England V Germany

[BadGirl]

Does anyone know if and when the England V Germany match is being shown on TV?
I heard a rumour that it might

[danbelcher]

i think its screened on BBC2 sunday 25 feb sometime between 1.55pm -3.30pm

[Luncheon]

thats rather precise times, to be between?

[BadGirl]

thanks - bbc2 on a sunday afternoon isnt exactly primetime, but i'm really glad some badminton will be shown on TV! Hopefully we'll beat Germany too! :D

I was surprised that the nationals wasnt shown on tv at all or not that i saw anyway

[danbelcher]

got info of the BE site Luncheon

Bad Girl, the All England is televised but on Sky. That is great coverage, do you get or have access to Sky Sports?

[kimboshay]

if not then dan is inviting you to a weekend at his to "watch" some badminton:D

[danbelcher]

but only if she lives up to her name! ;)

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Dan and Kimmy pleeeeasee!!!!!

We have new contributors on the forum, please try not to scare them away with your deviant behaviour!!

Welcome to the forum Badgirl!!

:cool:

[danbelcher]

When is your birthday ChoseOneReturns? Am thinking of buying you that monkey.

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Next week Dan.....

Soooooooo excited!!

[Luncheon]

You ought to get a monkey on a special birthday like 50!!!!

[BadGirl]

I can get access to sky, and I will love to watch the All England i'm sure the games will be fantastic

but I think to get the profile of badminton up in the UK it would be interesting to watch English players, so the nationals would have been a good one to televise. However I think televising England V Germany is a great idea and will hopefully get people involved in watching our best English players and also a competitive spirit to beat the Germans like there is in football

[danbelcher]

Don't go wearing your birthday suit with that monkey around

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

I can get access to sky, and I will love to watch the All England i'm sure the games will be fantastic

but I think to get the profile of badminton up in the UK it would be interesting to watch English players, so the nationals would have been a good one to televise. However I think televising England V Germany is a great idea and will hopefully get people involved in watching our best English players and also a competitive spirit to beat the Germans like there is in football


I think to raise the TV profile, my monkey could do the players breaks, sing the national anthem and throw poo at Gill Clark in the commentry box!!

[danbelcher]

Don’t let monkeytalk put you off contributing BadGirl!

Try and find someone with Sky and get them to record it.

It will be much better than any highlights on BBC

[BadGirl]

ooo! missed all that banter
Thanks for the welcome all!....and the invite to watch the All England at yours Dan ;)

I may well to take you up on that offer....and i'll promise to behave ;)

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Unless of course Darren is in the commentary box, and then my Monkey can stick to focusing on throwing poo at the Germans!!

[alansd]

Dan my boy, thats an offer you cant refuse!!
You will tell us how bad badgirl is wont you?

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Badgirl, dont be drawn in with th bad crowd!!

[danbelcher]

Well Done BadGirl.
I better go and sign up for Sky Sports right away!

[danbelcher]

ChosenOne?
How did you spend Valentines Day? Was it down the monkey enclosure?

[BadGirl]

lol!

I'm getting confused. Is the England V Germany match shown on Sky and the highlights shown on BBC2

or is Sky just showing the All England?

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

The Chosen One spent a quiet night in on Valentines, love is far across the sea....

As I am hitting 50 now and very lonely, I need a monkey to keep me sane on all these lonely nights....

:(

[kimboshay]

england vs germany is on bbc 2

then you are travelling to dans to watch the all england on sky sports. have your recorder set dan as i read badgirl has accepted the invitation to go to urs:D

[BadGirl]

hmmm...I'm getting scared! :eek:

So...who do you think will win out of England V Germany? I don't know much about the German players.
I would have thought our team should beat them?

[danbelcher]

On the Sunday 25th the BBC will be showing highlights of the England v Germany match

Sky Sports show the All England Live on 9th 10th 11th March

The BBC has in the past, a week later shown highlights of the All England but its not guaranteed

Kimbo, are you suggesting I am up for some monkey business?

[danbelcher]

My predictions:
England to win 3-2

Joppien win in 3
Huaiwen win in 2
Emms/Kellogg bt Grether Schenk in 3
Clark/Blair win in 2
Robertson Emms win in 2

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Leave my monkey out of this!!

:(

[BadGirl]

so it could be close then...

I assumed we had stronger doubles and mixed pairs but wasnt sure about how the singles would pan out

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

My predictions:
England to win 3-2

Joppien win in 3
Huaiwen win in 2
Emms/Kellogg bt Grether Schenk in 3
Clark/Blair win in 2
Robertson Emms win in 2

Ladies Doubles will be the clincher,

maybe they should keep it to the end so the crowd don't leave?

That would be a reversal of normal behaviour!!

[danbelcher]

germany has a good ladies doubles pair, and their singles are better than ours

mens doubles and mixed doubles should be relatively easy although didn''t robertson and emms lose to them recently in the first round when they were number 1 seeds?

[BadGirl]

Ladies Doubles will be the clincher,

maybe they should keep it to the end so the crowd don't leave?

That would be a reversal of normal behaviour!!

Hey that would be good to keep the tension right to the end...i think our girls should have the edge
Perhaps Rajiv Ouseph and Liz Cann may pull some surprises for a complete German whipping!

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

"Spanking" is the word of choice on here Badgirl!

;)

[danbelcher]

you somehow manage to get "spanking" into every thread ChosenOne.

but I am still waitint to see it on the Suzanne Rayappan and Jenny Wallwork Interview Video thread

[kimboshay]

you want to see the chosen one spanking rayapan and wallwork, dan??

i think he is busy givin luncheons mum a spanking after losing all her money at the bingo:D :D

[danbelcher]

Naughty Chez Kimbo, you are such a bad influence on me! I started off in this thread with good intentions

[danbelcher]

Threads always drift off topic,
Perhaps Kimbo or ChosenOne could start a new thread entitled “Spank Monkey-Boy Spank” so that it will stay permanently on topic

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Back on topic please!!

Can we start a poll Site Support please, because this match will be a close one I think!

Will England Spank The Germans?

[danbelcher]

Zee Fazerlant vill not lei down ant be spanked bei eenglisch pig-dog scum.

Vee ah zee marster Wrace, vee vill pwree vail

[bigfoot]

we better win after all this hype!
wouldn't be good publicity for badminton if England lost to Germany!

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

There is no such thing as bad publicity Bigfoot!!

Not in badminton anyway!

[Hillbilly boy]

we better not lose to them germans, we need to keep our pride dog. off topic, i aint shy to spanking and riding yo like a pig. squeal piggy!

[bigfoot]

There is no such thing as bad publicity Bigfoot!!

Not in badminton anyway!


true...but I want a win from England all the same ;-)

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

A Scotty supporting the English?

[bigfoot]

who said I'm scottish?

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

are you claiming to be R Read? Or am I getting my names mixed up?

[bigfoot]

maybe you're confusing me with someone else...

although if Scotland were to play Germany, I'd support the Scots!

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

The Chosen One Apologises!!

:D

[bigfoot]

apology accepted ;-)

[Woody]

A question really for BE but why has the National Men's Singles Champion this year not been selected to play for England in the forthcoming match against Germany?

Any thoughts.

[bigfoot]

I don't think just winning the nationals is taken into account, they must have looked at performance throughout the year nationally and internationally. Saw on the BE website on the write up of the Nationals that Wright doesn't think Kidd's results internationally have been that great.
Plus Rajiv has a higher national ranking and has beaten Kidd the last two times they played.

Whats more of interest is why Smith isn't playing? As he is the English number 1 and has a much higher world ranking.

Perhaps they asked Smith and he declined to play, and next ranked English player was Ouseph?

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

I would guess that Smith was not asked Bigfoot.

[bigfoot]

really?
why do you think that?
i thought BE were pro Smith

[Badboy]

But I think generally the consensus is that Smith isn't that pro BE.
But to be fair to Kidd he did do the business so I would be expecting a little more help and respect off BE then he seems to be getting right now.

[Woody]

Kidd was told before the nationals that his funding was being stopped and when he won he was told that it would be re-instated.

This cannot be the right way to treat a player surely?

He was then criticised by BE for telling the press that his funding had been stopped.

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

And what..... BE reinstated his funding probably also because of the fear of public backlash and poor publicity.

Thats my boy Nick!!

The Chosen is all for holding people to ransom!!

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

But I think generally the consensus is that Smith isn't that pro BE.
But to be fair to Kidd he did do the business so I would be expecting a little more help and respect off BE then he seems to be getting right now.

If I was BE, i'd get devious on Smith's ass.

Ask him to play, knowing that he will reject. Easy then not to pick him for Sudirman, and cut all his funding!!

:D

[charles-babbage]

Reading some of the threads here it seems to me that the BA of E does its best to hinder its players and not help them.
Names such as Smith, Kidd, Honey have all been punished when in fact they are amongst the best ranked players.

Somebody please direct them to a good course in people management OR otherwise get rid of them.

I suppose its managment by fear and force instead of by positive encouragement.

OK so I don't understand whats going on but the comments here indiate something is wrong. There is no smoke without fire.

[BadGirl]

Wow - great win for England, 3-2!!

Seemed a bit of an easy game for Gail and Nath...quite a lot of the games were one sided.
But great viewing...and was good to see Badminton on TV and highlighted.

Not sure if Gillian Clark was the right person to show the coaching tips in the breaks...possibly would have been an idea to promote younger players like Jenny Wallwork and Kristian Roebuck to do that instead.

Looking forward to watching the All England now! :-)

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Looking forward to watching the All England now! :-)

I bet Dan is as well!!

;)

[danbelcher]

i thought Archer was quite good. he used to be a bit rubbish at presenting but I think he is getting really good now.

I have only watched highlights of the highights so far as recorded it cos been busy but I don't think they mentioned that the german squad (i believe) are not full timeplayers like english squad. I may be wrong but i think they are all in the Bundeswehr.

was good production and glad they dropped the brass band that was playing last time as that was awful.

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Oi, Dan don't go acting all like your interested in the badminton now!!

[danbelcher]

ChosenOne, unfortunately I don't have Sky so if anyone felt like coming round we would have to think of something else to do :p

[danbelcher]

ChosenOne , I AM interested in badminton, it's my second favourite thing of all time

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Im sure you promised BadGirl you would be getting it in.......?

What are Men like eh Badgirl?

:rolleyes:

[kimboshay]

hav u forgotten that badgirl is going round to urs to watch the all england with u dan.....u better subscribe to sky now....... or u cud see if the bloke with the hair has it and all go round to his:D

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

By "getting it in" - I mean SKY danny boy.

;)

[danbelcher]

If Bloke with the Hair pulls before me I will burn down the NIA.

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

You saying you've already pulled Danny Boy?

The Wingman wants some credit!!

Show me some love!!

:D

[danbelcher]

I never pull.
but that could be because I don't have Sky.
Hey Kimmie, you've met me, Who would BadGirl prefer? Me or the Bloke with the Hair. And don't go saying that I AM the Bloke with ther Hair and its all a double bluff

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

Maybe she would just prefer a bloke with hair!!

[danbelcher]

something to hang on to you mean?

[danbelcher]

Hey Kimmie, if you ever met The Bloke with the Hair, would you say, "I really enjoyed your article in badminton magazine" or would you say "I really enjoyed that picture of your hair"

[kimboshay]

haha now that is a tuff question danny......... i wud prob hav to say "i like your locks, they are nearly as good as ur article in badminton magazine"

and yea i have met u but i dont no who badgirl is........y u thinkin of growin ur hair incase she likes a bloke with the hair:D

[danbelcher]

If BadGirl posts on here that she likes men with long hair then I will get some extensions done

we seem to have gone off topic again.

Germany, Boo sucks to ya

[kimboshay]

sounds like u r quite willing to go out of ur way to impress badgirl, danny boy! ;)


bet the all england cant cum soon enough for u dan

[danbelcher]

your making me blush kimmie

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

something to hang on to you mean?

something to swing from do you mean?

[danbelcher]

you and your monkey business

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

I love it, we are having the same conversation over two threads now!!

:D

(Sorry SS, I'll pull Danny Boy back in line and get things back on topic.)

[danbelcher]

thanks for laying the "off topic" blame at my feet there ChosenOne!

ps, what you and the monkey do in the privacy of your own attic is your affair

[TheChosenOneReturns!]

My monkey and I will be watching England V Germany on Sky in my attic....

Shame if you don't have it!