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 
Yeah, so nerr.
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Boris should send a couple of hundredmillin quid to Vlad as well then, just to hedge his bets.
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@sbt
Oooops
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If I was a weary bird looking for a place to sleep then Coo-face’s hair would be a dream come true.
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Poor guy’s neck’s squished enough without you landing on his heid.
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thaum, where to send the preview?
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Fuck me Owen Jones has a patreon account. You can pay £3 to £100 per month plus VAT for his videos.
Jumping on the alternative media bandwagon.
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Owen “I’m not as good as John Harris” Jones – I’ll just continue ignoring his videos on Patreon as I ignore them on Youtube.
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OT – are you sure? Watch this and be blown away
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Tbh that’s the worst promotional video I’ve seen in a very long time.
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“If you’re pretty fed up at the moment about how things are going and you wanna do something about it then I have a very, very, very special announcement which I think you’re gonna be very interested in”
I’d be very interested in Owen calculating the uncertainty budget in pillar 2 PCR and LFT community testing facilities. I wonder if he’ll be doing that.
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OT – He should get someone to talk about that for 3.5 hours like Joe Rogan.
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Joe Rogan just does what Spotify tells him to now.
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OT – that reminds me. I still need to listen to his latest Alex Jones episode.
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OT – seriously though I think he is trying to be more responsible now that he has a big deal. He was talking about it to Glenn Greenwald and how he feels the pressure of having a massive audience and making sure he isn’t spreading too much misinformation.
Whatever you feel about both of them it was a great podcast if only to find out about the background to the Snowden leaks.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/11/pfizer-chief-sold-56m-dollars-of-shares-on-day-covid-vaccine-was-announced
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Eddie does an Eddie
England squad
Starting XV:
Elliot Daly, Jonathan Joseph, Ollie Lawrence, Henry Slade, Jonny May, Owen Farrell (captain), Ben Youngs; Ellis Genge, Jamie George, Will Stuart, Charlie Ewels, Joe Launchbury, Maro Itoje, Jack Willis, Billy Vunipola
Replacements:
Tom Dunn, Mako Vunipola, Kyle Sinckler, Ben Earl, Tom Curry, Dan Robson, Max Malins, Joe Marchant
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Sbt – that was part of an automated process apparently. So not actual market abuse.
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TomP – I’ve emailed you at the address you use here.
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@craigs
He could choose what day to issue the press release to coincide with the automated process. They did announce it before the study was peer reviewed, which has annoyed a few people….
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OT – it’s triggered by the shares reaching a certain value rather than a date….
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The peer review thing is more concerning to me.
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Fidji : Radradra testé positif à la Covid-19
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Messes up my preview, which I’ve sent to you, thaum.
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@craigs
So by announcing it first he can get maximum personal benefit from the surge in price and on a date he has control over.
I doubt when the price went up and the automated selling kicked in he went “oh, what a personally pleasant coincidence”.
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OT – you could argue that it would have happened later presuming that Pfizer did well enough. These schemes are relatively common given that it’s his job to improve the share price. He would say that the announcement is part of that. And it’s fair to say that it’s premature. However, even if they had waited it would likely be a timing difference. If they know that the vaccine is unlikely to pass peer review then that is a different thing but there’s no evidence of that yet.
It’s a synty situation and there are valid arguments against this kind of thing (short termism).
As it stands it’s still not market abuse.
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If he’d bought loads of shares before the announcement that would be different.
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Le XV de départ de l’Italie : 15. Minozzi ; 14. Trulla, 13. Zanon, 12. Canna, 11. Bellini ; 10. Garbisi, 9. Violi ; 7. Steyn, 8. Polledri, 6. Negri ; 5. Cannone, 4. Lazzaroni ; 3. Zilocchi, 2. Bigi (cap), 1. Fischetti.
Remplaçants : 16. Ghiraldini, 17. Ferrari, 18. Ceccarelli, 19. Meyer, 20. Mbanda, 21. Varney, 22. Allan, 23. Mori.
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Top 20 Katharine Hepburn films over at Graun
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/12/katharine-hepburn-20-best-films-ranked
No surprises – except maybe Adam’s Rib. Top 3 as you might expect….
The Philadelphia Story still has the most condescending line ever delivered…. when asked by Tracy Lord / Hepburn his first name James Stewart replies “I’m Mike to my friends….” and is met with the withering reply “Of whom you have many, I’m sure”. Marvellous film…. even the musical remake High Society is good – don’t always get a chance to see Crosby and Sinatra singing together…. all topped off with Grace Kelly and a cameo from Satchmo.
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Adam’s Rib is terrific. I’d have Holiday much higher as well.
Bringing Up Baby is spectacularly good – and with a lot filthy dialogue as well.
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Looks weak. Scotland by 16.
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trisk,
Debbie and Iggy:
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Ah….with the Hays Office and Catholic League of Decency around – you had to be subtle – plus a lot goes into the delivery
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Katherine Hepburn – local girl.
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@sbt – Ah, yes. Connecticut…. can’t recall where though..not New Haven??
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Craigs, you seem pretty vehement in your defence of the Pfizer guy. You got any skin in the game ?
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Well, has anyone seen craigs and that pfizer guy in the same room?
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Sbt – pffft. I’m not defending him in particular but I used to monitor traders from a market abuse perspective and this ain’t it.
I’m filing this under ‘excessive corporate pay outs’ to complete arseholes etc etc. Tbh, the short termism is a problem for the company given how much the share price has dropped since (helped in part by there suddenly being loads of shares on the market). A better system would have been a target for a period of time followed by a staggered selling of the shares.
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Had anyone seen Chimpie and Chris Ashton in the same room?
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Georgia are in for an uncomfortable time at the weekend I reckon
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Happy enough to eat a Nando’s but that’s the only similarity.
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Along with the amazing athletic prowess
*coughs*
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Would be nice to see Jonny May get the chance to run with the ball in hand for a change, instead of all the kick chase stuff thats been going on for the last couple of years.
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I’d like to see him do his sideways thing again. Gotten a little dull since he started going forwards.
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Don’t care how he gets there, tbh, forwards, sideways, backwards, its all good, as long as he gets over the whitewash a couple of times. He has certainly lost a little of his springy deer type stuff over the last couple of years. Wonder how much of that is coached instructions to behave, and how much is change in muscle type since his knee rebuild.
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‘Mon Scotland! Time to end however many years of hurt it is and get to a major footy finals again!
I mean we only have to beat Serbia. In Serbia.
Ah.
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Very exciting half-backs. That’s what you need to know.
Georgia:
15 Lasha Khmaladze, 14 Akari Tabutsadze, 13 Giorgi Kveseladze, 12 Merab Sharikadze (captain), 11 Sandro Svanidze, 10 Tedo Abzhandadze, 9 Gela Aprasidze, 8 Beka Gorgadze, 7 Giorgi Tkhilaishvili, 6 Beka Saginadze, 5 Grigor Kerdikoshvili, 4 Lasha Jaiani, 3 Beka Gigashvili, 2 Shalva Mamukashvili, 1 Mikheil Nariashvili.
Replacements: 16 Jaba Bregvadze, 17 Guram Gogichashvili, 18 Lekso Kaulashvili, 19 Otor Giorgadze, 20 Tornike Jalagonia, 21 Vasil Lobzhandidze, 22 Demur Tapladze, 23 Aleksandre Todua.
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We’re looking worryingly competent here. At least we’ve got the weather on our side – it’s pishing down.
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Yes!
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And Norn Iron have equalised!
These last few minutes are going to last hours…..
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