10k +

Lots of photos from the Swansea Bay 10k here.

According to the published results (available here), I finished a creditable 2,105th. A few Ebbw Vale connections: David Roberts (67 mins – raising money for Ebbw Vale First Responders), eyejay (54 mins) and Andrew Biston (49 mins).

TV Notes

And so Rockstar Supernova comes to an end. In the end Supernova (Tommy Lee, Gilby Clarke and Jason Newstead) picked Lukas Rossi, a Canadian who was previously working at a Hooters restaurant before this leap into fame. My money was on the Aussie Toby Rand, who I would pay to see sing. They now embark on a tour starting in January, and probably coming to a big stadium near you.

Must see TV this autumn appears to be The Sopranos (although this series doesn’t seem to be up to speed yet) and The Apprentice USA. These two are buried in the schedules on More4 and BBC2 at midnight respectively. There’s obviously no room for any good TV in amongst the “soaps”.

Season 2 of The Office: An American Workplace starts this week (on ITV2 of all places). In the first series Steve Carroll did a good job of taking on the Ricky Gervais character, so it should be good.

Rugby Notes

Clive Rowlands talks a lot of sense. He’s got a beef with the “regions” & the number of foreigners coming in. Especially when they claim some key tasks, such as ex-All Black Ben Blair taking over kicking duties for Cardiff. This robs Wales second-string outside half Nicky Robinson of the job. Let’s hope that Stephen Jones doesn’t get injured this season.

Fantasy Football Notes

My team duly went down to a crushing defeat last weekend. I had a few key players missing and the rest all decided to have off days (Burress so much so that he got benched in the second half of the Giants game).

This week doesn’t look to get much better unless Culpepper finally gets it together. Otherwise I’m completely dependent on the LT bandwagon in San Diego continuing to roll.

Link of the week

This site has been developed by a Pontypridd man (not me) to demonstrate how soccer players can be prima donnas or sometimes just stupid. The name of the website “Footballers Are Idiots” says everything.