2010 IWF in Athens, Greece 8-11 April 2010

[MatteoPasi]

Personally I am in the middle of making plans for Wellington 2011. New Zealand has been on my list of places I really want to go to so this year I am mainly looking to save money. That and the fact I am not a big fan of open tournaments any more.

I've already started to convince my wife that we MUST visit that gourgeous country

[bodoli]

Made my recce and found apollo.

One information for all of you who try to reach the stadium by metro.
The metro line is closed after Kalithea station you have to leave metro and go to the end of a small pedestrian area beside of the metro station. Right hand side are buses which go to the football stadium. It takes about an extra 30 minutes.
For those of you who stay at the city center, the Tram which starts at Sydagma place goes to the stadium as well. It takes about 45 minutes without a change.

The Greeks should build up a SAR team for all the others.

See you there

[madaxeman]

Personally I am in the middle of making plans for Wellington 2011. New Zealand has been on my list of places I really want to go to so this year I am mainly looking to save money. That and the fact I am not a big fan of open tournaments any more.

I've already started to convince my wife that we MUST visit that gourgeous country

I'd heard that just like Wales but with more bungee jumping and less nightlife

[richardsd]

yep, New Zealand just like Wales except:

1. we can still play Rugby
2. we have real mountains
3. we have good local beer

[richardsd]

to keep it sporting I didn't mention the wine!

[nikgaukroger]

yep, New Zealand just like Wales except:

1. we can still play Rugby

And choke at world cups ...

[shall]

yep, New Zealand just like Wales except:

1. we can still play Rugby
2. we have real mountains
3. we have good local beer

Aah but you can't hold down a good tune. Very weak in the Baritones you see! That song at the beginning of rugby games - always out of tune.

And heaven forbid Phil "bumps" into that woman again ...was that a typo James by the way!!
Si

[titanu]

yep, New Zealand just like Wales except:

1. we can still play Rugby
2. we have real mountains
3. we have good local beer

New Zealand just like Wales:

1. It's wet and miserable.
2. It's closed on Sunday.
3. We THINK we can still play rugby.
4. We have to have good beer to help us forget the above!

[richardsd]

no no, we CAN still play Rugby, just not at world cups - as so kindly noted by Nik

[richardsd]

we are no good at singing because it interferes with the drinking!

[hammy]

no no, we CAN still play Rugby, just not at world cups - as so kindly noted by Nik

I think it is just the rest of the Rugby world conspiring to make the Kiwis think they can play Rugby

[nikgaukroger]

Text from Ruddock says "F@(?ING SECOND AGAIN" ...

Apparantly Graham Evans takes the FoG title - keeping it in GB yet again

[nikgaukroger]

Rumours say that Phil "Where's my troll?" Powell was 4th and Terry "Shipman" Shaw was 6th. Graham "Lord Corduroy Burping Frog Trousers" Briggs was
playing on bottom table in the last round, but managed to win, thus failing to attain last place

[hazelbark]

Graham "Lord Corduroy Burping Frog Trousers" Briggs was
playing on bottom table in the last round, but managed to win, thus failing to attain last place

Did he just bring an "interesting" army, he seems to have a pattern of not holding up as well as he did in the DBM days?

[titanu]

...he seems to have a pattern of not holding up as well as he did in the DBM days?

I hope Lady Corduroy Burping Frog Trousers is not too disatisfied!!!

[dave_r]

Just a quick update as I have managed to get to a working internet connection

Graham Evans ---- 97
Panos Thelogou --- 96
Dave Ruddock --- 95

So quite close at the top. I lost 11-9 to Graham in the last game, if we had drawn 10-10 (which was looking fairly likely at one stage) then we would have given the organisers a huge nightmare by the top three being on 96 points....

Obviously from my perspective the zero in the first game didn't help my final position any.

[spike]

no no, we CAN still play Rugby, just not at world cups - as so kindly noted by Nik

I think it is just the rest of the Rugby world conspiring to make the Kiwis think they can play Rugby

They also don have a clue about refereeing scrums either, Bryce Lawrence was an utter disgrace in the England vs France International.

S

[bodoli]

Rumours say that ... Graham "Lord Corduroy Burping Frog Trousers" Briggs was
playing on bottom table in the last round, but managed to win, thus failing to attain last place

It is fact.

The secound best of this game.

[hammy]

Just a quick update as I have managed to get to a working internet connection

Graham Evans ---- 97
Panos Thelogou --- 96
Dave Ruddock --- 95

So quite close at the top. I lost 11-9 to Graham in the last game, if we had drawn 10-10 (which was looking fairly likely at one stage) then we would have given the organisers a huge nightmare by the top three being on 96 points....

Obviously from my perspective the zero in the first game didn't help my final position any.

Well apart from a softer draw in rounds 2,3 and 4 I suspect.

OK, if you had managed to scrape 3 points in game 1 you may have ended up with the same draw but....

[MatteoPasi]

I want to congratulate with the Winner, the majority of the army where made of Armoured Lancer Cavalry, winning with the Roman Dominate was very difficult.

I want to make congratulations not only to Graham but also to the Organizers, it was a very nice competitions and I enjoyed it a lot even if mine result was awful. Comfortable Venue, good Umpiring, correct players, relaxed climate. Nice weekend indeed.

The UK are still the best players but Greeks where the surprise (for me at least): they play only since last year but the play well, If they improve a such an high rate in a couple of year they can be more than a match for the Brit’s.

Ciao 

Matteo