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I'm taking a junior cricket tour down to the Exeter area at the start of next week, and we start off on Monday afternoon on Exmouth beach - ostensibly to do some team building activities, pragmatically to let the kids blow off enough energy to actually sleep on the first night. What I do need...

Just a quick request - can one of the mods/admins let me know how to set up this particular feature on vBulletin? It's something we are thinking of implementing on the cricket forum I post on.

Will we make the play-offs? In bookmaker speak, it's 25/1. --- Who's going down? --- Here to state the bleedin' obvious with graphs.

Prompted entirely by a conversation with Lammie in Tesco on Saturday morning. There are quite a few teams in the scrap, and the question at hand is whether this makes the safety target lower or higher. There are two main factors at play here - the first is how spread-out the league is. A more...

As the current Sky Sports blogger for City, I keep getting emails asking for nominations for Coca-Cola Player of the Month. Now, my viewing chances are limited at the moment, so I'm not too well informed - but if we're unbeaten for March then I imagine a few names (Dunne? Sercs?) are beginning...

You know the drill - 500 randomised trials of the final fixtures of the season, based on previous home and away form. How many points will be needed to finish 20th? Where will City finish? Who will go down? Read into it what you will...

We're five years old. I'm working far too hard and have a mountain of reports the size of the unfinished building work at stadium:mk to get through. Right now I'm sitting in the departmental office having promised myself I'm about to start writing Year 5 and Year 6, and accordingly am therefore...

Hi all I've booked tickets on the train from Oxford to Exeter on Saturday with every intention of watching the game. However, yesterday afternoon I got asked to go on the school exchange trip to Tokyo instead, so I now have a first-class nonrefundable ticket each way that I won't be using. If...

About to set this to my Year 5 class. Enjoy.

"Four players then at Accrington - Jay Harris, David Mannix, Robert Williams and Peter Cavanagh - and Andrew Mangan, who was at Bury, have been charged. The five have been charged with betting on a victory for Accrington's last game of last season at home to Bury. All five face serious...

So, it's that time of the season again. The time when we start to get our calculators out and we begin to wonder about chance, probability and stochastic independence (well, that last one might just be me). I figured that it wouldn't be long before Lammie started nagging me about numbers - and...

Getting the headmaster of the largest prep school in England to wear an ECFC baseball cap during Assembly.

Right, bear with me. I've just been reminded that Monday morning is my turn to do the reading to the 200+ boarders we have at breakfast. Basically that is a 90-second slot which gets graced with a variety of allsorts. I was hoping that I would get away with waiting till the summer term when I...

There are 24 days of advent, and in this thread there will follow 24 windows. Behind each lies a picture with a hidden Exe-related meaning - ECFC, Exeweb or the City of Exeter, past or present. This year's theme is "Goodbye Conference: We're Back". Some of the windows that follow will hark...

My intention is to post at around 0700 tomorrow morning. However I am presently so horrendously ill that I may not even be able to breathe tomorrow morning, never mind get my arse out of bed, let alone post a typically witty cryptic piccy. Nonetheless, let me refresh you of the rules: There...

Time for the second coming, I reckon. To find out what I'm talking about, check here for last year's competition. Same rules as last year, and everything starts tomorrow morning :)