I think the Aussies should have gone, by default. Roopy made an effort on our team, the other 2 nada. Two people who have been contributing have been kicked off, there are 6 Aussies doing all. Start knocking off the people who aren't contributing or we will be inevitably left with 1 person contributing and 6 imaginary Aussies.

Bollox

Hey roopy

Is it any cooler today?

All the posters left in the knights camp have made at least 2 posts in either our survivor thread or our private forum.

A lot seem to have lost interest because of the trouble they had signing up to this forum, and there seems to be an off season malaise dragging down the knights forum right now, but i think we will fire up now that we are winning.

I've just had a cold shower and it feels pretty comfortable at 9.30 in the morning, but i look out the window and not a cloud in the sky - could be very hot by this afternoon.

You guys are going to be ed even more when you lose 2 members again next week.

Just watched the forcast for tomorrow, 10c & light drrrrizzle.

Have you wrestled any crocs this week?

10 degrees would probably be colder than any day here for the last 10 years.
I think we used to get down to those temps during the day when i was a kid, but not for a long time.

For the last two years it's regularly touched minus ten at my house during the winter.

I've never been anywhere that has had minus temperature - can't even imagine what that's like - but i suppose you've never been in 40+ either.

May come as a shock Roopy but we actually have airplanes near where we all live. I was once in Turkey and it was 50+, quite unbearable I had to sit in the shaded bar drinking beer most of the afternoon!
Eygpt is another place I have visited which is very hot.

We never leave the country, because everywhere else is just dissappointing after you have lived here.

Shame that, you really don't know what your missing, not just the places but the different cultures too.

Sounds like you never leave Newcastle, you know you can ski in Australia? Imagine that!

I ski all the time.
Can't work out that snow skiing business though - I mean, how do you get the boat to the top of a mountain?

All those continents out there, you should try them, travel broadens the mind. The only ones I've not visited are Australia and Antarctica. Wouldn't fancy visiting anywhere inhospitable but am looking forward to going to Antarctica

I lived in Israel for a while, on the Sea Of Galilee which is the second lowest place on earth after the Dead Sea, you notice that the air is thicker at first.

Luckily I moved there in January so I had time to acclimatise as I was working outdoors and by July it was nudging forty, I then went on holiday to The Sinai and it was forty plus there but there was a bit of a breeze so it wasn't too bad.

I like the cold, it's good fun getting all kitted up for a hike in the snow. I was out a couple of years ago and went to walk down a little gully and I sunk up to my armpits in a drift of snow. I know most of the Rovers players that have come over have never seen snow before, I think it was Blake Green that got a bit of a shock last year!

I've never seen snow myself, but we do have snowfields in a place we call the Snowy Mountains (don't know where that came from).
Very few people know that we have snow every 5 years or so within 15 kilometres of Newcastle at a place called Barrington Tops, which is appaently the only place in Australia where you can stand in snow and see the Pacific Ocean - my brother and his wife camped there last weekend - no snow of course.
The Australian snowfields are pretty popular, but the people i talk to about them seem to enjoy the drugs and the hookups most of all.

Next challenge:

Back to the original teams. Pick your own captains. Each has 100 currency units (cu).

Part 1. You have to place 2 bets on sporting events of your choice that take place this weekend (the 19th and 20th). Each bet has to be of 10cu or more. Captains, please PM me your bets by Friday at this time. The amount you wish to wager and a link to the odds available with an online bookmaker. No accumulators or anything like that. If you win, it'll be up to you to supply evidence of the result - so I'd stay away from anything really obscure. When I have the bets from both teams, I'll put them on here, so you can look out for the results over the weekend, if you like.
On Monday I'll calculate each teams new cu total.

That will then be available for part 2 - a single further and final bet to be placed next week. Details on Monday.

Can I just check, do we have to have our bets in by a particular time on Friday?

Edit. Just read the above post properly.

Couple of hours to get your bets in m'dears.

Blah..de...Blah

Any-ho....Roopy about the 6 inch pool cue which you killed the snake with, was it a cue to clean the pool or are you a dwarf ?

Got visions of you all crocodile dundee now! love it!

Here's ours. www.bet365.com/instantbet/defaul ... stantbet=1 www.williamhill.com/nui/free-bet ... -Australia Seeing as no one else can be Iestyned. Edit: Balls, those links don't work, it's 20 on Manchester City, returning 60. And 40 on Yeaman returning 600.

Here's ours. www.bet365.com/instantbet/defaul ... stantbet=1 www.williamhill.com/nui/free-bet ... -Australia Seeing as no one else can be Iestyned. Edit: Balls, those links don't work, it's 20 on Manchester City, returning 60. And 40 on Yeaman returning 600.

Quote ="Sandra The Terrorist"Here's ours. www.bet365.com/instantbet/defaul ... stantbet=1 www.williamhill.com/nui/free-bet ... -Australia Seeing as no one else can be Iestyned. Edit: Balls, those links don't work, it's 20 on Manchester City, returning 60. And 40 on Yeaman returning 600.'" 20 on Manchester City to beat Newcastle by exactly 1 goal at 3-1. 40 on Kirk Yeaman being first try scorer against Australia at 14-1. Newcastle, I'll give you an hours grace or it'll be a fine for late submission. You'll lose your minimum stake on top of that if you don't bet at all. Our lot have clearly spent more time in fine dining establishments than turf accountants, so I'd still give you a shot at coming out in the lead on Monday, scarily. As I'm so loving clever, I'll play along. I'll have 22 on Australia to beat England by more than 12 at 10/11. And 18 on Manchester United to beat Swansea at 4/9.

Quote ="Sandra The Terrorist"Here's ours. www.bet365.com/instantbet/defaul ... stantbet=1 www.williamhill.com/nui/free-bet ... -Australia Seeing as no one else can be Iestyned. Edit: Balls, those links don't work, it's 20 on Manchester City, returning 60. And 40 on Yeaman returning 600.'" 20 on Manchester City to beat Newcastle by exactly 1 goal at 3-1. 40 on Kirk Yeaman being first try scorer against Australia at 14-1. Newcastle, I'll give you an hours grace or it'll be a fine for late submission. You'll lose your minimum stake on top of that if you don't bet at all. Our lot have clearly spent more time in fine dining establishments than turf accountants, so I'd still give you a shot at coming out in the lead on Monday, scarily. As I'm so loving clever, I'll play along. I'll have 22 on Australia to beat England by more than 12 at 10/11. And 18 on Manchester United to beat Swansea at 4/9.