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Size and speed seems to be a fixation for you?menpond wrote:KOOCH Does Bateman have a position /?To me he looks a terrfic all round player ,but where?Thats why I was hoping he might be slotted in as our second no 9.Otherwise he is another Wane bibs and bobs player.Not big enough or fast enough for Wigan.. OL is not retiring as well.
Over 15 and a half stone too by all accounts.ddtftf wrote:You can forget the stories of Bateman being unsettled, I have just spoken to him ( He lives in Appley Bridge by the canal) and he has said that it is a load of rubbish about him being home sick, he said he really loves it at Wigan.
Straight from the guys mouth at 3pm today.
Ps he is also bigger than you think, I thought around 5ft 10 ins but he is closer to 6ft 2 ins
????????????ddtftf wrote:You can forget the stories of Bateman being unsettled, I have just spoken to him ( He lives in Appley Bridge by the canal) and he has said that it is a load of rubbish about him being home sick, he said he really loves it at Wigan.
Straight from the guys mouth at 3pm today.
Ps he is also bigger than you think, I thought around 5ft 10 ins but he is closer to 6ft 2 ins
Thanks Josie appreciate that.Though fixing my post still does not make it any easier to understand menponds post.KOOCH wrote:menpond wrote:Some mistake surely,Private Eye circa 1985,courtesy the deceased Bill Deedes. and D Thatcher.
If this is what you are refering to menpond then what as this got to do with Rugby League and John Bateman?
Deedes was close to Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis. The spoof letters "from" Mr. Thatcher which appeared in satirical magazine Private Eye throughout the Thatcher years were always addressed to Dear Bill - the "Bill" in question was usually assumed to be Deedes; however some instalments (e.g. 16 May and 28 November 1986) would suggest otherwise.
The two men regularly played golf together, with Deedes claiming it was a public service to take the spouse of the Prime Minister away from the stress of being married to the country's head of government.
The Eye also based its long-running editorial comment, "Shome mishtake shurely?", on Deedes' distinctive slur.
** Fixed your post as best I can - Josie
Thanks for that bit of info great news.He could be 20stone and built like a brick s**t house and he would still be under sized for menpond.ddtftf wrote:You can forget the stories of Bateman being unsettled, I have just spoken to him ( He lives in Appley Bridge by the canal) and he has said that it is a load of rubbish about him being home sick, he said he really loves it at Wigan.
Straight from the guys mouth at 3pm today.
Ps he is also bigger than you think, I thought around 5ft 10 ins but he is closer to 6ft 2 ins
If his contributions over the last few months have been engineered to create controversy, then I reckon he's cracked it.mickh wrote:A lot of contributors seem to be fixated with menpond!
Is it the "Lord of the Flies" syndrome?
Mick