarkets and the smoking ban which have all combined to hurt publicans but Mike does have a valid point, it's fair enough to not drink alcohol if you have to drive to work every Tuesday night after the pool or if you live a distance away and dont want to pay taxis, anything else smacks of winning at all costs by staying sober all season in every game you play, the irn bru brigade are sending out a very clear message to other players stating you need to keep sober to win, if everyone follows that message league pool will eventually end up like the snooker league with little or no prize money and no atmospheres at venues, probably driving all the snooker players back to where they came from.
To put Mikes arguement in simple terms, if we split the league and all competitions into a drinking league/competition and a non drinking league/competition, you guess which one the publicans would all want to sponsor , answers on a postcard!!!! |
fuz the singles league pays for itself the money comes from the tables everybody has a good chance to win with the consolation comp as well and it will not end up like snooker cos pool is getting bigger all the time there is comps all year round and if you want to drink thats up to you but you MIGHT play better without it
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