Welcome to the OSB Blog!

Hello and welcome to the brand new (and now, according to Google, not operated by a spambot) Odd Shaped Balls Blog!

So, I have covered this on Facebook, but my original intention was to create and share a Podcast in order to discuss any and all things Rugby Union.  I even managed to get a pilot episode recorded using GarageBand on our shiny new iPad and was ready to start bothering the ears of the wider community!  then a couple of things happened:

1.  I could not, for the life of me, get this pilot episode uploaded! I attempted to do it through Soundcloud, no joy (they don't like mp4 files), I couldn't do it through iTunes (the Ipad was registered to my wife's iTunes, and her laptop conveniently decided to pack up).  That was the first impasse, however I was confident once we had got my wife's laptop repaired, I could plough on, albeit delayed and get to the business of wanging on about Rugby.

2.  Then last week, some utter scrotbag decided our back window looked  big enough for him to force open and fit through, which he did and proceeded to rob us blind.  This included the theft of the very Ipad I had been using to record the pilot episode on! I am now faced with the ludicrous situation of having got my wife's laptop fixed, but no Ipad to plug into it to get the podcast off...

So, with all this, added to the fact that we are moving house in two weeks and two weeks after that I am off to RAF Cranwell to attempt to convince the powers that be I would be an asset to the RAF, it has become obvious that I neither have the resources nor the time to commit to making and distributing the podcast I wanted to at this moment.

But, I have promised a platform to offer opinion and debate about all things rugby, and I am a man of my word - whilst the podcast platform is going to have to go on the backburner for a while, what I thought I can do is to create this, the Odd Shaped Balls Blog, in order to share my thoughts in written form, as well as pointing you good people at stories from around the web.

I don't want to insult your intelligence, as you are already here, but the web address for this blog if you wanted to save it, or even better (for me!) to share it is:

http://osbpodcast.blogspot.co.uk/

If you have stumbled across us and didn't already know we are on social media, then you can find our pages on Facebook and Twitter here:

https://www.facebook.com/OSBpodcast

https://twitter.com/osbpod


Thanks for listening to me hammer on about my woes, and stick around - future posts will be much more rugby, and much less burglary!

Rob