Mornington Crescent

[Rollo]

Not since the forums changed houses have we had a forum game of Mornington Crescent, so let's have another go.
Should anyone desire a copy of the rules, I can suggest that great storehouse of information, NF Stovold's 1952 book "Mornington Crescent: Rules and Origins".

For this opening game, it shall be played according to the 2012 Olympic Variation set of rules which means that Underground-Overground Wombles are free and that although Shoreditch is out of play, Shoreditch High Street is in play, everything south of New Cross Gate is in play but Blackfriars is in knip.
Seven Sisters and Tottenham Hale are unplayable on Thursdays due to the current breakdown of society.

Being an older player of the game, I'll start:

South Kensington

[Mintexmemory]

Assuming that you are not going with the 'Glasgow convention' opening gambit and that the Emirates Airway is neither Overground nor Underground (Wombles would be soggy) then I think I'll start with a defensive, yet multi-opportunity, Bank.

[D-Type]

Now the Olympics are over, we can't use the 2012 Olympic Variation set of rules. But we can use the 2012 New York Flood special rules so Bank is now temporarily disallowed but London Bridge is permissible

[Mintexmemory]

Mmmm, cunning - a vertical in times of flood! What we need is an Ark, and in order to fill it -
Regents Park
I took the lovely Samantha there last week so I could show her the parrot and cockatoo

[Rollo]

Flooding is acceptable isn't it?
Kingsway

If not,
Holborn

[Mintexmemory]

Holborn requires a fleet riposte, a parry in the vicinity of Saffron Hill a thrust down Clerkenwell Road (ah those were the days) and a final dispatch at Farringdon

[Rollo]

Let's think.

Hoxton? Er, no. Damn.
Mile End? Maybe... I'd be in a jam.
Said Sam I am...

Green eggs and East Ham

[Tazio]

The Left Bank :/

[Mintexmemory]

The Left Bank :/

Better just watch for a while mate, it's a cut-throat game and after a long pause it's about to get messy!
The 1938 Everard codicil allows a mirror rebound when there isn't an 'r' in the month or the location, so:
West Hampstead

[Rollo]

The Left Bank :/

The left bank? It that the bank which is in the relative direction of left, or is it through some catastrophe, design or accident, the only bank which remains: hence the "left" bank?

Either way, this comment expresses a which for chirality play and I'm going to move to The North Bank...

Arsenal