England vs South Africa - Sunday 24th May 7.30pm

[Puja]

Four misses, but Greenwood gives them a nice gimme to make Koen feel better.

Puja

[Mellsblue]

Bloody hell. Nipped upstairs to read to one of my blood suckers and I seem to have lost the feed.

Edit: found it. Feel like a bit of a silver surfer on Discord at times.

[loudnconfident]

lucky "advantage over"

[Mellsblue]

Lovely line from Johnno.

[Mellsblue]

Not sure how Bracken got away with collapsing that maul.

[Danno]

My word that was a lot of porn

[Puja]

There's been some very average decision-making today. Some truly aimless kicking by people who should not be putting boot to ball.

Puja

[Puja]

My word that was a lot of porn

Did I accidentally show you something other than the game? In which case, that's not me in the porn, and I was young and needed the money anyway.

Puja

[Danno]

All I saw was sexy alt-tabbing

[Danno]

Cor, haven't seen that since... Then

[Puja]

Old school rugby. Delport has his hand in Dallaglio's face, Dallaglio gives him a little punch to encourage him to stop it, referee just plays on and asks the players to "stop messing about" at the next break in play.

Puja

[Puja]

Enjoy New Zealand lads. Same time next week? Got the highlights of the Samoa game and then the Wales match.

Puja

[loudnconfident]

Many thanks (again!) Puja

[Mellsblue]

Cheers, Puja. Definitely up for next week.

[loudnconfident]

Enjoy New Zealand lads. Same time next week? Got the highlights of the Samoa game and then the Wales match.

Puja

Hope to make it.

But not sure if its really worth watching Wales - I reckon we'll beat them easily - it'll be all over at half time

[Beasties]

Cheers Puja.

[Danno]

Enjoy New Zealand lads. Same time next week? Got the highlights of the Samoa game and then the Wales match.

Puja

Hope to make it.

But not sure if its really worth watching Wales - I reckon we'll beat them easily - it'll be all over at half time

That makes it well worth watching imo

[Banquo]

All my fans are Acer, Dell or HP

At least you have fans.

[Danno]

By design rather than desire, but I'll take it

[Puja]

New fans ordered and a bit of experimental tinkering with the inside of the laptop shows it's quite an easy cooling system to remove, so I should be back up and running in a week or two when the parts arrive from China. I've also now got a metric butt-tonne of system monitoring apps so my test for it overheating will be more scientific than, "Does that feel hot to you?" So hopefully next week will not have the MLR style break midway through the half.

Puja

[Digby]

Cant the current England setup use clips of Johnson talking to referees?

Who would that help? A big part of Jonno's response was to look directly ahead, which for most refs was over their head refusing to make eye contact, and looking back a number of refs have noted that was very intimidating. To which two points, the refs are more aware of that use of body language now, and if Owen Farrell stares directly ahead he'll be making eye contact in a way Johnson didn't.

[Digby]

All my fans are Acer, Dell or HP

At least you have fans.

And by heavens they're a loud bunch

[loudnconfident]

Cant the current England setup use clips of Johnson talking to referees?

Who would that help? A big part of Jonno's response was to look directly ahead, which for most refs was over their head refusing to make eye contact, and looking back a number of refs have noted that was very intimidating. To which two points, the refs are more aware of that use of body language now, and if Owen Farrell stares directly ahead he'll be making eye contact in a way Johnson didn't.

Johnson used polite disagreement, and he didnt get excited. Thats two helps at least.

[Digby]

Cant the current England setup use clips of Johnson talking to referees?

Who would that help? A big part of Jonno's response was to look directly ahead, which for most refs was over their head refusing to make eye contact, and looking back a number of refs have noted that was very intimidating. To which two points, the refs are more aware of that use of body language now, and if Owen Farrell stares directly ahead he'll be making eye contact in a way Johnson didn't.

Johnson used polite disagreement, and he didnt get excited. Thats two helps at least.

Polite? I think we're thinking about a different Johnson

[Puja]

Cant the current England setup use clips of Johnson talking to referees?

Who would that help? A big part of Jonno's response was to look directly ahead, which for most refs was over their head refusing to make eye contact, and looking back a number of refs have noted that was very intimidating. To which two points, the refs are more aware of that use of body language now, and if Owen Farrell stares directly ahead he'll be making eye contact in a way Johnson didn't.

Johnson used polite disagreement, and he didnt get excited. Thats two helps at least.

Watching these replays, I think we have overegged Johnno's respect for officials. There are some spectacular eye rolls and huffs which he gets away with by being far too big for the ref to take offence. Frankly, I think Farrell has been watching Johnno videos.

Puja