Steve Silver

@B0ATsmith As a fellow veteran I concur 🙋‍♀️

When I was 18-24 I thought the 3 most important things in life were killing Russians, not being killed by Russians, and shagging nurses. And drinking. On balance, the only people now who would agree that these are an excellent set of basic values are probably fellow veterans.

30 years ago today… The Prodigy unleashed this masterpiece…

@AndyBurke_ Why can't we come up with a strategy to deal with Irelands ability to dominate at the ruck. We know we want to play at pace and thier ruck doninance negates this game plan.

Recording rugby pod tomorrow to review Scotland’s Six Nations campaign. We’ll also be discussing Jack Dempsey’s impending departure from Glasgow this summer. And anything else you wish to raise. As always, we’d love to hear your questions. Get involved ⬇️

@Wright33Peter @AndyBurke_ @TEnglishSport @glasgowfilmfest @glasgowfilm Take it you were playing on the wing that day Wrighty 🤣

@TEnglishSport @glasgowfilmfest @glasgowfilm Great guy but I had him🤣 To be fair he had just offloaded to one of his players who went on to score🥴🥴

Wonderful documentary on the blessed Jonah Lomu. UK premiere on Friday at the ⁦⁦@glasgowfilmfest⁩ ⁦@glasgowfilm⁩ Beautiful piece of work on an immortal man

@AliBrownleetri @TerraAPI These stats will be right up your street @tomwilliams1974

If you are anything like me, you are already missing all that winter sport, so I thought I’d dive into the @TerraAPI data vaults for some insights. Norway's performance was pretty amazing: 41 total medals (18 gold) —the most golds ever at a single Winter Games and the top of the medal table. With a population of just ~5.65 million, that's roughly 0.73 medals per 100,000 people—a per-capita dominance that leaves giants like the US (~0.009 per 100,000 with 349 million people) in the dust. Johannes Høsflot Klæbo stole the show, sweeping all six cross-country events he entered for an unprecedented six golds at one Games, pushing his career total to 11. But what drives this sustained excellence? Diving into activity data from fitness trackers across Europe reveals Norway's secret could be a deeply embedded cultural approach to movement. Norwegians average 512 minutes of activity per month (39% more than peers in the UK, Germany, France, Austria, and Italy), with massive emphasis on outdoor, nature-based pursuits: 183 minutes on walking/hiking (64% more) and 29 minutes on cross-country skiing (over 20x more than others, where it's virtually absent). They seem to favor sustainable, endurance-focused training, more time building an aerobic base, and less max-intensity. Even more telling: activity diversity is highest in Norway at 3.39 types per user (vs. the UK's 1.53), possibly pointing to a grassroots philosophy of multi-sport participation, delayed specialisation, and a fun-first approach to training. What can we learn from this? Does analysing the data uncover the secrets of success? Read the blog to find out…

Since Gregor Townsend took over, Scotland 21 Six Nations wins, England 23 Six Nations wins. Not sure that a difference of two wins justifies the claim of Scotland only getting up for England. England have finished 5th, 2nd, 1st, 5th, 3rd, 4th, 3rd, 2nd. Now 4th. Pretty dismal

@R08BO You clearly haven't met some of my colleagues 🤡

If it’s stupid and it works, then it ain’t stupid.

@LapChallenge ?

What's the Garmin activity for this? 50 balloons! The boys went with the standard boys' joke straight away 🤣🤣🤣

@TEnglishSport Does last nights win count as ""evidence"

After last night’s brilliance at Scotstoun, if an experimental Edinburgh win at Castres today then I might say something that I will soon regret about Scotland and the Six Nations 👀

@rainbowchaser79 Ffs you can get a bottle for £10

@SMillbery FFS too early 😠

72 hrs fast. Starting weight 211 Finish weight 199 #waterretentionout #maledietchat

@SMillbery Seems excessive 😉

Big mileage week…👀

@R08BO Just missing the black pudding to be perfect 👌

Recovery.

Buses have usb ports!!!

My wife just put a tin of posh shortbread in the kitchen cupboard with the instruction, “don’t touch them, they’re for Christmas.” It begins. It officially begins.

@DalrympleWill @tweeter_anita @SamDalrymple123 Great artwork on the cover 😍 @SamDalrymple123

@tweeter_anita @SamDalrymple123 linktr.ee/empirepoduk

🇮🇳🇵🇰 Our @EmpirePodUK series on how five partitions shaped modern India continues today, the 78th anniversary of the Great Partition🇮🇳🇵🇰 @tweeter_anita & I will be joined by @SamDalrymple123 to ask why the Partition of India and Pakistan was so rushed in 1947? 🇮🇳🇵🇰

Doddie would have been 55 today. Take a moment to visit @MNDoddie5 and learn more about the incredible work Doddie's Foundation is doing to try and create a world free of MND: Motor Neurone Disease.

@SMillbery Is that an iPod in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me 🤣

12 years ago did my 1st jogging race…

History made - Alex Staniforth has become the first person to summit all 446 mountains in England and Wales in one self-powered push 🏃 🚴 He did so in just 45 days. Incredible. Read more: inov8.com/blog/post/alex… #INOV8NaturalHigh #run #bike

I’m not a swimmer. 🏊‍♀️ But… Friday 13th … unlucky for some. (Usually me) 😭 I however, somehow by a miracle have just completed #GreatNorthSwim in Windermere 1 mile swim of Whiffers style🥴 (think freestyle but not really) New challenge at age 50 completed 👌🏻