Gazing at life through a haze of opiates, I’m intensely relaxed about not getting a proper blog post up, and just giving you the matches.
But I will add an emphatic TSK!* that the Cardiff and Ulster matches have yet again been scheduled at the same time.
*This is more vehement than a PFFT!
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The Heidelberg Tourist Information Bureau has posted this:
Falcon tries to decide whether to deliver a TSK! or a PFFT!
And this.
And as a reminder, here’s the info.
On the telly this week
Friday 3rd January
| Cardiff 14 – 16 Scarlets | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster 38 – 17 Munster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Sales 48 – 10 Harlequins | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 4th January
| Treviso 19 – 38 Glasgow | 13:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Gloucester 29 – 15 Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Dragons 25 – 18 Ospreys | 15:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Zebre 41 – 13 Cheetahs | 15:00 | Freesports |
| Leinster 54 – 7 Connacht | 17:30 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Edinburgh 61 – 13 Southern Kings | 19:45 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 5th January
| Wasps 31 – 35 Northampton | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
Ovally Balls 
Been checking out the RugbyPass rankings as hadn’t looked at them for a while.
Whp’s the 35 best outside half in the world?
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Whp’s the 35 best outside half in the world?
Dodgy typing.
Who’s the 35th best outside half in the world?
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Which club will AWJ be playing with next year?
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I have no idea.
Quade Cooper?
DeeBee?
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Peter Horne.
Sorry, 35th best? Thought you meant 350th best….
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It’s Finn Russell.
The index also has Anscombe as the 16th best – has he played since the summer? Stafford MacDowall in at 26. He doesn’t even play fly half.
Jaco van der Walt at 13, now yer talkin’
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Adam Hastings, 5th best fly half in the world.
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Highest ranked Glasgow outside half is Adam Hastings at 5. Big Stafford McDowell is 26. Brandon Thomson is 37.
Quade Cooper is at 122.
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Ah, ticht. Jumped in before me.
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The team rankings are the best:
Legends 45th
Italy 60th
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Whit? Finn? 35th? That’s just daft.
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Richie Mo’ongua, Beaudie Barrett, Owen Farrell and Handre Pollard all in the top 10 … for scrum half, naturally.
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Bad work by me. Wrong data inputting. Not been a good evening. I’m trying to put off doing any work for the moment.
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There are times I’ve seen Hastings and he doesn’t look like the 5th best fly half in Glasgow, never mind the world.
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RG Snyman is the best player in the world, apparently
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Anyone seen Wisting, the new Norwegian Scandi Noir?
I’ve seen the first episode and it looks good.
Although it was a surprise to see Carrie-Ann Moss in it.
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With a dose of back to work-horror perhaps.
That’s cold Chimpie. Even for you.
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“Which club will AWJ be playing with next year?”
The Blues (not the Legendary ones) could do with a good lock. Actually, we could do with two or three.
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@DoggyBone – I played most of my illustrious career at 9, not 10, but also had spells at hooker and a brief one at openside flank. Even so, I was a shit load better than flaky Quade.
@Ticht – RG Snyman is the best player in the world, apparently
That’s about right, since I hung my boots up.
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Ticht – yep, been watching Wisting (oops, nearly made a bad typo). It’s an enjoyable example of its genre.
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Good morning all (and time zone appropriate greetings to the rest of you on the peripheries of civilisation). Happy New Year and all the best for 2020, which having started with horrific fires in Aus and Mango Unchained trying to dodge impeachment by killing an Iranian general, can only get better.
My first day back at the office, so you’ll all be horrified at the prospect of a renewed onslaught of pathetic puns and awful alliteration masking a complete lack of knowledge of rugby in general and Saffer Super rugby in particular. But we’re Rugby Championship and World Cup Champions, so it matters not a jot.
If Thaum can stomach previewing my thoughts on the various SA sides, I’m happy to provide some copy for ATL as well. As a taster, here’s my preview for the Aussie ‘Conference’:
They’re all crap and import worse Saffer journeymen than the Welsh sides (to think that was possible!). Can’t touch League or Footie players because reputation, mate. Raiding the Pacific Islands with promises of golden beaches, barbies and beer nets them Auckland 4th XV-level garbage (usually from Auckland, itself a scene of rugby self-immolation these days). No-one cares who tops their conference, as they’ll lose to whichever Kiwi side dodges the wooden spoon in New Zealand by beating the Auckland Blues.
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Well those rankings have provided a mild chuckle if nothing else.
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‘That’s cold Chimpie. Even for you.’
they call me the iceman.
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Fuck, I think I’ve got an interview. No idea what the job is but somehow got something through LinkedIn.
That social media eh?
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Delusions of Val Kilmerism.
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Is anyone looking forward to Topgun 2? We need Cat to unpack this.
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Is anyone looking forward to Topgun 2?
No. Next!
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Faf du Plessis tosses his wicket and the match away three overs before hte new ball and 25 minutes from lunch. Twit.
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i was actually looking forward to Cat’s review of the Guardian ranking of Federico Fellini’s 20 greatest films.
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Gentle steal, if I may? Thank you, good people.
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‘Fuck, I think I’ve got an interview. No idea what the job is but somehow got something through LinkedIn.’
Is it something that can earn up to £6K a day for 2 hours work, from home and is totally amazing?
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Iceman >> than that twat maverick.
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We all know that craigs has been pressing F5 on this page for months: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/phil-davies-9975b514
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What was the thing on either AOD or it might even been as long ago as the Mothership, there was something about the volleyball scene in Top Gun and its “gayness” that was a thing for a while in one of the previous iterations on the notablog.
Talking of Maverick, I watched the latest Mission Impossible a few days ago, just because it was on tv. There was a plot in there somewhere and some of the stunts were fun, but man did it go on too long. They could have halved the number of explosions and chases and they would have had a decent action movie.
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Selling cocaine?
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but man did it go on too long
Against my better judgement (and advice from here) I watched 6 Underground over the holidays. The opening car chase – all 7 hours of it – really set the tone for an utterly boring film. Amazingly, the baddies had cars and guns waiting on every single corner of every street in whichever city it was, but couldn’t roll over an Alfa – probably better if they’d just waited for the engine to seize. Not sure how it finished because I flicked channels after about 23 hours and I think it was only halfway through.
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Deebee – yes, please! I’ll email you at the address you’ve used to sign in.
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186/5 with 56 overs still to go! England will fancy their chances now, big time – except that South Africa have two of their premier batsmen at the crease. Unfortunately, that’s in the one day game.
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Thaum – that’s perfect! No idea what the address is, but I suppose I can have a look!
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Erm … that address doesn’t work.
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If it’s the icon.co.za address, it doesn’t exist anymore – how would I get stuff to you?
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“Selling cocaine?”
Possibly. Like I said the actual job description is not… There.
I messaged my mate, who messaged his mate, who messaged me, and I sent my cv, she sent on to her mate, I followed up with this guy, he sent it on to his mates who now want to interview me.
So I could be a Welsh club coach or a drug dealer. I’ll keep the blog posted.
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Tell your boss that you have a really important meeting in wherever and need a really large lunch budget to woo the client.
Then you catch a flight to Europe somewhere, go all out on a lunch fit for 15 Kings (not the Kingz), post a photo of it here and then thaum gives you the email address where you need to send your submission.
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Then you catch a flight to Europe somewhere
Good restaurants in Newport?
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Can you sign in with a real email address?
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Changed my e-mail on WordPress – see if it works?
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You don’t eat when you go to Newport.
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Cheers, Deebee – that seems to have worked!
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Kitson’s latest might be peak Kitson.
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yosoy’s occasionally weekly expert level space news:
Elon, Of Course I Still Love You
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