Only Connect - can we raise a team?

I think they are meant to be - it is a sort of joke in itself.

Does anyone else find Victoria's attempts at humour grating

DH and I are fans too, I occasionally get the connections rounds and some of the walls. Like others I'm best at missing vowels.
Wouldn't want to see myself on TV though

I love it but I am useless. Play the connecting walls on-line- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Z79DzzJY8w2R58bpftq14k/quiz
Practice if you are going to enter! Can we suggest names for the team???
"Old trout fishers" (Gransnetters)

I'll have a go. I'm quite good at University Challenge - except the maths and some of science and can do some of Only Connect and quite a bit of Mastermind General Knowledge round.

I should have said - I too am usually defeated by the connections rounds, better at the Wall and missing vowels. Such joy when I do get a connection!

Thanks for your interest and encouragement! We'd got 3 people definitely interested in an Eggheads challenge, may well apply when it opens again. There's one or two considering, I expect a reserve is needed, as for Eggheads, so most likely four are needed.

But it's a wonderful idea, hope you can get four lateral-thinking Gransnetters, Elrel!

DH and I are OK usually with the missing vowels and not bad mostly with the wall but the first two rounds give us trouble!

I agree. I enjoy Only Connect but with admiration for all those intelligent, lateral thinkers!!!!!

Egg heads is hard.... pitched against those people with better memories for knowledge than me.

I love Only Connect but the only thing I'm any good at is the connecting wall. I'm afraid I was never much use at lateral thinking!

No-one has replied to your wonderful post! - I love Only Connect, but get so few connections that I would be no use to you at all! I am however good at the round with the missing vowels.