Cricket world first at the Three Falklands Week Festival in Fife

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A cricketing first takes place this July when Falkland Cricket Club (FCC) Fife will play their namesakes from Newbury Berkshire, and the Falkland Islands Cricket Association (FICA) who are travelling 8,000 miles from the South Atlantic to take part in the Festival of the Three Falklands Cricket Week. Read full article

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Think
Please keep us posted!
I would appreciate some Stanley Badminton info too...
Jul 08th, 2010 - 08:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hoytred
I always thought that cricket was best played on a village green on a warm Sunday afternoon when the pubs were open and there were an abundance of deck chairs ....does Stanley have warm afternoons?
Jul 08th, 2010 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Ohhh Yesss.
Breathtaking Short Warm Afternoons....
Average: 45 minutes ......Then the wind blows again...... and the green gets greener thanks the generous sprinkling from the Skies.
Patagonia is wonderfull :-)
Jul 08th, 2010 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hoytred
Where's Patagonia? And what has it to do with the British Falkland Islands? :-)
Jul 08th, 2010 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
You would be surprised......
Long sleeve thick woolly button summer cardigans for example...
Jul 08th, 2010 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Argie
I played criquet in England ages ago. Now, at 70 not out, I only play 'garden' croquet :-)
Jul 08th, 2010 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Ahhhh...... Croquet. There is no better sport..... surely!
Long summer evenings, Panama hats and Gin and Tonics!
Jul 08th, 2010 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Argie
Hoytred, I'm afraid that a match starting on a Sunday afternoon might need to be resumed on the next sunday, and even on the following. By the way, we have a few low-grade cricket teams in Argentina, to practice with...
Jul 08th, 2010 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pheel
Months ago, a group of Rugby without Frontiers went to the islands but for their surprise almost everybody seems to ignore rugby!
There MUST BE some kind of exchanging and cooperation soon!
(Reflections made under the rain of Pumas-Scotland at Mar del Plata)
Jul 08th, 2010 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
The power of cricket!
Nice to meet some normal argentinos in here.
A pleasure, Mr. Argie and Mr. Pheel.
Jul 08th, 2010 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pheel
My pleasure - as you, tired of morons from both sides.

pd: Tigre Boat Club was founded in 1888, 1 year before Teutonia started. Wiki-ing i´ve discovered that they used to invite annually each other to have dinner, “rosca” boxing and some rowing. The wiki also remember the “Roll of Honour” for AngloArgentino volunteers in WW1 & 2 that i´ve called in the principito article.
Jul 08th, 2010 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Igualmente....
Awkward to communicate with a fellow Argentinean in English but ... rules are rules.
Geee .... That was really fun rivalry we had in Tigre............
Remember sinking (accidentally) some of your ugly boats :-)
By the way, fine detail the “Cromwell” one!
I don’t think they got it though.
These days, only Argies understand classical British humor

Take care
Jul 08th, 2010 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Islander1
Hello Think- your right weather conditions here make it an “interesting” sport! nevertheless we do get some days with no wind at all and quite a few with not that much and summers are usually almost as dry as Patagonia,s. Not sure about todays teams but years ago they had a special set of brass bails- so the wind did not blow them off!
Incidentally at the recent matches in Mexico the Faklands team was actually the only one in the group that had native born people in the team! All the Mexicans and C-Ricans were born elsewhere.
I wonder what will happen if we ever end up in same Americas tournament (probably a different class I admit) as Argentina? Would they still play?
Jul 08th, 2010 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rufus
Islander, FI v ARG won't happen for at least a couple of years. Argentina finished 4th of 6 in ICCAC div 1 (where only the 6th team is relegated), and the Falkland Islands were 2nd in division 4 in the 2010 league.
Even if Argentina is relegated at the end of next season, and the Falkland Islands are promoted then they'd still not be in the same league for 2012...
Jul 08th, 2010 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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avargas2001
o ok this is where all the trolls live ? I guess they don't know how to play soccer and took up India's national sport, how cool does this mean the colony in Malvinas will go to India when they get diported ?? or will they go to Australia ? I heard Australia wants to increase immigration, I believe their 2000 cousins will love it there too since UK don't want anything to do with Helpers for some reson they abandon them 200 years ago at the fakland, are they like UK wetbacks ??
Jul 08th, 2010 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(13) Islander

Of course I’m right about the weather! I’m Patagonian... Same Air... Same Sea.... Same Weather.

About the Mexico cricket team:
A member of the Falklands/Malvinas Team told me that “to the best of his knowledge” there where no native players on the other teams.
But he was not sure because that was just some verbal info he heard from other players........

Now you come again and declare (again) something to be an absolute truth without any form of documentation.

Sorry...................

Like with your “Special UN Magellan Strait legislation” and a pair of other “minor details”.

And no, under the actual circumstances I do not think we could meet at the Green.
(maybe, if your team played in the Scottish Falklands Uniform :-)
Jul 08th, 2010 - 09:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hoytred
“These days, only Argies understand classical British humor”

Could be, it went over my head!
Jul 08th, 2010 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Maybe because you are a bit Cromwellian?
Jul 08th, 2010 - 11:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hoytred
Sorry Think ... doesn't mean anything to me!
Jul 09th, 2010 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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stick up your junta
thinks far too clever for us
Jul 09th, 2010 - 05:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
My view (please correct me if I’m wrong) is that the British public likes to “think” that they are independent minded and well informed.
So, after picking their info from, in average, 3 to 4 domestic sources (most of them owned by the same person, Rupert Murdoch), disqualifying the few independent voices as “irrelevant freaks”, “communists” or “traitors” they move on to “international sources”.

Here is where the MercoPresses” of this world come in.....

Britons get their domestic implanted ideas confirmed.
All is under control.
The apes are making noises but we still have the keys of their cages.
It’s comforting to go to sleep knowing that you are a little bit better than the others by being British!

Indulge me for a moment please.....
Try this little funny experiment:

Google exactly the following, (with quotation marks): “Argentine oil drill to penetrate near Falklands waters”

Scroll down and click on “repeat search to see all similar results” or something.

You should get about 2770 hits from Rupert Murdoch’s “Independent Newspapers” all around the globe.

Amazing Huhhhh....!
Jul 09th, 2010 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pheel
More of these stuff should construct peace.
http://www.rugbysinfronteras.com.ar/eventos_islas.html
(oh, it´s in spanish, sorry)
Afraid that warmongers should become to block iniatives like this...but let´s trust in common sense and in people driven by life instinct.
Have an “oval” day!
Jul 09th, 2010 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
For Hoyt
Condensed chronology of Cromwell’s cunning comic comment.

M_of_FI asked me:
(Rhetorically I suppose)
Which country had a fascist dictatorship that exercised censorship and murder to keep control recently? I am sure Think will know the answer.

Pheel answered him:
(Pretending to be one of the visiting pupils from Punta Arenas that had learned all about British history during his 3 weeks stay at the Islands)
Master of Fire, sir
The right answer is: CRONWELL, isn´t him?
I knew that my recent learning trip to the islands would be useful some day.
Didn’t expect so fast...did I win the contest?
Yours, from P. Arenas, Pheel.”

You corrected Pheel:
Pheel - I suspect you mean Cromwell .. although the relevance eludes me!

I corrected Pheel too:
(1 minute after you.... Lol...)
Tsk... tsk.... Boy
You surely mean C R O M W E L L whit an M.....
Learning trip ! ! Right! !

Pheel answered us:
(Using the sick excuse of blaming others as South American pupils this age usually do)
The education wasn’t enough...those argies that put pressure didn’t allow finishing the brainwash.

The End
Jul 09th, 2010 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hoytred
But where's the punch line?

As for Cromwell, actually he was a puritanic dictator which is rather worse.

Still haven't found his head apparently!

Still, one dictator (if we ignore monarchs) in 1000 years of history ain't too bad. And he did help raise Parliament's profile (around the time he shut it I think). He was into regicide too, which gave them a whole new perspective.
Jul 10th, 2010 - 03:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(24) Hoyt

Well........ that’s the “classical British humor” we relish in Argentina.
The preposterous absurd one..... The one with inexistent punch lines and void of conclusions.

Like Malvinas.............
Jul 10th, 2010 - 06:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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stick up your junta
and void of conclusions.

for the argies, boom boom
Jul 10th, 2010 - 06:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(22)Pheel
Thanks for the link:
http://www.rugbysinfronteras.com.ar/eventos_islas.html
Such a good idea!
I just remember that one of the Islanders in here commented about your visit.
If I recall correctly he was quite negative about it.
He considered it a “brainwashing” attempt from our side....

Keep the good work and get that page translated to English ASAP.
Jul 10th, 2010 - 07:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pheel
27 Think

I know some of the guys who organize Rugby Without Frontiers, I am not part of them...but I considered that have value for this post.

They had the best intentions for islanders, without any political connection. As they had goodwill in the matter of the Gualeguaychú bridge/Botnia facility or in giving support to the victims of Chile earthquake.

I should be a lot more careful when writing here if i were part of the staff but i m not, just a rugby fan and curious about my neighbours.

Brainwashing by teaching rugby?
Myyyyy...
Small communities could be preyed by paranoia, let´s appeal to the healthy guys here.

They could make an extra effort and try to read it in spanish until RWF build the bilingual site, in order to check the ngo non-political goals and true intentions. There is a book also about the NGO trip to the islands where you can see that islands style of life is always descripted with a positive look.

Is McCarthy still underworking?
Jul 10th, 2010 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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stick up your junta
@twink
I just remember that one of the Islanders in here commented about your visit
dont you mean 'squatter as you refer to Falklanders in other postings
Jul 10th, 2010 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Jelou Guys............

Usefull Info for Debaters:
(Monobaters, just keep reading “The Sun”)

Full 2010 Report on Argentina:
(Square and Fair critic)
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&country=7771&year=2010

Good Critical English E-News about Argentina:
(Written mostly by PomSinArg)
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&country=7771&year=2010

Have a Sunny Sunday
Jul 11th, 2010 - 07:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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JustinKuntz
http://www.rugbysinfronteras.com.ar/eventos_islas.html

No need to translate I can read Spanish. I would note the absence of the word “Falklands”. Nice idea but imperfectly executed - they couldn't acknowledge the name of the place used by the people who live there.

Just to point out that when Falkland Islands Cricket wanted to play in South America it was blocked by guess who....the Argentine Government. I would note the FIG didn't reciprocate here.

Cue Think to go off at a tangent with a personal attack.
Jul 11th, 2010 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
Whot personal attack?
Jul 11th, 2010 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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harrier61
Hi Twinky.
Just a simple question. Sometimes your English is good and sometimes it's rubbish. How many of “you” are there?
Jul 12th, 2010 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think II
Think here
Well lads.......

The moment finally arrived...
My account has been “Regulated” (Closed:-)
Too much “Foul language I suppose???
After too many years with censorship in Argentina I don’t “think” it’s funny so..... ....
Let’s see if they delete this farewell!

(Sending this from a new account just to say good bye to the “intelligent ones”)

Take care
Jul 12th, 2010 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
it seems that the Kirchners , may well be softening their approach to the Falklands, she is so desperate to join the fee west, that she is offering lessening the importance of the Falklands‘, it may seem that if the price it right the Kirchners would be willing to recognise the British claim to the Falklands for ever, its just a mater of how much, and when
what will happen, will happen, and the Kirchners will roll along with the of the gravy train,
Jul 12th, 2010 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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