This is an actual documentary.

😂

100% with you there. did you see how he went for the buckfoot in the right schwig on the board?! that's how they played it back then. there was excitement and elegance! and then they had the courage to go red, greens and yellow to finish it off the next round. unimaginable in today's plays!

Yes, yes, the olden days were always the better, weren't they? @Flutterdash already said setting the focus on the early doors is an understandable change and in fact I say it's a necessary change. With players like McLeod or Farnsworth you can't hope to win with the first greens before making an odd glouster.

Oh look at that graceful frigid on the grass there! Reminds me of Gullfords 1985-double grass-game. Indeed the olden days had its elegancy and it's diligent focus on triffles and strokes with one for two each time around, and that we must not forget. Yet the game clearly evolves in a more paceful manner with Mulroneys bold tactics and drastric measures in accordance with the more frequent use of early doors and the more modern aspects of the fringes. I really don't know what future holds for this game guys.

Thing is though, it’s just wasn’t safe back then. Yes, bloody well entertaining and and more theatrical. But just too many hoops were lost in those days. I think think it’s a good balance between keeping hoops but still fringing. I do get what you mean though.

Sir Bennett needs an a sportsman award named after him. He was such a great role model.

Among us?!

The funny thing is as a South African I follow cricket and still have no idea if this is real or not.

@@GtheMVP Cheer up chap, he's in the house of Lords now, or was that his brother Biffy?

@@RS-zt5zji’m Dutch, and remember ages ago seeing this while zapping on tv. Didn’t know Jiskefet (which was a popular satirical program) was on, and watched wondering which sport this could be. Took me a while to realise it was parody.

As a Canadian, I feel that I’ve missed out on sport that I could have made a name for myself.

Its all in the ballet of competition.

Yes, indeed Mulrooney!

Looking very confident there..

My grandson suggested that anything can look good when it's all done with CGI. I called his mother to come pick him up. A week later, he and his mother got back on my good side by giving me THE ring that Gale Nesbit won the Berchtesgaden Invitational with.

Beautiful partnership by arsely and bumsworth.

yes... it was great how they were able to be humourous at the same time as displaying some excellent fringing

Almost perfect fringing and just in the nick of time.

We (the Dutch) and the English have a certain similarity in our humour. John Cleese could have made this film. Ridiculization and Irony is always within a certain credibility. There are a lot of quips about the Dutch in your language. This is a nice evidence about our mutual humour. A TV interview with John Cleese. For 80% in English. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8d-rc2ZlrDIm6c.html&ab_channel=HH

Joyfully done!

'toast' is partially incinerated bread. 'Bread' is.....

Yes, this is it. I can't stop watching, tears on cheek

If I'm not mistaken, he may have wiggled TWO rambies that day!

Tony Q. King Oh yes of course, how stupid of me. I stand corrected

Did you know that Jimbo has gone into retirement now?

PurpleChicken.TV a cracking shame, innit? those were the days. word around the lawn is they may ban wiggling all together!

Breg All very good, but we don’t do the “Junior”, “Senior” “3rd, 4th etc. Sort of labels you as a Yank.

The fringington sylford is really something

You know? After three quarts at this intensity, I'd be a rag doll.

Best comment this side of the internet.

😂

For the love of the game.

narcoleptic (the voices), haha!

Oh yes, that second wittleflub! I don't think that was ever topped.

Unforgettable!

What red-blooded Englishman could EVER forget, indeed Sir!🧐

How he managed to stay onside with that double-edged pringet is still mind-boggling to this day!

Best comment.👏👏😁

damn I just realized I was trying to figure out the rules too.

Same

Absolute game- changer!

I've watched it so many times, and yet I still can't believe how triffled that smooth grass kissing fringe was. Oh the talent! This sport never ceases to amaze me. Only the best can perform like that.

Absolutely. Their trying to eliminate doors in Mar Manes. That's the rumor, anyhow.

You sir, know what you are talking about. Thanks for this great insight.

how about that traffold after the footswip?

They also made a great one in the style of German crime shows. Especially one called Derrick for being sooooo slow (in the 90s). Opening shot is seeing a Mercedes going onto a parkinglot that is empty, but it takes like over a minute to get it on a good parking spot. They didn't know much German, so they improvised half Dutch half German words.

Oh, it was a parody on Tatort (crimescene) and called it Tampert, the Mercedes is a BMW too, my memory :( But maybe it was still based on the other show(s) being around and like we had BBC1 and 2 in a standard cable package, we also got a bunch of German channels airing these at night. Here's that parody: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNKCn9uetq-wqIE.html

Derrick en Tatort was verplicht in de 70s.

I'm always a bit superstitious about this. I never like to go yellow in low play. It's just a quirk I have.

​@@dadsongs I think that's a healthy superstition.

@@dadsongs It’s because at low level play we mess up our traffolds. Having low yellows kills the board if lawn play is not up to par. Only fools imitate the pro’s, we say at our club in Hawkswick.

ShadowWhelp True. Executed with the same idiotic self-importance of golf or cricket. The whisper is the key.

Best part of it is that they're Dutch :)

I like how they swap the pipe around between them, implying that the pipe smoking is actually part of the sport somehow.

The commentary is from a real cricket match.

Yess...

Like a lot of their work most of it was probably improvised on the spot. That gave their sketches a very natural and exciting feel, you never knew what was going to happen and you could tell they were trying their hardest not to burst out in laughter most of the time.

Like test cricket it probably took more than an afternoon!

Imagine the blooper reel.. There are blooper scenes from other sketches on here I believe. Debiteuren/Crediteuren was an office parody. Also very funny.

He makes it look easy

I need to agree.

heh heh Mulroney

I say! Those chaps, with their nerves of steel, could have jolly well sent the ruddy Bosch packing at Dunkirk! Or had they been with Nelson, bashing the froggies at Trafalgar! Even with General Gordon at Khartoum! It would have been the Mahdis that lost their heads!

Tony Q. King You're a better man than I Gungadin

Yes, yes but what a kerfuffle! I would have gone for the Marlborough handshake toppled with a strike of four, holding the racket on top, this opens up the greens as to oppose a possible piglet run.

Ezyasnos you tried

brilliant

In true English fashion, we'd lose at our own sport we invented

@@cr1pps - That's ok, we'll just invent another one we can lead the world in until somebody else figures out how to play it. We've been doing it for centuries, old boy - that's the real 'game'.

With hopefully a referee that doesn't make questionable decisions as in the Euros semi final 2024.

Great idea. The game should last for weeks with scores like 1645-56 and everybody taking it very serious but no clue what they are doing.

Sign of genius.

I can do that shit.

Yeah, thank god for that.

Couldn't do that when I was stitcher from Rainpool (circa 1997). I know people hate to hear all that "back in the day" foolishness. But, if they caught you swiping, even with your foot, you'd take a tarney and hope for a blind alley!

It's becoming more popular since the rules on transitive stirch swiping changed after the 2012 Championships to prevent any more injuries like those suffered by Charlie 'Drubber' Jacobs. Not career ending, but he was out of action for two seasons (9 months, give or take).

For those who know, Jacobs coached a bit during his convalescence -- most notably with Shottingham. He also began work on his book. Great read, except he inexplicably defends a move he called "trawling", which was transitive stirch swiping in disguise -- with the exception that his version was not done in a squat. Thanks, and cheers!

Cheap indeed for such a game!

Actually this Dutch television. 😂🤣

This is not a real sport right

@@dimitries it’s a real sport, but like cricket only a few nations play it

Check out Jiskefet darts, a cracker too!

That's why I love watching Mulroney, such a high performer

It should have ended four draft, but thats what you get in these conditions

@@PurpleChickenTV Do you mind if I publish your findings? Good! ;) "With every 5 point change in relative humidity, the chance to lay 2 grassoofs is doubled." That was brilliant. I don't know how you arrived at that, but that was brilliant.

Dave Albrecht But that would make sense. They favor giving the ring to Mulroney when they are focusing on red or green binkers.

Mulroney is an animal on his good days

technically the english don't understand them either lol

When we're talking about English sports that no-one understands, are we basically talking about cricket, lawn bowls and snooker?

@@brianm2881 Polo, croquet. Ballroom Dancing. Rugby has a few weird rules. The Monarchy.

@@johnkelly3549 darts. That thing with the rocks on the ice.

@@JasperJanssen Curling is Scottish.

well, I have cricket on... (bbc naturally) And it is gibberish ! 😅 Including the commentors

He just fringed the ring, and you wonder what he's so pleased about? Tell us you don't understand the game without telling us you don't understand the game.

Benny Harvey RIP

Why does the referee never check the fringing? What makes a good fringe? Why fringe in the first place?

@@ReddoFreddo Oh my goodness. This guy doesn't even know the purpose of fringing? *scoff*

Dude I once took a 89 mph fastball off the shoulder. That hurt like a mofo. Then I drove home in my Chevy truck and ate might fine

The brooding and blissful halcyon days! And did those feet in ancient time, go for the footswep, very fine left over for two for three?

typical Mulroney fan. graceful? yes, but of course you overlook his oh so many flaws. dude was highly overrated and his fan base annoys me to no end! smh

Okay, then. Up for a challenge? What Gall League bested in fringing in 1995?

Yes quite, who then watched the innocent grace of youth in Mulroney's pace as he skimmed the fringe off Carthwarfle's twofold and can honestly say they suspected performance narcotics at work. And did those feet in overtime walk upon Englands threelawns green and was the footstroke swing a quarter on barter-board's wide screen! The man had the footswing tread of a gazelle back then. Poor fellow spends more swings wobbling in the leftovers than on the lawn nowadays. Pinching for a stroke indeed! Of course the entire league hasn't been the same since the Stanley Unwin-Hoffer incident back that summer in '94. How I do remember that day... A bruise upon a blow. You really must excuse my sentiment. That's all nostalgia now.

+wishcraft4u2 Indeed old boy! Must say watch out for the expanded format for the 2018 world rings test championships. Our national team is looking good. my prediction is that the Dominion of Canada will prevail over British Guyana

Stephen King Well, don't you feel stupid, now that the Dominion of Canada didn't even qualify for the pre-ringers while British Guyana along with the Windward Islands are taking the Dish Division by storm. DoC should have ditched Catlock a long time ago. You know it, I know it. You can't blame everything on McTarder's pawn settlement.

I saw Mulroney at the European Indoor Championship qualifiers in Dublin a year or so ago, and maybe it was Rose coloured glasses or the level of competition, but he was fliggering like a young man and had all the panache of his younger days. It seemed to give a three ring advantage to his rink before the opponents had stepped up to tribb. The man still has a charisma and gravitas that can't be taught, and does heaps of work promoting rings in non-traditional countries.

He got what he deserved. The rules *clearly* state that all cocaine transport happen only during Lent. The judges might have been willing to look the other way throughout Easter, but he brazenly disrespected the sport by moving cocaine during *Whitsun*.

Minder zichtbaar, maar ijzersterk. Eigenlijk was René van 't Hof Jiskefets Hidden Sound System.

@@axellukkien OOHH, ik dacht dat je zei: "Hibbem"!

Hij was goed in Flodder

Een zeker Kees Van Kooten gehalte hier

@@NiekBrokkelkoekik krijg in ene trek in bier

Yes in hindsight it's astounding how naturally the swinger would parry the rounder a Jolly Marker on the barterboard over a possible Roger on the threelawn, jolly or otherwise. Of course back then a ring was mahogany rather than teak and the mere suggestion of making contact on the evening of the fringe was unheard of. The game has changed over the years, hasn't it? Naught on the blow would sure have earned him a Rogering-Off in the leftovers with this umpire.

+wishcraft4u2 Man Alive! I've seen matches in Zimbabwe and India where they used the exact same rings that Lord Cuntington supplied them in 1879

But thank god we've moved on from that. Could you imagine someone traffle a Jolly Marker with those rings with todays fringes, it wouldn't exactly make a trippit valid would it?

Take a look again. He sold out his marmie by screening when they were only down 4-2. I've personally talked to Mulroney about why he does this. He says it's just to prevent a glonnis pair -- which I'd take any day! Go lap in that situation and you go home.

Did he really? Well, good grief, I thought I knew everything there was to know about Mornington Crescent. I must admit, though, I'm much more familiar with it at senior level. I would love to see his technique; do you know if he ever made full use of Trumpington's Variations when they were permitted? I always feel like that produces the most instances of Nid and, therefore, the most exciting games.

The Dutch don’t hate the British at all. Can’t be, when you use British humor to mock British sports.

Cricket's just baseball with only one base. Played incredibly slowly.

Baseball is potentially the worst sport in the world

KlaxonCow A Cricket test match may take 3 days. But Baseball lasts far, far, far longer. For a start a Baseball “hitter” takes a geological Eon just to hit the ball once, what with all the practice swings, spitting, wiggling the bat around, the pitcher spotting someone trying to steal base, more spitting, stick wiggling. Then the pitcher actually pitches! The hitter swings, misses, IT’S A STRIKE! But no it isn’t, it was a no ball. Cue another 10 minutes of stick wiggling, spitting, practice swings. This goes on for like, centuries, until the hitter gets struck out, walks to first base ‘cos the pitcher is shit, or amazingly, the hitter hits the ball!!!! Which goes behind..., Once in a blue moon, the ball gets hit into out field, and even rarer, a home run is scored. In that time, a cricket batsman has scored 100 runs, because they aren’t allowed to fuck about and there isn’t like 200 adverts for pile ointment every hour.

One could argue that soccer is watching a bunch of folks run around for several goals often less

@@SvenTviking A cricket test match is played for a period of 5 days not 3

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The trio could have encountered big frottage without that finging @@Dortmund-i6g

Oh my, Colchester is my home town. We still speak about that game now. Local folklore.

Aye, the '76 Games. Refs started checking doors after that blow out! 🤣

Yes the rule interpretation is different every time you´re watching

This skit was made by dutch comedy triumvirate Jiskefet (Frisian for garbage bin), over 20 years ago. The best comedy is timeless, I guess.

Jason Paul Elder Jiskefet. Its a Dutch comedy show

Ah but did he ? If I recall , The Daily Dispatch later reported that Kensington confided to an undercover journalist that he had in fact trousered a quondam ( to the untrained eye much like whisking a fritter through the shank but really more akin to quartering a gerund á la Mackenzie). But your point is a fair one.

Yes indeed. This awfull American Astroturf from their American Footballfields all over!

@@jeroengoubet A shame that the competition won't be finished this season due to Corona, Mulroney had a real chance to finally nick the title this year, in the fall of his career. His foot swip hasn't been the same since his injury.

Under the original rules no points were awarded for a trefold, it just earned the chance to go for a ring fringe.

@@otterspocket2826 Indeed, that was a different time. Players were not millionairs back then, they often had side jobs even. Although I do think the game flows better under the current rules, it rewards bold plays.

I know it was a friendly but the doors weren't probably oiled. Very amateurish of the groundsman, even for a place like Pembertonshire.

Patrick Britt Recovery from the stroke ;) this clip is in so many ways hilarious! I think that’s the main strength of it.

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What do you mean? This is not based on anything Monty Python related?

​@@kladblok2729 kijk Monty Python. Kijk daarna Jiskefet. Het is 'self evident'.

@@wildmanfisher Ik denk eerder van Kooten en de Bie. Engelse humor is echt totaal anders.