It's Twickenham

[Amiga500]

Made that mistake at the final last year. Ended up hiring a car. If you stay in city centre, it may be doable, but getting into town for an early connection may be a problem. There is a 24 cafe, near the city where you get the airport connection where you spend an hour or two.

Out at Hounslow travel lodge, so motorway isn't far away. Should be quick going at that time on a Sunday morning... (ye'd think)

[BR]

Out at Hounslow travel lodge, so motorway isn't far away. Should be quick going at that time on a Sunday morning... (ye'd think)

That's out at LHR isn't it? Should be less than 1 hr 1/2 at that time I'd have thought. Round the M25, but take my advice and go clockwise If you're intending to drive anyway, you can set your own time, it's when you're relying on pleblic transport that the problems start. Although since you're out at LHR, there may be one of those airport link busses that would be running at that time of day.

[29xThePain]

Hopefully Holywoodmike will be able to assist.

Twickenham last year with him was a good laugh! (even if the result wasn't!)

[Kofi Annan]

Hopefully Holywoodmike will be able to assist.

Twickenham last year with him was a good laugh! (even if the result wasn't!)

Set your sights higher son

[BaggyTrousers]

There must be a massive Ulster diaspora over there who would fancy a day out at English rugby HQ?

Fixed, don't believe every bit of hype the Sassenachs throw your way RFU my Brennan they're the ERFU and time they realised it - hateful barstewards

[Exileinciderland]

There must be a massive Ulster diaspora over there who would fancy a day out at rugby HQ?

Given the amount of us who travelled from the West Country for last year's final, there should be a few from down here. I'm looking two definite tickets and possibly four more if I can get the brother and his young lad to fly over and talk two mates here into donning an old UR jersey.
Only managed two of the four Welsh games this year (Hairsprays and Blues), shame I was working on the other dates, and I haven't managed to get home at all except for a funeral on the day of the Scarlets match at Ravers. Closest I got was the wake at La Mon when we were all running round in suits and black ties with the Scarlets lounging round the foyer in tshirts and trackie bottoms.
Might as well go for the safe option and register on the Sarries Website.

[29xThePain]

Hopefully Holywoodmike will be able to assist.

Twickenham last year with him was a good laugh! (even if the result wasn't!)

Set your sights higher son

That is as high as I can go!

[Pimpmac]

Read this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... enham.html

In the Telegraph yesterday and see that they reckon if it is a sell out then Sarries get £1 mill. They are quoting the financial breakdown after costs as 65% to the home side and obviously 35% to the away team. I for some reason was convinced it was a 50:50 split but, I assume that I am wrong. However, even at that I am sure if it is a sell out then the Ulster branch will be delighted with £540k. Considerably more that we would probably have made at Ravenhill, which I would have thought may have brought us in half of that amount at best.

[Cap'n Grumpy]

They are quoting the financial breakdown after costs as 65% to the home side and obviously 35% to the away team. I for some reason was convinced it was a 50:50 split but, I assume that I am wrong.

I think they can keep 65% by moving it to a larger venue and having a larger attendance - so long as the 35% the visiting team gets is at least equal to the 50% they would have received had the match stayed at the smaller venue.

[ColinM]

I'm going to be abroad for this one, so need to find out how to watch Skygo on an Android tablet.

Anyone any experience of this? Do these VPN things work on tablets or do you need a PC?

[mikerob]

You need to check if Sky Go is supported on your tablet - see the following links for more info.
http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Go-on-A ... d-p/831880
http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Go/Sky- ... a-p/690532

If it is supported, I don't know if Sky Go does geographic blocking if you are abroad. BBC iPlayer and RTE Player definitely do geo blocking and to get around this, I have used a service called http://www.overplay.net

This is a paid for service, however you can sign up for a month, then cancel so you only pay a month. You only need the SmartDNS service to watch video ($4.95), not the full VPN service.

There are free services around, but overplay has always worked for me while I have found the free services very dodgy and unreliable.

Overplay works on pretty well every type of device - PC, Mac, smartphones, tablets, games consoles...

[ColinM]

thanks Mike, I already have Skygo installed so know it works. I'm pretty sure its blocked when accessing from abroad. I can live with paying a couple of dollars to make sure I have access in case I cant find a suitable watering hole to oblige with the programming.

[Cap'n Grumpy]

I'm going to be abroad for this one, so need to find out how to watch Skygo on an Android tablet.

I'm going to be abroad too - some wee backwater near Richmond

[BR]

I considered being a broad for this one, but decided I normally have plenty of fun being a bloke.

[big mervyn]

They are quoting the financial breakdown after costs as 65% to the home side and obviously 35% to the away team. I for some reason was convinced it was a 50:50 split but, I assume that I am wrong.

I think they can keep 65% by moving it to a larger venue and having a larger attendance - so long as the 35% the visiting team gets is at least equal to the 50% they would have received had the match stayed at the smaller venue.

How do you know all this stuff?

The ERC get all the spondoolicks from the semis and finals, right?

So far we've got "home advantage" reduced to "home country advantage" so we're already winning the phoney war. SUFTUM