The last days of disco & football

The last game in the league ended in a 4 - 3 victory. A keenly fought game the score ding - donged in the first half, we went in 4 -2 to the good with Dave playing particularly well for us. We conceded in the second half but defended well and should have scored from a couple of chances to make sure. We finshed in 5th, so not to bad. If one other result went for us we would have finished 3rd. If we could have shown any consistencey at all we probably would be have been in the shake up for honours.

In Midleton again on Monday night we won another table quiz. Brian and Nevie joined myself and Chris on the night. Brian played an absolute blinder but I still never felt we would win it. We were there or thereabouts but faltered in round 7 in particular. Going into the last round we were tied for first on 81 (10 rounds of 10 Qs) we scored ten although we were definitely given an extra mark as we had certainly one wrong answer but the other team faltered dropping two. The night was rounded off nicely when nevie won a bottle of wine. I can'r see how we will ever win again .. we have surely ridden our luck for long enough although 91 out of 100 is not bad the standard of q's was not exceptionally high though, at least i didn't think it was.

Sack Watch : Now offically at an end, i finished on monday.
It seems my boss was on my computer today and Eric IMed me thinking i was online, he received the rather curt rely "Sean O'Neill does not work here ... etc .. please contact him through his personal email"

I think that just about sums it up .. class all the way

Sack Watch : Special Edition

An hourly update of my activity/inactivity as today unfolded :

• 9.00 bells : Still in the scratcher
• 1000 bells : Just warming up computer and head for a cup of tea, leisurely perusal of news and emails
• 11.00 bells : 30 min break drinking tea and watching joseph smoke fags, attempt a little work on return from break, soon loose interest however
• 12.00 bells : alternatively chat with Eric and SR via IM where the issues of the day are discussed in a lively and passionate discourse, break for an early lunch (cos I'm worth it)
• 1.00 bells : Extremely leisurely luncheon with Patricia
  
• 2.00 bells : still lunching
• 3.00 bells : Just back in office and take a conference call with Roy Keane and his advisor Michael Kennedy, naturally I am not at liberty to divulge any details here
• 4.00 bells : Tea break with Joseph and start work on this todays's entry
• 5.00 bells : Wrapping up .. its been a hectic day

Countdown : 3 days

you don't win matches by missing open goals .. actually you do

A Win. Final score 5-2. Conditions were tough the ground was icy and it was absolutely freezing. We were two up at half time but given our nature as a team this was a perilous scoreline and true to form we almost gave up a goal right on the start of the second half when i gifted one of their lads the ball out the field. We had a chance to make it three unfourtunately Chris missed from "close range". They got in from a corner and it looked like we might snatch defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. However we composed ourselves and scored 2 more to make it 4-1 . To keep it exciting we conceded again to make the score 4-2. Chris finally banged one to the bottom corner in the dying minutes a deserved goal after a few earlier near misses. Noel also went close near the end with a John Barnes style backheel.

Ref Watch: We kept quiet (for once) and gave him(this was the lad who had supposedly banished chris a few weeks ago) no opportunities to give anyone of us the line which i think he was itching to do.

Steve
Mark Dave
Sean/Chris/Noel
Paul

Donogh was away (in New York)

Countdown Conundrum : woh craes

Sack Watch: Ideal for passing an internet browser's time : The Wikipedia

Winner's Dinners

Another quiz another sack full of prizes (I could be getting just a little full of S**e) , same bat place same same bat team. Although the turnout was fairly low it was still enjoyable and was competitive right to the last question. We came in tied for first on 65 which was out of 80 so not a bad result. We lost the tie breaker question so in actual fact came second. I think in a way this suited us because first prize was whiskey and since all of us still have the jameson from the last win the wine for second was just as good. We did however cleanup in the raffle our table won 4 prizes out of a total of six. It was absolute poxy luck but as the bar woman quiped "you lads bought all the tickets so fair play" which i thought was decent of her.

Incidentally the tie break question was :

The guy calling out the questions said "Many years ago I was the youngest santa claus in England while working in a department store in london .. what age was I ?" (How old was I when seamie died ? That's a quare question ...)

Answers on a postcard please

Addressed to

Quiz for tools,
PO Box,
RTE, Donnybrook,
Dublin 4


Countdown : Home straight .. kinda

Sack watch: Slipping into that dangerous place which is occupied by a special breed who make an art form of wiling away day doing nothing whilst positively glorying in their indolence.

Penultimate match in league tonight
Verdict : workman like .. still loose though