Hi from the Stukeley Defenders

Hi to everyone.

We are the Stukeley Defenders and we are a father and son team; I’m Martin and Neil is my co-driver , our crew hands are Neil’s 10 year old son Jake and my 10 year old son, Matthew. We have entered my Land Rover Defender TD5 and are keen to put it through its paces in the Rally.

We are all over the moon to be involved with next years Rally. We are hoping to raise as much money as possible. We look forward to meeting you all in due course. Happy fund raising.

Welcome to the madhouse. Glad to see we've got another

Advice- Don't listen to the organisers

Tony

Thanks Tony

But why?

Quote :

Advice- Don't listen to the organisers

Our 'Kind,caring,trusty,helpful,considerate etc etc etc organisers'( their words !!) do have a habit of misleading and arranging for the goalposts to be moved at any opportunity. :lol!

Allegedly !!

Indeed I shall key my eye on that LOL.....thank you

tonic wrote:

Our 'Kind,caring,trusty,helpful,considerate etc etc etc organisers'( their words !!) do have a habit of misleading and arranging for the goalposts to be moved at any opportunity. :lol!

Allegedly !!

Only the goalposts???? I have seen the whole pitch moved on occasion.

martb wrote:

Thanks Tony

But why?

Quote :

Advice- Don't listen to the organisers

Admin: 20 points off for listening to Tony

General Confusion wrote:

Only the goalposts???? I have seen the whole pitch moved on occasion.

Oh great, the goalposts were bad enough. Where the fe¢k am i going to find a whole inflatable pitch?

Quote :

Admin: 20 points off for listening to Tony

This feels alot like "down and give me 10 press ups" until I switch on. Whats the impact and how many points is it going to cost.......?

Hi, to the madhouse

Mark Avo wrote:

General Confusion wrote:

Only the goalposts???? I have seen the whole pitch moved on occasion.

Oh great, the goalposts were bad enough. Where the fe¢k am i going to find a whole inflatable pitch?

Martin - Suffice it to say that a penalty of 20 points is nothing; if fact it means you are currently in 1st place

You will find one or two devious teams taking part in the rally who will try and mislead you about your caring, kind, helpful, considerate, compassionate and understanding organsiers. It is a tactic they will employ under a guise of being friendly in the hope you'll be penalised - one to watch is Tonic

As for goalposts - your caring, kind, helpful, considerate, compassionate and understanding organsiers were kindly presented with some inflatable ones by the crews at the rally prize giving in June. Not that we ever move any goalposts!!! Regrettably they were sabotaged by the rally children at the P'boro LRO show (when I say sabotaged, it cost me 2 bags of sweets, 4 bottles of lemonade and a large pack of crisps )

Thanks for the clarification ...Now I plan to come in last...a habit I'm afraid being Ex REME and always bring up the rear. But there will be no slacking in the fund raising.





Admin: Extra 20 points deduted and committee out on the bringing up the rear

evo4x4 wrote:

You will find one or two devious teams taking part in the rally who will try and mislead you about your caring, kind, helpful, considerate, compassionate and understanding organsiers. It is a tactic they will employ under a guise of being friendly

Martin,

Please when reading the above statement from the MANAGEMENT bear in mind what all of us team members have said regarding the honesty and reliability of statements from such individuals in places of authority.



Either way great to have you on board, and as a member of the RAMC, I too am used to bringing up the rear. (Medically speaking of course )

So.......who's making the tea.

Another little tip for you.

All the penalty points issued by the management are calculated at the end of the day/event
What you need to remember is that its the marshals ( the unsung heroes of the event) that will be ticking your boxes during the days.
On that note please remember that Pies make Prizes. We can get very peckish sitting in dark lay byes waiting for you to appear and the odd offer of a Pie (sweet or savoury but pork is best) will rarely be a wasted effort on your part.

Sweets and or other such things also greatfully received but Pies are best

Of course I'm not suggesting bribery in any way shape or form as (im told) that is now unacceptable.

Just thought....
Whilst in the low countries, any offers of the local delicacies looking much like deep fried brown slop will not help your cause in the least. Deep fried brown slush is bad news to all apart from Management (senior) who seems to quite like the stuff.
Chips are OK but easy on the mayo for gods sake!

Mark. Know what you mean
"Whilst in the low countries, any offers of the local delicacies looking much like deep fried brown slop"
Whilst in Brugges last weekend, was persuaded to try a local delicacy- stewed rabbit Flemish style. Actually the brown slop tasted rather good but I did notice a distinct absence of cats

Hi and welcome

Deep fried brown slush is bad news to all apart from Management (senior) who seems to quite like the stuff.

It is this quality food that is the source of my wisdom

Martin - Continue to believe in the helpfulness, charm, kindness, understanding, listening, caring and sympathetic qualities of the rally organisers then you won't go far wrong.

You know you can trust us

Hi and Welcome

Did you manage to get the text donations sorted?

Kind regards
Melanie

Thank you all for your kind welcomes.

I'm not sure I'll try the deep fried brown slop

Quote :

Did you manage to get the text donations sorted?

Hi Melanie we are still looking at this as an option...but general advice suggests its not that productive.

I can’t believe I lost more admin points …my co-driver is going to be well up set…oh well


Admin: -10 points, Not believing the admin

Have to agree with Martin on this - we are still looking at this as an option...but general advice suggests its not that productive.

We ran 2012 with the Text option and I think £25 went into the pot; yep of course every penny counts. We've tagged the same text ref onto 2013 simply on the basis it is another option - but don't hold your breathe re amount of funds donated.

To all Marshals: the disruptive tactics between driver/co-driver appear to be working well

martb wrote:

........
...Now I plan to come in last...
........

Beware of this tactic, there are some devious people around who will try to scupper your plan.

There you go Martin - NOW do you believe me?

I'm not sure I believe anyone I havetosay....but I'm sure i'm going to enjoy myself.

more admin points lucky old me

Anyway we've raised £55 so far and sure we we will make much in the coming months...