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  1. LIBERTARIAN

    LIBERTARIAN Well-Known Member

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    Looks more like Hitler to me.

    Or even Bruno Ganz. <laugh>
     
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  2. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    On this day 64 years ago one of Swansea’s most loved and best ever players was born:

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    Is it Des Lynam again?

    Sorry, had a long and tedious day working on a tender document. I'll stop being flippant...
     
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  4. LIBERTARIAN

    LIBERTARIAN Well-Known Member

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    Are you an estimator in construction by any chance ?
     
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    No, not construction.
     
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  6. LIBERTARIAN

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    <ok>
     
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  7. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    On this day in 1948, Dai was born.

    RIP <rose>

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  8. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    On this day in 1978:

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    I was there !
     
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  9. daimungeezer

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    Dammit... Brentford and Watford also won <laugh>
     
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  10. Taffvalerowdy

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    <laugh>
     
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  11. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    Club record for a league win ?
     
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  12. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    I think so <cheers>
     
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  13. glamexile

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    But our neighbours lost at Stoke
     
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  14. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    But won the cup in 1927
     
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  15. Taffvalerowdy

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    Did they ..... never knew that .... they kept that quiet .... <laugh>
     
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  16. Taffvalerowdy

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    Happy 27th birthday Jay <cheers>

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  17. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    You may have missed that particular announcement, it was in all the up market stone tablets
     
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  18. aswan_dam

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    April 2nd 2021
    Birmingham 0 Swansea 9
     
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    Your house must have several rooms piled high with old newspapers...
     
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  20. Taffvalerowdy

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    My late father’s house was - he kept ‘everything’!

    Birth and marriage certificates starting from the middle of the 19th Century, newspaper cuttings from the 1940s - even a small cutting from the Evening Post of the team selected for a Swans Reserves match: he was in it at 16 years of age. (He also kept the letter from Billy McCandless the Swans Manager informing him of his first selection for the Swans Reserves)
     
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