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• Changes pay off as subs sink Petersfield

  By  Fleet-People at 11:00 on 13/08/10

  

  Ringwood Town 3, Petersfield 0 THREE second-half goals brought victory for Ringwood in the opening match of the new season. After a scrappy first-half and first 10 minutes of the second period, Ringwood made changes, with Howes and Bladen introduced for Hetherington and Brown. The changes made an immediate impact. Firstly a Clark corner was scrambled to safety on 66 minutes and then, on 70 minutes, came the breakthrough. Danny...

• Change happens, but not always for a logical reason

  By  Fleet-People at 08:00 on 13/08/10

  

  I’M all for change. Too many people get stuck in the past, clinging on to foregone times, harking back to the ‘good old days’ when life was so much easier and that much better. But you have to roll with the times. Technology improves, our environment alters and the way things appear change, not always for the better, but they change nonetheless. If we stood still forever, sewage would still be flowing along our...

• Impressive Welshmen shrug off early shock to give Shepton a lesson

  By  Fleet-People at 11:00 on 12/08/10

  

  Shepton Mallet 1 Merthyr Town 5 Shepton Mallet’s campaign got off to the worst possible start as they were trounced at home by Western League newcomers Merthyr Town. The game was always likely to be a stiff test for Shepton. Owing to administration problems, the Welsh club dropped out of the Zamaretto Premier Division to join the lower division of the Western League, changing their name from Merthyr Tydfil AFC. ...

• Chalk aiming to sail round world

  By  Fleet-People at 10:00 on 12/08/10

  

  OCEAN rower Simon Chalk is one of two British skippers chosen to compete in the Velux 5 Oceans round-the-world single-handed yacht race. South Devon record-breaker Chalk, who became the first Briton to row solo across the Indian Ocean in 2003, will go head to head with an international fleet of skippers in the 30,000-mile solo race. Fellow Brit Chris Stanmore-Major will also compete in the race, which starts from La Rochelle in...

• Cornishman watersports round-up: August 12

  By  Fleet-People at 09:00 on 12/08/10

  

  Angling NEWS FROM MOUNT’S BAY ANGLING SOCIETY: July was another good month for MBAS members with, incredibly, two new club records from the shore and three new club records from the boats, Starting with the shore fish, there were a total of six specimens for the seniors. The top four fish were all thin lip mullet and James Spires got the fish of the month with his new shore record, weighing 3-6-1 (150.174%). In second...

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