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Listed below are comments made by phantlers between Wednesday, 4th June 2008 and Thursday, 14th May 2009.

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Caption competition 01:08am on 14 May 2009 The dishwasher installation instructions had lost something in translation.
Deeside Leisure Centre rebuild, Wrexham woes and other links [30-04-09] 11:40am on 02 Apr 2009 The current plight of Deeside's senior football club at Connah's Quay highlights the need for a municipal football stadium in the area. There are several locally based football clubs with youth sides and academies who might progress through the leagues but end up in Nomads' invidious position of being unable to play in the Welsh Premier League through dint of their not having adequate facilities - even the athletics ground at Deeside College falls short of the minimum numbers of seats to meet the UEFA standard.

The development at Park Hall, Oswestry where TNS have a synthetic pich built next to a new leisure centre, open to the public when they are not playing provides a useful model in how these complementary facilities can be successfully integrated. Given the scale of the remodelling, and that synthetic pitches are already planned, it wouldn't take much more infrastructure (pitchside seating, spectator cover for up to 3,500) to provide that would also be adaptable to other sports, e.g. hockey and that might become a standard model across Wales - something even the county planners could be proud of.

The regular television and press exposure of the football club would provide a regular advert for the whole venue and the ground could be shared by any of the local sides that make it into the top flight - a great incentive for the other teams like Aston Park Rangers, Shotton Steel and others playing a few divisions below senior level, as well as a fitting venue for Deeside's many finals at junior and amateur level.

I find it disappointing that this sort of development isn't on the drawing board from the very start. Deeside and Flintshire's long history of youth football leagues, Saturday and Sunday leagues prove that there is a significant and long established interest in football in the area and this is an opportunity to provide something relevant to local interests that will stimulate local pride in the community and provide a focus for local people's excellence and achievements.
Newsnight & Newsnight Review: Friday, 27 March, 2009 00:33am on 28 Mar 2009 "Bitter and twisted are just two words that ... describe Brian Clough"

Really Kirsty? Can't say I've ever heard them used to describe him.

How about a couple to start you off on how to describe tonight's Review?

"Crass" and "underinformed" spring rather easily to mind.

Bring back Morley, Paulin and Myerson, even the latter might have had some more intelligent and informed opinion on any of the subjects under discussion tonight than the three stooges you had in the studio in what was one of the worst, least enjoyable episodes I have ever seen. Half an hour or so of my life that I might have been better off spending out walking the dog.

I do not have a dog.
Your favourite buildings 6:12pm on 04 Jun 2008 I've put some pictures of one of Deeside's (and Flintshire's) finest buildings up on my flickr site, along with some images from around the same (Hawarden Bridge, 2 trains e/w daily!) location:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47608373@N00/

phantlers@hotmail.com

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