NOT-HEINIE SEMI-FINALS PREVIEW

There are no Irish teams in them, so hardly worth mentioning!

Might as well think about the Wee Cup too.

Bristol v Bordeaux

In a fight between Bears and Beagles, there can only be one winner, and I’m afraid it’s not the lovable hounds.

Racing 92 v Saracens

French home advantage to edge it.

Exeter v Toulouse

Probably another close one, but French inability to play away to lose it.

Toulon v Leicester

How did the Tiggers make it this far? They won’t get any further.

On the telly

Friday 25th September

Bristol v Bordeaux19:45BT Sport 2

Saturday 26th September

Racing 92 v Saracens12:30Channel 4 / BT Sport 3
Exeter v Toulouse15:30BT Sport 3
Toulon v Leicester20:00BT Sport 3

Monday 28th September

Harlequins v Wasps19:45BT Sport 1

Tuesday 29th September

Northampton v Sale17:30BT Sport 1

Wednesday 30th September

Bristol v Leicester17:30BT Sport Extra
Exeter v London Irish17:30BT Sport Extra
Worcester v Saracens17:30BT Sport Extra

420 thoughts on “NOT-HEINIE SEMI-FINALS PREVIEW

  1. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Sorry to hear that Trisk. Hopefully something else turns up soon…

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  2. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Back in’t day when I tried programming was taught a bit of pascal. Is that still even used now?

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  3. tichtheid2's avatartichtheid2

    I echo Chimpie’s thought, Trisk – Good Luck

    I did an Open University course in OO programming, we used Smalltalk as it was apparently the “purest” version of OO, but we also dabbled in Java which was actually brand spanking new at the time.

    My wife talked about Ruby and Ruby on Rails as being THE thing for developers quite recently

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  4. Sorry to hear that Trisk. At least you can be one here 24/7.

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  5. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Everyone excited about ProWoo action returning tonight?

    I predict wins for the blue meanies, ‘diff and Ulcer.

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  6. Triskaidekaphobia's avatarTriskaidekaphobia

    Thanks for all the good wishes – I was in a global team but I knew I was exposed as being one of the few in “high cost” country (most of the team are India and Romania) . My role got re-jigged* a couple of years back – so I ought to have gone then (in retrospect).

    Upside is I got 2 weeks of a “consultation” (to look around for other jobs internally) plus 8 weeks garden leave… unlike a colleague in the US – his boss came back from vacation to be told “you’ve a week to tell Bob he’s being made redundant”….. “Bob” got 2 weeks notice….

    Anyway, the payoff is “not insubstantial” and a lot of the “ex-gratia” payment is tax free. So, I decided to walk and not try to hawk myself around internally. I could easily be in same situation in a year or two with no guarantee of same ex-gratia payoff….

    was taught a bit of pascal

    Not sure it’s used much commercially, but it was always the great “teaching” language (like it’s cousin Modula-2)

    Ruby and Ruby on Rails as being THE thing for developers

    Yes – that’s another “hot” one…. and I’ve got a few free weeks to mug up on it.

    * I was managing an offshore team – and built it up and established a management structure – when the time came to “flatten the hierarchies” my reports became my peers – so effectively I hired my own replacements.

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  7. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Embra to face the Os

    15. Damien Hoyland (75)
    14. Darcy Graham (33)
    13. Mark Bennett (38)
    12. Chris Dean (92)
    11. Jamie Farndale (7)
    10. Jaco van der Walt (58)
    9. Charlie Shiel (20)
    1. Pierre Schoeman (44)
    2. Stuart McInally (146) CAPTAIN
    3. Simon Berghan (82)
    4. Ben Toolis (121)
    5. Grant Gilchrist (151)
    6. Magnus Bradbury (78)
    7. Luke Crosbie (41)
    8. Nick Haining (14)

    Replacements: 16. David Cherry (22) 17. Jamie Bhatti (12) 18. WP Nel (142) 19. Andrew Davidson (3) 20. Hamish Watson (111) 21. Dan Nutton (1) 22. Nathan Chamberlain (2) 23. George Taylor (23)

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  8. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    a lot of players out with injuries already.

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  9. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Ritchie isolating

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  10. The graun is on fire today:

    Ask anyone who is the Blackest white rock band to emerge over the past 30 years, and my hunch is that few would say Radiohead…

    … It might sound absurd if judging by their slightly awkward, extremely white appearance, but I have long heard a strange and beautiful Blackness in Radiohead. There are powerful resonances between their work and radical Black art, that are more meaningful than ever amid our current racial reckoning.

    I’m sure most of their fans just want them play Creep at their shows again but hey ho.

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  11. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Good grief. Why?

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  12. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Opreys

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  13. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Is that FEFHSM[1] I see at 10?

    [1] Former England Fly-Half Stephen Myler

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  14. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    Can the Ospreys be as bad as last year is the question.

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  15. sunbeamtim's avatarsunbeamtim

    https://www.wru.wales/2020/09/mylers-longevity-reminds-me-of-ronaldo-says-webb/

    Fantastic news for England supporters, the Wales fly half factory is obviously being mothballed, maybe production is being outsourced to India.
    Wales fans crying in their beer all over the world.

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  16. sunbeamtim's avatarsunbeamtim

    Always liked Myler, by the way, so good luck to him and well done for earning a few more bucks before retirement.

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  17. sunbeamtim's avatarsunbeamtim

    Also:-
    Good grief. Why?
    Dunno Chimpie, going to have to force myself to read the article now.

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  18. Chimpie's avatarChimpie

    don’t do it SBT, it won’t do you any good.

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  19. thaumaturge's avatarthaumaturge

    New post coming up.

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  20. tichtheid2's avatartichtheid2

    I’ll hang fire then, Thaum

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