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Since there are a few fellow coaches etc here. We managed to host a pretty good festival (even if I do say so myself), mostly organised by the tour company, over the May bank holiday. The tour company handle accommodation etc, two days of matches etc. If any of you potentially fancy a weekend away r...

I know it wasn't exactly what we wanted to see from him, but he became one of the best kick chasers out there, managed to get a lot of ball knocked back to our guys.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 8:02 pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... 2pp70l373o

England great May to leave Gloucester
"Great" really?

In the top twenty for caps, second highest try scorer. Not too much of a stretch to give that accolade.

The no scrum call from free kick is going to get abused by weak scrums. Engage early, give away the FK, Dom scrum can't call a reset and win Pen :thumbdown: Maybe, but refs are already giving full penalties against scrums after the first free kick. Full penalty when it's a repeat offence. So you ca...

Scrum freekick ones are not good. Team with a bad scrum can basically opt out of half a dozen scrums now, or gain an advantage if the ref doesn't pick it up.

Picked up PGA Tour Deluxe for £10.49 a week or 2 ago on Steam, it usually retails for £74.99! I overpaid, it's farkin' crap. :thumbdown: World Class Leaderboard Golf on the C64 is the pinnacle of golf video games Walkabout mini golf. Might be crazy golf, but it's simply the best. Played almost week...

I'm conflicted about this sort of thing. The pure sports washing of some things (slavery etc) where it's simply not mentioned, ignored and swept under the carpet etc, is straight up bad. This however, this is an openly gay person, being knowingly welcomed effectively. The whole country can see it, a...

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/iea-report-claims-batteries-are-changing-the-game As the grid gets smarter, EVs get more common, and home batteries too, it'll smoothen out the grid really well. The batteries and inverter I have for my solar, could easily fit in a small cupboard. Very eas...

Never tried it but so often tempted by a bacon sarnie Don’t , it’s a slippery slope! As an aside, I don’t think I know a Jewish person in the U.K. that doesn’t enjoy a secret bacon sarnie :lol: An Israeli guy I worked with came over to Ireland one time, & when we went to breakfast in the cantee...

Not me, but my mum went through chemo last year. 6 months worth, combined with a couple of other treatments. Put her on her arse, lost quite a bit of weight due to her tastebuds going haywire and everything tasting bad. However, it makes a huge difference to life expectancy in her case.

Right now, it will work for tick and turn processes, i wouldn't trust it to do anything more than that. You can see how it might integrate well with a CRM solution in a call center and deliver some real savings, but anything where a conscious decision needs to be made based on learning and sometime...

I am involved with the review of AI within government, there have been a lot of rumours out there about just how good it is....frankly at the moment, it is not the silver bullet people think it is. There are in effect 3 types of AI, Narrow/Weak, Strong or Deep AI and Artificial Superintelligent AI....

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:36 am The honest answer to that is it varies.

That makes sense, but if it's not always, and you can actively give feedback to improve it, it's worth doing (at least for making it better, not for job security!).

I remain quite sceptical. Most automated processes are totally unsatisfactory and require humans to circumvent. I don’t see that changing massively. Like I said, I don't think any career goes extinct. But 1 human can oversee 5 AI conversations, only having to intervene here and there, rather than n...

I remain quite sceptical. Most automated processes are totally unsatisfactory and require humans to circumvent. I don’t see that changing massively. Like I said, I don't think any career goes extinct. But 1 human can oversee 5 AI conversations, only having to intervene here and there, rather than n...

More and more I am finding myself having quite an extreme view on AI, and it is not in favour. Essentially, what I'm seeing is CEO's frothing at the mouth with an unsaid ambition to half their workforce. Or, if they could, get rid all together. Then of course, what I'm starting to feel is more and ...

I didn't catch the news about it. My mum told me that there was something about British passports going through Europe, because people had been caught out on a cruise she'd been on. So I looked into it. I doubt I'd have caught it otherwise.

Are people still unaware of this? Britain used to issue passports for more than ten years, and now we're out of the EU they're not accepted past the ten year cut off https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68658209 I remember there being a fair bit of publicity about this a few years ago, but just in c...

Broken bone I believe, at least that's what I've read.

So we've got Mitchell and JVP with OK numbers of caps? Then Quirke as a backup? Not necessarily a lot of caps, but not a bad selection of 9s. Him retiring also gives Borthwick more choices to change the EPS.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:45 pm Roadhouse 2024.

Just. Don't.

It's pretty awful right. Doesn't really get to the funny awful level either.

But the action (croc roll) is carried out many times in each and every game and is deemed acceptable. The only difference here is outcome and a lot of bad luck. The red card is right but there is a massive lottery here. It's a reckless action. Much like tackling upright will see you sent off if you...

Must admit I got very frustrated at our U8 training yesterday - obviously kept it to myself at the time. We played a team last week that were really good, had players running onto the ball at pace after a touch, had a pivot who was spinning it wide after a touch etc. They crushed everyone, but to m...

Agree with that Raggs. Our club has a strict non-selection policy until U10, with U12s only selecting for one big annual tournament where all the leading clubs send their best players to. And on that day one of those clubs will organise an equally big tournament for all the other players. League st...

Must admit I got very frustrated at our U8 training yesterday - obviously kept it to myself at the time. We played a team last week that were really good, had players running onto the ball at pace after a touch, had a pivot who was spinning it wide after a touch etc. They crushed everyone, but to m...

Hopefully we've finally got our giant for our u12s. Plenty of sides have a "surely he's not 12" player, now we might have one. None of the girls in our teams are on the large side - and size is a huge advantage at age group rugby. On the other hand, it does make the 'less large' teams rel...

Hopefully we've finally got our giant for our u12s. Plenty of sides have a "surely he's not 12" player, now we might have one.

Scotland with the better attack, Wales with the better defence. Fun match up. Madness from the 9 at the end though, why on earth was she allowed to do that. The caterpillar forwards, the chasers etc should have all been telling at them.

Ukraine is not only Nazis but ISIS too!

Quite a few of our youth rugby club are going to see the Eng Ire game I believe. Whilst I probably won't watch all nations games, (well, maybe if it gets juicy towards the end) I will make an effort to watch the England games.

The problem with slapping it back is that in most cases there is a gaggle of opposition players in the exact area you're slapping back to, because everyone focuses on clever blocking plays and congesting the area a winger would be trying to run through to get a clear shot at the ball. In most cases...

We normally have at least 2 players, who's express job is to either recover the slap back, complete the tackle, or make the jackal if the chaser completes it. The opposition are often more concerned with trying to create a shield, but are also normally going backwards, so even if they do recover th...

Were trans people targeted as part of the Holocaust?I thought a German court specifically came to the judgement that they weren't. Also it seems no one actually knows what books were burnt that particular night, but they weren't burned because some might have contained some very questionable "...

I'm confused. Is there an abridged version of JK's indiscretions with respect to holocaust denial and nazi ideology? She didn't seem to believe that the Nazi's destroyed large amounts of medical texts to do with trans people, targeting them. Regardless of your position on the trans debate, the idea...

What, expressly, are tiktok doing to undermine the US? Mining the browsing habits of US teenagers doesn't seem to be something I'd get too stressed about. Corporations and government are free to ban it from their devices, in fact I'd hope many do already for a chunk of social media applications. Bu...

We normally have at least 2 players, who's express job is to either recover the slap back, complete the tackle, or make the jackal if the chaser completes it. The opposition are often more concerned with trying to create a shield, but are also normally going backwards, so even if they do recover the...

Looks an eminently sensible ruling The defendants were prohibited from using terms such as “climate change” in their defence and so took to using the “consent” defence to give context to their actions. The state over-reaching in order to crush protest is never “eminently sensible”. Why has it crush...

Tiktok is basically run by the CCP. Facebook et al are bad for social engineering, but at least it's good old capitalistic social engineering. Tiktok can be used by one nation to happily undermine another, and encouraged/manipulated to do so.

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:42 pm Not sure about that one. Le garrec fumbled that at the base, leading to the jump out the line

Yeah, that was a bit dodgy.

That's just terrible from Carley. Completely dismissing the suggestion of a knock on until Dickson steps in. Even if is a try it's poor refereeing. He didn't dismiss it, he just wasn't taking Finn's opinion. He had no sight and asked his AR as he should. Not sure about that. His initial suggestion ...

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