Gimme 5

First topic message reminder :

All you have to do is answer the previous 'Gimme 5' and set a new one.
So if the previous poster asked for 5 types of pizza I would say:

Meat feast
Pepperoni
Ham & Pineapple
Calzone
Margherita

Now, gimme 5 coastal countries

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The Make Your Own Limerick Up Thread
The HUll Kingston Rovers Thread
Last Film Watched Thread
The Last Poster is the Loser

5 news storys that have made you sit up and read

Japan-China face off
North Korean nuclear tests
Leveson Inquiry
Drugs in Sport
Fires/Floods in Oz

5 News Stories which Annoy/Upset You

I wont pick actual storys more subjects

Anything involving Child Abuse ....upsets
Storys about peoples lives being turned upside down by no fault of their own .......upsets
Animal cruelty .......upsets
Wannabes coming out in the papers to expose celebs wrong doings .....annoys
Anything putting Z list ' celebs ' in the news ......annoys

5 Boxing matches you would like to see happen

Michael Parkinson v Clive James
Arsene Wenger v Harry Redknapp
Conrad Black v Rupert Murdoch
Anthony Mundine v Botha
Piers Ackerman v Some Redneck

5 more boxing matches....

Mayweather v Pacquiao ................just so people stop asking for it
Sonny Bill Williams v Lee Radford
Arnie v Sly
Amir Khan v Kell Brook
Haye v Klitschko ..............see above


5 favourite names

Boris
Taylor
Johnson
Kevin
Ahmed

5 favourite agricultural products

Potatoes
Whisky (from malt)
Rice
Ale
Corn

5 favourite cuts/forms of meat, Inc game, poultry etc

Top Sirloin
Rib Eye
T-Bone
Lamb Chop
Chicken Breast

5 favourite Super XV Rugby teams

Reds
Bulls
Chiefs
Brumbies
Cheetahs

5 more

Tahs
Highlanders
Crusaders
Force
Stormers

5 favourite Super League Teams

Hull KR
Wigan Warriors
Widnes Vikings
Warrington Wolves
Bradford Bulls

your 5

St Helens
Leeds Rhinos
Wakefield Wildcats
Castleford Tigers
Catalans Dragons

5 least favourite NRL clubs

Melbourne Storm
St George Illawarra
Canterbury Bulldogs
North Queensland Cowboys
Newcastle Knights

5 of yours

(I'll have to double up on some of yours)

Roosters
Dragons
Storm
Knights
Broncos

5 least favourite Prem League teams

Man Utd
Man Utd
Man Utd
Man Utd
and Everton

no seriously

Man Utd
Everton
Arsenal
West Brom
Aston Villa

5 of yours

Man U
Chelsea
Everton
Wigan
Stoke City

5 favourite teams

Liverpool
West Ham
Chelsea
Tottenham
Man City

5 of yours

Liverpool
West Ham (from 1970-75 they were my favs)
Arsenal
Wimbledon
Derby County

5 favourite all time Tennis players

Boris Becker
John McEnroe
Jimmy Connors
Kevin Curren
Steffi Graf

5 more

Margaret Court
Evonne Goolagong
Pat Rafter
Rod Laver
John Newcombe

had to pick some Aussies...

5 Least Favourite Tennis Players

Andre Agassi (until he decided to stop being a flamboyant tw@t)
any grunting shrieking woman player
Michael Chang (mainly cos of '89 French open, mediocre cheat)
Goran Ivanisevic (was ok til he started bleating about his f*****g faith)
Jean-Wilfred Tsonga (can't stand players who play the crowd)

5 more least favourite

Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario
Marcos Baghdatis
Jim Courier
Liz Smylie
Justine Henin

5 Favourite European Football Clubs (outside of UK)

Real Madrid
Juventus
Wolfsburg
Lille
Barcelona

5 all time favourite sports teams ( any sport )

Harlequins FC (rugby Union)
Toronto Maple Leafs (Ice Hockey)
Somerset County Cricket Club
Canberra Bulldogs (Rugby League)
England (generic)

5 players who made a good/average team great

Canberra Raiders?

Michael Clarke
Freddie Flintoff
Ronaldo
Andrew Johns
Bobby Fulton

(hard one... most of those had some very good players)

Another 5 players who made an average team great

I meant Canterbury!

ha ha!

can i change it slightly to a player who made a team better by being in it ( ie not an average team but better with them in it )

Messi - Barcelona ............. very good team but add Messi then they are great
Steven Gerrard - Liverpool ............... average team take Gerrard out and even worse
Eric Cantona - Man Utd ................. the spark that took Utd to another level
Kevin Sinfield - Leeds Rhinos .................. Leeds are not the same team without Sinfield in the side
Michael Jordan - Chicago Bulls .................. led them to title after title

5 players from other clubs you would want in your side

I'll pick one for each of my team mentioned above!

Quins- Dan Cole from Leicester- best TH in the Northern Hemisphere, would give us an immense scrum plus his work in the loose is awesome
Maple Leafs - Ilya Kovalchuk, classy goal machine on the wing
Somerset- Alistair Cook - Would go awesomely well with Tresco as an opener
Bulldogs- Sonny Bill back please
Quins again - Tom Wood - would make an awesome back row with Robshaw and Easter

5 hardest challenges in professional sports today

Tennis Grand Slam
Win all Golf Majors in one Year
World Cup (football)
To beat Usain Bolt
To post more posts than our King Kenny.

Another 5 really difficult sports Challenges

To beat Rafa at RG on the main court
To beat the All-Blacks in New Zealand
To bowl a hatrick maiden
To win the Tour, the Vuelta and the Giro in the same year
To keep pace with Rudisha

5 grounds that give the best home advantage

Eden Park
The Basin
Carisbrook
Carlaw Park
MA Chidambaram Stadium

5 most annoying Actors (overrated, etc)

Will Smith
Will Ferrell
Jim Carrey
Ray Winstone
Tom Cruise

5 more

Yours are pretty good... 4/5 of mine would be the same.

Better let Kenny or someone else have a swipe at it.

Ben Affleck
Anne Hathaway
Gwyneth Paltrow
Danny Dyer
Courtney Cox

5 Actors you can watch in anything they do

Burt Lancaster
Kirk Douglas
Gene Wilder
Colin Farrell
Daniel Craig


Five. Actresses you can watch in anything they do

Sophia Loren
Liz Taylor
Goldie Hawn
Halle Berry
Doris Day

5 favourite dog breeds

Anything that resembles a wolf/dingo/jackal
boerboel
bull mastiff
labrador
anything that chases its own tail

5 dog breeds you'd like to feed to a python

Pit Bull
Staffordshirebull Terriers
Whippet
Greyhound
All other chav dogs

5 pets you always wanted

Big cat of some sort - probably a leopard
Python
Eagle
Lemur... or some animal with big eyes & bushy tail
Pig

5 more pets you've always wanted

Panda
Mongoose
Alexa Chung
Ground Hornbill
Emma Watson

5 species of animal you wouldn't mind helping become extinct.

Midge
Mosquito
Hyena
Funnel Web Spider
Blue Whale (they're a hazard to commercial shipping)

Another 5 species you'd like to see extinct

Rats
Snails
Flys
Skunks
Emus

5 Dangerous things you want to do

Tell 50 Cent exactly what I think of him and his "music" and "film"
Do a solo Sky-dive
Get a pet tiger
Do a tour of South America
Do another bungee jump, I suppose

5 things you wouldn't do for £1million

kill a family member
Leave my family
catch a sexually transmitted disease
support for Man Utd
support for Hull RLFC

5 of yours

relocate to Somalia
relocate to Syria
relocate to Afghanistan
relocate to Iran
relocate to Mali

5 favourite AFL teams

Collingwood
Carlton
Hawthorn
Brisbane Bears
Freemantle

5 of yours

Carlton
Collingwood
Hawthorn
Richmond
Sydney

5 Favourite Bundesliga Teams

Wolfsburg
Bayern Munich
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Dortmond
Hamburg SV

5 favourite Serie A teams