Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:06 pm  

Dally wrote: He's in The Sun now and so all of Yorksire will now know: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... urity.html How strange, a Leeds waller causing trouble at a national sporting event. They'll be booing Sam Tomkins playing for England next.

Dally wrote: He's in The Sun now and so all of Yorksire will now know: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... urity.html How strange, a Leeds waller causing trouble at a national sporting event. They'll be booing Sam Tomkins playing for England next.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:10 pm  

Dead Man Walking wrote:

I wonder why Lancashire doesn't have a day like we do over here ?

We do have one but as we won the war of the roses, people from yerksheer might possibly, still bear a grudge, so we don't rub it in.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:12 pm  

Well at least Usain Bolt didn't stick two fingers up at the crowd on live tv, that'd be a really stupid and unprofessional thing to do now wouldn't it?

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:41 pm  

Ovavoo wrote:

We do have one but as we won the war of the roses ...

Unless "we" are Welsh, then "we" didn't.
Neither Yorkists nor real Lancastrians "won".
The Lancastrian nobility were virtually wiped-out in 1461.
Having not taken part in the wars until then, Henry Tudor "won" the Wars of the Roses when Richard III died at Bosworth in 1485.
Granted, he claimed to be a Lancastrian, but a swift glance at his lineage shows his closest claim was through being the son of the second marriage of a lady who had been married to Henry V and had no Lancastrian heritage of her own.
Her second marriage after having widowed was to a Welsh bloke called Owen Tudor.
Henry Tudor was their son.
Henry did have a Lancastrian half-brother from his mother's first marriage but there was no Lancastrian blood in Henry's veins.

Nonetheless, if you want to believe in the County versus County bollox and bask in that perceived glory, you go right ahead.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:03 pm  

Even better than that though, we beat them 56-6.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:14 pm  

Yorkshire now 10th in the Olympic medal table, the Brownlee brothers level with Lithuania...

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:37 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

Yorkshire now 10th in the Olympic medal table, the Brownlee brothers level with Lithuania...

Add a silver to their tally for Lizzie Armitstead and Otley aren't doing too bad on their own, got one of each colour now

My daughter works in a hotel that does some sort of sponsorship deal with the Brownlees and she sees a lot of them in the bar and reception, they've had another triathelete training with them in the last couple of months too, he was staying at the hotel - she's waiting for them all to come back so she can have a photo taken with the medals

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:45 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Unless "we" are Welsh, then "we" didn't.
Neither Yorkists nor real Lancastrians "won".
The Lancastrian nobility were virtually wiped-out in 1461.
Having not taken part in the wars until then, Henry Tudor "won" the Wars of the Roses when Richard III died at Bosworth in 1485.
Granted, he claimed to be a Lancastrian, but a swift glance at his lineage shows his closest claim was through being the son of the second marriage of a lady who had been married to Henry V and had no Lancastrian heritage of her own.
Her second marriage after having widowed was to a Welsh bloke called Owen Tudor.
Henry Tudor was their son.
Henry did have a Lancastrian half-brother from his mother's first marriage but there was no Lancastrian blood in Henry's veins.

Nonetheless, if you want to believe in the County versus County bollox and bask in that perceived glory, you go right ahead.

Ok then, I will, bask in the glory that is.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:58 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Add a silver to their tally for Lizzie Armitstead and Otley aren't doing too bad on their own, got one of each colour now

My daughter works in a hotel that does some sort of sponsorship deal with the Brownlees and she sees a lot of them in the bar and reception, they've had another triathelete training with them in the last couple of months too, he was staying at the hotel - she's waiting for them all to come back so she can have a photo taken with the medals

Otley/Bramhope? Meh.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:13 pm  

Ovavoo wrote:

Ok then, I will, bask in the glory that is.

Enjoy