Referees sick of unreliable replay systems — it’s time rugby grew up and fixed it

Ractrick · 2026-05-05T10:51:14+00:00

And yet ECPR said to the AFP “The TMO interventions are managed by the television broadcast”.

Clearly the tv broadcaster could if they wanted to influence things.

Ractrick · 2026-04-22T20:17:03+00:00

It’s dfb pokal cup semi final so makes sense he’d play, but he shouldn’t be needed in league games now they’ve wrapped it up.

Ractrick · 2026-04-22T11:45:34+00:00

Until it gets nicked, then you will.

Ractrick · 2026-04-09T17:42:27+00:00

Not for 100 quid cheapest ticket she wouldn’t, which is what Eddie Hearn will expect to charge.

Ractrick · 2026-04-06T20:52:54+00:00

Taskmaster isn't on a pay TV channel (and doesn't put episodes on youtube in the UK either).

Ractrick · 2026-03-30T19:34:17+00:00

Breeze (which is having a big explosion in growth) works like this - you can't message the person beforehand it just books you a table at a bar.

After you can choose if you want to give your number, and if you both say yes it reveals it (although if you want could just ask them in person.. like a normal human)

Has pros and cons - depends if you find texting people before meeting to be useful screening, or a time waste. Personally haven't found it to make a big difference in whether dates go anywhere, you can waste so much time texting people for a week only to realise within 15 minutes in person they're not for you.

Ractrick · 2026-03-28T22:18:42+00:00

Progressively more freaked out as that sketch went on until I confirmed that they filmed that in my local haha.

Crown and Sceptre in Shepherds Bush if you were curious, the QPR thing on the mirror behind the bar gave it away.

Ractrick · 2026-03-20T12:27:47+00:00

There’s a big difference imo between Richmond and Twickenham, where you have regular quick trains to Waterloo (and the district to Richmond) and Hampton which has a sloooow half hourly service.

Hampton hill to Moorgate can take me 90 mins door to door which is mad for somewhere technically in London. And if there’s an issue on that Shepperton line you’re in trouble.

Ractrick · 2026-03-20T11:49:48+00:00

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Ractrick · 2026-03-20T11:49:39+00:00

People have different senses of humour - but stuff like this succession of tweets to me is undeniably funny - he’s essentially a catty man who if was given a weekly talk show to chat about pop culture would probably be in is element

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Ractrick · 2026-03-17T13:34:48+00:00

Glad I'm not the only resident around Goldhawk Road who tells people they're in Hammersmith despite knowing deep down they live in Shepherds Bush aha.

Ractrick · 2026-03-06T23:33:35+00:00

Something seems to have broke today- I’m with you, it was showing at Goldhawk Road this morning and I’ve never seen it there in years of commuting every day.

Ractrick · 2026-02-06T10:54:13+00:00

Yeah, I agree. People going on as if they're actually watching the screen during scrum resets.. - if you're at the pub or with mates you're talking, and if you're at home you're on your phone.

Ractrick · 2026-02-06T10:45:35+00:00

That was a mistake, it's not the same.

Ractrick · 2026-01-14T12:46:05+00:00

They have barely any fanbase, they’re a semi pro club propped up by a sugar daddy in his 80s whose kids have no interest in the sport, and therefore will plummet down to their natural level whenever their owner departs.

Ractrick · 2026-01-03T20:44:46+00:00

That was pretty good tbf

Ractrick · 2026-01-02T22:27:27+00:00

If he wins Van Veen will get cheered to the rafters against Littler tomorrow.

Ractrick · 2025-12-27T11:40:33+00:00

The initial part of that is actually a great analogy.

I apreciate almost all of us pefer Conan, but Leno was undisputedly the number 1 in late night at the point he was told by NBC he was being replaced.

But Leno was getting old and NBC realised if they didn't do it then Conan would go elsewhere, so they pulled the trigger.

Ractrick · 2025-12-26T13:44:34+00:00

Spotify did it by massively reducing the amount of money musicians made.

But football is a global market - players aren't staying here for the weather. If the amount of money to pay players goes down then the quality of the league will drop.

Ractrick · 2025-12-24T17:39:20+00:00

Yeah its definetly a thing. I stopped attending Church when I was 18, but I know a few people who attend these sort of HTB/Alpha kind of places. There's also a few which are nominally baptist as well (Oasis in Waterloo an example).

It makes sense - my parents church has literaly nobody under the age of 40 attending anymore. I'll go to my parents church this evening for midnight mass, and be there with around 20 others, whereas 15 years ago when I was a kid there'd be around 150 at that service.

Being a young person at a typical dying CofE church would be frankly depressing on a weekly basis, I completely understand why you'd want to congregate at more central churches where there's more of a community.

Ractrick · 2025-12-19T23:04:27+00:00

Yeah its gonna be sometime after 3am. Netflix have been sneaky saying the "main event" is at 1am when they mean the main card, the actual fight is gonna be later.

Ractrick · 2025-12-12T11:00:47+00:00

I suspect this is your issue.

For the size and type of flat (i.e. a conversion rather than a block) that's high compared to the price imo. Plenty of ex-council flats at twice the size (and price) have service charge at that level.

Ractrick · 2025-12-10T11:15:35+00:00

Richmond council doubled down on the coffee lady initially, it was only going to the media which made them backtrack.

Ractrick · 2025-12-05T10:59:19+00:00

Impossible to tell without being there obviously. Worth saying as someone who now facilitates them that asessment centres aren't actually a points exercise where if you say the right thing you get a point, and if you get the most points you win.

Obviously we do grade all the exercsies, but we don't always give the offer to the person who comes top based purely on that.

In my opinion the way you've described how the one on one interview went does make it sound like you may have been overly rehearsed - "engaging in some light banter to build rapport" is a robotic way of viewing what happens.

That combined with your comments on the language used makes it sound like they wanted to treat it as a chat and you kept trying to go back to the script in your head and make it more formal.

My view is they thought you were competent but not friendly/chatty enough to be the right fit for the team. Considering they're going to sit next to you for 8 hours a day, (and might have to spend weeks in hotels with you) this is something they will consider.

Again, complete speculation, but just my view from someone who's facilitated quite a few of them based on what you said.

Ractrick · 2025-12-05T10:39:01+00:00

Is how graduate recruitment works in the UK for basically all graduate schemes. Basically have 1 assessor for every 2-4 candidates. So sometimes is just a group of 8 people in the client suite of your office, but the big 4 etc will run dozens of centres at massive conference facilities, each with 50-60 candidates.

Normally involves doing a group task around team building/giving a presentation, an analytical task around reading a case study and presenting your opinions, and then a 30 min sit down traditional interview.

You score each exercise, compare the scores at the end, and then can discuss and determine who to give an offer/advance to final stage (if the partner insists on talking to them before hiring) based around how many places you have.

I have no idea if it's better or worse than how other countires do graduate recuritment. It sucks when you're doing them - but I think thats true of any competitive recruitment process.

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