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For those interested, I notice that Brian Berry beat Shibaji Datta (2006 Commonwealth Games Teams Gold medalist, and 2007? 2008? (one of the two, can't remember which) Aus Open Mens Singles Finalist, and last WR of 296 in July 2009) in the recent PingSkills Classic 4-3.Must be a bit of life in the old BB yet. Reports on Facebook say that Shibaji looked out of practice, but even so, not a bad win for an old vet!Just a little something to think about in the old Biggy vs Brian vs Rob etc debate. Cheers,Greg
That's a good win for Brian, but Brian also went down to my team mate Adam twice a few weeks ago..Greg you played Adam in the Aust Open the year I had my reco. Goes to show the type of depth we have down here in Vic.
You mean Adam Teague? If so, I remember he was pretty handy, but I wouldn't have thought he could take down Brian. But Brian seems to have a bit more ups and downs than some other players. In the last 3 vets tourneys I've been to Brian has had a few losses that you wouldn't expect on paper, but he always ends up playing in the finals on the last day!
http://www.tabletennistalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?4715-London-area-Vets
BTW Rob, As far as I can remember, I am a member of the 'advanced members group' why am I not able to access this area of the forum? You have not told me that I cannot, yet you are obviously having conversations about be in that area please explain to me. Am I excluded from this area? If so why? As the forum Admin, you have blocked my entrance, why?
Because of your attitude to the whole matter. Read back through your comments and you will see why. It is your forum and you are able to post without moderation on 99% of occasions but when a member gets abused someone has to step in, this case it's been me.In the past I had trust in your fairness as I did with Speedplay, and although I disagreed with some of your opinions, I did respect them. Your last angry post changed all that.
Maybe born out of frustration, that the forum admin, though banged to rights guilty of abusing his powers, never actually admitted it and apologised. We are not stupid Rob, so with that in mind, you lose all respect. And No Reb, I wasn't pissed.
Getting some local support over there Biggy?Is it really so surprising that conversations and aspirations take on a parochial ilk?Now the only thing I will say to Rob here is that Biggy has abused me (when drunk) just as much, without such consequences. Question is, was he drunk when he abused Rob, and does that excuse it the way he seems to have been excused when abusing me? The long and the short of it Biggy is its probably not a good idea to be abusive at any time.
Getting some local support over there Biggy?Is it really so surprising that conversations and aspirations take on a parochial ilk?
Sorry Reb, if I didn't know you were offended.
Or more so someone trying really hard to cause trouble, and infect succeeding with 2 members, fortunately for me, the truth was hidden deep in the sever log records. BigEars think what you like. The truth has already been exposed.
Great, would you care to enlighten me as to who the offender was?
No worries, I think its hard to judge peoples feelings on here sometime. We all get a little swept up in our own thoughts and ideas too.I think that applies to our own thoughts about our TT too. Think about this:Biggy is proud of his achievements in TT and the depth of class in his own country for both a parochial reason, but also because the stronger his competition is, the more impressive his achievements are. Nothing wrong with some self-pride (ego), but I'll come back to this.Rob is proud of his achievements in TT and where he as gotten to through hard work and dedication. However, in recognising that (which he has) Biggy has always felt the need to qualify Rob's achievements by putting Rob into a UK setting and saying how much lower he would be there than here. Any suggestion by Rob that he might stand a chance of making a decent match with Biggy therefore makes Biggy feel that such a statement must be false (and if not it has some mental impact that it would reduce Biggy's standing somehow. I am proud of my own achievements in TT given the number of grades I have climbed since coming back to TT with many health problems and actually way surpassing anything I dreamed I would achieve when I first came back 4 years ago. But my achievements to Biggy, and maybe even Rob are nothing compared to theirs. So to Biggy I am trash who could never be compared to him and to Rob, I am just a friendly guy who isn't quite in his league. The point I am trying to make here is that we all play a game called Tabletennis and we all come from different walks of life. Supachop, Honey, Blue, Der, JT, Blocker, PF_4, and anyone else you care to mention has their own story and their own set of achievements. And those achievements are just as important to each individual as Biggy's is to him, or Rob's is to him. Yet there is an argument that goes on here that tries to belittle people's achievements the less impressive they are. Why? Because it somehow cuts down someone's ego to really acknowledge someone else is doing well. The fact is we all need each other (talking about the world of TT players) or the game would cease to exist. Maybe its time there was some more thought and discussion put to that idea rather than stroking just one's own ego, or that of one's own country? BTW, Supachop is the only one who has told me he has no ego, which is why he doesn't take part in the discussions of it. I don't believe he has no ego, but I do believe he has well learned to enjoy the game and leave his ego at the door when he plays TT (and makes his sparse forum comments). Shame more can't do that! (Rant over).
I've already stated 1 million times it was not me, yet you failed to believe my words, basically calling me a liar. If you want annswers Bigears, why don't you ask the other members.
Well why won't you tell me who it was then? I'm not asking other members, I'm asking you, directly. I may be a mod on other forums, But I don't send PM's to members claiming to be someone else.
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