Poppies at the Gates of Dawn

I think we can all agree that it has been quite a jolly, bumper-wheeze to see the Poppies back on the television and becoming part of the na...

News of the passing of Hamish Young will have saddened a lot of Poppies fans of a certain vintage. The words larger than life appeared in ma...

Yep ok, it would have been amazing to pull off another win to reach Round 3, but could our heads (and wallets) have handled another 6 weeks ...

A pre-article addendum to this piece.  Following third-party communications with George we are content to accept and confirm there appears t...

Up until recently (well 2011!) Patgod used to introduce the following week's opponents with articles titled "Fascinating Facts Abou...

Long time readers will know the shorthand for an unexpected and quite shattering turnover in front of a big home crowd.  Just utter the phra...

An unexpected downside of live TV coverage of the Poppies is the possibility of being introduced to millions of viewers as a miserable sod. ...