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Couple of good memories thrown up there. Càfe Créme: My old dad was a Picadilly man, but always had a tin of CCs in his bureau, just to have the occasional one. He also grew his own baccy when I was very young. I remember opening a big tin chest in the spare bedroom (did we all have one of...

I too went from 40 a day to none, overnight (39 years and two months ago, but I'm not counting). I wouldn't say it was easy, but I didn't use any substitutes apart from chips, and biscuits, and crisps, and chocolate, but I'd encourage people to persevere if they want to give up. It's worth it.

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When, as mooted by PRL (etc) the ground requirements are pared right back by the end of next season, there are at least three clubs who could easily meet them with the judicious addition of temporary stands, extra toilets, etc. Cov for one (and no, they almost certainly won't be in a position to...

His primary beat is more Leicester Tigers these days TBF.

Sharpy often refers to them (in polite company) as 'The W Word'. In private, it's slightly more graphic.

The RFU blocked it. Fairy had all the Bedford players training at Coundon Road (I saw them there), and the club name was being changed to Coventry Blues. Fairy was a bit of a charlatan, mind.

On a slightly different tack, the brain-deads at the RFU and their puppetmasters are overseeing this sort of debacle in the Premiership. This is the seat-sales plan for the dead-rubber bottom-of-the-table game at Worcester this weekend. Bear in mind that some of those blocks marked as...

Fuck off. And I'm being polite there.

Yes he is. And he's more motivated by Tigers these days. They're a successful club, after all.

Never played for Cov though. Nor did the arsehole Neil Back, although Richard Cockerell (another arsehole) did, but he went to Harris comp, Rugby.

There is a lot of that, no doubt, but your comment singled out Cov as one of the offenders, and I'm not having it. Others here have pointed out some of the Woodlands and Coundon Court boys who made it, but there were many many more at Cov, plus many from Barkers' and Broadstreet Sec. Moderns...

And hasn't watched Julian Fellowes' The English Game on Netflix.

Full time Ealing 19-13 Cov. Bollocks.

Don't hold your breath. Ealing have the advantage of the wind in the second half, and have a tendency to ramp things up as necessary. Cov have already done us proud though, whatever transpires.

Am hearing that Rob Knox is definitely on his way (down a level) and Will Owen, who has bought a house with the lovely Demelza, and is building a business, is also leaving. Together with Burrows, Boulton, Fenner, and Barton, that's a big hole to fill before September. I'm sure there'll be more...

Cov lead 10-6 at half time.

Oi! (Second and third sentences absolutely fair enough though 😉).

One more player announced as going to a Prem club. Josh Barton to Newcastle. Bit of a dead end club in the overall Prem picture, but I wish him well, and hope he isn't just going to be picking up splinters or loaned out to a rival Champ club. He's a good lad, and has been doing a very good job...

The RFU? Thinking? Using their own assets to promote their own competition? Hah. The very thought.