This is unprecedented. Daylight savings time locally doesn’t start until November 6th. And I begin by having no legal moves available…I take that back, there is one, but it’s an entirely unorthodox move…Crystal Palace
Is it, though? According to The Fifth Edition of Musings on Mornington Cresent or A Life on the Tracks, Spode clearly states stations that share a name with a football team cannot be played on a Wednesday until after the September Bank Holiday.
But that did leave me an opening for
Bayswater
Spode is a drunken fool. And widely discredited.
Barking
(iirc that’s the Palmerstone gambit)
Any gambit can be refused, it’s what a gambit is for! So back to Travelcard Zone 2 to Bromley-by-Bow.
I’m a fan of Spode’s, but a close reading of the rule will allow the football exception in cases of the same zone, so I will go to West Ham.
Which, unless I’m missing something positively devious, compels me to block - Stratford
Did you forget that playing any station on the Central Line and one other allows a free play on the Metropolitan Line? Pinner
I must ask you to review the ruling from the New Zealand UG Council on the Central Line Play from 1998. That “free play” is only allowable if the Metro line station is an interchange station.
Euston Square
St John’s Wood.
Archway? Aaaaaaarchway!
Mr Moderator, a word in your shell-like, guv.
A couple of moves ago, when you patently were not paying the requisite attention, the 1998 New Zealand UG Council was invoked. You have been conned, Sir. The game has been dudded. The Auckland CRL is naught but a 3.5km ditch. Under the facade of being called New Zealand #1 infrastructure project, it is a $4.4billion boondoggle of the first order which adds a mere two, repeat two stations to the national rail loop or “rull lup” in Kiwispeak which was begun in 2016 and is due to be completed in 2024!
The 1998 Council never existed, it is a fantasy. It’s mythical invocation is a pastiche of the well structured and time honoured law making structures of this venerable institution simply to introduce non-fungible, fabricated and utterly fanciful embuggerances to the ingress and egress of play which has no place in a properly constructed game. I am too appalled to consider the ramifications were this to be repeated.
The material consequences being that it has compelled, more correctly surreptitiously induced @pjd into playing St Johns Wood which puts them into Nidd, and worse unless very careful with their next play, in perpetuity.
@Pardel-Lux valiant attempt to right the ship with Archway is laudable but the next three most logical moves all put the entire game into baulk. This lack of oversight is frustrating.
I’m sorely tempted to use Cockfosters to reset the table but there is a more enabling play which will allow us to get this whole sorry saga behind us.
Totteridge & Whetstone
Carry on.
How dare you, you cad! You dare cast doubt on my integrity? Sir! I have right here in my hand the minutes of the June 1998 meeting of the New… South Wales UG Council.
My error.
But the point still stands!
Furthermore, to even mention Cockfosters in the same match where Spode had already been evoked shows your lack of basic understanding of the game! While Spode did have his fascist tendencies (the Blackshorts march on Goodwood is unforgivable) the man did know his Mornington Crescent.
But all that is beside the point. If you had even read your Fothergill, you’d know that Northern Line stops were going to be out of play for now. Truely, a novice mistake.
South Ealing
Assuming my enniddment has expired :-
Buckhurst Hill
pjd, welcome to the end of the line - Epping. Central line gambit accepted. Good enough for Winthrop in 1981, Garnier in 2019, and admirably suited now for anyone who likes a nuanced positional game.
The Central Line Gambit has been widely discredited since Garnier was caught stuffing oyster cards in his socks. According to the latest publication of the RMCS, he has since been banned for life. Do you really want to associate yourself with him?
If I may take the April 2002 treatise from the Tenth Earl of Emsworth as my guide, I think I’ll play:
Cutty Sark
It may seem unorthodox so early in the game, but considering what I am listening to, which under the circumstances seems a more than valid argument excuse, and to let off some pressure, both metaphorically from the power station itself and nostalgically from the steam powered trains of yore, I’ll take a detour to Battersea Power Station. This is a friendly game after all, is it not? Let us behave accordingly in a spirit of… aw, never mind.
Bit of a risky one …
Carshalton Beeches
I always swear by Balls Pond Road
You mean Dalston Junction / Dalston Kingsland for sure? Yes, an out-of-station interchange makes sense in this weather. But we must agree on the right nomenclature at some point. I for one would invoque the Whereas Clause 7 (b) iii of the third post-conciliar Carolingian Amendment (when in doubt, double down).
Assuming Dalston Junction and as we’re playing Finsbury/Elkington …
Hornsey