OK here's a new R&D for the New Year (finally) and lets hop there's lots of Reds before this week/month is out!

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The PDC and Phil Taylor winning his 16th World title.



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The BDO, nuff said!

=#FF0000RED A bit of genuine hope. Close enough to the new season I can almost smell it. City breaks. Two weekends sans grog and counting. Zero Dark Thirty - Class film. =#0000FFDEAD Shocking choice, poor golfer with a mediocre Ryder Cup record www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/21034093 Swinton, how I wish it was. Can't we just pave over it and charge people to park and ride into town?

=#FF0000RED A bit of genuine hope. Close enough to the new season I can almost smell it. City breaks. Two weekends sans grog and counting. Zero Dark Thirty - Class film. =#0000FFDEAD Shocking choice, poor golfer with a mediocre Ryder Cup record www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/21034093 Swinton, how I wish it was. Can't we just pave over it and charge people to park and ride into town?

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Young Japanese lad spotted at Preston Station wearing a Salford hat. Tokyo Reds.

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- Christmas and new year with the family and friends
- birthday night out...very very messy but an awesome night out
- birthday present from the missus, unbelievably awesome
- actually going to a Salford game and enjoying it again
- most probably the ridiculously positive news about Salford with all this take-over, stadium and new signings talk...fingers still well and truly crossed on that manner
- excellent and positive appraisal in work for this past year, certainly helps by NOT calling tenants moaning old w@nkers!!


- England winning in India at long last
- cricket season just around the corner
- stag do in the process of being arranged
- forthcoming wedding getting sorted too
- RVP at Nited, miles better than I thought he would be
- the Cleverley and Carrick CM partnership for Nited
- Oldham Athletic



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- me having a dream where I was playing for Sale


- peope dissing the appointment of the unanimous players' choice for Ryder Cup captain...the backing of the world number 1 not enough??
- snow and ice
- that new Salford change kit...white = good but that purple effort on it is horrific
- office moaners about it being cold...a) it is winter and b) wear some proper fricking winter clothes

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Our new bathroom
Dr Marwan Koukash
Holts Bitter
Guinness
Bop Local
My Birthday pressies!
My wife.

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My health at the start of this year
Deciding a day before the trip to pull out of the Lloret/Perpignan tour!
The Dirty so-and-so that took out Theo (When billybradshawsmum gets her hands on him)

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Brussels.
Berlin.
Ardennes omelettes.
Duval, Stella, Deus, Hoegaarden and the ones I was too pi$$ed to remember.
The curious reactions a Salford shirt gets in Brussels bars.
Article in the Charleroi airport magazine all about the RL World Cup, considering Manchester is the only UK destination there has to be a huge amount of people from outside the RL community being made aware the event is on.
First wins.
Positive press for the club.
No player safe from the evil clutches of Doctor Kou

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Hapus Dydd Gŵyl Dewi

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Deep fried halloumi.
Danish girls.
Super Vale away.
Pulled pork burgers.
Free trips to Gaucho.
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Breaking my 10km PB twice in as many weeks.
Taking a horror of a dump in the work toilets and the CEO then using the same trap straight after me.
The view from the 42nd floor of the HSBC tower in Canary Wharf.

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Manchester United - Champions of England 20 times.
Cheltenham.
The setup at the All Golds - a really friendly club.
Ashley Gibson dropping his bottle of water when strutting out of the clubhouse. Didn't know where to look.


"Folau won't be doing that next year!"
Finding the site of the old Athletic Ground, where the NZ All Golds beat the Northern Union to win the first RL Test Match .
The Vine, serving real ale in handled pint pots.
The barmaid in The Vine. My word.

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Encounters with snotty photographers and Burger King staff. I must have been wearing some sort of jobsworth attractant.
The group of "LADS" in the Spectre. Epic bantz aplenty...

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Getting to watch some of the Spring Classics live in Belgium (eat your muffin out Fungus).
The quiz hostess on Saturday


Shirts finally going on sale the away one being brilliant.
The general atmosphere in the fans bar before games.
Return flights to Charleroi £23:50.
Compensation from banks.


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SMC employees at the ground being guilty of high quality toolery.
Flights to Paris £165:00
The prospect of a weekend in Paris if the prices of the flights are anything to go by.
Nationwide blocking my card for an entire weekend away and saying that one of the best restaurants in Brussels was trying to pull a swift one.

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(or green, in this case) Newham Dockers Rugby League Club (seniors) recording their first ever victory.
Frank Bruno down at Memorial Park (home of the Dockers) watching RL yesterday. His lad played for Skolars U19s against our U19s.
Manchester United Football Club. English Champions 2012/13.
Hellas Verona being promoted back to Serie A.
Getting a reservation at The Fat Duck for my birthday.

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Salford still being sh*t.
All the balloons amongst our support. Especially those banging on about us now being a big club/signing world class players.

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Excellent news!



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Finally counting up me collection of Reds clothing etc, the list looks like this:
T-Shirts/Polos = 31
Replica Shirts = 30
Hoodies = 5
Vests = 2
Shorts = 3
Socks = 2
Tie = 1
Tracksuit Top = 1
Tracksuit Bottoms = 1
Fleece = 1
Hats/Caps = 9
Scarfs = 6
Bag = 1
And 2 Catalan commemorative shirts!

And I think there's more in the loft!

Don't forget the jesters hat

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Soldier in Woolwich, country has gone, time to get rid of these extremists. Words fail me.

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The Brussels Jazz marathon - NICE.
Getting taken to Garmisch-Partenkirchen for a few days.
Sauerkraut , traditional sausages and beer that swims down it's that nice.
Warm sunny weather.
Hazelnut, brie and rocket rolls.
Seeing the Docs reactions on the highlights of the MW and yet still people think it's all a con.

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The prospect of 7 days in a Polish hospital with no wifi coverage, knowing my luck SBW, Slater, Cronk, Chase and Hock will have signed while I'm away and I'll miss out on all the sniping from the envious types.
Landing back in Manchester in driving rain and it being about 15 degrees cooler than when you left an hour before in Europe.

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Dusseldorf airport. Straight through passport control to a bar next to the gate where our connecting flight was going from.
Berlin. Superb city.
SV Babelsberg 03. Friendly, welcoming, left-wing and anti-fascist. What more could you want?
Stadiums named after socialists.
Streets named after socialists.
U-Bahns and S-Bahns. Regular, reliable, like clockwork.
Olympiastadion - only got as far as the outside, but what a stadium.
"Giggs" graffiti on the Berlin wall.
Weetwood Sportspark.
Cricket grounds with a pub two minutes walk away in the grounds.
Student WAGs.

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Queuing Italians.
Tegel airport.
Munich airport's ability to deal with rain.
Landing back at Manchester to find trains being to pot travelling north from the airport.
Village idiot cockneys who support Spurs and Warwickshire.

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The Fat Duck

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"Not good enough for Salford" being the new "Well run club".

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Lancs beating Scotland in a home game for the first time since 1994, the first time ever in 40 over cricket.

Not red, not dead, just underwhelming:
Lancs' new pavilion.

Myself and Mrs u45d wearing Salford shirts on a MUTV documentary.

=#FF0000RED How hard?? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/wales/23136211 Coachella 2014, Glastonbury who needs you. New bar in Monton, top quality beers without a bell end in sight. The club using Sympathy For The Devil on highlights on the fishal site, would be a brilliant song to play before the teams come out next season and I'm sure some wag will be able to re write the lyrics to make it more Salford friendly (they get killed before they reach half way rather than Bombay isn't a bad start). =#0000BFDEAD My now framed (but useless) Glastonbury ticket, take insurance out and you still don't get a refund when your not able to go.

=#FF0000RED How hard?? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/wales/23136211 Coachella 2014, Glastonbury who needs you. New bar in Monton, top quality beers without a bell end in sight. The club using Sympathy For The Devil on highlights on the fishal site, would be a brilliant song to play before the teams come out next season and I'm sure some wag will be able to re write the lyrics to make it more Salford friendly (they get killed before they reach half way rather than Bombay isn't a bad start). =#0000BFDEAD My now framed (but useless) Glastonbury ticket, take insurance out and you still don't get a refund when your not able to go.

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That Dr Koukash parody account on Twitter, if you like your comedy with a touch of racism then he's your man, painfully unfunny.

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Stuart Broad

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Sport on the box, SOO & NRL, Le Tour, The Ashes and The Open (though I'm sure the people from the colonies will still insist on calling it the British Open).
Heat, lovely hot weather for a change.
Akroyds chippy in Monton - proper English jockies.
Booking jollies.
4 bottles of Brahma for less than £3:00 from ASDA.

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The realisation of the massive class gap when you watch the NRL and then Super League.
People complaining its too hot.
Being busy beyond belief at work.
Being made to keep wearing business attire in an office that has no visitors in warm weather.