Rafateers Ahoy!!!

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Miami Sound Machine ...

After a run to the final of Indian Wells, where Rafa mysteriously left his form in the toilet, we now move on to one of his favourite locations, full of latino flava and great Rafa support ... Miami.

For the man who holds the record of winning the most Masters Serious titles, this is one of few that eludes him. He's been to the final only once before, and last year saw one of the saddest sights I can ever recall of Rafa ... that of him cursing and beating his leg above the knee as it seemed that his knees where once again failing him.

The doubles are dropped for this tournament, and Uncle Toni is back in town. Rafa dropped out of playing in the charity football match for Japan stating that with this tournament and for what is to come, he's entering the most important phase of the season for him, and he has to be careful.

He faces one of his more difficult draws for a while, and with Novak rising to Number 2, this is the first tournament where we have Rafa and Feds drawn to meet in the semi-final. Can Rafa steer his way through an un-chartered draw? Will he meet Novak once again in the final and is he the man to end his fantastic winning streak? Can he finally get a title that eludes him in the so-called "5th Slam" and will he celebrate by swimming with the dolphins or will Dorky go and re-acquaint himself with his old mate Goofy in Disneyland?

C'mon Rafa ... you can DO it!!!

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Welcome to the Rafael Nadal chat thread. This is a place to celebrate, be positive and to have fun whilst discussing Rafa, the Armada and tennis in general. So whether you are a long-time poster, a newbie, or maybe a nervous lurker, if you can meet Rafa's triumphs and disasters and treat those two imposters just the same, then this is the place for you. All are welcome, so please feel free to join in with the fun ...

Good morning all my luvverly Rafateers .....I retired to bed early last night especially after Woofs comment about Miles ....I should never have untied that man's legs


Are we all looking forward to the return of our boy silly question really.....of course we are

Am off out for the morning, but will catch up with you all later on

I'm back....

Which do you prefer...

1) :run1:

or

2) :run2:

I also got you..

for if Rafa ever loses...

Good morning King Beer!!

Well ... my vote for <run> goes to .... :run2:

And thank you for the smiley ... although I hope we won't have to use it too often!!

Thanks very much for your efforts, but has something happened to the other smiley??

Yeah, it's in hiding as it was rubbish. I'm trying to find a better one.

Good morning Rafateers

Glad your Dad's home Wooffs! Your story of the photocopier made me because even though I'm not really a youngster I am forever helping out those less able on the scanning/photocopying machine apparatus

I prefer the No 2 run smiley too. And love the blowing nose smiley. Hehe.

It's Rafatime - it really is! Today! So excited, noh?!

Good morning all lovely Rafateers!!

Lovely Denzy, lovely Rafan, lovely King Beer and lovely lurkers

Excited? ... me? ... noh!! Lovely Rafa is back on court today

However ... go and :run2: to the Rafatennis fred ... there is news!!

Rafateers ...

I fear I may have been a bit hasty in <banning> RafanCats (that troublesome duo) from yesterday.

It was mean, and horrid and not the behaviour befitting a Rafateer. So ... as I peace offering, I would like to present them with these ...

Although you will have to indulge me as the first one just HAS to have a <caption>

RafanCats wish a thousand ills on the woman who has an even better job than Denzy ...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1RdKBBwCTao/TXDZKr4ARnI/AAAAAAAAC5U/41K77U96rYo/s1600/Feds1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z3z58SYcREY/TXDZKusybpI/AAAAAAAAC5M/LTRsZcTQfLo/s1600/Feds2.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HPZz3DBVEYs/TXDZKah99_I/AAAAAAAAC5E/J8ZipJbKnAU/s1600/Feds3.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ueNHz9BLIFo/TXDZKFreXaI/AAAAAAAAC48/Oouhzxt0jnU/s1600/Feds4.jpg

:run2: :run2: :run2:

We're forgiven

Hmmm...... wonder if I can go to Rafatennis and delete my offer of cleaning Wooffs house for a week as penance!! :run2:

Caption No 1

Hold still Roger, just let me polish your halo

:run2:

I just heard from Queens. I am NOT successful in the Ballot. Quelle surprise!

cats_r_cool wrote: We're forgiven

Hmmm...... wonder if I can go to Rafatennis and delete my offer of cleaning Wooffs house for a week as penance!! :run2:

Too late !! Seen it ...

Cats will be <waffer thin> after all the :run2: she's doing ...

Translations of <Northernisms> will be given if required ...

Aw Rafan, that sucks.

Excellent caption.

Woooooooo ... the look of love ...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NGP6V450O34/TXDdKcdUQMI/AAAAAAAAC5k/5Ut7n01sxzA/s1600/feli.jpg

I might celebrate that one with a ...

Just found that smiley. However ... we rather like our <bubbly> on here, don't we ladies ... :run2:

Yes, we are more of the <bubbly> variety than spit and sawdust <rofl>.

Feli's hair is looking lush, I'm glad he's grown it again. He's looking more like Jesus every day

I am <hooting> with laughter Rafan



I love Feli with long hair ... so <Eurotrash>

Hello all ....I like no 2 run as well...although I never have the need to use it as I don't make trouble like Woofs does

Poor old Rafan....like me no luck in Wimby or Queens

Thanks Cats . I'm trying to think up captions for the others but struggling. No change there then hehe.

Oh Wooffs...techigenius...how do I remove my online status? I looked at my preferences and I've asked it to "hide" me but it doesn't.

Ooh Feli Just give me the chance

Denzy one of my friends got offered tickets for Wimbledon, second Tuesday, on Court 1 (women's QF). She doesn't want them - do you want me to see if you could have them instead, or doesn't that hold interest for you?

We can buy tickets for Queens from 6 April anyway, so no need to worry too much about that one

It lovely Denz!!! How are you my lovely?

Ooooo Feli ... just ...

Oh thanks Rafan but that day I'm at my local agricultural show so will have to say no to them.....but it's a lovely thought

Rafan Well done you.

With regard to removing the online status thingy ... I really don't know how to do it because I have it set in my preferences as not to show, but it still does.

Can any of the lovely mods on here help with this??

Not too bad thankyou lovely Woofs am looking forward to seeing our boy later on and Feli Nando Daveed (tho he's not playing) and Tommo....cos we likes him oh and little Marc

<fangirl>

Woofie,

You can be my guinea pig.

Could you go to the main page and see if i am showing as online?

just watching the opening ceremony. Rafa looks very happy and got a huge hand from the crowds.....Feli just looks fabulous

<envy>

Wish I was watching. I'm going to be living vicariously through you Denzy

National anthem of Spain being played...all the boys have thier arms around one another, and a big smile from Rafa

King Beer

Just went onto the Home page and into the Site rules thread thing and there was on ONLINE status showing against you.

Was that where to look?? <luddite>

Denz ... are we moving over the the Rafatennis fred???

Woofie,

You will show as 'Online' to yourself and the Admin team. Nobody else can see you. You might notice that your name appears in italics, this signals that you are not shown as online.

Hope that helps!

Uncle T is in attendance....Rafa just looks soooooo happy to be back, he really does love this competition, you can see it means so much to him.

Ok Woofs

Hi KB ...

Well ... my name doesn't appear to be in italics, but I can still see my online status.

We'll check this out with each other till we get it right. Thank you!!

Is the online thing still appearing to you?

No .. it isn't !!

Problem solved!

Thanks King Beer!!

Thanks King Beer! Marvellous work again.

Another little question (I'm getting demanding). Would it be possible when we click on the title of a thread for it to go to the latest page, rather than the first page? If not, no problems, because we can click on the latest page number, but I keep forgetting to do that

See in the menu before the thread, it will show you the last post and next to it is a iddy bitty little orange square. Click that and it will bring you to the latest post.

Good evening all lovely Rafateers!!

<screams> and :run2: s about like an idiot ...

You know I was deriding the much awaited Rafa Armani campaign that never was ... well ... get a load of this little 20 seconds of Rafaheaven ...

<swoons> and <faints>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxJWnz2CJqM&feature=player_embedded

<thud> .....ooh Woofs...it wasn't long enough

Denz ... I won't tell you how many times I've watched it ...

If this is just a snippet ... we will need someone to fan us down for the full thing ...

just a quick hello, pleased you guys are loving it here
You are a like a breath of fresh air to the forum.

It's the stuff of fantasies but you can just imagine him dissolving into giggles when it was finished, and he became dorky Rafa again

Hi Y I Thanks for your comment....believe me it's a lot of fun on here and we are loving it

YIM

I can only just echo what Denzy has said. We've barely been on here a week but its been fantastic so far

In truth, we're not any different here than what we were in the other place, and yes on chat we go a bit daft, but its all part of us having fun and enjoying Rafa and the tennis.

So nice that we don't have posts removed every 5 minutes for being "off topic" or I'm trying to get the thread out of moderation. You've also helped us so much to settle in, so thanks to you and Solerina and King Beer too (and anyone else I may have missed. Blimey ... its like an Oscar speech. )

Great stuff so far

Good evening Rafateers and thanks for keeping me up-to-date with the scores today Denzy

Just logged on to check out photos/news/clips after today's match. And I see there's an Armani treat for us

Dog Bailey is asleep in my computer case - I think he's confused about whether he's a lapdog or a laptop

Thanks for the kind comment Y I - we are finding it a breath of fresh air here too - LOVE it!

Its lovely Rafan

at your little joke ... but that an such as yourself has used THAT smiley!!

Good, innit?? ..... :run2: