My tap out - Monday, 10th

hey lords and ladies of London.
I'm off up north next week, moving to Sheffield innit. so I'm having my tap out is Monday. please show yourself.

thanks.

Matt

in

Everyone is jumping ship, soon there will be no one left in London.

In.

North or South?

Gotta be Mitch, Matt gets a nosebleed at Newington.

I'll tap out with Dale and Erin for you down under matey.

Happy trails, hope it works out for you.

Where, what time?

I'm in..your going down!

You're in his what going down?

I extend an early welcome to the land of SoYo

i intend to drag myself down.

heh! yeah, mitch i think. 6 ish. i'm gonna head there from work.
thank you one and all.
soyo-polo-a-go-go.

who are you matt?
im paul based in mcr. not cosmic matt are you?

Nope definitely not Cosmic Matt,

Baddesigner only plays once a week

ah right. show us a picture of him..!

matt youre welcome in mcr when you have the time. can lend you a mallet if you need

edit: i see you have a mallet, but using a fixed gear? thats real retro polo

what sort of notice is this matt? Pah, you'll probably not make it anyway. :)

what? me? no way.

Nope definitely not Cosmic Matt,

Baddesigner only plays once a week

you couldn't handle any more of me.

@chucklebruv - proper old school since '07, innit. the fixed archie is in the shed with the freewheel kona. it might make another appearance. we probably met in mancs already, i was at both the last years tourneys.

matt is the first person (and stelle) i met from the forum @ the 2007 bike polo tournament in dear old brick lane. What initially looked like a intimidating bunch, was washed away when he smiled and started to chat to me. Mathew the 'ice breaker' baddesigner.

I've never met Matt at polo but in 1996 I was in hospital in Aberdeen, laid up with gout. The pain was indescribable. One night I was lying there, unable to sleep, sweating and beginning to think that even death would be preferable to another day of big toe related misery.
Just then a young lad wandered in to my room. Small, tousle haired and with a cherubic grin. He spoke not a word. Rather he silently approached the bed and very gently touched my agonised toe. At once the pain vanished. Before I could even grasp what had happened the lad had vanished.
Many years later I was browsing this forum and saw a picture of Matt. I looked at that face, that hair and that grin. I realised straight away that I was looking at someone I had seen before. The man I was looking at had exposed himself to me on Platform 6 at Victoria station two years previously.
I never did find out what happened to the boy from the hospital.

Going to do my damndest to get to this.
My actual time in London this trip has been about 3 days so far so no weekends have been possible.
Hope to catch up with the LPC tonight.

If anyone can FIX me up with a bike for a few games that would be great.

Hassan - I have your dough.
Dave Hills - I have your angle grinder.

JOL

Hey Matt, Not gonna be able to make tonight but good luck with the move up north and have a great tap-out... x

A friend is moving in to my house tonight so I won't be able to hang about. I'll drop in to say goodbye though.