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I've had my team talk to me about the right kind of balancing act.

The members of Google's VR team talk about letting people go anywhere in the world through virtual reality.

Sir Alex Ferguson once famously gave a three-word team talk – "Lads, it's Tottenham" – before Manchester United played Spurs.

While the network and the Famous team "talk" things through, the cast is already considering their characters' next moves.

"Jermain inspired the easiest half-time team talk I've ever given," then manager Sean O'Driscoll said in a 2015 interview with FourFourTwo.

Messi has a long discussion with Mascherano in the huddle, then calls the team together in a huddle and gives the team talk.

The team talk after Singapore was of a hard weekend, strategic mistakes made, open goals missed, tough opponents and the need to improve fast.

When they are feeling dreamy, members of the team talk about a California poll that showed his support rising there without the aid of any advertising.

Hearing Ancel and the rest of his team talk about Beyond Good and Evil 2, it's hard not to get caught up in their infectious enthusiasm.

He remembers giving a team talk, only to look to his side and find Ronaldo, bored and impatient, juggling a bottle of water with his feet.

The method is always the same: Sigfússon and his team talk to local officials and devise a questionnaire with the same core questions as those used in Iceland plus any locally tailored extras.

"Oftentimes instead of directly approaching the person they want to talk with, professionals will stick within their own team, talk to their buddies and let their message take like a horseshoe track," he explains.

In a preview for the BBC special A Royal Team Talk: Tackling Mental Health, which aims to help others talk about their emotions, specifically men, William, 36, opens up about his own experience with grief.

Chang and the Furbo team talk to half a dozen dog owners every week to be sure that they are staying on the pulse of what customers want and think about current versions of the product.

For the most part, too, you go on vacation or something like that, and if there's truly a crisis, you're the one that, say, the people on the management team talk to every single day, so you can't not be involved in it.

Listening to the Arnaus felt like a pre-match team talk from Brian Clough and by the time I had reached Row14 and was greeted outside by Juan Sr—he still stands on the door of every party he holds—I was ready to do anything and everything.

Christian Edwards gave the team talk and game plan instead, and Cullis resigned shortly afterwards.

Hell's Wives continues as the league's traveling representative team. The junior Derby Bratz team was also formed in 2011.Northland Nightmares website, "Team Talk", Retrieved 10 December 2011.

Tony Williams, Team Talk Magazine, Number 78, pp.37, April 1998. ISSN 0963-049X before swiftly moving on to join Alfreton Town.Tony Williams, Team Talk Magazine, Number 78, pp.34, April 1998. ISSN 0963-049X In August 1998 he linked up with Leigh RMI before returning to Alfreton Town at the end of September 1998. On 5 July 2010, Storey signed for Staveley Miners Welfare after returning to England following a spell playing in Hong Kong for Shatin SA. He made his debut for the club in the 2–0 Northern Counties East League victory at Louth Town on 4 September 2010.

Text commentary is shown at the bottom of the screen as the match is played. Unlike the previous two games, there is no chance to change tactics or substitute at half time. The team talk and reporter elements are also removed in this version.

On October 14, 2013, he was traded by the Bolts to Air21 Express in a complex three-team trade that also involved Cardona's former team Talk 'N Text. In Air21, he was reunited with his former college coach at La Salle, Franz Pumaren and other former college teammates.

He also appeared in the final of the 1991–92 European Cup against Barcelona. At 27, Mancini sat on the interview panel that selected Sven-Göran Eriksson as manager. Mancini often delivered the team-talk for Sampdoria. He attended board meetings and had a say in transfer business.

The GAA Show usually features a preview of the big game of the weekend. Both presenters travel to rival camps and interview the respective managers and a key player. There are a number of other segments to the programme also. "Team Talk" highlights a particular player involved in the weekend's big match.

Ian John McParland (born 4 October 1961) is a Scottish former professional football player and manager. He played professionally as a striker with a number of teams and he is most known for his eight-year spell with Notts County, a club he later managed. He now features as a pundit on weekly football talk show 'Team Talk' on Notts TV.

The adjective "Spursy", and its derived noun "Spursiness", denotes a certain fragility in the team that consistently fail to live up to expectations and crumble within sight of victory. A phrase also commonly repeated by rival fans is "Lads, it's Tottenham", first said by former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in a pre-match team-talk, to show that Tottenham are weak and easily beatable.

Clark started his career as a junior with Lincoln City followed by spells in local non league football with Boston Town, Holbeach United and King's Lynn, Hendon. He left Hendon with Paul Fairclough signing him for Stevenage Borough,Tony Williams, Team Talk Magazine, Number 32, pp.11, March 1994. Clark making his debut in the 2-0 Isthmian League victory at Dulwich Hamlet on 15 January 1994.

Taylor secretly followed Kenny Burns concluding Burns's reputation as a hard drinker and gambler was exaggerated. Taylor sanctioned his £150,000 July signing. Burns become FWA Footballer of the Year in 1977–78 after being moved from centre- forward to centre-back."Signing 'a hooligan' and a Shankly team talk: how Clough set up Forest for title" The Guardian 11 November 2015 Forest started their return to the top league campaign with a 3–1 win at Everton.

Kicker also praised Norwich's tactics and discipline. Jeremy Goss has written of the reaction of the German players to the first leg defeat: they openly criticised Norwich, with Matthäus playing the lead role, saying that "Norwich was a nothing, little city where the people just ate mustard", a reference to Norwich as the home of Colman's mustard. Goss described it as "not a good idea... [the] sort of thing that does a manager's team talk for him".

With the team still gathered, Dillon gives an inspiring final team talk, in which he comes out. The team express how proud they are of Dillon and offer nothing but respect and support. Jamie and Dillon have to one-to-one chat, in which Jamie states that Dillon's sexuality doesn't change the fact that he is still "a brilliant footballer, and one of [Jamie's] best mates". They both express how much Phoenix have changed their lives.

Disgusted, she calls her father in Hawaii and tells him they will be sending Barry there, hoping to give him a better chance for success. On the day of the game, Barry has trouble running but is able to lead his team to victory. After seeing Carut's disappointment, Barry and his team talk to the bully and give him the prize money. Barry further apologizes to him, and the two groups are able to be friends.

After retiring as player in 1927 Harris became a coach with both the Irish Free State and Shelbourne. In 1932 Harris took charge of the Irish team as they played the Netherlands. Although the team was chosen by selectors, Harris took charge of training and gave the team talk. Before the game Harris declared Pat O'Callaghan put the tricolour flying high here in the 1928 Olympics and it's up to you lads to see it is still flying high this evening.

Hull lost 5–1, in a game in which they received their half-time team talk from manager Phil Brown on the pitch. Disappointed by his lack of first team opportunities, Windass was allowed to leave Hull, and, on 9 January, he joined Oldham Athletic on loan for the rest of the season. He was expected to make his debut the following day, but had to wait after Oldham's game with Hartlepool United was postponed and re-arranged for two days later.

Middlesbrough faced Everton in the sixth round. Boro were unchanged for a fourth successive game coming into the match and were the better side in the first half. David Wheater rose to head home a Matthew Bates cross on the stroke of half time to send them in at half time as the happier side. Everton's assistant manager, and former Middlesbrough coach, Steve Round gave an angry team-talk to his side at half time which fired his side into a much better second half performance.

"Underdog" was used in the credits of the 2010 film Takers. Snooker player Mark Selby has used "Underdog" as his walk-on music. "Underdog" is currently used as the run out music by English League One football teams Colchester United and Peterborough United, until Dave Robertson took over in February 2015, with the first match without "Underdog" being played a 2–0 win over Bradford City. The music also featured in the Carlsberg England team talk advertisement for the 2010 World Cup, as did the band themselves.

Sheffield Wednesday manager Jack Charlton had been tracking Hornsby for some time and he finally got his man. There is a famous anecdote regarding Hornsby which sums up Charlton's laconic personality. Wednesday were playing Shrewsbury away at the end of February 1978, just before Hornsby's move to Sheffield. Charlton was giving his pre-match team talk and midway through turned to Wednesday midfielder Jeff Johnson and said, "You're up against the lad Hornsby, he's a very skilful player ... I'm buying him to replace you".

" He also felt that "a lot of hard work" was the reason behind the team's success. Zidane also revealed that he had instructed his players to "keep going, but to play a bit higher up the pitch, and to keep the ball" during the half-time team talk. Ramos said he was proud that Madrid had "kept their date with history" and felt it was because of the harmonious relationship among the players. Madrid's captain said, "We are tremendously proud of this team, and this institution.

Another model proposes three different "talk" phases: team talk, option talk and decision talk. First, clinicians' work to create a supportive relationship with the patient as they introduce the idea of recognizing the existence of alternative actions (options) - this is to form a team with the patient and their family. Second, the clinician introduces the options in a clear way, describing and explaining the probabilities of benefits and harms that might be likely—this is option talk. In the last phase, patients' preferences are constructed, elicited and integrated—this is decision talk.

After beginning his career with Sheffield United, Storey joined Lincoln City making his Football League debut in the club's 2–1 home victory over Mansfield Town on 13 April 1996. His second, and final, appearance for the club saw him score in a 5–0 home victory over Torquay United on 4 May 1996. He joined Matlock Town at the start of the 1997–98 seasonTony Williams, Team Talk Magazine, Number 72, pp.49, September/October 1997. ISSN 0963-049X before moving on to join then Football Conference side Stalybridge Celtic.

In the 37th minute, Kanchelskis attacked up the right wing for Manchester United, and crossed the ball into the box; Hughes shot at goal with a bicycle kick that hit the bar and rebounded to Cole, who scored his second of the game and made it 3–0. During his half-time team talk, Ferguson urged his team on, challenging them to score another three goals. Keane was replaced with Lee Sharpe at half-time. Seven minutes after the break, Hughes passed the ball out to Denis Irwin, who crossed it into the area.

The team talk screen on the Atari ST. The player can choose one of the three possible responsesGameplay was radically changed from the previous two games. The player chooses a national team and must qualify for and then compete in the World Cup (although choosing champions Argentina or hosts Italy skips qualification). Player names can be entered at the start of the game ensuring they are correct. Although there is no financial element or any transfers, the basic team management elements of the previous games are still retained.

Kramer was the number 3 top scorer for the Powerade Tigers and number 1 rebounder for his team during that conference. During the whole 2011–12 Philippine Cup 14-game eliminations, there were only 4 players who averaged double doubles. Arwind Santos, Harvey Carey, Jay R Reyes and Doug Kramer. Rounding of the 2011–12 PBA Philippine Cup, Doug Kramer played 28 games for the Powerade team all the way to Game 5 of the Finals against the eventual champion team, Talk and Text, which beat them 4–1 in the series.

After retirement, Lizarazu got involved in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He competed in a jiu-jitsu competition in Europe in 2009, where he became European champion in the Blue Belt Senior 1 Light Division. He is also a keen surfer and works as a football pundit for French television and radio. In 2013, Lizarazu was described as a "tramp" by his successor as France's left back, Patrice Evra, after he and other pundits criticised Evra for giving an impromptu team talk during half-time of a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Belarus.

The Te Kauwhata farm is located in the Waikato. Her sister Belinda Milnes was an advisor to Social Development Minister Paula Bennett, and when Bennett appointed her as Families Commissioner in 2013, the Opposition complained of cronyism. David Ware, chief executive of NZX-listed company Team Talk, husband of Milnes and brother-in-law of Adams, has publicly criticised Adams in her role as Communications and Information Technology Minister, where government policies favour big telecommunications companies. Ware feels "dreadfully let down" by the Communications and Information Technology Minister.

The sixth episode was broadcast 26 April 2009 and featured the first semi-final, contested by O'Driscoll's St Patrick's team and Davis's Glasdrumman. O'Driscoll brings her team to Limerick's Saint Patrick's Day parade where she is acting as Grand Marshal and also takes them to Bunratty Castle where she used to perform as a dancer. Davis brings his team to Croke Park where they meet Paddy O'Rourke, an All-Ireland winning captain for Down. On matchday, Glasdrumman have lost one of their main players due to injury and O'Driscoll gives an unexpectedly "steely" half-time team talk."Episode 6". RTÉ.

Before the match, Keenor had asked Robbins if he could have the players to himself for four hours before the game. Taking the team to relax and discuss tactics for the match, in his pre-match team talk he exhorted his teammates, "There's eleven of them and eleven of us, and there's only one ball, and it's ours". Despite their inexperience, the Welsh side held Scotland to a 1–1 draw having taken the lead after six minutes through a Tommy Bamford goal. The display led the Welsh public to call for the same side to remain for the following match against England.

They soon wipe away the surface of the paintings and find letters spelling out Montségur, the fourth location in this challenge. The mountain fort at Montsegur is reached by an arduous two-hour walk which proves too difficult for the male team contestant Alan, who resigns his place in the show and returns to England. At this point, the teams are numerically balanced in terms of personnel following Monica's elimination in the first episode. The boys' morale is left in shatters, but after a team talk, pull themselves together in the hope of regaining their lead.

On 25 October, the club announced the departure, with immediate effect, of sporting director Damien Comolli, head coach Juande Ramos and first team coaches Marcos Álvarez and Gus Poyet. It was announced, within hours, that the club had agreed a deal worth £5 million with Portsmouth to permit manager Harry Redknapp to become the new head coach at Spurs. Redknapp was unveiled as Tottenham manager the same day before the home match against Bolton Wanderers and gave the team talk, although the team itself was selected by Clive Allen and Alex Inglethorpe. Tottenham eased to their first league win of the season, with Roman Pavlyuchenko scoring his first Premier League goal.

Although enjoying it at first, the captain of Thornlake, Kingsmount's opponents in the final, Jethro Stevenson (Miles Wallace), blackmails Dillon Simmonds - stating that, if he doesn't throw the final, he would show the video to the Hawkstone Academy manager (Steve Wood), which would almost certainly result in Dillon being thrown out of the academy, as they have "zero tolerance on any bullying". The final is held at St. George's Park, and Kingsmount face Thornlake School. After a horrific start, primarily due to Dillon deliberately not trying, Hansard gives the team a tense team talk. Dillon admits to Jamie and Jack that he was blackmailed.

In Morrison's second game for Palace, despite defending 'in a ruggedly efficient manner', they lost 3–1 to Fulham (with Louis Saha scoring once and Lee Clark scoring a brace for Fulham). Morrison subsequently played in a 3–2 defeat to Portsmouth and a 1–0 defeat to Grimsby Town After the defeat to Grimsby, Morrison farted during a team talk by Smith, enraging Simon Jordan. Morrison's final game for Palace was a 3–3 draw with Bolton Wanderers, in which Dougie Freedman and Clinton Morrison scored late goals to earn a point. Morrison returned to City at the end of his loan spell.

He joined Liverpool F.C to oversee first team medical matters in 1993, but he is not a full-time employee of the club until later that decade. Waller was responsible for the medical care of all the first team squad, including treatment and prevention of injuries. In October 2001, Waller with the then physio Dave Galley both diagnosed the seriousness of Gérard Houllier's chest pains during the half time interval during the 2001 Liverpool game against Leeds United, which eventually led to an emergency operation on Houllier's heart.BBC News Houllier was giving a half-time team talk when he felt pains in his chest.

These details include the distance between each feature, the degree and severity of bends, adverse camber, crests and hill jumpings, surface type and conditions, potholes, special instructions to the driver, etc. In order that the sheer quantity of detail is useful to a rally team, pacenotes are written in a tight shorthand which is read out loud by the navigator to the driver en route.WRC: Team talk: Pace notes explained., motorsport news, results, features, teams, drivers, updates A number of systems have been devised, and there is no one "standard" for pacenotes, but in practice a number of typical de facto standards are usually used.

Burns was converted from a striker to a centre-back and formed a formidable defensive partnership with Larry Lloyd."Signing ‘a hooligan’ and a Shankly team talk: how Clough set up Forest for title" The Guardian 11 November 2015 Forest started their return to the top league campaign with a 3–1 win at Everton. Three further wins in league and cup followed without conceding a goal. Then in early September Forest conceded five goals in two matches: a 3–0 loss at Arsenal and a 3–2 win over Wolves, which convinced Clough and Taylor to sign Peter Shilton from Stoke for £275,000.

Valdés played his first match since his knee injury on 26 January, featuring for United's Under-21 team in a 2–1 home win over Liverpool. Before the game, he gave a team talk based on the teachings of his former manager Guardiola. He made his first-team debut on 17 May against Arsenal at Old Trafford, replacing the injured De Gea for the final 16 minutes and conceding an own goal by Tyler Blackett for a 1–1 draw. A week later he made his first start for the team in their last game of the season away to Hull City, keeping a clean sheet in a goalless draw which relegated the opponents.

Lucia Realtors then had a career-high 37 points to beat the Barangay Ginebra Kings. Near the end of the round, he played an important role in the win against the powerhouse team Talk 'N Text.PBA The victory put the Purefoods team in a first-place finish in the classification phase, earning them an outright semi-finals berth for the second consecutive time. After the accumulation of player statistics at the end of the semis, Yap edged out teammate Kerby Raymundo and Red Bull's Enrico Villanueva for the Philippine Basketball Association Most Valuable Player award by recording averages of 17.60 ppg, 4.35 rpg, 1.18 apg and 1.19 steals per game (spg) in 36.4 mpg.

Delaney credits Gregory with improving his performances during his early career with Villa, Gregory singling out Delaney during his seventh appearance for the side, describing him as "playing like a tart" during the half-time team talk. Delaney went on to score the only goal of the game in the second half of the match as his side defeated Watford 1–0. During his first season at Villa Park, the club finished in sixth place in the league, reached the semi-final of the League Cup and the final of the FA Cup, Delaney playing the full match as Villa lost 1–0 to Chelsea. He made 193 first appearances for Aston Villa in all competitions, with two goals coming against Watford on 24 August 1999 and Everton on 26 December 2005.

William George Jamieson (born 27 April 1963) is a former football player, who played as a central defender for several clubs in the Scottish Football League, including Hibernian and Heart of Midlothian. Jamieson won the Scottish First Division (second tier title) four times: with Hibs in 1980–81, with Hamilton Academical in 1985–86 and 1987–88 and with Dundee in 1991–92.Stars in Stripes, match programme, 1992, via Partick Thistle History Archive He was signed by Hearts in December 1994, transferring from Partick Thistle (where he had been club captain)Team Talk: Willie Jamieson, Partick Thistle Captain, match programme, August 1994, via Partick Thistle History Archive in exchange for Wayne Foster. He moved on to Ayr United where he added a Second Division (third tier) title to his medal collection in 1996–97.

Runners Up: Charity Shield (1974–75) Don Revie had recommended Johnny Giles as his replacement; however, the Leeds board instead appointed one of England's most successful and outspoken managers, Brian Clough, who had guided Derby County to the league championship in 1972. However, Clough arrived without his key assistant Peter Taylor, who was supposed to be part of the deal agreed by Leeds chairman Manny Cussins, but instead decided to remain at Brighton. Clough was an outspoken critic of Revie and his team; in addition, his management style was in complete contrast to Revie's close relationship with his players and his methodical attention to detail. At Clough's first team talk, he reportedly told the Leeds players to throw their medals away, as they had won them by cheating.

In a press conference in early September, the makers of the Football Manager series revealed a few new features in Football Manager 2013. These included the addition of a director of football, being able to give certain roles to other staff that managers would have to do themselves in previous games, taxes, a new way of making loan deals and the addition of Classic Mode where players could go through one season in eight hours without having to customize training or deal with team talk. On 28 September 2012, the release date was announced as 2 November 2012. If the game is pre-ordered, a beta version of the game will be available two weeks prior to the 2 November, with any saved data being able to be transferred to the release version.

Cullis' brief managerial career at the professional level came when he was appointed manager of Third Division Swansea City on 8 February 1996 by prospective new chairman Michael Thompson. He had never played nor coached in professional football and his only previous management experience was as the youth coach of non-league club Cradley Town, then of the West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, and based at Cradley in the Black Country. Cullis managed Swansea City for just one-and-a-half games: a 1–0 home defeat to Swindon Town and 45 minutes of an eventual 4-0 defeat at Blackpool. In the second match, which took place at Bloomfield Road on 13 February 1996, Cullis’ planned half-time team talk was ignored as the players took control.

Armagh were late to arrive on the pitch and kept the Kerry team waiting almost 5 minutes as they received a spirited team talk from manager and defeated 1977 finalist Joe Kernan. Kernan showed the team the memento"Joe Meets Sam" by Jerome Quinn - Kernan stated that he showed the team his wooden runners's up memento at half time he had received as a player in the 1977 final after Armagh were defeated by Dublin and warned the players that they would face a similar fate if they failed to turn the game around. Marsden and Ó Cinnéide again traded points and a free kick from McConville reduced the deficit to three. Hassett and McConville scored and the Armaghman converted a 45-metre free, Kerry's last score of the day came as Ó Cinnéide pointed again on 54 minutes.

Born in Glasgow, Dinnie played for Baillieston, Partick Thistle, Dundee, Albion Rovers and Petershill. Having made the move up into professional football directly from the Junior level aged 23, he was rated highly by his manager at Partick, John Lambie, for his pace and defensive abilities.John Lambie - the Team Talk XI, BBC Sport, 17 April 2013 He credited Jim Duffy with helping him to recover from serious injury while at Dundee. In his life after playing, he developed an addiction to cocaine and was imprisoned (3.5 year sentence) for supplying the drug,Fitba in the bar-L, The Scotsman, 22 February 2004Former footballer Alan Dinnie threatened man in case of mistaken identity, court hears, Daily Record, 29 May 2012 later playing for local Junior team Bankfoot Athletic as part of his reintegration programme at HMP Castle Huntly.

When it became obligatory for teachers to be qualified, Brown enrolled at Durham University at the age of 54 where he acquired his teaching certificate, armed with which he taught French until his retirement. In his spare time he became passionately involved with a local amateur football club, Broughton Amateurs, where he was appointed first team manager in the 1978–79 season. Two years later he managed the club to a "double" of the Lancashire Amateur League Premier Division, which they won for the first time, and the Lancashire FA Amateur Cup, the first time Broughton had even reached the final. His humour, extrovert nature and managerial ability came out in his pre-Cup Final team talk: His influence extended throughout the club, from acting as "front man" for club functions to looking after the pitches.

Relegation in 1996 was accompanied by an unfortunate statistic: never before had the club been managed by four men in the same season. Most embarrassing was the appointment of Kevin Cullis as manager by a consortium wishing to buy the club. Cullis, whose previous experience was with non-league Midlands club Cradley Town youth team, was certainly not the "big name" manager promised by the new owners. Alarmed at developments at the club, outgoing chairman Doug Sharpe invoked a contractual clause to cancel the deal and resumed control himself: Cullis was promptly sacked after just six days. During his short-lived reign, his evident lack of ability led to senior players Christian Edwards and Dave Penney ejecting Cullis from the dressing room during half time and giving the team talk themselves in a 4–0 defeat to Blackpool, which proved to be his second and last game in charge.

After he manages to talk down Ms. Marvel and Wolverine, the rest of the team talk to the Autobots, and Doom reveals that the Avengers' heightened aggression was caused by a device he developed which was stolen by the Decepticons. Doom departs to attempt to reach a diplomatic solution to the conflict with Symkaria, leaving the Autobots and the Avengers to storm the Decepticon base to rescue Spider-Man. However, Megatron has already determined that the mutated elements of Spider-Man's blood will enable him to enhance his forces' power to a level that not even Energon has accomplished, the enhanced firepower knocking out Optimus Prime just as Iron Man arrives on the scene. Iron Man, in new, Transformer-sized armor, helped to turn the tide against the Decepticons, allowing Prowl, Ratchet, Luke Cage and Wolverine to get inside the ship and rescue Spider-Man.

Ham then signed as free agent with the Washington Wizards (1997), Milwaukee Bucks (1999), Atlanta Hawks (2002) and Detroit Pistons (2003). In his eight-season 417-game NBA career, he averaged 2.7 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.8 fouls in 12.4 minutes, on top of .598 FG and .494 FT shooting. Ham competed in the 1997 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, and was a member of the 2004 NBA champion Detroit Pistons. His powerful slams earned him the nickname "Dunkin Darvin" and "Ham Slamwich", as a fan favorite when playing for the Milwaukee Bucks (1999), that carried on into the rest of his career. In 2005, Ham was a participant in the Basketball Without Borders program that was located in Johannesburg, South Africa and later in 2015 he participated in the Dominican Republic. On January 17, 2006, Ham was enlisted by the Philippine Basketball Association team Talk N' Text Phone Pals as its import.

His methods included saying aloud the Lord's Prayer during the pre-match team talk, preparing written strategic game plans for each individual match, and appointing captains for the defence, midfield and attack. In January 2000, with Chester out of debt and all the club debts paid off, and with Chester only one point from safety in the Division, Ian Atkins was appointed in a dual role as director of football and manager, in a bid to avoid relegation. Despite increasing their player wage bill by a very large amount, going into the final game of the season in May, Chester were 23rd, and faced a three-way battle with Shrewsbury Town and Carlisle United to avoid the drop to the Conference. With fifteen minutes left in the seasons, Chester was still above both Shrewsbury and Carlisle, but due to Shrewsbury's 2–1 win at Exeter City, Carlisle's 1–0 loss to Brighton, and Chester's 1–0 home defeat by Peterborough United through a very late goal, Chester were relegated from the league on the final day, by goal difference.

Following a brief stint in the ABL, Taulava signed for the Air21 Express to play the 2013 PBA Governors' Cup, making him the oldest active PBA player at 40 years old. He made his debut on September 13, 2013 against his former team Talk N' Text, where he scored 7 points and led his team to a 106-102 victory. Due to Air21 being unable to reach the playoffs of the 2013 Governor's Cup, Taulava finished the 2012–13 season with only 3 games. In his second season with Air21, Taulava saw more action in the league. Express was eliminated in the first round of the 2013–14 Philippine Cup with a dismal 3–11 record. Taulava led Air21 to the quarterfinals of the 2014 Commissioner's Cup where they met the San Miguel Beermen. In a surprising upset, Air21 made their first semifinals appearance in franchise history, after beating the second-seeded Beermen with the knockout game ending in two overtimes.Dragon-slaying Air21 shocks San Miguel Beer to reach semis, Chris Lagunzad, Yahoo PH Sports, April 25, 2014Air21 ‘gatecrashes’ semis after booting out no.

Five Cardiff backs were selected in the Wales team captained by Bleddyn Williams that beat the All Blacks again less than a month later. These two results remain the last time either Cardiff or Wales have beaten New Zealand. Cardiff repeated their unofficial championship victory two years later in 1955, and had three Lions in the 1955 touring side, notable for not including any of the five that toured in 1950. The three this time were fly-half Morgan, centre Gareth Griffiths and wing Haydn Morris. Morgan, in front of a then-world record crowd of 100,000, helped defeat the South Africans 23–22 with a brilliant try despite an injury to Reg Higgins reducing the Lions to 14 men (no replacements were allowed at this time). After the South Africans squared the series in the second Test, Morgan was made captain for the third Test and inspired the team with a combination a stirring team talk and a great kicking game to a 9–6 victory, ensuring the series could not be lost, after which he was dubbed "Morgan the Magnificent" by the South African press.