During their play activities, children not only play old games but repeat counting-out rhymes and retain play-party songs that have long ceased to be a part of adult activity in Western culture.
Fiscal reality means Scottish clubs – particularly those not among the leading lights – face a constant battle to retain playing talent.
The Tigers approached the game with a clear mindset to retain possession, play it safe and avoid bombing the ball inside 50, which the likes of Brian Lake and Josh Gibson eat for breakfast against disorganised teams.
Wells played only one season for Durham after his move from Leicestershire, but the north-east club will retain his playing registration in case of emergencies.
Easter will retain his playing contract but Kingston was at pains to point out that he will be a coach first and foremost, not a player-coach.
He fought to retain his playing time and fought to get paid in full and, when the team suspended him, fought to preserve his honor and his paycheck.
In October, however, Celtic were fined £100,000 for poaching him from Kilmarnock, who were allowed to retain his playing registration, effectively ending his career as a player.
The Leonard of late — the one who took three practice strokes before every putt and whose mind was an attic filled with clutter — was scoring so poorly, he was not certain he would retain his playing privileges.
Guilfoyle added: "I am really pleased that we were able to retain the playing squad without selling off young stars - which in the end was a crucial decision to achieve the sale.
A critical and popular sensation for the small and inventive Gate Theater in London, Mr. Kramer's copiously accessorized staging works hard to make "Woyzeck" fun with a capital F, while retaining the play's heart of darkness.
Pizzetti also retains the play's austere tone, so appropriate to the church venues that typically serve for productions of the play — and a far cry from the 1964 film "Becket" (based on the play of the same story by Jean Anouilh), which finds Becket (Richard Burton and Henry Peter O'Toolele) carousing during their earlier, friendlier days.
