How odd that he would say that? What do you expect him to say?

I can promise you mate he didn't do it, he told me after the game which I'm sure he would have been confident to tell me he took his head off if he did. Saw it as clear as day he came out of the line and smashed Deacon nothing at all wrong with the tackle as you will find out at the disciplinary this week.

People say in court every day that they didn't do something. Doesn't mean it's right.


Incidentally, I thought it was a fair hit at the time and fully expect him to be let off today. However just because "he said he didn't do it", that doesn't mean jack.

Wasn't speaking to a man that could have done anything about it if he'd of said "i took his head off" then i couldn't do anything about it. It's stupid for him to say anything else but then again he's not stupid he wouldn't say he didn't do it if they find out at the RFL that he did, if you get my point



Confused myself there !

So how exactly did that conversation go?

Hi Shents, good game today. Oh by the way, was that a dodgy tackle you did on Deacon? Or did you think it was ok?

Seems an odd thing to ask him.

I'm going to make a point of asking all our players after games about their tackles from now on.

Easy to talk to players at Cas unless you haven't noticed, i could write you a script out if you like but your just going to have to take my word for it.

One of his bloody goats eaten my watch, and I had to do a lot of gesticulating. I gave up when it seemed clear he thought I had selected one that I would like to do rude things to, and wanted to negotiate a price

Why would I have noticed?
Ok....

What were you doing with said goat that caused it to have occasion to eat your watch? I think the public should be told...

Sorry but by your own definition CCF means Challenge Cup final which is a one off game. Anyway your original post is still wrong Paul Deacon didn't play in any round of the Challenge cup in 2000.

Well, I was in the Sem-yen province, half way up Mt. Ras Dashen searching for the source of the Blue Nile, when I slipped and almost fell. As I hung on by two fingers, over a 1000 metre drop, my only chance was to swing side to side until I could reach out to grab the branches of a small tree growing out of a rock crevice. After about 3 hours I managed to do so and then clung on for a rest. At this time, the goat, which was chewing the buds off the tree, decided to have my watch, and obviously I couldn't do anything about it, without letting go of the tree.

However I was wearing a head-cam and once I had saved myself and descended from the mountain, I hiked 100 miles to Gondar where I got a still printed. I then returned to the mountains, armed with this photo, mounted on a rod protruding from my headpiece so as to be able to keep my arms free, and scoured the rock faces for weeks until I tracked this goat down. It had grown a beard, and was more stocky, but I recognised it. I then tracked it for days until it met up with its goatherd, a fine dejazmach called Kebbade Fikru, at at the Segonet settlement. He bargained hard, but by this point I was quite weary and emotional, and so the loss of both cans of Heinz beans seemed like a small price to pay.

I am still in touch with him every 2 years, which is as often as he treks to his nearest post office in Amba Maderi'ya

This is correct. He played in the two league games prior to the CC Final, but those were the first games he had played that season.

Varky, I'm tempted to say thay you should get out more, but clearly you probably get out too much



FWIW I agree with you completely, Paul Deacon has been (and is) a wonderful asset for Bradford Bulls. However, I won't go on for ever and we do need to look beyond Deacon, whenever that is.

As it stands I don't see an obvious successor inside the club and I don't know who from the marketplace I'd want to bring in

Matt Orford would do for the short term..

I have never rated him because he has never been actually that good, Ryan Bailey shares similar amounts of medals with Deacon, that doesn't make him a good player though. Deacon was carried in this team by quality stand off's and hookers, it's now that they are not here to do so that you see the real Paul Deacon, which is a overrated, uncreative, slow - goal kicker. Nothing more.

It took a while tigertot, but your alias is rumbled mate

Bu gger

I'm afraid you are wrong with that one.

Deacon was given a poor pass & did very well to catch the ball around his feet - then Shenton tackled him. Fair tackle but terrible pass !!

Superdeacs came back on & tried to inspire us towards a win - but he was not given enough support.

Deacon had a fantastic game, but the rest of the team let him down.

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There was a time when I wasn't sure if you was for real

Just to remind you (again),

look at the record books matey, then get a life.

We need support, not stupid negative comments.

OK tigs . . have it your way

I am Terry Monster.

I was negative when you were good, now I'm negative when you're sh|t.

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