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This week's BBC boxing podcast is worth a listen. Bunce and Costello previewing tonight's fight and talk about Khan v Pacquiao. 

Bunce can't see it going past 2 rounds and calls it a mismatch, Costello thinks 6 minutes in the ring over the past 5 years might catch up with Haye. 

On 02/03/2017 at 16:03, oomarkwright said:

Must try the new brewery tap in draycott. 

Where about in Draycott? 

Pretty sure I saw Bellew v an Argentinian on a Froch undercard at the icerink a few years ago. It wasn't the prettiest of fights and I got the impression he lacked a punch. His best chance is to test Haye's stamina and heart in the later rounds. 

On 10/02/2017 at 20:39, ariotofmyown said:

12 cans of punk ipa in tesco for 15 quid. Half term special I think.

 

Same as me, but 660ml for £2.50. Easy drinking. 

In Paris, missed the game and couldn't find a bar showing it. Beer of choice is Hogaarten or Kronnenburg blanc. Not cheap though.....

Pretty sure I had a Guiness blond beer / lager in Dublin last year that was excellent. Can't find it in the UK.  Stayed in a hotel that was attached to a massive beer garden come nightclub and all Guiness drinks and jeagerbombs were 2 euros all day and night.  

Ended up drinking in the beer garden until closing time at 4am when this older bloke in a black suit with gold dripping off him came strolling up to us with 4 security guards round him pointing us out. 

He was from Norn Irn, turns out he owned the place and proceeded to tell us that he had been watching us all night drinking in his bar. All drinks were now free what would we like?  From 4am to 7am we stayed up with him in the beer garden, free drinks, until breakfast was served in the hotel. Happy days.

On 14/01/2017 at 22:22, Inverurie Ram said:

I enjoyed a few Leffe's yesterday with crackers, cheese and cottage delight sweet apple chutney.

I enjoy the Guiness craft lager stuff and I'm also someone that can swing both ways, enjoy the light, enjoy the dark I say.

If any of you wonderful folk are ever up this way check out 6 Degrees North Belgium pub in Aberdeen, Stonehaven, which has now also opened up in Glasgow and Edinburgh and looking to open up in England etc. Absolutely far better than the very overrated Brew Dog, a lot of that stuff tastes like home made perfume, what kids made out of petals when they were 5, not that I drunk many pints of kids perfume when I was 5 or now, but I think you'll get my drift. Plus you have to have a silly beard and gel your hair back and wear lumberjack shirts and think you look cool to drink the overrated pish!

The owner of 6 D N, a lovely man, gave us a box of various beers when my youngest lad was born, lovely stuff.

6 Degrees North

http://sixdnorth.co.uk/

 

My brother had a load of their stuff when I went round to his at Christmas, very nice.  He also gave me some raspberry beer and some blackcurrant beer that were an acquired taste.......

He is trying to stock some in Elrick.

3 hours ago, Coconut said:

Getting stuck directly behind other cars on a slip road when the driver in front has decided that it's acceptable to join a 70mph road going 45/50 !

Invariably you get someone further behind you who's in a position to see this, hangs back a bit and then built up the requisite speed for when they enter the carriageway, who'll then giddily overtake you and the slow ******* infront. (No fault implied to the person behind)

That's bad enough, but will often be followed immediately by a stream of vehicles in the right hand lane also overtaking, thus locking you in place, unable to get to get up to road speed and unable to overtake the slow **** in front of you who's still only doing 60 at most, 10/20 seconds later! (and even at 60 they'll be pressing their brakes uneccessarily)

 

Especially the A50 heading East at Chellaston. They'd be lucky to be doing 45/50mph down the slip road.

 Invariably I've been following them all the way from Coalville as well......

3 hours ago, Bris Vegas said:

Just watched Degale vs Badou Jack. Was a very competitive fight with both scoring a knockdown each.

Was scored a majority draw, with 113-113 on two judges cards and 114-112 Degale on another.

Mayweather and Jack were both dismissive of the result afterwards calling it a bad night for boxing. I had Degale winning, regardless of the late knockdown.

It was a really hard fight to judge. Degale looked the classier, and he was well out infront after the first five rounds but he just switched off and allowed Jack to steal the middle rounds.

Degale easily took 9, 10 and 11, but that last round knockdown for Jack was a major turning point.

Jack was excellent in defence with the way he blocked shots, but as for punching I felt he barely troubled Degale aside from the 7th or 8th (can't remember) when he had a good spell on top and in the last round.

I was surprised to hear after that Jack is now looking to move up to light heavy. He never struck me as a big supermiddle, and at light heavy he would get destroyed by both Ward and Kovalev.

 

I listened to it on 5 live. They had virtually given it to Jack at the end of the fight and were surprised when the verdict came through. Mike Costello is usually a fair judge but he did say it was very close. 

In the radio interviews afterwards Jack and Mayweather totally dismissed a rematch and as you say are looking to move up. 

Tried some Theakstons Barrista Stout tonight in the pub. It had a coffee taste to it, something different. I'd struggle to drink it all night, 3 was enough. 

Storm Barbara when trying to get home for Christmas......

Almost had to use the sick bag in the plane for the first time ever. 

Hoping for Whyte to beat Chisora, time for Derek to hang up his gloves. His last fight v Fury was tedious in the extreme. 

Joshua over Molina, but I hope Molina puts him on his backside at some point (10/1) and Joshua gets up to knock him out. 

Anyone see Groves last night? Good performance but the German boxer kept coming back for more. Hopefully he is ok after being taken to the hospital.

My only criticism of St George was that he left himself awfully open at times. Not sure if he is destined to become a world champ, Badu Jack might of been his chance. 

When MMA fights go to the ground and the cuddling starts. 

Went for a works night out in Manchester on Thursday and got taken to a place called Alberts Schloss. German Beer keller place with all German Bier's on tap. 

Reccomend for something different. 

Also went to some back street pub where the bitter was £1.90 a pint.....

2 hours ago, Bridgford Ram said:

I've been wanting to post in here for nearly a week but not quite built up the courage until now.  I have had a slight history with depression initially diagnosed in 2009 as Stress, Depression and Anxiety - although I am not sure what ratios I was suffering with each of them or how long I had actually been ill.  Back then it was related my mum being diagnosed with a terminal illness and being made redundant and the confidence issues related to that.  I had tablets from the doctor and with a couple of small setbacks have been pretty good for most of the time since.

 

Then on Monday there was a change at work, our MD and his number 2 have been made redundant our team are moving to be part of another.  This has created a massive worry for me.  It is filling all my thoughts, I am losing my appetite, struggling to sleep, not enjoying things that I previously love and not wanting to be alone as that is thinking time.  My question is, when does being worried about something become something more serious?

It has brought home how my job - which is probably 75-80% of the family income - underpins everything we as a family have and I just keep replaying thoughts of everything we could lose.

Hi mate, sorry to hear that. I recognise a lot of what you are saying, especially regarding the job and the pressure it puts on us when change happens. It happens a lot in my career and it used to scare the hell out of me, and it still makes me anxious nowadays, but at a lower level. 

We have a health and safety get together in the office every 2 weeks and it usually boring, however this week one of the guys did a 5 minute talk about how change in the workplace affects our mental health. 

He quoted a 5 stage process of how we react to change, sorry I cant remember the name for it, but you will find it online. It sounds like you are in the first stage of "why me". Its a natural reaction that everyone will be going through. The good thing is that you a talking about it. 

I try to treat new work circumstances like a new chapter of a book. I try to look forward and pick out the positives.

Try not to bottle it in, talk to friends and family. Hopefully even typing it out on this forum helps, even if its just a little bit. 

Shock Top, a craft beer with a hint if orange. Lovely on a summer's day with a slice of orange squeezed into it.

How much did people pay at the 02 tonight? Not much quality boxing, total mismatch with Haye and Briggs bouts.

More of a circus than a boxing event, hence the crowd more concerned with getting the ringwalk on their Iphones....

Impressive. A couple of comfortable defences then take Fury/Klitshko. Leave Wilder until further down the line. Haye would be a dangerous fight next. 

Obviously wanting an AJ win but he might be in for a tough night. Odds of 1/5 to win look a bit low. 

Good luck to the boy anyway. 

Eubank jnr v Blackwell was a brilliant fight. Unfortunately Blackwell has been taken to hospital  Hope he is ok, he put up some fight tonight.  

On 11/02/2016 at 22:27, MuespachRam said:

 So far a local brewery, the 3 Daughters Brewery have one called the Pelican Brown Dunkel beer that was beautiful.

Had  an orange lager over there last year. Very nice in the florida afternoon sun. 

Schiehallion lager by harviestoun brewery. Struggle to get it on draft anymore so have to ship it down pre Christmas every year.