John Geeee

Does it include protracted ownership/management rows/disputes/confusion scenarios?

No but I wish it did

Hi Footy Fans

Enyone interested in joining an online football management game. A group of us that originated from the NewRailwayModellers website setup a league in Xpert Eleven 5 or 6 years ago but our numbers are dwindling and we are looking for new recruits. our league has now been running for about 35 seasons but we are now only down to 7 teams. You manage a fictional set of players and have to organise your team for two matches a week. Takes a few minutes to set up each match at anytime up to 3 days before the game, Player Transfer system, develop players skills over the season , watch players increase or decrease skills on how they are used, various ways to have a bit of banter, earn money by writing your own match reports, prediction pools competitions, Teams of the week, Player tables for most goal scorers-assists-bookings- ratings etc  Free to join and any new managers are more than welcome.

If anyone is interested please take a look at www.xperteleven.com or apply to join our league by following this link http://www.xperteleven.com/?lid=84169

Cheers

John Geeeee (Leeds United fan)

The Mad O'Rourke pub crawls in a day (or a weekend for wimps) about 15 pubs from memory. You got a card stamped in every pub when you bought a pint and when you filled the card you won a tankard. Cow pies were impossible to finish for most, I can remember going to one of the O'rourke pubs in tipton where they also served the mixed grill on a hot shovel instead of a plate. I used to go to The Barge ( I think it was called that) by a canal near tipton where the bar was actually the front end of a canal barge! Loads of litlle breweries everywhere, Simpkiss at the Jolly Crispin in Sedgeley, Holdens, ... The Crooked Inn where bottles looked like they rolled up hill. I miss "Faggits and Paes", you cant buy decent butchers hand made faggots wrapped in the stomach lining (delicious) in Widnes for love nor money ! ;-( Listening to old relatives who had to tell me everything twice and slowly because even I could not understand a word . Ommer 'em Craaadley!!! Speedway on a saturday night when Bruce Penhall was king followed by Erik Gundersson and a whole stream of other speedway stars riding for my club!!

I want to go back 'ome now , sob !

A dare you to model Galton bridge. It crosses the railway and the canal. I used to live a couple of hundred yards from it as a kid, just over the road from Smethwick West station. Add a canal scene and add the Pump House just in front of Rolfe Street station. Also try recreating the sound and feel of the drop forgings at the top of Rolfe Street. I used to wait there for the old No43 bus and you could not lean on the factory wall because of the vibrations every time the hammers dropped.

Here are some pics of my control panel. There are more than 30 switches for points, various on/off isolator switches, switches to power turntables, and 4 rotary switches to give me CAB control to four sections of the layouts, and a CDU underneath to boost the point solenoids. The pictures are not fully up to date, ther are some more crossover points at the main station and added switches in the middle of the panel to control the turntable and sidings in the engine shed section that was added to the layout later. The black Hornby control is used to provide the power to rotate the turntables. All other power comes from a guagemaster Q4 controller. Maybe not the pretiest but it was my first effort and works a treat.

I have enquired before by PM to John that my wish would be a nice large front, low relief hotel to put near a station.

Here is my first effort and entry into this. I hope you like it:rolleyes:

Cheers

John Geeee