pro 12 rugby weekend

 

In the Rugby Union Ulster did not give there playoff hopes a good chance after loosing to Cardiff by 28 points to 23 but where they lost it was on the boot as Cardiff had 7 penalties and Ulster had 6. Cardiffs try came from Copeland while Ulster’s came from Darren Cane and it makes you think of what will happen on Saturday as they play in their Heineken cup quarter.

 

The legend did the job of putting Leinster over the winning post as Leinster won by 22 points to 18. Madigan hitting the penalties that assure Leinster go top and will probably get a home semi final

Ulster still have a good chance of reaching the play offs but I think they will play away  

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Friday

There have been a lot of games over the weekend which means that a lot of games have actual value and some have no value whatsoever.

West Indies Gale and Narine battle as they get Australia’s 178 in final over. Darren Sammy produced the most epic of cameos to give the West Indies a good chance in this match. Australia’s 178 was quite a big score and seemed to have the match sewn up and the West Indees needing a small miracle as they needed 31 of the last 2 over’s. But Sammy smashed Michel Stark for 19 in the penultimate over and sealed the win with successive sixes.

An impressive India stroll into the semi finals of the cricket world cup as Kola and Rani get half centuries

R Ashwin gatecrashes Amit Mishras party as Indea assured themselves a pot in the world cup semi finals. Bangledesh got 138 their highest total in the group phase. Rohit Sharma and |Virat Kohi being the stars of the match

Saturday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Netherlands showed what they could do in this match against New Zealand Brendan Mc Cullen helped himself to a 65 of 45 balls on this big day for New Zealand. They knocked off an impressive Dutch target of 152 with 6 balls to spare winning by 6 wickets. You can not ignore the 29 from Kane Williamson and the help from Ross Taylor. As the Netherlands went into bat first you did not see a good number coming as Martin Guptill fell early. With Van Beck going early also the Dutch seemed out before they started. The Cooper Boran partnership of 60m helped the Dutch to take control of their own fate but the all blacks showed why they were so good

De Villias puts South Africa into semi final as they knock England out of the world cup as he hits a 69 of 28 balls. De Villers hit every shot and made them quality shots which took control of the match. Amla made 56 of 37 balls and was dismissed quickly after by Quinton and Knock. Jade Dernbath who got the South Africans up for the game as he hit a quality 6. In Reply Micheal Lumb and Hales hit a 46. Eoin Morgan Kept hopes alive with a run a ball 14 Ravi Bopara hit a 31 to get England back into the match

Sunday

 

Pakistans 50 run victory set up a play off against the West Indies on  Tuesday Shenzead hit a 99 a world record as he kept hitting fours and sixes. Bangladesh had been fragile and had collapsed during this world cup The Pakistan team thought that this would be a good confidence builder and it was that easy. I would not look at the whole game as I feel that the quality of one mans performance was so good

 

After securing a place in the semi final on Friday India got top spot and some good momentum as they won all 4 of their group matches. Ravichandran Ashwin took 4 wickets from 11 balls. Yuvaj Singh seems to be out of form but his seem mats all seem to be on form around him but yesterday he put in a quality performance. Yuvaj hit 60 of 43 balls. Rohit fell in the first over. George Biley worked the bowlers around. Hodge was pulled through midwicket as this brought the end to Australia’s challenge. Watson ended all Australian hopes as he went for 16.  

31-3-14 the premiership title race

 

 

 

 

The premiere league race went Liverpool’s way this week first was Chelsea who lost 1-0 to Crystal Palace from an own goal from John Terry. It was a floating corner that came in and went off the leg of John Terry After that Chelsea manager Jose Morninho said that Chelsea were out of the title race but if that is true I feel it is a massive compliment to Man City.

 

 

Next was a 1-1 draw between Man city and Arsenal. In this game Man city had control of most of the first half the major point being Silva passing to Djecko at the side of the box. He shoots off the near post and hits Silvas shins. At half time you would not thing Arsenal would have a chance. Early in the second half Podolski gets the ball on the left and fires it into Fernandinho who slips which gives Flamini the chance to guide the ball into the left hand corner1-1 that was the shock that made Arsenal play.

 

 

 

 

 

   Liverpool showed that they had form on their side with a 4-0 win over Tottenham? Christen Ericjson fails to track Glenn Johnsons run and their low cross is turned into the Tottenham net by Tottenham player Kabul who made the error from his feet due to pressure from Daniel Sturidge. Liverpool goal 2 minutes. Dawson has a bad touch which leads Kabul into a mistake which lays the ball into  which leads Suarez on to score hiss 29th goal of the season beating Robbie fowlers record. Cortinho finds the space to score the third on 54 minutes that means that his game is over on 54 as he has too much space to run into and take the shot into the bottom corner. 54 min 3-0. An argument between Phil Doud and Dawson leads to the free kick which Henderson hits perfectly into the opposite corner.

 

I still feel that Man City are favourites for the title and Chelsea have a better squad than Liverpool but this sequence of results has definitely shortened Liverpool’s odds as now if Liverpool win ever game with the form that they are in they can I think that they have a good chance of winning the title but in my opinion Sunday week will be the biggest game of this season so far as Liverpool play man city at home win that and I think something an happen loose and no hope draw and nothing is decided.

 

cricket world cup blog 28-3-14

 

England kept their world cup hopes alive yesterday as the hero of the day Alex Hayles scored the first T20 century of his career. England were chasing down a total of 190 and won by six wickets with four balls to spare. England started horribly as Nuwan Kulasekara hit a double wicket madden. England were very unlock in the catching position also as they failed to catch simple balls. Hayles and Morgan had plenty of room to man over. Sri Lanka slowly got to grips with what they had to do. Both Hayles and Morgan were impressive in getting close to the target as they hit boundary after boundary. Morgan was then bowled out and that put pressure on hayles which he liked

 

This is not the performance that South Africa would have wanted as the only defeated the Netherlands by 6 wickets. But there bowling was quite impressive as the got the dutch out for 39 which showed that there bowlers are ready for anything. Hasam Amla was one of the main stars for South Africa

 

Qualifiers Bangladesh showed why they are qualifiers yesterday as they lost comfortably to the West Indees on Tuesday. Both teas seemed to be nervous from the start and it did not seem to like there would be a game here. Bandladesh bowlers fell one after another as Samuel Badree and Kishmar Santkoeand Dwane Bravo put in a catching master class. Battling Dwane smith mound some authority as he began to bat well. Gayle became an explosive batsman also. Bangladesh were a little bit useless in the field and showed that they were not going anywhere.     

28-3-14 tv blog

The Americans ITV sat 9.20 88 per cent

 

We get the chance here to see what the world was like in the 1959s. As we see Soviet spies join America and see what it is that they were meant to do. They also have a family which makes things tougher as they find it hard to balance both versions of their lives

Wander over yonder daily 4.15 disney xd 30 per cent

 

This is a very strange cartoon where anything seems to be able to happen but you do have your idiot character wander and your smart character called yonder it is quite funny as a cartoon   

The cheerleaders 4.30 daily cbbc 73 per cent

 

In this show we get he chance to see a bunch of cheerleaders and what it is that they have to do on a daily basis. We get to see the coaches as they stress out about everything and anything and we see the injuries that they have and how it effects them. We are able to focus on three of the biggest teams of the country.  

Elev8 4.00daily rte 2 82 per cent

 

Completely different show with a format that to me seems cool. There are 3 different presenters who talk about different topics on different days one day is sport and the sports quiz and another they talk about nature  on different days and they also have good games like parents under pressure and how much does my best friend know.

The centre rte2 mon 10.00 rte2 50 per cent

 

The centre is a show where the show we get the chance to see how people are at work. In one most recent episode the boss had problems with a woman who was too assertive and seemed almost aggressive and how this worked made it look very funny.

Second captain live rte 2 11pm sat  99 per cent

Possibly one of the strongest sports shows on tv at the moment. First they talk to the stars of the show the sports people themselves. They then try to ask the question who is the greatest ever sports players to come from Ireland

Revolution sky 1 10pm 77 per cent

 

In this show we get the chance to see what life would be like if we went back to the olden days where there is no electricity. |In this show we get the chance to focus in on. One group with the lady who thinks she can fix the problem but at the start they need someone to fight with and from there they try to save the world but others do not want that to happen as they want control but the can get light in the dark through some odd thing

24/3/14 midweek soccer blog

 

 

On Tuesday Man City defeated Man United 3-0 yesterday but I thought that Man united would put up a performance to win the title and if another team is to win the title you have to ask where they will drop points. But it could have been a lot worse for Man United and this makes you think where United are going.2 goals from Djeko very early in the match the match actually the first minute and one just after half time. Yaya Toure scored a goal at the end to make the result more comfortable than the game seamed

 

In the other side of the coin is Arsenal who must win there match on Saturday after drawing with Swansea by a last minute own goal Toni got the only goal of the first half Podolski scoring and Gioud scoring in succession. Flamini scored an own goals on the last minute which made this an Arsenal draw

Everton could now get the fourth position through catching Arsenal with a 3-0 win over Newcastle goals from Gareth Barry the only one of the first half. Lukaku scoring just after half time meant that the came was over

 

On Wednesday Liverpool kept up the pressure on Wednesday with a 2-1 win over Sunderland. Liverpool led two nil with a goal from Daniel Sturidge just after half time and a free kick from what should have been a penalty just before half time. Ki scored on 76 to give Sunderland a chance

BLOG 3 MUSIC CONCERT

LEAVING CONCERT

 

This is where the problems I thought would occur but everything ran smoothly and we were able to walk down to our car without waiting and with there being so many people in my stand I found that to be quite impressive

I would mark a 9

 

DRIVING UP

This is more to do with me and being autistic than anything else and of how I am. I felt very happy and talked a lot and I was ok in what I said and how things were being said.

DRIVING HOME

On the way back I went a bit quiet and the things I did say I feel were a little bit stupid and I am still not completely straight from that the morning after. I did play the game as I feel that I was talking pointlessly and not to the point

TRYING TO GET HEAD STRAIGHT ON WAY BACK

It is settling down now but at the same time it has not left me since I have come home and I needed time to settle down before I went to sleep. Going from place to place is a thing that I would do but I can not remember it like this

CROWD

It was not a capacity crowd but when they were asked to sing they did and it was a good crowd in that way but there were a lot of 12 year old girls which seems to be the crowd number for the boy band

 

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BREAKS

 

 

I did feel that some of the breaks when the lights went up and we were sitting there did not help in any major way. I feel that this stopped the rhythm of the music and I feel that the Vamps at least could have filled that spot up with a couple of songs that they had set up but they were not there. There was too much of a gap for toilet breaks and the Wanted seemed to just wait at a few places and some people seemed to want to leave before the encore

I would mark breaks as a 3

 

LIGHTS OR FLASHING

I was not fussed at all with the light coming in and out from the side as sometimes it meant that I could not concentrate but one good thing about the lights was when I it went dark and people had there phones up I felt that was quite beautiful there was no sign of epilepsy from it at all  It looked quite beautiful

I will mark that dons as a 3

SOUND

It was very loud and it made me feel it in my ear even though I was quite far away I know that it is so the people in the back could hear but I still should not be able to feel it in my ear drum the next morning

I will mark it a 2

FILING IN

There was not any problem with filing in as people came in, in dribs and drabs which meant that there was no one else there. If I compared to a sports match where everyone comes in at once it was not like that in the slightest

 

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ELYJA FOX

One of the main things that he was trying to do was get someone backstage during his set through tweeting. Other than that I quite liked him. I thought that I had heard of him from somewhere but I could not place him. I enjoyed his set and I feel that going through the Justin Beeber way (putting videos online) seems to be the way to go at the moment.  I quite liked the music that I have heard

 I would mark him a 7  

THE VAMPS

I tended to recognise a couple of their songs and I quite liked what they were singing. One huge negative was I think that they were trying to be too Irish in mentioning that they had a crush on one of the boys and at the end of their set they sung Cecilia. I feel that they should have been able to stand up on there own.

I would give them a 5

 

THE WANTED

FIRRST HALF

 

They were ok in the first half as their songs went and some of them I did not recognise as I felt that the music was unrecognisable but there were a lot of them and most of them were singing at certain bits.

SECCOND HALF

I did like the second half but I did feel that for the clueless the encore was not the right way to go. As they got into the second half of the music I began to recognise the songs and they made the point to put the big ones at the end. I am not sure if that is right on the weekends as the most of the people will have to go to school in the morning

I will give them an 8

WANTED SHORT VIDEOS

I quite like how the videos put everything together and how it made everything run smoothly in certain pieces. But I do think that blocking out the fans individual moments was not the right thing to do as every fan has that moment when they believe and loved them. I also liked Elija Foxes shot videos also

I personally liked the videos as they made me want to pay attention

 

 

 

cricket world cup t20 2014

Sri lanka showed that they have potential yesterday as they reduced the Netherlands to only 40 runs. Trimm Van Gutgan hit out the first ball Kusal hitting 14 the most from a dutch batsman Peter Selar and Asam Melak scored the runs needed to win the match

The other Semi final was a lot closer as South Africa beat New Zealand by two runs. South Africa were put into bat and got an average score thanks to Fu De Plessis the captain who returned from having a hamstring injury. Amla never got stuck as he consistently hit ones and two. Duminy then decided to become a lot stronger and change. South Africa’s team ran on the individual when New Zealand worked as a team Guptill one of there stars only made 22 of 57 balls. Williamson took a half century off 31 balls and they looked strong at this time. South Africa got what they needed as Williamson and De Villiars were knocked out very close together  

25-03-14 music blog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my first record of a music blog that I am doing as I am going to the wanted farewell concert tonight as my first ever concert. I do love listening to music in a big way. People that I would like to listen to are bands like Katy Perry Beyonce or Boyzone.

In my opinion the singer, song and video should be judged separately but right now they are judged as one so here I go

 

I do like One direction with the story of my life which I will mark as a 7 I will mark the video an 8 the song a 7 and the video a 7. I would also listen to songs like timber 8  the song I will give a 9.5 the video a 6 as it makes no sense and the singer a 7 which I will rank the whole thing  an 8. I also like lady gaga applause which I will mark a 9 out of 10 The song a 10 the video a 8 but this is lady gaga so I have to bring her up and the artist an 8.5 .And also counting stars one republic I will mark the video a 5 as it makes no sense the song an 8 and the singer a 7 an average of 7.

 

I am very into up tempo music and a quality ballad I am not into heavy music but I would listen to most music in  the charts at the moment and I will try to listen to any of your music quickly and say if I like it. I am definitely a different type of audience as I am very happy to stay in my own house and watch tv.

 

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To Kieran

Are you a Chelsea fan yourself you do realise that right now Chelsea has got less control of the title race between Liverpool and man city. Anything can still happen and with what has happened this season probably will. But I think that it will be won or lost at Anfield as Liverpool have to play both Man City and Chelsea at home and a good win for either team I feel will win it.

Barry Jordan

SOPRTS REPORT 24/03/14

BOXING

In Saturdays boxing Kid Galahad had complete control over Jazza Dickens as in my opinion he won every round and looked to be in complete control to win the European title. I would give him a good shot at the world title.

 

CELTIC LEAGUE

In the Celtic league on Saturday Ulster won on Saturday but it was not that interesting a match. Munster did not manage to get a bonus point win over Treviso which I think will be very important in the running. Leinster did not get the bonus point at home against Zebre where every point will count in the celtic league you might not know how important this is. With the heniken cup coming up in a couple of weeks every win matters

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FOOTBALL TITLE RACE

I feel that things have to be said about Arswen Wrenger and this being his 1000^th match as Arsenal coach. He started with Arsenal in 1996 when he took over from a George Graham squad and managed to get it to be getting a lot better. His big achievement was breaking an English record and going a whole season unbeaten. Right now he believes in the youth system that he has helped to set.

The match itself was a bit of a distaste what do I mean a bit as Arsenal was destroyed loosing by 6 goals to 0 and having the wrong man being sent off. With Etoo and Shurrle getting goals on 5 and 7 minutes then getting the wrong man sent off and Hazzard hitting a penalty and Kieran Gibs being sent off when it should have been Oxle Chamberline and then Oscar getting two one just before and after half time. With Sahah also scoring this will be a night Arenal will want to forget.

Liverpool put the pressure on with a 6-3 win over Cardiff with wwhat was known as the SaSAs partnership. The main man being Luis Suarez as he scored 3 with Skirtle scoring 2 and Sturarez scoring 1 goal on Saturday but they were 1-0 and 2-1 down in the first half and it was very worrying for Liverpool supporters.

 

Man City showed exactly what they were as Yaya Toure scored a hat trick from 2 penalties to secure Man City a 5-0 but it was only 1-0 at half time. Fernandinho and Demichelis getting goals at the end of the game to put a shine on the shoreline. The game itself looked quite comfortable

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CRICKET WORLD CUP

In the world cup of cricket yesterday over the weekend starting on Friday where India defeated the West Indies by 7 wickets. India do not normally start well but in this competition it appears that they are ready for anything. Virat Kohli hit 54 off 41 balls. There were 2 main men who stared on Friday for India Bhuvnshwar Kumar and the spin twins Amit Mishra and Rashwin and the quality of Rohit Sharma

In the second match of the pool stages Pakistan beat Australia by 16 runs. Pakistan had an awesome innings thanks to help from Umar Akmal Glenn Maxwell. Pakastasn came in with 191-5 with an awesome 54 from Umar. Maxwell left early which gave Pakistan hope Zufiqar Baber got his arm going which helped them in a big way.

 

There was thunder and lightning and bad weather which stopped this match New Zealand beat England on DL method Brendan Mc Cullan was one of the men on show as New Zealand beat England by 9 runs and this will make things a lot trickier for England as they try to make the play offs Alex Hayles was taken out very early and this make things difficult for them

 

Sri Lanka beat South Africa by 5 runs On the back of Kusal Perras 65 Sri Lanka took control of this match. South Africa felt the force where the ball skidded and turned out nicely  Angelo Mathews set and allowed others to attack which did not make too much sense but did take the slower bowlers with ease.

 

India beat Pakistan by 7 wickets Bowlers kept Pakistan to 130-7 to seal a 7 wicket win with 9 balls to spare. This was a game where the bowling was a lot stronger than the batting. Amit Mishra R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja were the stars of this tie. Small targets can normally be trick but Indea should not have worried