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- Wed May 15, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Adventures in kids coaching
- Replies: 176
- Views: 13458
Re: Adventures in kids coaching
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...
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551957
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
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.
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551957
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
In the top twenty for caps, second highest try scorer. Not too much of a stretch to give that accolade.Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 8:02 pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... 2pp70l373o
"Great" really?England great May to leave Gloucester
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: World Rugby confirms radical law changes ahead of Test season (1 July)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 428
Re: World Rugby confirms radical law changes ahead of Test season (1 July)
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...
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: World Rugby confirms radical law changes ahead of Test season (1 July)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 428
Re: World Rugby confirms radical law changes ahead of Test season (1 July)
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.
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Gaming thread
- Replies: 635
- Views: 55013
Re: Gaming thread
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...
- Wed May 01, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Guarantee of safety?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 599
Re: Guarantee of safety?
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...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Climate Change - Why don't we care?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 2646
Re: Climate Change - Why don't we care?
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Climate Change - Why don't we care?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 2646
Re: Climate Change - Why don't we care?
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...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:42 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Anyone had chemo
- Replies: 21
- Views: 498
Re: Anyone had chemo
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.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1073
Re: Artificial Intelligence
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...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1073
Re: Artificial Intelligence
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....
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1073
Re: Artificial Intelligence
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!).
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1073
Re: Artificial Intelligence
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...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1073
Re: Artificial Intelligence
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...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1073
Re: Artificial Intelligence
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 ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 10 year passport rule
- Replies: 29
- Views: 828
Re: 10 year passport rule
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.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 10 year passport rule
- Replies: 29
- Views: 828
Re: 10 year passport rule
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...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2830
Re: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
Broken bone I believe, at least that's what I've read.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551957
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
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.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The best new and returning TV series thread
- Replies: 1792
- Views: 103023
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2830
Re: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:51 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Adventures in kids coaching
- Replies: 176
- Views: 13458
Re: Adventures in kids coaching
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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Adventures in kids coaching
- Replies: 176
- Views: 13458
Re: Adventures in kids coaching
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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Adventures in kids coaching
- Replies: 176
- Views: 13458
Re: Adventures in kids coaching
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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Adventures in kids coaching
- Replies: 176
- Views: 13458
Re: Adventures in kids coaching
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...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Adventures in kids coaching
- Replies: 176
- Views: 13458
Re: Adventures in kids coaching
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.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2830
Re: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
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.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: What's going on in Ukraine?
- Replies: 6210
- Views: 541186
Re: What's going on in Ukraine?
Ukraine is not only Nazis but ISIS too!
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2830
Re: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
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.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551957
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551957
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: A useful guide
- Replies: 16
- Views: 711
Re: A useful guide
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 "...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: A useful guide
- Replies: 16
- Views: 711
Re: A useful guide
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: President Biden and US politics catchall
- Replies: 6612
- Views: 293341
Re: President Biden and US politics catchall
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551957
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722265
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: President Biden and US politics catchall
- Replies: 6612
- Views: 293341
Re: President Biden and US politics catchall
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.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
- Replies: 173
- Views: 3755
Re: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
Yeah, that was a bit dodgy.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
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations round 5 - Ireland v Scotland
- Replies: 254
- Views: 4620
Re: 6 Nations round 5 - Ireland v Scotland
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 ...