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Offline Highlander

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Sporting heros
« on: January 13, 2018, 21:26:16 PM »
This man is was one of my sporting heroes at his prime.

So who is he.






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Re: Sporting heros
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2018, 21:35:43 PM »
Is he the Scottish one-armed freestyle haggis juggling champion ?

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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2018, 21:44:26 PM »
Close but not cigar    ;)

I should have said "my sporting hero as a youth"

Youth = 15-16 years old   ;)

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Re: Sporting heros
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2018, 22:55:17 PM »
A hero to many, I'm sure, John.

In a team of legends, to boot.

Colwyn will get it.

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Re: Sporting heros
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2018, 02:02:48 AM »
Best known for 3 initials and a surname?

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Re: Sporting heros
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2018, 09:52:58 AM »
Blimey he must have a changed a lot over the last three years or it is a very bad photo! This is what three initials and a surname looked like in November 2014 - instantly recognizable as the sporting doctor. Are you sure you've got the right bloke/photo H?


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Re: Sporting heros
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2018, 10:39:09 AM »
Damn - I hadn't realised that the photo name came up when you click on it    :)   :)   :)

I really should avoid trying to be a smart ass :-[ :-[ :-[

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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2018, 11:09:42 AM »
A hero to many, I'm sure, John.

In a team of legends, to boot.

Colwyn will get it.
A silly story about the fabled team and its fans.

Barry John got back to Swansea just after the last bus home had left. A driver said "No bother. I'll get one out and drop you home, Mr John". As he was pulling out of the bus station the driver was flagged down by an inspected: "What do you think you're doing?". The driver explained and the inspector said: "Take this bus back into the garage now! Bring out a double decker. Mr  John may want to go upstairs and have a smoke".

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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2018, 11:56:51 AM »
And the photo H has posted is, of course, of the great Barry John. I think H has been trying to fox us with a double bluff - or secondary sleight of hand, or jiggery-pokery, or Highland smart-assedness, or Celtic canniness, or .........

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Re: Sporting heros
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2018, 12:15:48 PM »
See H, there's no fly-halfs on us !  ;)




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