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Next weekend is the forth in the Premier league, and guess what just for a change the festering Mancs are on the box again, that's four on the bounce, well at least the other clubs are guaranteed to be on twice in the season they all play um twice:D

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Just fantastic:-)))

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Get a TV like mine, any time the scum are mentioned it turns its self off.

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Get a TV like mine...anytime any plastic premiership clubs are mentioned, it turns itself off...go and sit in yer plastic grounds and watch yer overpaid, spoiled prima donnas. I'll take REAL grassroots, community football at my hometown club anyday.

Plastic premiership fans...know the cost of everything and the value of nothing!

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Yeah.. Newcastle have played live on telly 3 times already this season ;)

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Wouldn't know, mate, only time I've seen 'em this season I was on the terraces (that's those concrete steps us lower league fans stand on to watch games - they used to have 'em on the Stretford End) and, believe me, those premiership jessies knew they'd been in a match! :D

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Ah yes the old Stretford end.. pay at the turnstile no ticket neeed.. packed out and trying to avoid ending up behind the big red steel roof supports.. brings tears to mi eyes remembering them days! ;)

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Sounds like a smart TV.. where did ya steal it from? :D

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See, you could live 'em again on the Clayton End...everything just the same (apart from the "packed out" bit which we're working on!!). ;)

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Stretford End, wasn't aware you'd ever been on there Mancie:D

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and by the looks of it failing ;)

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The longest journey starts with one step! Go on the Stanley forum and read the messages from the Donny fan who turned up on Saturday and loved it so much, he wants to come back. Go and ask DaveinGermany who came along with his family on Saturday for the first time and will be returning.

REAL football in a REAL environment for REAL fans.

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So your saying I'm not a real football fan because I don't subscribe to your guide lines, that's a real narrow minded attitude to say the least, I'm 64 years old, but as you know am unable to attend live football, I have been a Rovers supporter for well over 50 years, but also watched both Stanley (prior 63) an even the Dingles in my youth, Stanley were then no more and I started watching the Rovers home and away and was a season ticked holder for many years, but to me the Rovers ARE A LOCAL CLUB, they are my club, situated only 4 miles away, in fact there is very little difference distance wise between Ewood and the Crown. Two generations have gone between Stanley folding and returning to league football, plus they are situated between two much bigger well established clubs and also the draw of the big city clubs, whether Stanley will ever get back to having decent gates no one knows, but they have hardly helped themselves over the last few years by infighting at board level and the
betting scandal have they.

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Oh dear, oh dear, hit a raw nerve there, have we? I reckon it’s a guilty conscience because you know in your heart of hearts you shouldn’t even be giving the time of day to this plastic, artificial, contrived, homogenised premiership stuff.

As for the upheavals at the top, so what? It’ll be sorted eventually with Ilyas and on the pitch, where it counts, Coley and the lads are delivering the goods. What’s more, the atmosphere on the terraces is absolutely magic. Just ask Cashy or Tealeaf next time they call round! ;)

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I'd sooner have an atmosphere with 25,000 than 1400 plus 250 away fans;)

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Size isn't everything, mate. Stanley's and various other club's forums are littered with stories of how bigger clubs were outsung by the Ultras and how they wish they had fans like ours. Nowt wrong with the atmosphere at the Crown...just ask Cashy!

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Not as good as the clicking of Champagne glasses at the Theatre of Merchandising :D

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I'll leave that sort of thing to mug punters like Mancie and Barrie. ;)

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Sorry Wyn but I drink more Blackburn Brew, even though my favourite was first made in Lancaster, rather than Champagne - and I prefer it.:p

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Oh dear, oh dear, you'll have to start drinking Joey Holt's if you want to improve your Manc credentials, Barrie!

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He gets through a hell of a lot of prawn sandwiches though.

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:You are joking Wyn ones in France he other in London

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This weekend is the fourth in the Premier league, and guess what, just for a change the festering scouse gits Liverpool are on the box again, that's four on the bounce! :eek:;)

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yeh its hard to swallow, cos most of their support lives on merseyside.:confused::D

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Get a train from Euston this sunday morning and you maybe surprised! ;)

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Ya but they'll all have scouse accents, just hard grafting Liverpool Lads going home for the day to watch their beloved team:D

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Well i fer one am glad they were on today, i really enjoyed it.:D

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As with everything else Wyn, I do what I like within the limits of propriety, good manners and the law, and ignore those who try and force their own wierd values upon me.

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You will be no doubt glad to realise that we are also on again on Tuesday evening - of course that is a competition where your lot are not invited:)

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Especially injury time:D

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Oh you mean that one Liverpool have won 5 times;)

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I had not forgotten fhat Rovers did get invited once - can't remember how far they got as it is so long ago? :):):)

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Yes Cashy, even though we dropped points I thought it was a great game.

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So supporting your home town football club is "weird"? Oh well, if you say so, Barrie.

Proud to be Stanley, proud to be weird! :mosher:

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"So supporting your home town football club is "weird"? Oh well, if you say so, Barrie." - Suggest you read my post more carefully Wyn.
I stated that I considered your values to be weird, not your support for Accrington Stanley.
Purely as a point of interest, how do you determine your "home town football club" - is it the town where you were conceived, where you were born, the town where you have spent the major part of your life or some other reason?
I am truly interested in your views on this crucial point.

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One of my values, Barrie, is loyalty to your home town and its people, and that includes the football club. You can interpret the phrase "home town club" in different ways, but yours is a simple case - you were, like myself, born (as far as I'm aware) and brought up in Accrington, therefore you should be showing interest in and loyalty to your home town club, rather than one in the Borough of Trafford, which (again, as far as I'm aware) you have no connection with. You don't even have the excuse that your formative years were in the 60's/70's when Accrington had either no football club, or one at the very bottom of the football ladder. When you were forming your alliances and loyalties, Stanley had an excellent team, well worth supporting.

But I accept that having gone so far down the wrong path, it may be too late to alter this strange infatuation you have with United now. I am, however, prepared to grant you a special dispensation if you adopt Stanley as your second team and come to watch us every now and then. I might even buy you a pint! ;)

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Must admit being Liverpool born & bred, my first choice growing up was the Liverpool of the 70's,80's & 90's, glory years by anyone's standard, but having moved away in 84', my allegiance wasn't so strong but you always keep an eye on the fixtures & results.

As to Stanley, well I think that for myself & many others it was the 80's Milk advert that brought prominence to the Club & curiosity from the majority of non Accringtonians. Still having said this, you then cast a casual eye over the clubs fixtures & results (same for Tranmere) & wished them well.

Really in reality I've personally taken a whole lot more interest in the Club & it's doings since visiting the ground last Summer 09, and having a friendly chat with the groundsman & his whole ebullience & belief, conviction, love even of his Club. This did really show the shallowness & commercialism of the "Big Boys Leagues".

So much so that this Season I was determined to get at least one game in at the Crown (Holidays juggled accordingly) as it was I got to see 2 Stanley games, Tranmere JPT & Home against Wycombe. It was also no turn of fate that I deliberately brought friends & their 2 Boys to their first Live (at the ground, sights, sounds & smells footballing experience) to Stanley !

Sure I could've gone to a multi million, all glittering, singing & dancing "Super star" studded stadium of commerce (even my own Liverpool fits that bill) but I didn't. I wanted the Boys to see grass roots, love, pride, passion footy, it isn't pretty & me, me, me. I wanted the true essence & spirit of the game, something that has sadly been cast aside as a hindrance in the "Big Boys" games driven by money & business.

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"But I accept that having gone so far down the wrong path, it may be too late to alter this strange infatuation you have with United now. I am, however, prepared to grant you a special dispensation if you adopt Stanley as your second team and come to watch us every now and then. I might even buy you a pint!"

Sorry to disillusion you Wyn - I do have a number of Stanley shirts - 6 I think, I also had a Centenary T-shirt, but my nephew in Cape Town scrounged that on off me - I hate to admit it to you but I do wear one or other of them now and then.

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Nail - head - hit. Karma sent! :)

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Time to wear one on a visit to the Crown ground next time you're over, Barrie. A pint awaits you in the Oak Lea and I promise not to go into any "you should support your hometown club" rants. ;)

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Are you sure now Wyn:D

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Positive...I'm Mr Mellow in the Oak Lea...as for the Clayton End, all rants reserved for errant match officials! ;)

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Just checking Wyn, just checking:D

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Well it just gets worse, United are on tonight, Sunday v Liverpool, and on we go next Wednesday their reserves are on in the league cup v Scunthorpe and wait for it they're then on the box the following Sunday V Bolton that's eight on the bounce, they really are taking the P*** now

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Just think how it allows all the supporters of so many other clubs to watch their teams - playing the Creme - anyway next weekend they are on ESPN - don't know many people that subscribe to ESPN :D:D:D

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I do unfortunately:rolleyes:

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Never seen any figures regarding ESPN subscribers but Setanta went bust presumably because they didn't have a big enough income - either from advertisers or customers.
I know that ESPN is much bigger but how long will they carry on if not generating adequate income?

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ITs part of the Disney corporation Barrie, I think the problems will be when the new TV deals are up for grabs, Sky might just catch a cold;)

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Watched Scunthorpe tonight for the first time - great team, great game, great ethics - also managed to watch the Creme de la Creme at the same time:-)))

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You have a point there Barrie.. Scunthorpe got on the telly and still had a sell out crowd.. that would not have happend if they had been playing ..umm.. a big team like Rovers :D

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I can't work it out.. checked Sky..ESPN.. and no show of Sunderland v Man UTD this weekend.. but Liverpool are on and thats seven games on the trot!..time to recap Jaysay?

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It is obviously a conspiracy against La Creme - surely the TV should go for the biggest crowd pullers which certainly is not that team from Liverpool - the red or blue one.;);):D

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Well seeing their first 10 matches this season have been on the box on one channel or another and by the end they will have been featured upwards of 40 times, can't see you argument really, irrespective of where they finish in the league they will have feature 10 or more times than any other club:p

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Can you please tell me which channel Liverpool are on ???

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Manchester Ship Canal.......baggy.:D n sinking.

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Ya Bagpuss I've been scouring the TV Channels to find Mancie's Phantom Liverpool's televised game. it appears he must have seen that Liverpool were playing Sunday and as usual put two and two together and got thirty five, strong stuff that Special Brew Mancie take more water with it:D

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OK I'll hold my hands up.. for the first time ever I got something wrong..;)

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I like a man who holds his hands up and admits it when he's wrong, never had that experiance myself:D

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man utd v sunderland are skys game of the day .. so theyre showing it on sky sports 2 tonight ..

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Ya I'd noticed that Jen, a 0-0 draw and its suposedly the top match:eek:

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Real up and down day for me, Stanley win 7-4, Liverpool into the bottom 3, Mancie admits he's a knob, St Helens lose to Wigan, just need No1 idiot Barrie Yates's computer to explode and I will be happy.:cool::D

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Phew, lot of angst there Bagpuss. The best i heard today were the review of the Salford team. The alarm bells are ringing.
Oh and what happened about fergie being told he had to do interviews with the beeb, not one yet i believe.

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Oh come on Alan, Fergie is a law unto himself, and nobody dare say different ;)

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100% With you on that one Jay.

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He may just have given one,if they'd won 7-4.:D

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If you must resort to personal insults then so be it, but don't expect me to climb down into the septic tank to join you at your pinnacle of achievement.

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Hey Barrie as from 3-25pm today your lot aren't even the best team in Manchester:D Mind you the last time I looked Liverpool were 2 down to Blackpool at home:D

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As Big Ears said to Noddy.. it turned out to be a nice day after all..:D :D

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Just picked up on the Liverpool score - fantastic. We were crap again yesterday. We just don't seem to have it together in midfield and I still say that Berbatov is not for us even though there are odd flashes of brilliance - perhaps we would have been better lending him to you rather than Djouf:)

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Now i bet baggys glad it wasn't on T.V.:D still he can catch the highlights tonight.:dflam:

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Or in his case the lowlights:D

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Well, well well Barrie and Mancie, the cream seems to have really gone off, Micky Mouse in defence and butter fingers of Robert Green magnitude in Goal,

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Boing Boing Boing, that was one of the easy games that rednose said Chelsea had already played, too right they won 6-0, even Liverpool beat WBA.

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What a homecoming - it was raining and then the Creme threw away a 2 goal lead - and i went into the Market Hall:-(((((

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Think your going to have to drop that CREME title Barrie quite obviously it doesn't apply anymore:D

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I was looking out for you on the Clayton End...where were you?

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Wrong Reds Wyn;):rolleyes::D

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Nope, RIGHT Reds and, deep down inside, Barrie knows it! ;)

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Na he took Fergie's shilling a long time ago:rolleyes::D

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It's never to late to repent. Time to come home after your years in the wilderness, Barrie. :D

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I know United have gone Tits up a bit this season, but I doubt if he'll be tempted to swap the Theatre of Merchandising for the Crown Wyn:D

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Give it time, mate. He'll see sense eventually.

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Since when as a Manc seen sense:D

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Much as he may like to pretend he is, he isn't a Manc...he's an Accy lad. That's why one day he'll come to appreciate the immense satisfaction of supporting his hometown team!

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Are you on the dream weed after your trip to the US?;)

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You'll come round to my way of thinking eventually, Barrie, because one day you'll realise that enjoyment doesn't just come from the quality of football you're watching, it comes from the whole matchday experience. So, what would you rather do?...trail all the way over to the Borough of Trafford, park up and sit on your plastic seat amongst a crowd of strangers?...or have a mooch around town, then nip up the road to the Oaklea for drinks and a good laugh with Cashy, Tealeaf, me and other chaps, followed by the inimitable craic of the Clayton End amongst your own people, many of whom you'll probably know anyway? It's a no-brainer!

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Na he'd sooner be eating prawn butties behind the stretford end:D

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He wouldn't....he just doesn't know it yet. ;)

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Are they putting something in the ale at the research centre:rolleyes:

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How did they go on against Everton?:D:D:D

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Once again hiding behind Liverpools results, you sound like a politician who will only answer a question with another question.;)

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I think you'll find our generosity knows no bounds & this season we're just giving to the more needy ! :D What goes around ......... !

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Looks like the Fat Lads thrown his toys out of the pram, seems he could be off to join Tevez in Jan:D

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Oh dear ! Looks like Man City could become the New Man.U, Old boys re-united, whatever will the out of towners do then with their support, or will they just switch allegiance to the proper Mancs? :)

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The plastic Mancs said it was no big deal losing Ronaldo, but quite obviously it was they've looked very poor since he left

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Oops, Red Nose as actually said that Rooney wants to leave the plastic Mancs oh shock oh horror, they'll be much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the Theatre of Merchandising, once a red always a red, yea reght

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You do realise he was born in Croxteth, that's "Brookside Country" that, maybe leaving footy for tele ? The secret Millionaire who'll be resurrecting it from the ashes like a phoenix, er hang on a minute ...... we're talking Liverpool here, ok then more like a burned out vauxhall astra some Scallies have ragged & joy ridden to destruction then set alight, yeah, yeah then risen from the ashes on the wings of a dubious insurance claim ! Or he could just go to City & be a "Sky Blue nose" :D

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And if he does leave, he will revert back to being a scouse bastard in Mancie's eyes :D

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Maybe he's off to play shrek in a christmas panto.:D:D:D:D:D.

All the reds that were calling him fantastic not so long ago will soon be saying he's rubbish and not worth keeping.:D

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Good on you Jay, you got it in one and get any prize off the top shelf:D:D