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Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Wed Jul 05, 2017 4:47 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/40505619

Some old timer in the crowd gets a towel thrown by Jack Sock .

Now the Guardian and Andy Murray's old lady are giving him some right stick for denying the kid behind him this treasured souveneir.

I think the kid deserves a slapping for trying to muscle in :D :D :D :D :D

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:35 pm

The old barsteward want's a slap :evil:

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:52 pm

It's a sweaty towel, from common stock, that has been held by the player for a minute or two. Why would anyone want it?

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:05 pm

Exile wrote:It's a sweaty towel, from common stock, that has been held by the player for a minute or two. Why would anyone want it?
:lol: reminds me of a night a few years ago at a nightclub venue in west bromwich called kings, we went to watch the drifters and it was pretty much the original line up. at the end of the show the whole audience got up to give them a standing ovation. me and my wife were at the front and one of the drifters leaned over to kiss my wife, and he was very sweaty, she was horrified and swiftly wiped her face in disgust. the look on his face was painful :lol:

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:29 am

The thing about this, is that I've never heard of Jack Sock and yet he's the 17th seed?
Proves how shite tennis is, and most summer sport

Bring on August 5th!

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:13 am

Wragbyred wrote:The thing about this, is that I've never heard of Jack Sock and yet he's the 17th seed?

Quite!

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 9:07 am

Wragbyred wrote:The thing about this, is that I've never heard of Jack Sock and yet he's the 17th seed?
Proves how shite tennis is, and most summer sport

Bring on August 5th!


R Federer, R Nadal, M Cilic, JW Tsonga, A Murray, N Djokovic, M Raonic, G Dimitrov, T Berdych...

Yeah, tennis is really weak at the minute :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 9:49 am

El_Nombre wrote:
Wragbyred wrote:The thing about this, is that I've never heard of Jack Sock and yet he's the 17th seed?
Proves how shite tennis is, and most summer sport

Bring on August 5th!


R Federer, R Nadal, M Cilic, JW Tsonga, A Murray, N Djokovic, M Raonic, G Dimitrov, T Berdych...

Yeah, tennis is really weak at the minute :roll: :roll: :roll:


I don't think I said it was weak, I said it was "shite" as in what's the point of it?
But, as you have mentioned the "quality" of the players involved, I would suggest that having a 35 year old as favourite to win the title, that probably means tennis is weak at the moment?

But then again, that's only my opinion

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 9:59 am

Wragbyred wrote:
El_Nombre wrote:
Wragbyred wrote:The thing about this, is that I've never heard of Jack Sock and yet he's the 17th seed?
Proves how shite tennis is, and most summer sport

Bring on August 5th!


R Federer, R Nadal, M Cilic, JW Tsonga, A Murray, N Djokovic, M Raonic, G Dimitrov, T Berdych...

Yeah, tennis is really weak at the minute :roll: :roll: :roll:


I don't think I said it was weak, I said it was "shite" as in what's the point of it?
But, as you have mentioned the "quality" of the players involved, I would suggest that having a 35 year old as favourite to win the title, that probably means tennis is weak at the moment?

But then again, that's only my opinion


What's the point of it? The same as any sport...

Ah I see, Roger Federer, probably the greatest player of all time, who's favorite surface in grass court tennis, being the favorite is a sign of weakness. 35 is hardly a grand old age and considering the two finalists from last year (30 and 25) and 2 former world number ones (30 and 31) are in that field I just listed it's hardly a nailed on favorite in a "shite field".

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:18 pm

I don't believe I said "shite field"?

You really should stop mis quoting people old chap

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:24 pm

Wragbyred wrote:I don't believe I said "shite field"?

You really should stop mis quoting people old chap


I wasn't quoting you I was answering your point? I mean, forgive me for getting your point mixed up to begin with (although I thought it was the one you were trying to make considering "but what is the point of tennis?" is a pretty dumb question on a site dedicated to a sports team) but you went a head and made that point anyway? That the field must be weak, or shite, or whatever, because it's headed by a 35 year old, no?

Edit: Hold on a minute, it was you that was upset with the use of the word "weak" rather than "shite" to begin with, now you are upset with the word "shite" rather than "weak"?! Haha

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:22 pm

El_Nombre wrote:
Wragbyred wrote:
El_Nombre wrote:
Wragbyred wrote:The thing about this, is that I've never heard of Jack Sock and yet he's the 17th seed?
Proves how shite tennis is, and most summer sport

Bring on August 5th!


R Federer, R Nadal, M Cilic, JW Tsonga, A Murray, N Djokovic, M Raonic, G Dimitrov, T Berdych...

Yeah, tennis is really weak at the minute :roll: :roll: :roll:


I don't think I said it was weak, I said it was "shite" as in what's the point of it?
But, as you have mentioned the "quality" of the players involved, I would suggest that having a 35 year old as favourite to win the title, that probably means tennis is weak at the moment?

But then again, that's only my opinion


What's the point of it? The same as any sport...

Ah I see, Roger Federer, probably the greatest player of all time, who's favorite surface in grass court tennis, being the favorite is a sign of weakness. 35 is hardly a grand old age and considering the two finalists from last year (30 and 25) and 2 former world number ones (30 and 31) are in that field I just listed it's hardly a nailed on favorite in a "shite field".




Favorite. Gee whiz.What part of the states are you from man.

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:27 pm

NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
El_Nombre wrote:
Wragbyred wrote:
El_Nombre wrote:
Wragbyred wrote:The thing about this, is that I've never heard of Jack Sock and yet he's the 17th seed?
Proves how shite tennis is, and most summer sport

Bring on August 5th!


R Federer, R Nadal, M Cilic, JW Tsonga, A Murray, N Djokovic, M Raonic, G Dimitrov, T Berdych...

Yeah, tennis is really weak at the minute :roll: :roll: :roll:


I don't think I said it was weak, I said it was "shite" as in what's the point of it?
But, as you have mentioned the "quality" of the players involved, I would suggest that having a 35 year old as favourite to win the title, that probably means tennis is weak at the moment?

But then again, that's only my opinion


What's the point of it? The same as any sport...

Ah I see, Roger Federer, probably the greatest player of all time, who's favorite surface in grass court tennis, being the favorite is a sign of weakness. 35 is hardly a grand old age and considering the two finalists from last year (30 and 25) and 2 former world number ones (30 and 31) are in that field I just listed it's hardly a nailed on favorite in a "shite field".




Favorite. Gee whiz.What part of the states are you from man.


Auto-correct is a b****** haha.

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 3:19 pm

It's a girl's game anyway.

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:36 pm

leics_saddler wrote:It's a girl's game anyway.

Best watched with the sound on and the picture off... :mrgreen:

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:29 pm

Exile wrote:
leics_saddler wrote:It's a girl's game anyway.

Best watched with the sound on and the picture off... :mrgreen:


:)

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Sun Jul 09, 2017 10:26 am

The only thing worse than tennis is golf. And cricket.

And don't start me on rugger. And football's cack too.

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:24 pm

Golf isn't a sport, its dress up for daft sods.

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:45 pm

SaigonSaddler wrote:The only thing worse than tennis is golf. And cricket.

And don't start me on rugger. And football's cack too.


There's only one thing more boring than fishing and that's watching fishing on the TV. (where's the yawn avatar?)

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:14 pm

saddla wrote:
SaigonSaddler wrote:The only thing worse than tennis is golf. And cricket.

And don't start me on rugger. And football's cack too.


There's only one thing more boring than fishing and that's watching fishing on the TV. (where's the yawn avatar?)

We couldn't be bothered adding it. :D

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Wed Jul 12, 2017 3:35 pm

BYE ANDY! :D

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:46 pm

SaigonSaddler wrote:BYE ANDY! :D

barclays



He can go back to being a useless Jock now instead of Great Britain's big hope

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Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:11 pm

yeah now Andy's gone we can all pin our hopes on Britain's Johanna Konta, our Australian born of Hungarian parents last British hope :mrgreen:

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Wed Jul 12, 2017 8:11 pm

saddla wrote:yeah now Andy's gone we can all pin our hopes on Britain's Johanna Konta, our Australian born of Hungarian parents last British hope :mrgreen:

[swamp mode]bloody immigrants taking British jobs[/swampy mode]

:mrgreen:

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:22 am

saddla wrote:
There's only one thing more boring than fishing and that's watching fishing on the TV.


I think you are forgetting watching the Bore de France .

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Re: Towel Gate........ ( Wimbledon )

Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:11 am

Exile wrote:
saddla wrote:yeah now Andy's gone we can all pin our hopes on Britain's Johanna Konta, our Australian born of Hungarian parents last British hope :mrgreen:

[swamp mode]bloody immigrants taking British jobs[/swampy mode]

:mrgreen:



I will let you off with that one seen as I am cooped up in hospital :D

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