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Scotland use Matrix Sentinel-type-flying-thing to assist with training!

Some background.  With this blog enjoying some modest success in terms of profile and visitors over the last year or so, a whole new world opened up to me: the PR world,  a world in which emails come in from many pleasant people all telling you that they have info/news/services etc that can help the site in some way.  Sometimes these emails bring the kind of offer that causes great excitement, eg interviewing Keith Wood or Phil Vickery, but more often they are folk trying to find some way of crowbarring onto the blog a proposal or news so ill-fitting it resembles James Corden in a pro-fit England shirt, and which I politely decline.  Very occasionally in the midst of all this there is something that is bizarre in the extreme; something both relevant to rugby and yet mad, like this thing I received today from the Official RBS 6 Nations press office:

The Scotland rugby team has been taking advantage of technology pioneered by club and community rugby sponsor, Scottish Hydro, and their partners at technology firm, Cyberhawk Innovations, to offer a groundbreaking perspective on preparations for this weekend's 6 Nations opener against France at Murrayfield. 

The flying Cyberhawk drones, nicknamed 'The Flying Scot' after Scotland's joint record try-scorer, Ian Smith, are kept stable by eight independent rotor-blades, managed by an on-board GPS. 

The units are fitted with video equipment capable of relaying live action and still images to the team's coaches and video analysts from up to 300m above the training ground, or from directly behind the players themselves, to offer a player's view of the action.

So, basically, Scotland are training with the bad robots from the Matrix following them around.  This must be pretty disturbing in itself, and that is before you realise that it means the Scots' management team can - like watching a Coldplay concert on one of those multi-angle DVDs - witness the full horror of how terrible what they are witnessing truly is via a soul-splinteringly revealing panoply of viewpoints. 

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Scotland use Matrix Sentinel-type-flying-thing to assist with training!

Some background.  With this blog enjoying some modest success in terms of profile and visitors over the last year or so, a whole new world opened up to me: the PR world,  a world in which emails come in from many pleasant people all telling you that they have info/news/services etc that can help the site in some way.  Sometimes these emails bring the kind of offer that causes great excitement, eg interviewing Keith Wood or Phil Vickery, but more often they are folk trying to find some way of crowbarring onto the blog a proposal or news so ill-fitting it resembles James Corden in a pro-fit England shirt, and which I politely decline.  Very occasionally in the midst of all this there is something that is bizarre in the extreme; something both relevant to rugby and yet mad, like this thing I received today from the Official RBS 6 Nations press office:

The Scotland rugby team has been taking advantage of technology pioneered by club and community rugby sponsor, Scottish Hydro, and their partners at technology firm, Cyberhawk Innovations, to offer a groundbreaking perspective on preparations for this weekend's 6 Nations opener against France at Murrayfield. 

The flying Cyberhawk drones, nicknamed 'The Flying Scot' after Scotland's joint record try-scorer, Ian Smith, are kept stable by eight independent rotor-blades, managed by an on-board GPS. 

The units are fitted with video equipment capable of relaying live action and still images to the team's coaches and video analysts from up to 300m above the training ground, or from directly behind the players themselves, to offer a player's view of the action.

So, basically, Scotland are training with the bad robots from the Matrix following them around.  This must be pretty disturbing in itself, and that is before you realise that it means the Scots' management team can - like watching a Coldplay concert on one of those multi-angle DVDs - witness the full horror of how terrible what they are witnessing truly is via a soul-splinteringly revealing panoply of viewpoints.