Durham University

joking about girls or whatever, somebody leaks it and an outgroup discovers it and thinks how disgusting the way these men talk about women.

Durham University got popped for this a couple of years ago.

I

mean, people are sort of wise up to now, but yeah.

A lot of them are.

either in kind of London or in and around that Chelmsford, Southend, Dartford kind of area in the southeast and to have the ability to have some of those players come back home after university and things like that and now go back to that junior level homegrown club i think is super impressive what blaze have done and i think it shows a lot of depth um and again with a super experienced head coach in in andrew tuck as well i think that's going to be very um they're going to be a super tough out on opening weekend um but i think that would be that would kind of give them that stability where some staffs it's one of those again, really talented coach and Richard James, but you don't know what to expect.

And sometimes that can be an advantage as well.

You're playing weekend.

So that'll be a small amount of difference for them.

still have a little bit of that leadership on the court and but yeah that's they're kind of the team that i'm most curious as to what how's this going to turn out

yeah i think obviously there was a big difference between the essex rebels of two years ago a team that went on to to make a deep run um won the national cup alongside of racolades that year with um obviously alex porter leading the charge and we know tournament last year but last year was really kind of a difficult recruitment year for the rebels obviously again having that university link is super kind of super important to what they do at essex but now you've bought in five six imports all of which are gonna play bucks get the extra reps together have come in with that collegiate experience so you've got uh thomas uh two setters coming in thomas martin and gabriel oceo you've got you've got carson hill when you've talked about it's gonna captain through the middle um you've got a couple of hitters from D2 and D3 as well.

So I think you've got a much deeper kind of international pool to pull from.

Some came from below, and I still hear the screams in my sleep.

My name's Simon, I'm from the United Kingdom and I'm a research fellow at Durham University.

I've had a fixed term salaried position for a couple of years now and I specialize in researching the English Civil War.

Basically the king of England at the time was a man named Charles I. England also had a parliament at this time but Charles wasn't a fan and cancelled it on four separate occasions for varying reasons.

Riddell Memorial Lectures.

It was also during this time that Lewis was invited to give a series of lectures at the third oldest university in England, the prestigious University of Durham, pronounced da rum, as part of the annual Riddell Memorial Lectures.

Lewis was invited to lecture for three consecutive evenings.

The talks were well received and collectively published under the title The Abolition of Man in 1943.