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Mikey Brown wrote:I actually made it.

Jesus I'd forgotten how much people loved charging head-first into tackles in those days, as if trying to give themselves a neck injury.

It is a bit of a culture shock, isn't it?

Gotta be hard for Samoa - they worked so hard for a 10-0 lead, nearly 13-0 with the pen hitting the posts, and then, out of practically nothing, England bring it back to 10-10 within the space of 3 minutes.

Good heart to build the lead again.

Puja

Five of us! Huzzah!

You'd have to say that should have been a yellow card against Samoa for the deliberate penalty on their line.

Puja

Right, 10 minute break for half time. Enjoy some Uruguay highlights while you wait

Has anyone else noticed Iain Balshaw this game. Has he touched the ball yet?

Puja

ETA. The commentators've just called his name for a Moody carry!

Kaplan's right, it's a clear penalty try, but you'd rarely see a ref have the minerals to go under the posts first time nowadays.

Puja

I’d forgotten how bad they could be when they were off

Balshaw a bit more prominent now?

Oh *there's* Balshaw!

Puja

Curious what they said about Catt there.

I'd assumed he was generally a mainstay in the England squad running up the RWC, even after the Lomu thing.

Phil Vickery! Where did those feet come from?!

Puja

Mikey Brown wrote:Curious what they said about Catt there.

I'd assumed he was generally a mainstay in the England squad running up the RWC, even after the Lomu thing.

I missed that - what did they say?

He wouldn't've been in the squad if Hodgson hadn't got injured and there was a lot of debate about if picking him over Healey as third 10 was a good idea. Wasn't prevalent in the 6N squad in 2003.

Puja

Sorry Puja, I appreciate you putting these matches on but I just can't seem to get Discord to work properly for me at all. I'm at a loss to know what I'm doing wrong. I've tried on Windows laptop, android phone, android tablet and ipad. Ipad's the only one that I can actually get a stream of any sort on and it's horrifically stuttery. Last week's match was almost okish but tonight's is unwatchable. It's like there's some sort of phase problem going on. I'm out I'm afraid, pending any helpful (or otherwise) advice.

Thank you!

many thx again Puja

Sorry, I had to make dinner and it took way, way longer than anticipated

Beasties wrote:Sorry Puja, I appreciate you putting these matches on but I just can't seem to get Discord to work properly for me at all. I'm at a loss to know what I'm doing wrong. I've tried on Windows laptop, android phone, android tablet and ipad. Ipad's the only one that I can actually get a stream of any sort on and it's horrifically stuttery. Last week's match was almost okish but tonight's is unwatchable. It's like there's some sort of phase problem going on. I'm out I'm afraid, pending any helpful (or otherwise) advice.

I'm afraid I don't know enough about Discord to offer technical advice. However, the rest of the games which I'm showing have videos on youtube. What I'll do for the Wales one is I'll put the link up for there at the same time so you can watch along. Won't be quite the same cause you'll be out of synch with us, but at least you can still join in.

Puja

Ah, balls. Sorry.
I’m cursed with this match. I missed watching it live originally due to work and had to listen to it in the car on the way to site. Domestic life got in the way this time.

Mellsblue wrote:Ah, balls. Sorry.
I’m cursed with this match. I missed watching it live originally due to work and had to listen to it in the car on the way to site. Domestic life got in the way this time.

To be honest, we were crap! You didn't miss much either time!

Puja

Puja wrote:

Beasties wrote:Sorry Puja, I appreciate you putting these matches on but I just can't seem to get Discord to work properly for me at all. I'm at a loss to know what I'm doing wrong. I've tried on Windows laptop, android phone, android tablet and ipad. Ipad's the only one that I can actually get a stream of any sort on and it's horrifically stuttery. Last week's match was almost okish but tonight's is unwatchable. It's like there's some sort of phase problem going on. I'm out I'm afraid, pending any helpful (or otherwise) advice.

I'm afraid I don't know enough about Discord to offer technical advice. However, the rest of the games which I'm showing have videos on youtube. What I'll do for the Wales one is I'll put the link up for there at the same time so you can watch along. Won't be quite the same cause you'll be out of synch with us, but at least you can still join in.

Puja

Youtube will do nicely. At least I haven't missed the Wales thriller.

Thanks Puja, managed to get the end of the first half and all the second.

The steam was was nowhere as good as last week and I'm not sure what I did differently. Are there any settings I should be aware of?

I didn't enjoy the game live and it doesn't improve with age. Hopefully the Wales game will be better than I remember it.


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Greebo wrote:Thanks Puja, managed to get the end of the first half and all the second.

The steam was was nowhere as good as last week and I'm not sure what I did differently. Are there any settings I should be aware of?

I didn't enjoy the game live and it doesn't improve with age. Hopefully the Wales game will be better than I remember it.


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I will note that the original video I had was of lamentable quality - kept overlaying the action with a picture from about a minute ago that only changed where something moved. Plus it kept skipping and going back about 3 seconds. They were meant to only be highlights and it wasn't until I started playing that I realised it was a full-length match compressed to the same filesize as highlights!

The Wales one isn't of perfect resolution, but I've given it a once over and there are at least no compression artefacts.

Puja

Puja wrote:kept overlaying the action with a picture from about a minute ago that only changed where something moved.

Puja

Might be an optical illusion resulting from the off the ball work of Leonard, Regan and White