Welcome to the very first episode of Sharksworld LIVE!
So here’s the idea – a bunch of us get together once a week on a Skype conference call, talk nonsense about rugby for a while and record the result. Then, we upload it to let everybody listen to our inane ramblings and tell us how terrible we all sound and how we don’t know what we’re talking about. Or something like that!
Anyway, this episode is very much a sort of “beta test” of the concept, so we know it’s pretty rough and can use a lot of improvement. Have a listen, though and let us know what you think. It’s probably way too long, for one thing and in order to keep the flow going, I’ve done virtually no editing on it. It’s raw, it’s basically like live radio and I just hope to goodness that Manie Reynecke never listens to it! There are also a few places where the audio isn’t so great, but we were trying to host a conference involving people from all over the world, so the technology is bound to let us down occasionally.
Thanks a stack to KSA Shark, PJLD, war1, Richard Ferguson, Worcester Sauce and Hertford Highlander for taking part this week.
Have a listen here.
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Gr8 idea guys…
@Oubaas2009 (Comment 2) : well, have a listen and let me know what you think.
If you have almost an hour free, that is 🙂
Woohoo!ok cant listen right now,im on the gautrain but will make a plan later
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 4) : lucky bugger
Will catch it later. KSA Shark is the one with the really heavy aksent right?
@Big Fish (Comment 6) :
FJELN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds great Rob..
Now we just need to work on the content 😉
I’m at kette’s work have no speakers will listen at home this evening.
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 8) : 😈
Good first edition.
Interesting, I wonder if Skype for mobiles will work.
@Jarson (Comment 11) :
It does hey.. I think we had 2 mobiles, if I remember correctly..
But that does become a costly exercise.
HEHEHE!
BGG, is that you??? 👿
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 8) : he he… we have too much content, if anything!
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 12) : yes… I ran through close to £20 of skype credit on this call, so we need to try limit the mobiles 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 14) :
I am very surprised at how well it came out.. well done Rob for getting all of us on tape!
@Big Fish (Comment 13) :
😛
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 16) :
Now if only we can find the PdV tape…….. 😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 18) :
I better watch my mouth with these things now.. I tend to say things before thinking, could get myself in some few troubles..
@robdylan (Comment 15) : are you paying for the calls?
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 16) : tape 🙂
@Jarson (Comment 20) : mais oui!
Well done guys! Some interesting comments 😕
Anyone know how to Skype from a BB Bold 9700? My old pc is acting up on Skype and my work laptop won’t allow Skype at all. 🙁
@Big Fish (Comment 24) : trying to find a blackberry app that supports skype voice is pretty tricky.
@Big Fish (Comment 24) : kijk hieso, fees http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x99vtn_how-to-use-skype-on-your-blackberry_school
@robdylan (Comment 26) : fees.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 27) : he is a lawyer, after all 🙂
@robdylan (Comment 25) : should have got an iPhone…
Not a word about the upcoming Sharks vs WP clash? ❓
@Original Pierre (Comment 30) : I believe a fine tuning on content will result in us not leaving out games like that 😆
@lostfish (Comment 29) : fanboi 😈
@Original Pierre (Comment 30) :
We probably won’t meantion the Test next week ….for the same reason ! 😉
@Original Pierre (Comment 30) :
Thats something to look at.. We could do a brief look at the results as well as looking forward to the next game..
my computer too blond to get it 😕
Gents, I downloaded a 21Mb Mpeg3 file and listened in both iTunes and Win Media Player. I only get to hear the dulcet tones of Rob. Any suggestions? 🙁
@robdylan (Comment 1) : Should have directed the above comment (# 36) straight to you for help.
@perran_dw (Comment 37) :
My line to kak to download this…
I reckon Sauce, myself and Clayton needs to do a visual program for this site at Bob Skinstad’s place (pub) weekly! 😉
Perran, I suspect the problem is that I might be on one channel and the others on the other. Do you have stereo headphones/speakers?
@Morné (Comment 38) : ill sponsor drinks once in a while
Rob, I actually had only one earphone while at my client, and I couldn’t hear you, I could hear everybody else..
@robdylan (Comment 40) :
Haha mate, it will be an abortion of note if I use our experiences at Newlands as a yardstick but nevertheless me and Bob are tight (his pub is 5 minutes drive from my house) and add Claytie and Sauce and you have rugby’s version of whose line is it anyway!!!
But I must say what you have done above and the concept is brilliant dude, it adds so much to blogging and the okes that subscribe to this site should kiss your feet for the effort.
Well done.
@robdylan (Comment 39) : Sounds like that might be the snag. Thanks, will sort.
@Morné (Comment 38) : Now theres an idea, The Toad and Sharksworld will never be the same.
I must actually mix it down to mono next time
I think you guys should definitely do a live session with Bob. He’s a Sharks legend, after all 😉
You utter [email protected]@rds! I’m in CT too yet I don’t crack a nod to this gig?
FJELN!
@ Big Fish, ney hulle kam mos hulle hare dai way 👿
@Big Fish (Comment 48) : @Charlie (Comment 49) :
It was a kak idea I thought but it seems Rob likes it…
I think we can definitely make something happen, we have enough contacts to do something I am sure so maybe get your heads around it and let’s call it!
nice…very cool!!!
Another platform for me to talk shit on. 😎
@Big Fish (Comment 6) : @KSA Shark © (Comment 7) :
😆 😆 😆
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 45) : The Toad?
I’d just like to jump into one of your debates here…
Kockett is no worse than he has been since he started playing for the Sharks. He has not had a dip in form and plays exactly the same game that he has over the past few years (only with a little more grumpiness, since he’s not getting as much game time as he would like).
McLeod has just exposed his weakness and with that how huge that weakness was in contributing to our boring back-line. Rory can’t get his place in the team back, if he’s not willing to change a few things that he does…and he just doesn’t seem willing.
I’ve always said, take Rory out of the equation and you’ll see there’s not that much wrong with our back-line (though that might not exactly be true, but we’ll never know now won’t we), because not even the most exciting backs in the world will be able to do much with the type of ball he gives to the backs.
This doesn’t mean Rory is a bad player, it means he is a player with a bad attitude. The things that needs to be adjusted in his game can easily be fixed if he is committed to do so, but every time he steps onto the field we see the same crap again and I think that’s why Plumtree has been vocal about this part of his play.
If Rory could use one of his brain cells just for a moment and start getting the ball out of the rucks quicker then Plumtree will select him again. He has a better kicking game than McLeod, he’s a good goal kicker, he’s younger, he’s an exciting player who can create magical moments, he is a talented rugby player…he is the only one getting in his way.
Oh and the Captain should be someone who we know will be first choose in his position for at least the next 5/6 years. Otherwise the Captain will be selected in the team above a better player, and that’s no good.
Is Al Hargreaves really that player? I don’t think we can say that for sure yet…not about any of the younger players.
I think giving Schalk the Captaincy (since we know he’ll be selected anyway) until the next WC would be the best option.
Any other player, who we know for sure will be part of the next WC will be a viable option. Juan Smith for example…I know he’s 29, but he’ll only be 33 by the next WC and will still be vital to the team and he is a great captain.
@robdylan (Comment 5) : well i listening and its great to hear the voice and fix them to the name
great stuff