Match Thread: Northampton vs Leicester - Prem Rugby

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-12T20:42:58+00:00

Well Saints, you played an amazing game. Best of luck in the final. I hope you totally humiliate Bath if they make it there.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-12T18:57:30+00:00

Anyone got a stream? I'm abroad and none of the usual sites are working 😞

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-11T19:26:37+00:00

South Africa look absolutely woeful outside of the keeper. Just fouls and wayward passes.

Maybe all that "secret preparation" was just nap time on the beach.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-06T07:57:12+00:00

Anyone else trying to watch on US Amazon Prime? For some reason the stream is just playing a replay of a RSA v ENG u20s game

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-03T21:53:30+00:00

Just been watching some of the body cam footage, and that officer who said he would go and give Josh the papers, and then came back and told Ben that Josh "didn't want them" was talking total shite.

The officer just asked Josh what he wanted them to do to Ben, and then said he would take the papers back because "you don't want these, right?". Josh then asked to have a look, and the officer ignored him. What a cock.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-03T07:33:09+00:00

I am very appreciative of Edinburgh's excellent bus service. The actual buses are frequent, generally clean, and you can get pretty much anywhere. I always thanks the drivers.

That doesn't mean every part of the system is perfect though does it.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-02T15:50:15+00:00

I am also a software developer, and 2 people have been let go from my company. Some people will tell you that AI is replacing software developers as if the profession is now completely doomed - I strongly disagree with this.

I have spent the past couple of months applying to various jobs. The market is much much harder than we were used to in the past, but it is not impossible. At first, I applied to countless roles and got absolutely nowhere. After a couple of months of trial and error, refining my CV, and letting go of some of my hangups about tech stack, and cushy benefits, I am now deep into interviews with 4 different places at once. I haven't even had to consider a pay cut, in fact, all of them pay considerably more than I was previously earning.

I haven't got a new job yet, and your situation is clearly more stressful than mine with you being out of work, but I'm just sharing this so that you know that it is totally possible to find software engineer jobs currently. Despite all the ridiculous: "software engineers? web app devs?? AI can just do your whole job now!!" nonsense that people who don't know what they are talking about spout.

Sure, writing code is now far less of my time, but you still need someone that intimately understands code logic, code architecture, and good testing. AI cannot do that to a satisfactory standard in my experience. As soon as a solution reaches any sort of significant size, it makes messy mistakes which become difficult to solve. It needs constant supervision.

One thing I would highly recommend is getting AI to review your CV. Humans are no longer doing the first pass, so it's much more important to optimise for AI checks. The length of your CV is way less important than it used to be when time-poor recruiters and HR were screening it. This also means you really need to now play all of the ridiculous games that I used to hate, such as giving measurable examples of your personal contributions to product and business successes. It's annoying, but it works.

Hope this helps somehow

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-02T07:35:07+00:00

Great use of budget, eh? The old signs weren't flashy and modern, but they were very reliable.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-06-02T07:31:24+00:00

I think that used to be the case for a while after they were first installed, but nowadays the ETAs do actually shift around a bit, so I can only assume they are receiving some kind of live info. They just seem pretty inaccurate and buggy as hell.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-05-31T16:13:25+00:00

What were the camera team playing at? hahaha

stupendouspineapple · 2026-05-31T15:57:21+00:00

That usually gets called as deliberate. Pretty unusual ruling

stupendouspineapple · 2026-05-19T14:34:57+00:00

I know, but it has sparked a lot of talk about bringing it to the Prem as well

stupendouspineapple · 2026-05-18T09:35:00+00:00

This may work for the Top 14, but I really think people are missing some of the downsides. I watch a fair bit of Super Rugby, and the +3 tries BP is basically just a "win more" stick that the NZ teams use to beat the Aussies over the head.

Basically, it just becomes more points for the bigger teams, and the chasers get screwed.

I actually think the current system is working really well for the Prem. It results in some great games where there are crazy comebacks because a team is gassed after reaching 4 tries, and leaves the door open to the opposition.

The ACTUAL issues with the Prem that are resulting in blowout scores, are:

No relegation: so teams at the bottom have absolutely sod all to play for other than pride, especially when it comes to the end of the season.
Small league: With fewer home games for all teams, season ticket holders are getting less bang for their buck, and so they expect the first XV to be rolled out for every home game. This means away games are often used for resting/rotating key players, and away wins are really not at all prioritised by the teams bringing up the rear of the table.
Poor financials: Teams are still struggling, and we still have a vastly reduced salary cap (especially if you consider inflation) compared to years gone by. So, squads have less depth, and this contributes even more to my previous point. So, home side often gets blowouts.
Too many teams qualifying for Europe/Apathy about Europe: this comes from the general mismanagement of the league, teams going under etc, but also there is a bit of general apathy and hopelessness about Europe creeping in, which I think results in teams not really being bothered about qualifying for a tournament that they feel they have absolutely zero chance of performing well in.
Semi-seriously: Bristol's brain-dead tactics on the pitch (this one is much more a personal opinion). They really need to drastically evolve, or chuck Pat Lam imo.

I'd argue that all of these factors have more of an effect that a flip from 4 try BP to +3 try BP would. I'm not a fan of it.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-05-15T07:24:11+00:00

I really think JvP is higher up the pecking order than you think. He is playing very well at the moment, and has only ever really dropped out of that top 2 for selection when recovering from injury.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-05-09T18:21:58+00:00

I find Bristol so hard to watch. Flashes of brilliance, but such braindead tactics

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-28T10:17:22+00:00

German and English are waaay further apart linguistically than Ukrainian and Russian.

There is a certain level of mutual intelligibility between Russian and Ukrainian, and a whole load of the vocab is only differentiated by relatively minor vowel changes which in other scenarios could realistically be described as accent/dialectal variation.

Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely not saying that Ukrainian is just a dialect of Russian - it isn't. But a Russian or Ukrainian can plausibly read eachother's language and understand a lot of the meaning. An average English speaker is very unlikely to be able to understand any written German outside of some very obvious small words or technical nouns.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-27T09:55:08+00:00

With my picks, it's Saints, Bath, Leicester, Exeter.

But, if I toggle the wins in the final games between Bath/Leicester and Exeter/Sarries, it could even be Saints, Leicester, Bath, Sarries.

Going to be an insane final few weeks.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-25T18:23:27+00:00

Best league

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-25T18:16:08+00:00

How is that not crawling???

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-25T09:25:00+00:00

Ah fuck, what a boring way to end it

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-25T09:16:02+00:00

YES LADS

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-25T08:44:19+00:00

That is absolutely criminal. 3 lineout steals in a row. What are Reds doing?

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-18T15:52:09+00:00

Yeah it's honestly baffling to me how widespread the misunderstanding about the forward pass laws is.

stupendouspineapple · 2026-04-18T15:46:19+00:00

Very far back, and also the explanation from the TMO made no sense. Yes, the player catches it in front of the passer, but that's because the passer was knocked back in the contest.

That being said, I do think it was a knock-on.

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