Please don't tell my Mam I am a Snooker MC/Announcer...

greetings alun

Definitely a respectable brothel if it has a w0rking pian0 in it ...

What's your g0 to tune Al?

Greetings gentlemen.


I find that this one usually puts sophistictated young ladies in a calm and reflective mood.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4zoqUUZ9AI


Whereas this one might see them pleasingly dancing around in their suspenders.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNL2ZnhGOe4

I see that MC Walker "treated" us to a "Time to get the boys on the baize" at the outset of the final, which naturally elecited a roaring standing ovation from the mindless and well-trained clapping sea-lions that make up the vast majority of the malodorous and sub-prime "knowledgeable Crucible audience".

I have actualy seen more intelligent life in zoos, including those wretched and scruffy Pandas in the Beijing Zoo that sit on their corpulent backsides every day, ignoring anyone who doesn't feed them. Ye Gods what a shower they are.

Getting the old trusty charity shop grey suit and waistcoat pressed and aired for the morning.

Better keep the smarter dark blue suit for a few final sessions of matches involving big players.

Don't wory though, I won't mess with the formula. It will be cliched, tired and pedictable introductions and the occasional mentions of baize. 


See you all tomorrow.

Are you loving the intro he seems to have invented for Selby - repeating the line 'great to see him playing with a smile on his face...' line, like he's just invented mental health, or a solution to it.

Selby has pulled a few faces listening to it, not sure any a smile or not though...

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good afternoon alun

enjoyed this morning's session but miss the old banter on here & missing the old comms dearly

Yes indeed Wonders . Sad to see how low the old place has sunk.

There's little doubt in my mind that many of the lunatic fringe Walker admirers in the Crucible crowd, clapping him like demented seals, represent a live and potent threat to National Security.

Wouldn't surprise me if some of their number see themselves as the natural heirs and modern equivalent to the Manson Family, with their beloved MC as their CM.

We truly do live in frightening times.

i generally tune in 15 minutes after the programme starts to miss the walk ons

Is that a Huddersfield kit there alun?

Finish to this session

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Is that a Huddersfield kit there alun?

Stu - some clues....it's the shirt of a club approx 330 miles further North. Or at least it was when I dropped by their lovely ground around 20 years ago. It was an impromptu visit there after a round of golf in the same town, and they were kind enough to show this stranger around.  I have taken them to my heart ever since, although not yet an official part of their Ultras following.

Inverness?

Head considerably further South and have another guess.

Working on the clues, Kilmarnock?

East Coast

I think I worked it out - Montrose?

WE HAVE A WINNER !!

The shirt sponsor at the time was The Bervie Chipper, a splendid food emporium I visited regularly in days of yore after golf.

Took a bit of working out that, as a historical kit - I should probably be as clever in some of my betting research

I must try and find and post some more of my photos from the Grand Tour of the premises. There was a lovely function room as I recall.

I very much recommend visits to these lower tier Scottish clubs, ideally not on match days. The welcome is in my experience very friendly.

Stu - I expect this one wouldn't take you long to work out. Clue : it's not little known perennial Isthmian League strugglers the Rutland Ragamuffins

Stu - This one might be the nearest UK ground to the sea????  A desperate clearance might send the ball into the North Sea?

Guessing Raith Rovers for first one - not sure seaside one though must admit...

Possibly a destination favoured by those with a taste for haddock being prepared a certain way?

Approx 340 miles by road from the Crucible Theatre.

Arbroath maybe?

Cullen Rovers?

Correct Stu.

Arbroath - home of the Smokie along with a beautiful golf course often with some fairways full of white bird feathers in Summer. And rather unusually a main line train that cuts through the course on the back nine. (Out of Bounds : one point penalty + distance)