Well done, Brydan

Great start

but following earlier character assasination for being overly positive please which isn't appropriate for a discussion forum tone it down folks

Oakland2002 wrote:

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Indi we are all entitled to an opinion, you apear to me a pint half empty type of guy. we are all made dofferently and it would be dull if we all had the same opinions and enjoy reading yours. I know the days are drawing in over the boarder and as they say "winters coming"! I do feel you may have missed the big picture

Andy Murray is the face of British Tennis

End of 2013 Andy has career threatening spinal surgery not good?
2014 inspired choice of female coach (but not without risk) "lets sack Amelie thread emerges on forum"
Recovers rehabilitates works his way back into top 10 makes London at the end of year after some trendous performances in ATP 250/500 (element of moaning thorough year, not peforming, " will never get back to his best etc" )
2015 quality performances on all surfaces rewarded by first Major ATP win on clay back to No2 in the world. " Amelie receives plaudits another first elite men's tennis coach takes maternity leave.

Mr Bendene 2014 expresses desire to become British
2015 Britain has a new number 2 in the top 100

2014 Mr Ward puts together a decent run of performances becomes first Brit to qualify for RG since Aberdeen were a force in European football
2015 manages lifetime aspiration of becoming top 100 player

2014 Kyle becomes a dominant ITF force early in the year, gets a taster of elite level tennis (much to the disgust of some folks). moves up to challenger level and establishes himself

2015 becomes a dominant force at challenger level qualifies for GS in Aus and RG, winning a thrilling first round encounter, gets his rank to a level where qualifying may be a thing of the past

liam 2014 ITF getting beaten by Mitchel Franks but decent run, nails autumn challenger

2015 not great but almost gets through qualifying at Aussie open and excels at Wimbledon 

dan Evans 

2014 injured 

2015 comes back from 5/0 down to beat Daniel Taro as makes promising come back after being written off as likely to whither and die on tread mill

2014 Davis cup not bad

2015 Better 

 

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Tuesday 25th of August 2015 06:26:44 PM

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There is a quote from the Ilkley Challenger thread that appears apt here.

"70 to 80 years ago there was a chap in Germany called Goebbels. He was pretty good when it came to propaganda, but even he had nothing on this".

It's not really what you have mentioned, a lot of good stuff there to be sure, but like similarly in 2014 what you have not mentioned.

The quote ? - oh, that was directed at me by RJA with regards to a pretty long post with various figures indicating that I thought the British guys were on the whole having a good grass court season. By the way, missing your contributions to the forum, RJA.

See, I am for seeing positives ( I won't bore with other examples ), even in perhaps arguable cases, I'd say not a half empty guy, but rather a guy whose glass doesn't seem constantly overflowing however much is drunk from it. 

Where I certainly agree, Oakland, is life would be dull if we all had the same opinions and I think we generally have a cracking range on here. Good to have you here, though I still don't know who you're trying to sell some of your stuff to. I'm not buying