Sporting weekend

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  1. Reedfish

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    On the sporting menu this weekend:

    Euro football
    SA v England rugby
    England vs Windies in a 5 day test (if it stops raining)
    French Open finals
    Le Mans
    Canadian F1 GP

    I suggested to the Mrs that she move out for the weekend so that I can have the tv to myself.
    Let's just say that comment didn't go down too well. :boxing:
     
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    And we're having an expo in SA! That certainly puts an additional spanner in the works!
     
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    yeeaahhh !!
    Lucky im going Sat during the Day, shouldnt interfere too much with the Soccer :)

    Howzit Ash? long time
     
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    Yup, you will have to squeeze it all in somehow.
    And record what you can't watch live :idea:
     
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    Luckily F1 qualy is at night
     
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    I unfortunately am restricted to watching only sport offered by sabc, so I dont get to watch any. Miss my GP big time, but I hnestly cannot justify the dstv subscription price just for a few f1 races.
     
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    Hey Luis, may see you tomorrow.

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    Sporting weekend is usually a sign my wife has lots of stuff planned for me. Kind of like the getting your car washed if you need some rain.
     
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    My Mrs taking the kids to see their grandparents tomorrow afteroon :cool:
    So I will have the tv all to myself.
     
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    bugger... you need to cherish these precious times hehehe
     
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    If you have an internet connection of 4 - 10MB then you can stream most sport events. Sites like Justin.tv - Streaming live video broadcasts for everyone I'm Lucky our DSTV is canceled but my DSTV on demand and supersport on demand streaming still works, but its laggy because i only have a 386KBPS line.
     
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    Unfortunately there I am a bit slow too. Running a 3g dongle

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    But I am getting between 4 - 6 Mbs

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    I use my Galaxy TAB with the 3g connected at times (8ta data is dirt cheap). The ping is a bit high but you should be able to stream with it.
     
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    I'm off to the Expo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Hahaha For me it is a different kind of weekend, Guild Wars 2 Beta weekend - so playing as much as possible, going to Killarney race track to watch some racing, F1 as well, I will skip the rugby tho :p
     
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    Well, was a good sporting weekend.
    The kids duly went to the inlaws at lunch time on Sat, so I parked myself in front of the tv....

    First watched a bit of test cricket.
    Then the 1st half of the rugby.
    Then the 1st half of the Holland football match (RVP - poor. Really poor!)
    Then the F1 quali
    Then the Germany/Portugal football match.

    By the end of it my eyes were :blink:

    Then yesterday was the Italy/Spain football match followed by the F1 GP, and then the 2nd half of the Ireland/Croatia football.

    Luckily I got a bit confused. Le mans is this coming weekend. Not this one just past as I suspected. Don't think I could have squeezed more sport in!

    England / France this afternoon. Don't have much hope though.
     
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    Hahahaha @Reedfish :p

    See That Is why I just stick to motorsports :p MotoGP as well, but I prefer the F1, what did you think of the race??
     
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    @Wyvren

    A very good race. Quite exciting at the end.

    7 races - 7 winners. Amazing!
     
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    I know, I have to say this season is so far the best in the last 4 years.

    I am loving the fact that there is so little difference between the teams and it comes down to strategy. I groaned when vettel did that last pit stop but in the end it was the right call for him since he ended up in front of Alonso :p Not sure what is going on with Button this season tho. And they really need to retire shumi now. He is 18th on the points! I mean, he is officially a has been, where Raikkonen is actually improving every week.
     
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