Tubby's Team Talk : Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:55 pm
As this was found on a discarded USB stick there are some doubts as to how genuine it it 
Once more into the Melting Pot, dear friends, once more;
Close the defence up with our English props.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of the referees whistle blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the eagle;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest Eagles.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Menzies,
Have in these parts for 80 long minutes fought
And hit those enemies like a 5 tonne stainless ingot.
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, Samoa, PNG and other lands, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the traps at Owlerton
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Tubby, Eagles, and Sheffield.
