As I’m w*rking this evening, only time for a quick update on the televised matches.
*Or possibly the one who said they preferred the short ones.
On the telly this week
Friday 6th December
| Enisei-STM 12 – 28 Castres | 16:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Agen 3 – 73 Bordeaux Bègles | 19:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Edinburgh 31 – 20 Wasps | 19:35 | epcrugby.com |
| Bath 17 – 34 Clermont | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Saturday 7th December
| Northampton 16 – 43 Leinster | 13:00 | Channel 4 / BT Sport 2 |
| Lyon 28 – 0 Treviso | 13:00 | BT Sport 3 |
| Toulon 37 – 17 London Irish | 13:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Worcester 34 – 28 Dragons | 15:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Bristol 37 – 11 Stade Français | 15:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Zebre 27 – 24 Brive | 15:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Leicester 59 – 7 Calvisano | 15:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Ulster 25 – 24 Harlequins | 15:15 | BT Sport 2 |
| La Rochelle 24 – 27 Glasgow | 15:15 | BT Sport 3 |
| Munster 10 – 3 Saracens | 17:30 | BT Sport 2 |
| Ospreys 19 – 40 Racing | 17:30 | BT Sport 3 |
| Bayonne 11 – 19 Scarlets | 20:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Cardiff 54 – 22 Pau | 20:00 | epcrugby.com / S4C |
Sunday 8th December
| Gloucester 26 – 17 Connacht | 13:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Sale 20 – 22 Exeter | 15:15 | BT Sport 2 |
| Toulouse 23 – 9 Montpellier | 15:15 | BT Sport Extra |
Ovally Balls 
Chimpie – clearly no one has insulted your miniature submarine.
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this is true
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I think I’d react in a mature and measured manner if someone did however.
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I’m still waiting for the George Clinton/Stephen Malkmus collaboration.
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“Michael Gove analogising with rugby league.”
Brexit as Huddersfield 1895?
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When the UK leaves the EU we will have better ball handling skills and higher levels of aerobic fitness.
We’ll smash the Germans in the bleep test.
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Saes will have to steal Welsh talent to raise standards.
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Sackarawa
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Imagine he’ll really struggle to find a club
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Basically has to retire
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Oh, wait, the other thing
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Can’t wait until he rocks up at Saracens.
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Cartoon I saw in the Torygraph whilst in Italy (was only English-language newspaper I could find):
Interviewer: So Boris, what’s your favourite lie of the election campaign?
Bojo: I don’t lie!
Interviewer: Yes, that’s my favourite as well!
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‘Elon Musk’s lawyer asks cave explorer to apologize for insulting submarine’
Musk originally claimed that calling someone a “pedo guy” was a common, innocuous insult in South Africa when he was growing up. I’d like to place on record, that for all the bigotry, racism and intolerance that our country has been (and still is) infamous for, I have never, ever heard that term used here. Ever. Musk is lying through his teeth on this score. But too vain and cowardly to put his hand up, admit he was wrong and move on. Wanker.
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Nipper>Amos
Matthew Morgan; Owen Lane, Rey Lee-Lo, Ben Thomas, Josh Adams; Jarrod Evans, Tomos Williams; Rhys Gill, Kirby Myhill, Scott Andrews, James Ratti, Josh Turnbull, Shane Lewis-Hughes, Olly Robinson, Will Boyde (capt).
Replacements: Ethan Lewis, Corey Domachowski, Keiron Assiratti, Macauley Cook, Alun Lawrence, Lloyd Williams, Jason Tovey, Hallam Amos.
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Leone Nakarawa was very happy at Glasgow, he left for an eyewatering amount of money, something the SRU could never match, but he would be very welcome back there.
I hope the SRU are at least sounding him out
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Or he could join Edinburgh and there would an ginormous rageshat explosion around the west end of Glasgow
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Brave Brave Sir Boris,
Brave Sir Boris Ran away…
When danger reared it’s ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Boris turned about
And gallantly he chickened out
(apologies to Monty Python)
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So I’ve just received the shaft of all shafts at work. Was waiting to hear about a contract renewal for January. Thought it was fine as I was planning next year on my bosses instruction. I’ve been asking since mid October.
Instead he has said that he doesn’t have approval to extend it. There’s a new role but he needs to think about what it will look like and I am welcome to apply along with everyone else when the time comes. I don’t think he ever wanted to extend it. So I’ll be unemployed from 20/12. Amazeballs.
He’s a saffa so I might call him a pedo guy in a bit. Or maybe a doose.
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*boss’s
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Fuxakes, that’s a kick in the nuts Craigs, I hope it works out
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Ticht – don’t worry, watch what I have planned
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Tough it out Craigs!!
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Brexit – well who’d** ‘a thunk it?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/06/eu-distances-itself-boris-johnson-timetable-post-brexit-trade-deal
** apostrophes gratuitously inserted for OT’s ** benefit…………………….
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This could always have happened, and I have a ‘buffer’ just for this kind of thing, but fuck me they could have made their minds up more quickly.
Generally you are given at least your notice (if they got rid of you mid contract) period but generally a bit longer to find something. This close to Xmas as well.
I’ll be OK, but this is really unprofessional.
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@craigs
you just need a nice cushy, permanent FD* job somewhere. Nice pension, holidays and the like.
*Finance Director, not social science academic
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“Your”
Chiefs side to play Sale:
15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Jack Nowell,, 13 Henry Slade, 12 Sam Hill, 11 Ian Whitten
10 Joe Simmonds, 9 Nic White
1 Alec Hepburn, 2 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3 Harry Williams, 4 Dave Dennis (capt), 5 Jonny Hill, 6 Dave Ewers, 7 Jacques Vermeulen, 8 Sam Simmonds
16 Elvis Taione, 17 Ben Moon,, 18 Marcus Street, 19 Jannes Kirsten, 20 Don Armand, 21 Jack Maunder, 22 Gareth Steenson, 23 Olly Woodburn
Man of the moment winger O’Flaherty is hamstringed and Woodburn returns to the bench after his injury.
Kvesic injured, Armand only returned last week, but strong bench.
Should be a great game……………..
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Craigs, I think there has been a steady decline in the quality of managers’ ability to handle these situations – tending to hide behind ‘human resources’ and suchlike / not being trained for it.
From experience, year-end was when a lot of changes were planned. Whenever possible I would inform my subordinates as soon as possible. The question was always: “before or after xmas?”
Neither is agreeable and I felt it my duty to tell people asap – I had no right to hide the information. This usually meant before xmas – a real damper but………………………….
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Country Life update…
Just been rotovating in the vegetable garden – soil really heavy and full of weeds.
Good news – new hip worked a treat
Bad news – I have become extremely unfit
Good news – New exercise/punishment bike delivered yesterday……….now assembled and growls at me every time I pass it!
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Hard to bear Craigs. I imagine it was too inconvenient to tell you sooner.
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What’s Big Leone done?
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That sucks Craigs. There’s just no respect out there in the employment world anymore.
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Inconvenient for them I mean of course.
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Time to do a dump in his desk drawer craigs.
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Not while he’s there, that would be weird
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“What’s Big Leone done?”
He went back to Fiji after the RWC and stayed there too long as far as his employers at Racing were concerned, which I guess is fair enough, if he’s contracted to be in Paris he should be there, but he was obviously in no rush to get back.
The story goes he was overseeing a house being built for his family, which I guess is the benefit of playing for the big money clubs.
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Cheers guys.
A friend just bought me 2 pints after lunch.
I’ll be fine.
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“The story goes he was overseeing a house being built for his family, which I guess is the benefit of playing for the big money clubs.”
Mr Wray will be in contact shortly.
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“My wife and I are well into our fifth decade together. We still make love at least once, usually twice, a day, occasionally more than that. For me, nothing else in life comes anywhere close to the complete euphoria it brings. Now we’re older, sex takes longer, but that’s a bonus.”
Now we know why the DCI has been largely absent from the notablog recently.
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@craigs
sorry to hear about your situation – though your tone seems to imply that you’re more annoyed about the late/slow notification than the fact of the matter… best of luck anyway
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Craigs, that is a shit one.
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Trisk – yeah. I was planning next year. So it’s a bit of a head scratcher really.
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Commiserations Craigs. Your boss sounds like a right asshole.
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That man’s poor wife and daughters are probably chained up in an outbuilding.
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MrIks – if true that would be ‘peak guardian’.
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This Drags back row is like a beautiful porcelain Fairy sitting atop of a Christmas tree even Charlie Brown would have left behind.
Dragons: Will Talbot-Davies, Owen Jenkins, Tyler Morgan, Tom Griffiths, Ashton Hewitt, Sam Davies, Rhodri Williams (c); Brok Harris, Richard Hibbard, Leon Brown, Joe Davies, Matthew Screech, Aaron Wainwright, Ollie Griffiths, Taine Basham
Replacements: Elliot Dee, Josh Reynolds, Aaron Jarvis, Max Williams, Huw Taylor, Luke Baldwin, Jacob Botica, Adam Warren
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Twice a day? Every day? Can’t have much time left for anything else.
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Seemed like a piss-take to me Craigsy, but frankly speaking it is not my area of expertise. I find listening to a 5 minute Prog outro gruelling.
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Twice a day every day for 5 decades. Even the town hall clock with its little mechanical display morning and evening would be hard-pressed to achieve such consistency without regular lubrication from a third party expert.
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MrIks, I read yesterday that Dragons prop Jack Cosgrove had to retire from rugby with immediate effect after a training ground accident. Such a shame, he was a Scottish international at U20s and had a lot of potential, but that’s him done at 25 years old.
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