Saner parts of the world, such as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (and I never thought I’d write that) are managing to go ahead with their matches, but in the Pro-14, non-cancelled matches scheduled for today are rarer than gracious election concessions by Donald Trump.
There are a couple of not-cancelled Top 14 matches that don’t appear to be available for your viewing pleasure in the UK, and the Sunday and Monday (boo, hiss) Pro-14 matches are so far still on. The English Premiership appears to be having a wee rest.
Maybe it’s just a plot to make us all savour the prospect of Friday’s Ireland v Wales supershowdown. Supposing it doesn’t get cancelled.
Fixtures not yet nixed onna telly this week
Saturday 7th November
| Australia 24 – 22 New Zealand | 08:45 | Sky Sports Arena |
Sunday 8th November
| Ospreys v Leinster | 15:00 | TG4 / Premier Sports 1 |
| Scarlets v Zebre | 17:15 | S4C / Premier Sports 1 |
Monday 9th November
| Ulster v Glasgow | 20:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Edinburgh v Cardiff | 19:45 | Premier Sports 2 |
Friday 13th November
| Ireland v Wales | 19:00 | Channel 4 / S4C |
Ovally Balls 
Trump seems to have finally flipped his lid completely. He’s holding a press conference in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping (not to be confused with the Four Seasons Hotel). It’s next to an adult bookshop.
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* blows party squeaker thingy *
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I wonder which Neil Kinnock speech he’ll use to declare victory.
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Kinnock did it better
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Lockydown Netflix subtitled recommendations- Watched Love and Anarchy this week, had me giggling. Kind of off the wall, kind of sweet. Maybe a touch too much nudity for younger viewers. A pleasant surprise, and a nice change from my usual Scandi Noir. Thumbs up for Rusky Apocalypse To the Lake.
read this and thoroughly enjoyed it too:-
http://paulamclain.com/books/the-paris-wife/
Not my usual read, but want to get into some Hemingway now.
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SBT, I’m really enjoying Queen’s Gambit on Netflix, Chicago 7 was excellent, in a Sorkin kind of way – you know who he is rooting for but there are some very good performances and I didn’t know the story, it’s a “fist punching in the air for the Left” type of film and dog knows we need them.
I enjoyed Enola Holmes, great fun, Rebecca was very nearly very good, worth a watch.
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Cheers, Ticht, will add them to the list Still haven’t got to Thaums DNA.
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“Six Nations organisers would like Amazon to become part of a bidding war for the TV rights to the championship from 2022, along with Sky and BT ”
Wankers.
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Seconded.
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Edinburgh Rugby team to face Cardiff Blues at BT Murrayfield in the Guinness PRO14
Monday 9 November (kick-off 7.45pm) – live on Premier Sports
15. Jack Blain (3)
14. Eroni Sau (12)
13. Mark Bennett (41)
12. Chris Dean (95)
11. Jamie Farndale (10)
10. Nathan Chamberlain (3)
9. Henry Pyrgos (37) CAPTAIN
1. Pierre Schoeman (48)
2. David Cherry (25)
3. Lee-Roy Atalifo*
4. Andries Ferreira (1)
5. Jamie Hodgson (9)
6. Magnus Bradbury (81)
7. Luke Crosbie (42)
8. Ally Miller (16)
Replacements: 16. Mike Willemse (25) 17. Sam Grahamslaw* 18. Dan Gamble* 19. Marshall Sykes (1) 20. Connor Boyle (1) 21. Nic Groom (15) 22. Charlie Shiel (22) 23. James Johnstone (53)
24 players unavailable due to international selection and injury, three scrum halves in the 23. Two very young replacement props on dayboo.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Oh and last years U20s fly half who has had abut ten minutes game time for Edinburgh
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https://www.ultimaterugby.com/news/watch%3A-scottish-u20-flyhalf-stars-with-a-hattrick-in-record-victory-over-wales/625965
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He was really good in that game, SBT
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In fact there are three players from that U20s squad in the Embra squad for tomorrow- Chamberlain, Boyle the openside with the red scrum cap and Jack Blain the fullback/winger.
A fourth, Rory Darge has also signed a full time contract with us this season.
I’d like Ewan Ashman to do likewise, if we can prise him away from Sale
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An interview that’s more interesting than the Ospreys/Leinster match: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/08/gabriel-byrne-its-an-obscenity-to-tell-innocent-children-theyre-going-to-hell
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Up yours Craigs
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Zebre have just had the chance to go ahead of Scarlets at Parc y Scarlets, but missed the conversion. 15-14.
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Scarlets scrape an undeserved 18-17 win against Zebre at Llanelli. At least they managed to go a whole game without a card of any colour, which is an improvement.
The Ospreys, conversely, looked almost competent against Leinster but still lost 7-26.
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Yes – its quite good fun.
Trawling thru the older stuff – Deutschland 83 is good (Amazon Prime) – although slightly caper-ish (a few plot holes need to be ignored)
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Ah yes, the guy that banished covid with his magic spell all those months ago. That went well.
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TomP, that’s part scary, part embarrassing (if other life forms are watching – from afar) and part plain braindead. The MAGA morons wouldn’t be out of place in a Z-grade spoof of Night of the Living Dead or something similar.
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Ah yes, the guy who banished covid using his magic spell all those months ago. That went well.
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Stop repeating yourself. Choob.
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Looking forward to the Embra F team stuffing ‘diff tonight
Or more realistically carrying on our honking early season form. Honk honk.
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HONK!
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Welcome back Chimpie. We missed your erudite musings on the old notablog.
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Erudite is my middle name. Feeling confident about the Weedge visiting Ulcer?
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Feeling more confident about the national team than our club sides currently. Cue a collapse vs everyone.
Duncy Weir is a good club player but not confident in him at international level. *gets flashback to throwing interception pass to Huget at Murrayfield*
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What is it about visits to Wales ending up getting our players long term injured?
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Up yours Craigs
*Cheks mine*
Sorry what’s happening?
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Words Thaum
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Trisk – I really liked Deutschland 83. Need to watch the second series. You are right about the plot holes but it’s fun.
Looking forward to seeing the last season of Vikings.
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Got to do my first performance appraisal for 4 years. Didn’t miss them tbh. I had an interview with my boss and he said things are going well so that’s OK.
If I was honest I would say ‘as usual I have done just enough to stay here and keep people relatively happy. My main strength is being able to only give 60% max and keep doing this. My main weakness is that I can only give 60% to my job and the lockdown isn’t helping’.
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Interview? More like a meeting.
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The performance appraisal process in general, sucks. Obviously need to have a process that measures how people are getting on but it relies on people being reasonable and objective and often ends up being dominated by subjective whim of a few people.
appraisal was pretty light touch this year due to covid. Nearly everyone bracketed into a single ‘doing OK’ bracket ‘cos there’s nae cash for payrises, with a very few given a ‘you suck’ or ‘you’re great’ rating. Onwards and alongwards.
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Just been a major clearout of fairly senior people where I work. I wasn’t invited to take part in the ‘voluntary redundancy’ programme this time.
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Chimpie – I’m definitely ‘doing ok’. There was a restructure at my place which I survived. Given that I haven’t been here long I was very grateful for that.
The person who hired me, who had been on maternity leave since March, but wanted to come back early as her husband had been made redundant, was told that there’s no role for her at her current grade. But she could take a lower grade if she wants. She’s thinking about it and I think she will take it. But that sucks.
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Gimme
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/covid-19-vaccine-candidate-effective-pfizer-biontech
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Yeah that’s all a bit sucky craigs. The pandemic is a good excuse for bad behaviour in some quarters.
Aviation is screwed though. Know 3 pilots who live nearby. 2 made redundant months ago with 0 prospects of another job, one gone down to 75% rota / pay (they all agreed to this to save jobs) but likely the airline will go down next year.
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Haha
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Chimpie – pretty sure there will be an uptick in flights post pandemic though?
It’s going to be the roaring 20s all over again apparently.
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Ugh. Just written the words ‘development opportunity’.
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Interesting thing about that Pfizer vaccine is that they measure immunity through t-cells, not antibodies.
I wonder if they’ll let us have T-cell immunity tests before making us have the vaccine – there’s plenty of evidence there is something like 30% residual immunity in the population already so taking into account the number of people who have had it already only a minority of us need it to achieve herd immunity.
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OT – so is herd immunity a thing then? I hear conflicting reports.
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For example if you look at excess deaths it appears that London has already achieved herd immunity:
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@craigs
Yes it is. It’s why SARS-COV2 didn’t infect us all, and the same with Swine Flu. Look at the London data above for excess deaths.
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OT – so why the blanket lockdown? Just to show that they are doing something?
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