Born and Bred. Does it matter?

taipan wrote:
....Or would that be sinking too low..

Naaah ... you keep going taips ... and don't hold your breath whilst your about it !

embee wrote:

tac wrote:

Demelza wrote:I nearly wrote bread . . .

Carrying on from a comment on the county thread about there being three South Africans in the Somerset team . . .

Does it matter to you that not many of your team were actually born in your county/region/state/whatever? The current Somerset team only has two proper (to be said in a west country accent) members and it does irk me a little. Seriously, should there be a quota?

Didn't you only recently move to the west country yourself, to get away from the chavs?

The chavs moved her out because she was lowering the tone of Chavdon

But my family are all from the West country.

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Merlin wrote:

But I'm not just talking about foreigners from other countries.

Where else do foreigners come from .... FFS.
Daftest f**king thread I've ever come across.
PS. Will make an exception with Tykes and Jocks though ... we don't want no Tykes nor Jockies littering our 'pure-breed' cricketers darn here in the Saaaf .... do we Ange

Hang about merls, what about the dozens of unanswered threads that I've written.... you can't be serious...

I meant foreigners, as in people from north of the Tamar.

Demelza wrote:

embee wrote:

tac wrote:

Demelza wrote:I nearly wrote bread . . .

Carrying on from a comment on the county thread about there being three South Africans in the Somerset team . . .

Does it matter to you that not many of your team were actually born in your county/region/state/whatever? The current Somerset team only has two proper (to be said in a west country accent) members and it does irk me a little. Seriously, should there be a quota?

Didn't you only recently move to the west country yourself, to get away from the chavs?

The chavs moved her out because she was lowering the tone of Chavdon

But my family are all from the West country.

would never have guessed about the West-o-ry

embee wrote:

Demelza wrote:

embee wrote:

tac wrote:

Demelza wrote:I nearly wrote bread . . .

Carrying on from a comment on the county thread about there being three South Africans in the Somerset team . . .

Does it matter to you that not many of your team were actually born in your county/region/state/whatever? The current Somerset team only has two proper (to be said in a west country accent) members and it does irk me a little. Seriously, should there be a quota?

Didn't you only recently move to the west country yourself, to get away from the chavs?

The chavs moved her out because she was lowering the tone of Chavdon

But my family are all from the West country.

would never have guessed about the West-o-ry

Going to burst into song?

Merlin wrote:

eowyn wrote:If tha stays darn the'er, Merls, A'll stay oop he'er. No muddin' o'ft pure bloods the'en.

Damn and blast .... shot meself in the foot there Ange ... an opportunity missed to blend our cultural differences and get that blood really muddied ....
Okay, here's a compromise .... Esso station on the M1, Watford junction ... that's halfway innit?

Half way from where to where?

eowyn wrote:

Half way from where to where?

You name it .... Norf/Saaf ... here/there ... them/us ... heaven/hell ... let's not get too precise!

These were the qualification rules from 1900.

(1.) A Cricketer born in one county and residing in another may not play for more than one county during the same season.
(2.) Qualification by Birth. — A Cricketer is always eligible to play for the county of his birth.
(3.) Qualification by Residence. — A cricketer is qualified to play for any county in which he has resided for the previous twenty-four months and is residing, but (a) the mere acquirement or hiring of a tenement, unless used as a-bona-fide home, does not constitute a “residence”; (b) the occupation of a tenement during the Cricket season only does not constitute "residence."
(4.) Where a cricketer uses as residences in the course of the year tenements in more than one county, or where he leaves the country for the winter months, and in all other cases where his qualification is in any doubt, it is obligatory on the county for which he wishes to play to prove his qualification to the satisfaction of the M.C.C.
(5.) A cricketer who has played for a county for five successive years is qualified to play for that county for the rest of his cricket career, or until he plays for some other county.
(6.) A cricketer may play for his old county during the two years that he is qualifying for another.
(7.) Transfers. — A cricketer, already qualified for a county, but wishing to qualify by residence for another county, must give notice in writing to the Cricket club committee of the former county before he commences such residence; and a county Cricket club wishing to engage, under a residential qualification, a cricketer who is already qualified for another county club, must inform the committee of the latter before commencing negotiations with the cricketer.

all seems very reasonable . . .

eowyn wrote:

Craig White Born:December 16, 1969. Morley

eowyn wrote:Yes, Zatty, I'm actually fully paid up member of the BNP.

Don't panic babe, according to Sookas, I'm the racist king of the castle.

So catch up.

Yorkie Jill wrote:

eowyn wrote:

Craig White Born:December 16, 1969. Morley

Reading that always makes me grin too, Jill. Home of the greats.