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Puberty Blues and the representation of an Australian comprehensive high school.
In this article I examine one film, Puberty Blues, directed by Bruce Beresford in 1981. According to the Australian Film Commission, the film is number forty four of the top Australian films at the Australian Box Office from 1966 to 2005 having earned over three million dollars. The view put here is that this film throws light on the history of the comprehensive coeducational high school at a particular moment. (3) The article maintains that Puberty Blues pursues a damning representation of the ineffectual and irrelevant nature of school life for the students it features. This unsettling film shows the comprehensive coeducational secondary school, itself a product of a middle class vision of the civil society, to be failing in its promise of extending 'respectable' and materially aspirant middle class values to youth. It is suggested that the decline in patronage of the public coeducational comprehensive school by the middle class and aspiring others may in part be attributable overall to the powerful negative images of schools such as those in Puberty Blues that have widely circulated in Australian and Anglophone popular culture, especially in feature film. (4) It also hypothesises that the middle class flight from the comprehensive high school may be in part attributable to the fact that some of their children may have 'deserted' the schools first.
Puberty Blues (Beresford, 1981)
Puberty Blues has been described as a nostalgic coming of age, or rites of passage, feminist film. (5) The film is based on the novel by two teenage girls, Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, and apparently reflects their autobiographical experiences of growing up in Sydney in the late 1970s.6 Set in the beachside suburb of Sylvania Waters, the narrative centres on two girls, Debbie Vickers and Sue Knight, as they eagerly manoeuvre their way into the mindless sexual oppression of the masculinist surfie subculture. It was difficult for the filmmakers to find a school to film in Sylvania Waters because of the reputation of the book. Margaret Kelly, co-producer, said at the time:
The schools are most antagonistic because they think the authors have given Sylvania High, in particular, a very bad name ... none of the schools in the area wanted to know about us. (7)
Eventually the Department of Education agreed that the film could be shot west of the Cooks River and James Cook Boys High School in the Sydney suburb of Kogarah consented. Some of the real students of the school featured in some scenes. (8)
Puberty Blues shows in anthropological detail, (9) Debbie and Sue's first encounters with drugs, first relationships with boys and first sexual experiences--and gives sustained glimpses of their secondary schooling. The protagonists are basically healthy young women, bright, well brought up, with disposable incomes (the source of which is never explained) and with attentive middle class parents. All this makes their desire to enter the vacuous and poisonous Greenhills gang so mystifying in the first place. The countercultural revolution of the 1960s with its politicisation of youth seems to have been translated without any of its political content into the mindless subcultural hedonism of the 1970s. (10) Whereas, as Speed has commented, the rites-of-passage film 'is inclined to disavow the immediacy and, at times, the vulgarity of youth culture', (11) the 'nostalgia' in Puberty Blues is hard edged and the vulgarity of the past is fully depicted. The film shows the barbarisms of surfie subculture, and the emptiness of middle class suburban materialist lifestyle, with a kind of forensic glee. It also lays bare the ineffectual nature of the comprehensive high school.
In Puberty Blues the action takes place in three main types of space: the interior spaces of various suburban middle class family homes, the exterior transitional spaces of car, beach, park and street, and third, the various spaces of the high school. Thus far in the literature the first two spaces have been discussed. For example, the film has been explored employing three analytic approaches: gender, specifically regarding its alleged feminist message (disputed here); class, specifically its representation of middle class suburban domestic culture; (12) and youth culture, specifically surfie subculture on Cronulla Beach in the 1970s. None of these analyses however have examined the third main space in the film--that of the high school, scenes of which occupy a little over one eighth of the film's running time. This article begins to remedy this oversight, and specifically reflects on the representation of teachers, students, classroom and other facets of school and Australian life given both vision and voice in Puberty Blues (1981). All three aspects are rendered through the perspective of the students, especially via the main character of Debbie Vickers (Nell Schofield). The film thus purports to present a student-centred analysis of Australian schooling at a particular moment and through a particular subcultural frame.
The school, students and teachers in Puberty Blues
The action in Puberty Blues turns to the school immediately following the short three minute set-up of the film that shows a wide shot of the crowded Cronulla Beach in the high summer, as two teenage girls, Debbie and Sue (Jad Capelja), pick their way among the throng to reach the 'cool' end where the Greenhills surfie gang reign supreme. (13) In the next scene it is morning, Debbie Vickers in school uniform leaves her comfortable suburban home that she shares with her housewife mother, white collar worker father and younger sister, for the bus stop and school. This narrative positioning of the school at the front of the film underscores its importance as a context for a story about Australian teenagers. Teenage life is shown as both facilitated and circumscribed by schooling. Overall, rather than receiving an education, Debbie and her friends experience school as a socialising space for meeting up with each other. (14) Both formal and informal curricula are to be subverted in any way necessary for the pursuit of peer connection, validation and mutual education about the things that matter to them: the opposite sex, sexual interaction, drugs, surfing and the beach.
On the bus, we are immediately alerted to 'jungle' of student culture. In a very short space the girls are shown as boy-crazy, physically violent with one another (Debbie and Cheryl [Leander Brett] have a fight in the aisle), and as cheats, having written answers on their upper legs ready for their school history examinations. The next scene shows the students moving from the loosely supervised area of the bus, to the closely supervised examination hall. Here the extent of the student contempt for values of honesty and authenticity, and their ingenuity for subversion, are fully displayed by showing many more of their number with written answers up sleeves, on palms and under skirts. These students comply outwardly, and resist covertly, the values of the school.
The four main characters are caught attempting to cheat and are sent to the Principal's office. The association of school with 'Culture' is emphasised by the presence of 'Art' on the walls of the corridor outside the Principal's office and reinforced by the presence within of a reproduction of The Man with the Golden Helmet, a painting once synonymous with breeding and good taste, (and deliciously heightening the ironic potential of the scene, discovered in 1985, not long after the film was made, not to be by Rembrandt at all!). (15) This 'Art' though is represented alongside the paraphernalia of school administration: all manner of filing cabinets, two telephones, a school timetable on a noticeboard and so on. The Headmaster (played with stunning pathos and good humour by Bud Tingwell) is a slightly overweight, kindly man worn down by negotiating with resistant teenagers and managing his school.
After Debbie and Sue are proven to be worthy members of the Greenhills gang by not 'dobbing' on the other cheats in the examination, they are invited to the toilets for a cigarette by the cool group's leader, Tracey (Sandy Paul). The toilets are strewn with garbage and there is water all over the floor. Junior girls are evicted without so much as a by-your-leave as the senior girls take over the cubicles. One junior is pressed into service to watch for Mrs Yelland (Kate Shiel), the female teacher on playground duty. They just miss being caught.
However Sue is caught out in a later scene set in Mr Berkhoff's (Andrew Martin) mathematics classroom--where the lesson begins with his admonition: 'Pay attention, it's your future, not mine'. She and Debbie trade notes on the delicate matter of Sue's sexual engagement with her current boyfriend Danny. The note she is forced to surrender to the teacher reads:
I think Danny wants to do it. I don't want him to think I'm just a rooting machine. Do you reckon I should let him????
This note indicates the real issues of import as far as Debbie and Sue are concerned and these have nothing to do with the acquisition of culture, but everything to do with peer relationships. If the beach in Puberty Blues has been symbolically positioned as 'nature' and the suburb has been positioned as 'culture' with a little 'c', the high school is shown as the custodian of 'Culture' with a capital 'C'. And like everything else related to the real business of the school and its formal and informal curricula, it is irrelevant. School for the students is for socialising, for subverting and surviving.
The student culture in Puberty Blues: an ethics-free zone
Puberty Blues presents a warts-and-all portrait of surfie subculture in the 1970s for both girls and boys. The original age of the girls in the book on which the film is based was 13, but Beresford had to raise their ages to 16 in the film because of the risque material depicted. (16) As with the upper class girls in Beresford's other school-based film, The Getting of Wisdom (1977), the girls of the Greenhills gang are ruthless boundary riders (literally in the case of Cheryl who owns and rides a horse in the film), patrolling the subcultural norms with a vicious concern that denies any fellow feeling. They are the passive sexual playthings of the boys in the group as well as their servants, and provide an audience to active boy surfing culture. Their conversation is basic and focused on boys. Debbie, a bright student, tries to hide her academic ability. She commented on why she needed to join the Greenhills Gang:
If you weren't a surfie chick, you were a nobody--a nerd. If you wanted to get into the gang, you had to crawl after and suck up to all the gang girls.
So Debbie and Sue abandon or surrender their finer feelings, their reservations and their honesty in order to achieve sub-cultural approval. While the portrait of the girls is harsh, however, that of the boys is damning.
The 'boy problem', rediscovered periodically in popular discourse, is graphically outlined in Puberty Blues. The boys pursue their own interests, bodily needs and recreation with homosocial intensity. They are depicted in two main ways. The first way is as empty headed sexual users, epitomised by Debbie's first boyfriend, the working class 'brickie's' labourer, Bruce (Jay Hackett). It is Bruce who is one of three surfie boys who engineer a 'gang bang' with Freda, the outcast girl they have positioned as 'moll', and it is his sexual relations with Debbie that are the height of selfish banality. These teenage males are self-centred sexual predators. Other young males are shown to be overwhelmed victims of parental pressure and drug culture as shown in the figure of Debbie's second boyfriend Garry (Geoff Rhoe), who eventually dies a lonely street death from a heroin overdose. These young people seem to live in a separate moral and ethical universe from everyone else in the film, although this is more so for the boys than the girls.
Both males and females physically assault one another. They lie to their parents and their teachers about their activities. As has been shown both groups freely cheat in school examinations. The fact that Debbie and Sue buy their own surf board and challenge the male hegemony of surfie subculture at the film's end fails to redeem what is essentially a damning portrait of depoliticised and wilfully ignorant Australian youth. Indeed the ending of the film could be read not so much as a feminist affirmation of nascent self authoring by Debbie and Sue, but as a capitulation to middle class capitalist acquisition and me-too 'feminism' where female emancipation from crippling sex roles is achieved by aping male behaviours. Debbie and Sue do not read a book, or go to the theatre, or any other indication that they are orienting themselves away from sub-cultural emptiness--they buy a surfboard. If there is a redemptive and feminist act in the closing scenes of Puberty Blues it is when both girls acknowledge sisterhood with the outcast girl Freda.
The teachers: a study in irrelevance
While the students are the main characters in the film, the teachers form a squad of background authority figures whose 'authority' only seems to work but in fact is irrelevant to the lives of their charges. There are three main teachers represented in Puberty Blues: the 'Headmaster', Mrs Yelland and Mr Berkhoff, as well as couple of other background 'teachers'. The Headmaster is represented as the head dag. He is ineffectual, too soft, and gives sad little shaming speeches when dealing with students one to one, and over the top melodramatic speeches when in assembly. Mr Berkhoff, the Maths teacher, is vaguely contemptuous, indifferent ('it's your future, not mine') and condescending ('girlie'). Mrs Yelland, the playground duty teacher, and exam invigilator, is represented as a stone-faced, sarcastic warden. The other teachers shown invigilating examinations are suspicious but ineffectual mostly and only catch a few of the cheaters because they spoke. The men all wear Bermuda shorts, long socks, short sleeve business shirts and ties--in short they are all dags. There is a sense that the students live their full lives underneath the teachers' gaze, but are never actually caught authentically in that gaze--they hide in full sight. There is no lovable and learned Mr Chips, no heroic Jaime Escalante from Stand and Deliver (1988), no inspiring John Keating from Dead Poet's Society (1989), no self-sacrificing Mr Holland from Mr Holland's Opus (1995)--just teachers containing, rather than changing, their students' lives.
International researchers, mainly in the United States, are beginning to explore the ways in which cinematic representations of schooling have effects in society. For example, Robert C. Bulman in Hollywood Goes to High School argues that films, like schools themselves, are 'socialising institutions' that shape as well as reflect popular culture. In the United States, he says the hegemonic values of the middle class (individualism, self-sufficiency, free expression, and hard work) are affirmed in Hollywood high school films. (17) In The Hollywood Curriculum Mary M. Dalton examines the filmic representation of teachers in a range of Hollywood films in terms of curriculum theory. (18) Employing a cultural studies approach, especially around the concept of intertextuality, she argues that popular culture is inescapable; that popular film offers 'an intersection between the theoretical and the everyday' and that popular film about teachers helps to create real-life teacher-student relationships. (19) Another North American researcher, Marshall Gregory, also discusses the negative power of cinematic representations of schooling in US films that 'swirl thickly' in society. (20) It can be assumed that high grossing films such as Puberty Blues have also had their effects on Australians' attitudes to schools.
The comprehensive high school in Puberty Blues is represented as a social space for adolescents to interact. The school exerts little effective discipline on its students, and has no relevance to their lives except as a constraining factor. Its spaces are unattractive and its teachers fighting a losing battle in the face of their students' duplicitous and casual disregard. Furthermore very little learning is shown to occur. This representation, created in the early 1980s before the middle class leakage away to the private schools became a haemorrhage, (21) may have added to or at least reinforced negative opinions about the public comprehensive high school, which have gathered strength since 'the residualisation' of such schools in recent years.
Sherington and Campbell have written convincingly about the desertion of the middle class from the comprehensive public high school within the milieu of marketisation of the Australian economy after the 1970s. (22) Puberty Blues might add a minor note to that analysis in that it suggests two further reasons for that desertion--the first from the making and showing of the film itself and other films like it. This is that the visual images of such schools sent negative messages to aspiring parents about their value. The other reason arises from the film's narrative: this is that Puberty Blues shows how, even before their parents did, some of the children of the middle class had opted out of comprehensive schooling (even as they attended such a school) as a site where any value might be gained, in favour of subculture. In moving away from the comprehensive high school as best for their children, increasingly anxious middle class parents may thus also have been reacting not only to macro shifts in economy and philosophy, but also to negative portrayals of the such schools swirling in the popular culture, as well as to their children's apathetic behaviours within the context of this 'soft' or 'ineffective' schooling. Perhaps in sending their children to a private school, middle class parents were seeking a way to restore their children's faith, and therefore their own, in the credibility of their schools--and as budding consumerists themselves, children of the 1980s and beyond could easily be made to understand that a 'bought' education was somehow more valuable than a free one. Educational value was thus demonstrable in monetary outlay. In the same way Debbie and Sue demonstrate their individuation and imbue their experience as females with value through the purchase of a surf board.
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(1) J. May, 'Imagining the secondary School: the "pictorial turn" and representations of secondary schools in two Australian feature films of the 1970s', History of Education Review, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 13-22; J. May, 'Engaging the history of Australian education on silent film: the female teacher as object of desire.' Paper presented at the Australian Historical Association, 2007 Regional Conference, Engaging Histories, University of New England, Australia; J. May, 'Insistent bodies versus the rule: the devil's playground as national cinema' Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Vol. 10, no. 1, 2006, pp. 121-143.
(2) J. May, 'National fitness and schools between the wars: some representations of schooling in Australian silent film,' (under review).
(3) The high school in the book Puberty Blues (Picador, 2002) is based on Sylvania High School, a co-educational comprehensive high school established in 1970. See the school's website at http://www.sylvania-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/.
(4) There are many other films that represent secondary coeducational comprehensive schools in a negative light, for example, Blackboard Jungle (USA, 1955), Carrie (USA, 1976), To Sir With Love (UK/USA, 1966), Up the Down Staircase (USA, 1967), The Breakfast Club (USA, 1985), Dangerous Minds (USA, 1995), The Heartbreak Kid (Aust., 1983).
(5) L. Speed, 'You and me against the world: revisiting Puberty Blues', Metro Magazine, no. 140, 2004, pp. 5460, p.54.
(6) K. Lette and G. Carey, Puberty Blues, Sydney, Picador, 2002.
(7) Notes on Puberty Blues (1981) http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2006/puberty. doc. (accessed 27 November 2007). See also N. Scholfield, Puberty Blues Sydney, Currency Press & Screensound Australia, 2004, p. 30.
(8) Scholfield, Puberty Blues, 2004, p. 30.
(9) L. Speed, 'When the sun sets over suburbia: class and subculture in Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues' Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, September 2006, pp. 407-418, p. 413. Film historian Tom O'Regan observed this tendency of 'othering' of Australian culture in some Australian films via an anthropological approach.
(10) Strange cited in L. Speed, 'Tuesday's gone: the nostalgic teen film', Journal of Popular Film and Television, vol. 26, no.1, Spring 1998, pp. 24-33. See also H. Giroux, 'Youth and the politics of representation: response to Thomas Hatch's "If the 'Kids' Are Not 'Alright', I'm Clueless"', Educational Researcher, May 1997, pp. 27-30.
(11) Speed, 'Tuesday's gone 1998', p. 26.
(12) Puberty Blues (1981) is made in the 'social landscape' tradition in Australian contemporary film making. It focuses on the suburban lives of the Australian middle class. According to Speed (2006:41), the film 'foreshadowed a proliferation of later films and television series that centre on the Australian middle class ... as well as prefigures television series that focus on youthful characters and suburban locations'. And in which it must be said high schools figure prominently. For example, Erinsborough High is a fictional high school that has been in 'operation' since 1985 in the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours and Summer Bay High School in Home & Away began in 1988--both schools cry out for analysis.
(13) At times we almost lose sight of the pair in the crowd, only to have them gradually fill the screen and come into sharp focus. This opening sequence sets up the premise: individuation amid the throng is a difficult task, it involves choices, and our two heroines are undertaking a journey. The beach itself underscores the indeterminate space of adolescence: it is neither land nor sea, just as adolescence is neither childhood nor adulthood. Furthermore the beach underscores societal divisions on the basis of class, ethnicity and subculture.
(14) A.M. Hazell Reflections of Reality? female roles in Australian adolescent fiction since World War II, Blackwood SA, Auslib Press, 1989, pp. 65 & 69.
(15) O. Friedrich 'The man with the golden helmet', TIME Magazine online 16 Dec. 1985. http://www.time.com/ time/magazine/article/0,9171,960416-2,00. html (accessed 20.11.07.)
(16) Carey commented on this disappointing aspect of the film on ABC TV 'The Big Chill': Interview with Lette and Carey 30.9.2000, transcript downloaded from www.ozcinema.com/reviews/p/pubertyblues.html
(17) R. C. Bulman, Hollywood Goes to High School: cinema schools and American culture, New York, Worth, 2005. See also M. M. Dalton, The Hollywood Curriculum: teachers in the movies, revised edition, New York, Peter Lang, 2004.
(18) Dalton, The Hollywood Curriculum.
(19) Dalton, The Hollywood Curriculum, pp. 2-15.
(20) M. Gregory, 'Real teaching and real learning vs narrative myths about education', Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, pp. 7-27.
(21) 1976 was the highpoint for middle class participation in state school participation. See C. Campbell, 'Changing school loyalties and the middle class: a reflection on the developing fate of State comprehensive high schooling', The Australian Educational Researcher, vol. 32, no. 1, April 2005, pp. 3-24.
(22) C. Campbell and G. Sherington, 'Australian liberalism, the middle class and public education from Henry Parkes to John Howard', Education Research and Perspectives, vol. 31, no. 2, 2004, pp. 59-77. In this historical overview of Australian liberalism, the middle class and public schooling in New South Wales, the authors outline the rise and demise of the middle class's commitment to public education. They position the increasing abandonment of public schooling by this influential sector of society within macro religious/ philosophical, political, economic and social shifts throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Roughly, they posit a shift from a Protestant-based moral vision of state action through an expanding public schooling system as a common good, to a market-driven form of Christian liberalism based on 'choice' and 'rights' that favours private schooling.
Dr Jo May lectures in history at the University of Newcastle. Her research includes social and cultural perspectives of the history of Australian education. She is Reviews Editor for History of Education Review and a member of the national executive of the International Australian Studies Association.
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What bettors need to know: Baylor at Connecticut
By JASON LOGAN
Matchup: Baylor Bears (2-1 SU, 1-1 ATS) at Connecticut Huskies (3-0 SU, 2-0 ATS)
Line moves
The Huskies opened as two-touchdown home favorites with most books but have since been beat down to -12. Friday's total opened at 50 and has bumped up to 51 ½.
Will dogs' D' have their day?
UConn can thank its stingy defense for a 3-0 start. The Huskies have allowed just one touchdown this year and are currently ranked 13th in the nation after giving up just 229 total yards. They have eight returning defensive starters from last year's Big East title team.
Their run defense has stood out, but now come up against a legit run-first offense with a mobile quarterback that can break off big gains. Baylor pivot Robert Griffin rushed for 217 yards and two touchdowns in a 45-17 win over Washington State last Friday.
The freshman added 129 yards and a TD through the air and was named Big 12 offensive player of the week.
"They'll make you stay patient with their Cover 2 safeties playing 30 yards off the ball," Griffin told reporters this week. "Other than that, a defense is a defense, and with our type of offense we can hit a big play out of anything."
The Bears are 29th in total offense and average 36.3 points per game. They've played over the total in the two games in which odds were available.
Wave bye-bye to Waco
Baylor makes its road debut Friday after opening the first three games of the schedule at home. Life away from Waco hasn't been kind to the Bears, going 2-9 SU and 4-7 ATS in the past two seasons.
"If you're going to be a good football team, you have to be a tough road team," coach Art Briles told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "You band together as a team, you rely on each other, you support each other and you fight hard for each other."
Briles is anxious to see how his team will perform away from home. He sees Friday's trip to the Big East as good preparation for the hostile environments they'll face in the Big 12. He's even tried to acclimatize his players by pumping crowd noise into practice and working them off a silent count.
Wins are hard to come by in Hartford. UConn was a perfect 7-0 SU at home last season and cashed in five out of six games in which odds were available. The Huskies beat Virginia 45-10 as 10 ½-point home faves last weekend.
What can Brown do for you?
UConn running back Donald Brown II will be the focus of Baylor's defense after he posted his second straight 200-plus yard game. Brown rumbled for 206 yards and three touchdowns and also caught five balls for 32 yards against Virginia last Saturday.
The performance garnered a Big East offensive player of the week award for Brown, who has eight touchdowns and 610 total yards of offense in three games. There has even been some Heisman buzz around the redshirt junior.
"I'm not trying to do too much. I'm just taking what's given and trying to make the most of every opportunity," Brown told the Connecticut Post. "When you have the offensive line that I have and the fullback that I have and the receivers that all block downfield, they make it easy."
The Huskies will be doing plenty of blocking against the Bears. UConn's offensive has appeared a bit one dimensional with quarterback Tyler Lorenzen at the helm. While he was more comfortable in the pocket against the Cavaliers, Lorenzen still depended on his legs. He rushed for 52 yards while passing for 124 and one touchdown last weekend.
Baylor could load up on the line and plug the holes forcing Lorenzen's arm to beat them. The Bears defense has allowed 302 yards of total offense and has limited opposing rushing attacks to an average of 95 yards per game.
Re: Friday Night Football
Baylor at UConn
By Brian Edwards
We stayed unbeaten on Fridays after last week's thriller in Tampa, but we aren't looking for pushes around here. By backing South Florida minus three in its 37-34 win over Kansas, that's exactly what we got. Even worse, I'm sure some pick-pack purchasers ended up losing as the USF line ballooned to 3 1/2 or four at some books, so those folks have my apologies.
At intermission when the Jayhawks had a 20-10 lead, a push seemed like a generous gift. But when USF raced out to a 34-20 advantage early in the fourth quarter, that thought process went out the window. However, USF backers couldn't go to the ticket window yet, certainly not with Kansas QB Todd Reesing still on the field.
Reesing, who belongs in the conversation of who the best QB in the Big 12 is, rallied his team back into a tie with a pair of fourth-quarter touchdown passes. In the end, though, USF got the victory thanks to a Maikon Bonani 43-yard field goal as time expired.
Moving on to this week's edition of Friday Night Lights, we don't have the same sort of matchup in terms of quality teams. Nevertheless, bettors can do their thing with a side and total for Baylor at UConn.
Las Vegas Sports Consultants opened Connecticut (3-0 straight up, 1-1 against the spread) as a 16-point favorite with a total of 51. As of Thursday morning, most spots were listing the Huskies as 13-point home 'chalk.' The Bears are plus 350 on the money line (risk $100 to win $350).
Baylor (2-1 straight up, 1-1 against the spread) is in transition this year with Art Briles leaving Houston to take over for Guy Morriss. The Bears started the season in disappointing fashion, losing 41-13 to Wake Forest as 12-point home underdogs.
Since then, however, they have won back-to-back contests. Baylor stroked Northwestern St. by a 51-6 count in a non-lined affair. Then last Friday in a game moved up a day due to Hurricane Ike, the Bears thumped Washington St. 45-17 as six-point home favorites.
True freshman quarterback Robert Griffin was the catalyst. Much like Briles turned to Kevin Kolb during his freshman year at Houston, Griffin, a four-star recruit from Copperas Cove, TX., has been handed the keys to Baylor's present and future.
Both looked bright last Friday in Griffin's second start, as he ran for a school-record 217 yards and two touchdowns on just 11 carries. Griffin also threw for 129 yards with one TD and no interceptions. The Bears finished with 555 yards of total offense, scoring 40 points or more in consecutive games for the first time since 1994.
For the season, Griffin has completed 62.3 percent of his passes for 548 yards with a 4/0 touchdown-interception ratio. Even better, Griffin has 32 rush attempts for 288 yards and four TDs. He is averaging 9.0 yards per carry. Sophomore RB Jay Finley is also making his presence felt, gaining 232 yards on 28 carries. Finley has rushed for three TDs, averaging 8.3 YPC.
Connecticut (3-0 SU, 1-1 ATS) is off a dominant 45-10 win over Viriginia as an 11-point home favorite. Donald Brown paced the Huskies with 206 rushing yards and three TDs, while Tyler Lorenzen completed 13-of-15 passes for 129 yards with one TD and zero interceptions. They jumped on the Wahoos early and often, racing out to a 28-0 lead at halftime.
Brown, a junior RB who had eight rushing TDs in 2007, is second in the nation in both rushing yards (566) and TDs (eight) this year. Meanwhile, Lorenzen wasn't nearly as efficient before the win over UVA. He failed to throw a TD and had four interceptions in UConn's first two games, a 35-3 home win over Hofstra and a 12-9 triumph at Temple.
The Huskies needed overtime to beat the Owls. After Temple kicked a field goal with its OT possession, Brown answered with a game-winning seven-yard scampber to paydirt. However, UConn failed to take the cash as a 6 1/2-point road favorite.
Since 2003, Randy Edsall's squad has been dynamite as a double-digit favorite, posting a 9-4 spread record. Since 2002, the Huskies are 14-7-1 ATS as home favorites.
On the flip side, Baylor is 3-11 ATS as a double-digit underdog since 2006.
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--UConn junior RB Andre Dixon, a second-team All Big East selection last season, has only been in for three plays this year due to an ankle sprain. His status for Friday is "questionable."
--One of my favorite handicapping strategies is betting against a team that has a QB making his first career road start. That's the situation gamblers face with Baylor-UConn, but you get the sense that nothing can rattle Griffin. He told SicEmSports.com, "It's kind of like when people asked me about my first college start, it's not a big deal. I've just got to go out there and execute. It's just another football game."
--Auburn owns a 4-3 spread record as a home underdog during Tommy Tuberville's 10-year tenure. They beat Florida 27-17 as two-point home 'dogs in 2006.
--Back to LSU-Auburn, that's another chance for gamblers to fade a QB (LSU's Andrew Hatch) making his first career road start.
--Since 2004, Tennessee has been a home underdog only four times. The Vols have taken the cash in each of those four games.
--Ole Miss DE Greg Hardy, who led the SEC in sacks in 2007, will make his season debut Saturday at home against Vandy. Hardy broke his foot at practice in early August.
Re: Friday Night Football
Baylor (2-1, 1-1 ATS) at Connecticut (3-0, 1-1 ATS)
Baylor looks to build off a blowout home win over Washington State when it travels to the Northeast to battle unbeaten Connecticut in a nationally televised non-conference affair.
With Hurricane Ike bearing down on Texas, Baylor was forced to move last week's home game against Washington State from Saturday to Friday, but the home team was hardly affected, rolling to a 45-17 win as a three-point chalk. The Bears rushed for a staggering 426 yards, while the defense held the Cougars to just 77 yards on the ground and forced five turnovers. For the season, Baylor is averaging 36.3 points, 242.3 rushing yards and 205 passing yards per contest.
The Huskies are also coming off an impressive rushing performance, outgaining Virginia 382-31 on the ground en route to Saturday's 45-10 rout, easily cashing as a 10½-point home favorite. Through three games, UConn is averaging 30.7 points and 445 yards per game (297.7 rushing ypg), while holding the opposition to 7.3 points and 229 total ypg (66.3 rushing ypg).
Baylor has followed a nine-game losing skid with consecutive victories, including a 51-6 rout of Division I-AA Northwestern State 51-6 two weeks ago. Despite last week's easy spread-cover against Washington State, though, the Bears are just 5-14 ATS in their last 19 contests overall, 2-7 ATS in their last nine on the road, 3-14 ATS in their last 17 against winning teams and 9-24 ATS in their last 33 following a spread-cover.
Additionally, Baylor has lost six straight road games to BCS conference schools (2-4 ATS), and new coach Art Briles' team is 1-6 (2-5 ATS) in its last seven road openers.
UConn carries a nine-game home winning streak into this contest, going 6-0 ATS in the last six. Additionally, the Huskies are on pointspread tears of 14-7 as a home favorite, 18-7-1 as a favorite regardless of venue since 2003 and 28-12-1 in non-conference action. On the downside, UConn has failed to cover in four straight games against winning teams.
For Baylor, the over is on streaks of 4-0 in non-conference games (2-0 this year) and 8-2 on the road. On the flip side, UConn sports under streaks of 7-3 overall, 13-5 in non-conference play, 5-2 on grass and 6-2 against winning squads.
Re: Friday Night Football
Baylor Bears vs. Connecticut Huskies
Oddsmakers currently have the Huskies listed as 12-point favorites versus the Bears, while the game's total is sitting at 51.
Robert Griffin ran for 220 yards with two touchdowns in leading Baylor to a 45-17 win over Washington State in Week 3, as 5-point favorites. The 62 points sailed OVER the posted total of 50.
Griffin completed 7-of-15 pass attempts for 130 yards and a TD in that win for the Bears.
Connecticut built up a 28 point lead at the half in Week 3, as they ran to a 45-10 win over Virginia. Connecticut covered the 10.5-point spread, and the combined 55 points sailed OVER the posted total of 38.
Donald Brown carried the ball 20 times for 208 yards with three touchdowns.
Current streak:
Baylor has won 2 straight games.
Connecticut has won 3 straight games.
Team records:
Baylor: 2-1 SU, 1-1 ATS
Connecticut: 3-0 SU, 1-1 ATS
Baylor most recently:
When playing in September are 6-4
When playing on grass are 3-7
After outgaining opponent are 5-5
When playing outside the conference are 6-4
Connecticut most recently:
When playing in September are 8-2
When playing on grass are 8-2
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing outside the conference are 8-2
A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Baylor's last 5 games on the road
Baylor is 2-7 ATS in its last 9 games on the road
Baylor is 2-9 SU in its last 11 games
Baylor is 1-8 SU in its last 9 games on the road
Connecticut is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Connecticut is 12-4 SU in its last 16 games
Next up:
Baylor home to Oklahoma, Saturday, October 4
Connecticut at Louisville, Friday, September 26
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Preview 2009 -
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2009 EMU Offense
2009 EMU Defense
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What you need to know:
Defensive coordinator Eric Lewis has
to find something the defense can do well. It was designed
originally to be fast and athletic, which was fine, but there
wasn't any production in the backfield and there weren't enough
big plays made. The line has the potential to be the strength
with the addition of JUCO transfers Ryan Leonard and Delano
Johnson to provide some bulk, and Brad Ohrman a productive
veteran to do a little bit of everything. The linebacking corps
will desperately miss tackling-machine Daniel Holtzclaw and will
need to play much bigger than the safety-sized group it is.
While there's speed and experience in the secondary, someone has
to help out Ryan Downard and come up with an interception here
and there.
Jermaine Jenkins, 64
Brad Ohrman, 6
Interceptions: Ryan Downard, Jermaine Jenkins, 2
Projected Top Reserves:
Expected to make an instant
impact providing size and pass rushing ability is Delano
Johnson, a 6-4, 275-pound JUCO transfer who made ten tackles for
loss and 65 tackles for College of the Sequoias JC. He's big,
quick, and good enough to be a starter right away.
Bringing desperately needed size inside will be JUCO transfer
Ryan Leonard, a 6-0, 290-pound junior who should serve as an
anchor. He, like Johnson, was from College of the Sequoias
making 65 tackles with eight sacks last year. He was a JUCO
all-star who will be counted on to shine right away.
Watch Out For ... the JUCO transfers. Leonard and
Johnson have to be starters, or at least key contributors, to
bring size to the equation. If Leonard is great, that would
allow Ohrman to move to a more natural spot on the outside.
Strength: Young prospects. EMU paid special
attention to the defensive line in the last few recruiting
classes, and it should pay off with several promising players
ready to shine. That was the strength going into last year, and
it still applies. The athleticism has to translate into
Weakness: Proven production and size. This is a woefully
undersized line that will get shoved around by any O line that's
seen a weight room. Considering all the athleticism and all the
quickness, there's no excuse for EMU to be 104th in the nation
in tackles for loss and 100th in sacks again.
Outlook: The pass rushers have to come through
after a nightmare of a season. The run defense didn't do
anything, allowing close to 200 yards per game, and it didn't do
anything to get into the backfield. There are several decent
prospects, and some ready-made JUCO players joining the mix. Now
the line has to improve by leaps and bounds for the team to have
any real shot at improving.
Rating: 4.5
Projected Starters:
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Marcus English will get the first look, and while he's not
nearly as big as Holtzclaw, he's a lot faster. While he's more
like a safety than a linebacker, but he's a big hitter who
should be great now that he'll make a ton of plays now that he's
the main man in the middle after making just three tackles.
Senior Andre Hatchett was a question mark going into last
year after spending the offseason working on his studies, but he
ended up being solid on the strongside making 51 tackles with
2.5 tackles for loss. Only 5-11 and 221 pounds, he has quickness
and range, but he didn't do nearly enough to get into the
backfield. He has to use his wheels to be a threat as a pass
rusher and he as to do something against the pass now that he's
working on the weakside. Taking over on the strongside
will be junior Tim Fort, a 6-0, 214-pounder who started the
final three games of last year and ended up with 22 tackles.
He's always working and has a great motor, and now he's going to
have to prove he can hold up against the run on a full-time
basis and he'll have to make plenty of plays on sheer want-to.
Projected Top Reserves: Senior Jermaine Jenkins
will likely end up back at a starting spot sooner than later
after getting working all of last year on the weakside and
finishing third on the team with 64 tackles with two sacks and
seven tackles for loss. He's only 6-2 and 207
pounds and would be better as a strong safety, but he'll work in
a rotation on the strongside.Sophomore Steve
Brown will find a spot somewhere on the field. The true
sophomore made three tackles in his little time of work, but the
former star high school safety, who made 181 tackles in two
years while leading his team to a Virginia state high school
title, has excellent range and good toughness for the weakside.
Watch Out For ...
a lot of rotating. Write the depth chart in
pencil because the coaching staff will try to find the three
best players and stick them on the field. They're all relatively
interchangeable for the various spots.
Strength: Quickness. By design, the linebacking
corps is full of safety-sized players who can all move and can
all hit. This is a group of strong safeties playing linebacker.
Weakness: Size. This wasn't that big a deal because there was a
big backer in the middle to hold up against things funneled his
way. Now that Holtzclaw is gone, this becomes a way-too-small
The line needs to do its job of this group
is going to get killed. This is a very quick, very active
linebacking corps that's going to have a hard time holding up
against anyone. It'll be vital to start making more plays behind
the line and creating more turnovers to make up for the lack of
Rating: 4
Defensive Backs
Projected Starters:
In the attempt to replace
second-leading tackler, Jacob Wyatt, free safety Ryan
Downard will move to strong safety after making 28
tackles and two interceptions in eight games. The 6-1, 201-pound
junior is a ball-hawker, he led the team two years ago with six
picks, and was a favorite of the former coaching staff. He'll be
a key piece to the puzzle in the secondary. With Downard
moving, sophomore Marty Cardwell will get a
long look at the free safety spot. The 5-10, 198-pounder didn't
see any time last year but has impressive range and excellent
speed. He'll likely spend most of his time as a nickel or dime
back, but he has the inside track on the starting job going into
the fall.5-10, 170-pound junior Arrington Hicks
started eight times last year making 17 tackles with a
team-leading seven broken up passes. One of the team's fastest
players, he needs to show better range and tougher tackling
ability. He also has to stay healthy. However, when he's on the
field, the former Florida high school track star, who was one of
the state's best hurdlers, he'll have no problem staying with
any receiver. Working on the other side will be
Mark Mitchell, a long-time reserve who spent most of
his time on special teams making two tackles. The 5-11,
179-pound junior has the speed and he'll be a willing tackler,
but he'll have to hold up when teams pick on him. Most passing
games will try to stay away from Hicks.
Projected Top Reserves:
Junior Kevin Long spent
most of last year at corner, starting ten times, making 25
tackles with an interception and three broken up passes. At 6-1
and 196 pounds he has excellent size and good enough speed to
get by, but he didn't do enough to make big plays and he wasn't
nearly consistent enough.Senior Chris May
was a solid backup in every game making 25 tackles with
a sack and three tackles for loss. However, he didn't have any
interceptions and he didn't break up any passes. The 5-10,
200-pounder tackles like an extra linebacker at free safety, but
he has to 5-11, 182-pound junior Derrick Hunter
is a speedster who has been a key part of the secondary
in the past, making 49 tackles two years ago, but he didn't do
enough against the pass. He's a speedster and he has decent
tackling ability, but he has to come back healthy after missing
all of last year.
Watch Out For ...
Downard to become a bigger playmaker. He
had a decent year as a strong safety when he was healthy, and
now he should be all over the field as a free safety and he
should lead the team in picks.
Strength: A combination of skills. There's good
speed and nice size all across the secondary with the experience
to go along with it. With the right coaching, this group should
be able to do far more.
Weakness: Interceptions. This has been a big problem for the
last few years. Last season, the secondary came up just five
picks, the linebackers came up with the other three, and there
were only 27 broken up passes as a team.
Outlook: The secondary had an awful year with no
consistency and too many big passes allowed. The pass efficiency
defense was last in the MAC and 116th in the nation. There's
plenty of speed and plenty of potential, but someone has to step
up and become a defender to be worried about.
Rating: 5
Special Teams
Projected Starters:
Senior Zach Johnson was a fantastic
punter two years ago averaging 42.1 yards per kick, but he was hurt last
season and ended up averaging just 36.2 yards per try while splitting
duties. He's healthy again and will be more than fine. He also turned
into a nice placekicker two seasons ago, but he gave up the duties and
will just be a punter. Junior Joe Carithers hit 10-of-14 field
goals but didn't show much range topping out at 43 yards. Johnson has a
bigger leg and could handle the longer kicks, but Carithers will be the
man for everything 40 yards and in.
Sophomore RB Corey Welch will handle the
kickoff return duties after averaging 21.6 yards per try while splitting
time. He'll be the main man, while receiver Marvon Sanders will take
over the punt return job full-time after averaging 9.2 yards per try on
his four attempts.
Watch Out For ... Johnson to be back to form. The leg
injuries should be all healed up and he should be in the mix to be among
the MAC's best punters if he can get some help from the coverage teams.
Strength: Experience. Everyone is back, and now
there should be more production from the return game with Welch and
Sanders getting more work.
Weakness: Coverage teams. The kickoff coverage was bad, allowing
22.4 yards per try, but the punt coverage team was worse giving up 13.9
yards per attempt.
Outlook: Experience alone should make the special
teams better after a down year, but there has to be more consistency to
the punting game, more pop on field goals, and far, far better coverage
on returns.
Rating: 6


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Chronic Dev Team member @pod2g sent out a tweet stating they are all still actively working on an iOS 5 untethered jailbreak. After Comex's departure to Apple a lot of the jailbreak community is wondering how it affects future development of jailbreak tools. Even though Comex played a huge part in the jailbreak scene there will always be many others willing to step in and fill his shoes. The cat and mouse game will always continue.
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Comex has been answering a lot of the general public's questions about his upcoming internship at Apple over on Reddit. Many users have been wondering whether or not this will effect jailbreak and how hard it will be for other jailbreak developers to find exploits with Comex working for the other guys now.
Jailbreak developer Nicholas Allegra, better known as comex and best known for userland exploits that allowed untethered Jailbreaks, and the Jailbreakme.com web-based Jailbreak, has announced on Twitter that's he'll be taking an internship at Apple this fall.
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So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple.
Last night the iPad 2 Jailbreak that Comex has been working on for JailbreakMe.com was leaked online by a beta tester, and this morning it's all over the web in post and video form. And we're not going anywhere near it.
We've waited this long for an iPad 2 Jailbreak, we might as well wait the last few days for a well tested, verified, proper release version. Hacking iPad 2 was most likely non-trivial for Comex, and messing around with leaked betas seems needlessly risky, unless you have more time, spare iPad 2s, and urges to tinker than you know what to do with.
Comex's Jailbreakme.com site has been updated again with yet another image that shows a list of commits along with an overlay saying:
"It's been far too long."
"It's been far too long."
JailbreakMe.com has been updated with an image, that could suggest a new PDF exploit.
JailbreakMe.com is famous for offering a simple way to jailbreak by using an exploit directly from within Mobile Safari without having to plug the iPhone/iPad into a computer.
JailbreakMe developer, @Comex, has updated the site with a teaser for another potential exploit in iOS. According to Comex's Twitter, the image is of Mt. Snow ski slope with a sign that shows a 'black diamond' (which is a skiing symbol for 'advanced') and the word 'PDF'.
Is this for a long-awaited iPad 2 jailbreak? Or has a new exploit been found in iOS 5?
Jailbreak developer chpwn posted the photo above from his Twitter account, crediting comex. As you can see, the device is obviously the iPad 2. There's no question as to whether or not it's running iOS 4.3.
I've been receiving a lot of questions about the state of current jailbreaks, especially when it comes to the just released iOS 4.3 beta and the Verizon iPhone (demo models ran iOS 4.2.5). The jailbreak community is working on a jailbreak but they have stated it will not come out as long as iOS 4.3 is in beta. There's a good reason for this. Most jailbreakers already realize it's a cat and mouse game with Apple.
If one of the dev teams has an exploit, they don't want to burn it. If they release it now, Apple can patch it before the final release and it's of use to no one. Unlocker @MuscleNerd isn't planning on releasing an unlock until iOS 4.3 is official, and for good reason. Here's what he has to say -
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I can't imagine a general jailbreak tool being any different. No point burning exploits for no good reason. So on that front, just be patient. And as always, don't upgrade right away if you plan on jailbreaking.
In the mean time, you can make sure you save your SHSH blobs if you're already jailbroken. You can also read through our jailbreak starter's guide if you're curious but new to the jailbreak scene.
Click through for a current list of firmwares and what your jailbreak options are under each firmware. We've also got some links handy after the break to walkthroughs explaining each method.
The SHAtter exploit found by pod2g appears to have been leaked. Who leaked it and for what reason is still unclear. What is clear is that Apple will certainly find a way to patch the hardware if it did in fact leak. When Limera1n was released, it kept the SHAtter bootrom exploit safe for future jailbreaks as it would require a complete hardware revision to be done by Apple.
SHAtter basically used a hardware exploit in the A4 series of devices (iPhone 4, iPad, AppleTV 2nd generation, and iPod Touch 4G). You can bet Apple will make a hardware revision to patch SHAtter. It seems there is some drama between some members of the jailbreak community over who actually "leaked" the SHAtter exploit.
@P0isixninja of the Chronic Dev Team is pointing a blame finger to @Musclenerd. As Musclenerd concentrates on unlocks, it seems unreasonable to think he'd leak an exploit he would need in order to create an unlock. Click through for a response to the drama from @comex, who claims if it doesn't stop, he'll just e-mail the exploit directly to Apple. Not good news for the jailbreak community.
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Jam, the Engine agency, has landed the task of turning Mr Bean into a comedy star on mobile plaforms.
Endemol's Tiger Aspect Productions has appointed Jam to create a series of mobile apps for Rowan Atkinson's hapless character.
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WHEN Sophie Loker became a community midwife 18 months ago, she had no idea that her job would also become something of a school reunion.
The 26-year-old often finds herself helping old friends from Colonel Frank Seely School, in Calverton, through their pregnancies.
Miss Loker, who works out of Stenhouse Medical Centre, in Arnold, said: "It's nice being a community midwife in Arnold.
"Because it's close to Calverton it's good to go back and I do see a lot of ladies that I went to school with.
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"We are all at that age now where we're having babies, so I can see a couple of ladies a month who I know from school. It's really nice to catch up."
Miss Loker became a qualified midwife in 2011 and worked at the City Hospital until moving into the community.
She is currently helping around 75 women who live in and around the Arnold area with their pregnancies, and has been involved in around 150 cases since starting as a community midwife.
Mother-of-two Miss Loker, who grew up in Ravenshead and now lives in Mansfield, said: "It's a completely different angle of midwifery.
"You meet the ladies soon after they've found out they're pregnant, and see them all the way through.
"Some ladies choose home births, so I can be lucky enough to help deliver their babies at home. It's all very rewarding."
Her work to help one former schoolmate has resulted in Miss Loker being nominated in this year's Nurse or Midwife of the Year Awards, being run by the Post and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Holli Bowes, who was in the same year at school as Miss Loker, nominated her for the awards as a thank-you.
The pair had lost touch since leaving school but were reunited during Miss Bowes' pregnancy.
Miss Bowes, 26, of Arnold, said: "It was my first pregnancy, so it was really nice and reassuring to have Sophie on hand. If I had any problems or questions I could contact her. She always took the time to message me back with different information."
Miss Bowes, who is on maternity leave from her job at the David Lloyd gym in Aspley, gave birth to her daughter, Eliza, at the City Hospital on September 29 last year.
She weighed 6lb 13oz and arrived three weeks early, after Miss Bowes had been diagnosed with the liver complication cholestasis.
She said: "Sophie called me the night before and was on the phone to me for 50 minutes explaining the process to me, and in her own time.
"It was quite scary but she went above and beyond to help me. She'd be a deserving winner of the award."
In her nomination, Miss Bowes said: "Sophie was kind and reassuring and informative from the start. Whenever I had a 'is this normal?' question she was always at the other end of the phone for me."
Of her nomination, Miss Loker said: "I give everyone the same level of care. It's just nice to know that the amount of hard work I put in has been recognised."
The deadline for nominations for this year's awards is tomorrow but there is still time to nominate online.
They are three categories – adult nurse, children's nurse and midwife – and must cover work over the last 12 months at the QMC or City Hospital, at Ropewalk House in The Park, or in the community.
Public voting for the awards, sponsored by Tramlink Nottingham, will start on Monday, April 7, with the overall winners revealed in May.
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date approved: 1/23/2012
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text: Selling as I have recently upgraded and this is now surplus to requirements. It's only ever had light movie use (as I live in a semi) and hasn't ever caused me any problems. It comes with the spike and grille which is in perfect condition. There are some light circular scratch marks on the top but you can only see them when up close. I've tried to reflect this in a picture of the top. It would really need to be collected, although I could deliver it for the cost of fuel within 20 miles or so. Looking for £90 Location: Birmingham I have read the trading rules and agree to abide by them at all times until the transaction is concluded to the satisfaction of all parties involved : Yes. -------------------------------------------------- This message is automatically inserted in all classifieds forum threads. By replying to this thread you agree to abide by the trading rules detailed here. Please be advised, all buyers and sellers should satisfy themselves that the other party is genuine by providing the following via PM to each other after negotiations are complete and prior to dispatching goods and making payment: 1) Landline telephone number. Make a call to check out the area code and number are correct too! 2) Name and address including postcode 3) Valid e-mail address (no disposable addresses such as @gmail or @yahoo for example). DO NOT proceed with a deal until you are completely satisfied with all details being correct. It's in your best interest to check out these details yourself. Also we advise that the vendor post images of the items for sale. This helps your sale by showing the condition of the goods prior to dispatch.