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The Great Raemondo May 2021 7:54am, 16 May 2021 7,702 posts	0 The Great Raemondo Korfball is relatively popular in NL (what with it being a Dutch invention, and all), but so far I've not watched or played any. My Dutch rugby club usually participates in the annual Kwallerballen tournament, but there hasn't been one since I've been training with them m.facebook.com 'Kwalleballen is an extremely sporty game of rugby in the mud. It is played on 16x32 meter maize fields, which have been generously sprayed with water, creating a heavily sopping mud mat. The rules of the game are simple: whoever scores the most wins. And you score by throwing the soaked jute sandbag into the opponent's water bowl. Or by jumping, falling, sliding or tripping into the box, bag and all. The rules are further limited to no hitting, kicking, pulling hair and other unsympathetic attempts to take out the opponent. The rugby tackle is allowed, as well as running with the bag, overplaying the bag and competing with ten in a pile for the bag. One mud bath lasts 9 minutes, in which teams'
ChrisHB May 2021 11:26am, 16 May 2021 20,944 posts	0 ChrisHB I once knew David Spiegelhalter, chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge.
Nellers May 2021 11:30am, 16 May 2021 38,552 posts	0 Nellers David Spiegelhalter is a hero of mine.
NDWDave May 2021 7:46pm, 16 May 2021 14,831 posts	0 NDWDave Tom Daley is still diving at the top level
Dvorak May 2021 8:29pm, 16 May 2021 22,435 posts	0 Dvorak [Grammar pedantry: from the top level? That sounds just your game, Rae: hope you can play next year.] The Dutch for rugby tackle is "rugby-tackle".
Cerrertonia May 2021 8:43pm, 16 May 2021 14,012 posts	0 Cerrertonia [Here in Cambridge, more people play korfball than rugby.]
NDWDave May 2021 11:01am, 17 May 2021 14,833 posts	0 NDWDave Today is IDAHOBIT
DeeGee May 2021 12:49pm, 17 May 2021 20,797 posts	0 DeeGee Emily Reed was an on-stage backing singer in Daz Sampson's 2006 Eurovision flop "Teenage Life". She was brought is as a replacement for one of the original backing singers who was too young to take part in the live performance. Three years previously she had finished second in the BBC Eurovision preselection competition, losing out to Jemini who went on to make UK Eurovision history in Riga by receiving no votes at all.
swittle May 2021 2:39pm, 17 May 2021 75,536 posts	0 swittle Jack Shepherd, who played 'Wycliffe' in the Cornwall based detective series of the same name, plays piano and saxophone, the former 'live' in the 'Wycliffe' series.
NDWDave May 2021 3:03pm, 17 May 2021 14,835 posts	0 NDWDave It is Marnus rather Marcus Labuschagne