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Old 27th August 2008   #1351
skoota
 
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who is coming to peckham tonight? We havent been dogging in ages?
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Old 27th August 2008   #1352
hamster
keen!
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Old 27th August 2008   #1353
Object
 
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Out tonight I'm afraid. I've ridden into work on the BMX just to prove I could.
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Old 27th August 2008   #1354
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youre a cunt im back!
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Old 27th August 2008   #1355
Object
 
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Thank fuck. I've been lost with out you. Never leave me again. You cunt.
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Old 27th August 2008   #1356
Shinscar
 
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Unfortunately, im out too got a bday thing to go to.
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Old 27th August 2008   #1357
dt
i'm down
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Old 27th August 2008   #1358
Lebowski
I might make the effort and get down tonight. What time you getting there?
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Old 27th August 2008   #1359
skoota
 
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7.30
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Old 27th August 2008   #1360
jonny
 
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i can't skoota. am looking forward to the return of peckham and will be showing in the future. but tonight there is this thing
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Old 27th August 2008   #1361
stelle
I turn my back and suddenly you create stelle rash porn?! sickos.
for that I'm going to come and show you how I roll. Probably literally.

No more vauxhall?
Peckham? I'll be there about 8.30 after I've seen that man with the dog.
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Old 27th August 2008   #1362
hamster
bump! see you 730ish.
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Old 27th August 2008   #1363
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i'm down and in.
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Old 28th August 2008   #1364
skoota
 
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good to see you all last night. peckham is so different to other spaces, its strange playing under a roof again.
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Old 3rd September 2008   #1365
skoota
 
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I won't be making it tonight doooods, too much work going on, do try to get along without me.
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Old 10th September 2008   #1366
skoota
 
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bumpbumpbump come on you lot, the NE thread is taking the piss out of this for no one posting....
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Old 10th September 2008   #1367
Object
 
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Sorry dude. It's all about the North today. Come beat me at birthday polo fun. You know you want too.
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Old 10th September 2008   #1368
dt
don't think i can make it tonight, might be pulling another late one at work :(
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Old 10th September 2008   #1369
skoota
 
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Hey man happy birthday! Are you playing somewhere lit?
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Old 10th September 2008   #1370
skoota
 
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this is bloody woeful. Jonny moved, trevor rides small bikes, Tom? Sheep? Ali and Jo gone east, Aidan won't go without dt, I've worked the last couple of weeks. Hamster turns up but it's always a surprise. Stelle is a part timer too... I'm heartbroken, what the hell has gone on? We have an amazing court, that is warm, dry, lit and no fucker uses it anymore, come on guys lets get it together or at least get some new blood coming...

:(
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Old 10th September 2008   #1371
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go east now... theyll be there!!! go go!!
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Old 10th September 2008   #1372
skoota
 
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As much as i appreciate the gentle shove my friend it is not the point.
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Old 10th September 2008   #1373
frankenbike
B,its lee,got bike probs at the mo so no polo for me but i pointed john in the direction of north court if your going up there, and we need to sort south out,people gettin slack
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Old 10th September 2008   #1374
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I'm exactly the new blood you're after.. I live about a minute away from the peckham carpark and am keen to give polo a try..

Unfortunately, I'm not there today.. soon though!
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Old 10th September 2008   #1375
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id come but since the shitty new polo on the other side of the river started weave lost all the people who used to come to south polo. they could of at least respected that south polo was on Wednesday and done there polo thing on another day
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Old 11th September 2008   #1376
rik
 
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you right in that one Max, I will try to star coming to south from next week
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Old 11th September 2008   #1377
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yeah Max...you're right. we need more commitment.what was that thing Gandhi
said?..."we must be the change we wish to see". thats it :D
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Old 11th September 2008   #1378
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The thing is, we don't have a set day to play. There have been weeks where we played everyday... It's no disrespect, just convenience.
Now that the days are getting shorter, I'm guessing you can expect more people down at the peckham carpark.
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Old 11th September 2008   #1379
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^^^ this is true...

[Home truths time]

the thing is this is going to be inevitable... When... and thats a big when, north of the river find a peckham equivalent. Im sure it'll get worse.(sad but tru)

IMO i think we need to find a central court covered, which brings the points of the compass together.

If any one wants to do a early evening recce. Let me know.

Shin
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Old 11th September 2008   #1380
Hops
I went to Peckham every week throughout the winter. I just couldn't be arsed to go to Vauxhall very often when it moved there for the summer evenings.

Wednesday + winter = Peckham
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Old 11th September 2008   #1381
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the very first line of this thread is "Hi guys / gals not wishing to steal thunder from the beloved brick lane court but.." there was a very good reason for this. Diversity is the key to keeping polo interesting, most of us southerners make the 10 or mile trek to brick lane or north london on thursdays, to see other people and to get in a different type of polo. Your floating game has managed to settle quite nicely on a wedsnesday when there was already a polo night. I'm not annoyed that polo is being played somewhere other than south london, people can do what they like and telling me to go east dosn't fix the south london polo scene/night. I just want to encourage more newbs to come and play, get people started this winter the way most of us did last winter. Brick lane isn't really conducive to rstarter' polo, because of all the hanging around there making it nervous for newbs. Peckham is very encouraging, fast and diversive. I'm perfectly happy to play polo somewhere central too, but THIS thread is about south london polo, so don't muddy the water. Peckham would like to see the likes of everyone grace it's beautiful and picturesque car park, but if you can't be arsed to put the miles in, fine just don't come on trying to make south london somewhere more northern. Lee mate good to see you on the thread. Wibble i'll look forward to meeting you. Hops winter = peckham = cookies. Mike tramps get your self a flip flop whilst you re-jig that bike fella, it'll help ENORMOUSLY.

edit: also dt, aidan, and hops made the effort to peckham from brockley almost every wednesday last winter. Dave brought 6 mallets everytime and the three of them are who most people should be thanking for supplying mallets and balls when no one else had any and skill that upped everyones game when no one else had any. Brockley to peckham isn't exactly 'just round the corner' but these guys should now have to go further north or central, because of other lazier people? Sorry but i think thats BS.

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Old 11th September 2008   #1382
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Skoota, don't tar us all with that brush. I love playing south, it is a different game and for me peckham in no more difficult than vauxhall. But you are right about people being lazy and sticking to the north east court, it's never been a defined day and we do play a lot of the nights of the week which inevitably means Wednesday as well, this is a shame and to be honest I see no way to fix it during the summer months.

But winter is a good time for the peckham court, Yesterday we played until 8 and it was already dark. I generally finish work just after 6 which means maybe an hour of polo at most by the time I get to the north east court. By October when the clocks change it'll be dark by the time I leave work, Peckham is the prefect solution as you can play until as late as people can be arsed.

You can't stop people being lazy but hopefully people will realise how god your facilities are when the polo league forces them to come south to play your homes games.
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Old 11th September 2008   #1383
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Skootz, I reckon once the winter sets in ppl will be back down cosy Pecks Cp.

I'll be down there not neccesarily fo Bike Polo but frontin some skillz instead - you dig? ; )
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Old 11th September 2008   #1384
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This is the death match conversation I stumbled into (and out of again, when you and Aidan threw me off the table) last night isn't it? As I mumbled last night, I'll revisit the polo in Peckham once the summer ends...
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Old 11th September 2008   #1385
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flatz i be diggin your skillz it'll help me learn up the wheelie n that and you can always borrow a bike if you want a game. Snowy, through you off? Asshole i buy you a beer and you didnt even sit with us. ;)
Emilie, i would never tar you or anyone else with the same brush, you have always made lots of effort and were one of the first and friendliest people i met at polo, any polo. x
peas.
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