I get misty eyed just thinking about it Gar.
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I get misty eyed just thinking about it Gar.
It is a truly breathtaking achievement. Almost as breathtaking as the arrogance of Scottish rugby fans.
... I'll answer that one for you : there is only one, Gregor Townsend's Scotland team, 2017-2025. During Toonie's reign, Scotland have CONSISTENTLY been in the discussion for a place in the top half of the 6 Nations, which is a truly remarkable achievement. Scottish rugby fans lack gratitude.
Actually, I'd go a step further than this by stating that Townsend is the most successful national team coach in the entire History of Scottish sport. At what other point in history has a Scottish national team, in any mainstream sport, consistently threatened the upper echelons of any competition?
Is that what the lawyers eventually determined? It must be a tricky undertaking, suing the weather. Fairplay to the SRU for giving it a shot,
Don't forget the hurricane in 2019. If it wasn't for that hurricane, I reckon you would have qualified from the group. 100%.
Even I need a break from spamming the survey.
When and how could they have conceivably done any better?
Are you suggesting that 'this squad' has underachieved?
I don't get the hostility. Townsend is literally the most successful Scottish coach of this century. Under his stewardship, Scotland have frequently beaten other teams and have consistently challenged for a top half 6 Nations finish. Poor Gregor. Scottish rugby fans are just so ungrateful.☹️👎🏼
I learn quick
My real name is Dave Reddin, welcome to my LinkedIn.
I put '110%' in every box of the consultation question on budget allocation. Why? Because I NEVER give less than that myself and I expect the WRU to reciprocate. If I could have written the answers in my own blood, I would have. Inspirational? Perhaps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Over to you, Welsh Rugby Union.
It is all of that and it is also completely disingenuous.
Can anybody reply to this survey?
It is all dependent on the WRU not scrapping us.
Campaigning councillors say the loss of the Scarlets, their stadium, and over 400 full and part-time jobs would be a ‘travesty’ ✍️ Martin Shipton
Penblwydd hapus Eiros 12 mlwydd oed heddiw. ❤️
Nice touch you painting your face orange in honour of the home team. You'll be invited to join the ultras now!
Good crowd?
Aye fuck 'em.
I dunno, I think the gloves coming off is long overdue. The WRU is looking to cut one of either my team (Scarlets) or Squidge's team (Birdtwats). The notion that we should just stand by and politely protest while they do is not going to happen.
Cunts, that's who. SMH
Squidge is spot on and his reaction is precisely because he loves Welsh rugby. The time for aimless optimism is long gone, but so long as people are angry, there is a glimmer of hope.
The men are shit, the women are shit, the Union’s full of cunts, your club’s about to be cut, and it honestly feels like it’s only going to keep getting worse. Welsh Rugby in 2025 is the pits.
This is marvellous!
I don't follow the football scores that closely, but seeing something bad/funny happening to Rangers always makes me smile.
"Yma o hyd, y'all!"
It goes without saying that it is also one of the world's great rugby towns. If you are around for a game, be sure to go and watch Racing down at Parc des sports et de l'amitié. 🟠⚫
Lovely town. If you get the chance, visit château l'Hospitalet, the Gerard Bertrand vineyard. It is beautiful.
Where by is that?
I suppose you already know the bit about the bonus fuck up of pissing off a major sponsor, Zip World, with this stadium zip line fiasco?
The other thing was just how shit it looked. It was like some scaffolding propped up against the rustiest part of the stadiwm.
Deluded mun
lol innit. If my memory serves me, they marketed it as 'The Scale', which basically means that you get to walk up a flight of steps. I shit you not.
The counter argument would be that similar attractions were a success at Anfield and at thr Tottenham stadium. Then again, those two stadiums host anywhere between 20-30 well attended home fixtures every year, versus the 5-6 that the WRU host, plus concerts.
My deepest condolences for your loss.
They'll do well to come to a comment arrangement with anyone besides the rag & bone man.
I remember walking past it last year and seeing that it was £44 just to walk up the stairs and laughing my head off.
Yes and no. Cobblers-Keywords does explicitly say that he'd get rid of it.
£5 million. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...
If the WRU discontinues Welsh rugby, then I will be transferring my support to Bronwyn's Kosovan girl's rugby club, which is probably the coolest thing in rugby today.
Wonderful stuff from Bronwyn and the girls. Please support them if you can; incredible grassroots movement from committed women and girls in the Balkans.
He had a horrible second half before the missed kicks - caught in possession behind the gain line, wild passes - he had a total mare. Australia were the better team IMO and he single handedly cost them the match.
One of the many highlights of #ARGvNZL was the scintillating form of Beauden Barrett. For my money, he is back to being the best fly half on the planet and it is a testament to how the NZRFU have managed him over the years.
Barrett was having an excellent game too
I thought Gonzales and Chocobares were both excellent, but Matera was head and shoulders above everyone. One of the most MOM performances you'll see.
Similarly, New Zealand's set piece has been incredible. A very high calibre affair
Argentina's aerial game has been sensational. Total domination in the air.
They have some epic stadiums over there.
Which stadium is 🇦🇷🇳🇿 being played at?
Argentina can have some big regrets about the last 2 minutes of that first half. Two gilt edged chances to lead gone begging. Brain dead white line fever from Gonzalez, then a brilliant piece of defending from Barrett to deny Delguy. Compelled stuff.
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Sacrificing myself on Twitter for the amusement of The Bsky Élite - I am indeed a top, top bloke.
It had to be done.
BBC Wales has always had an incestuous relationship with the WRU. In years gone by, The Western Mail and its hack client journalists were just as bad. Nowadays, the young WOL journalists are much better, but BBC Wales / Scrum V is still phoning in the analysis and doing the WRU's bidding.
I did it anyway.
Australian rugby's enduring faith in James O'Connor is one of life's big mysteries.
O'Connor is having a diabolical second half.
If Australia win this - as I suspect they will - I may have to pop in to Twitter for a quick pint later on.
They look like a shambles. They clearly have a stronger pack than Scotland, so it's baffling how they can be 16 points behind.
Cymru looks like a team with some decent firepower, especially up front, but a bit of a shambles, especially in defence.
Before the last try after every ruck it was flagrant. I'm utterly gobsmacked.
Is clearing out beyond the ruck allowed in women's rugby? I wonder, because it appears to be the cornerstone of Scotland's game.
Nah there are clear giveaways. There is no way the hair on the security guard to the left is real.
Look at a map.
That tribalism was the source of our passion, our strength.
Lake is the only forward we have right now with the ability to be the best in the world in his position, but he is constantly injured.
Exactly - in a piss weak Lions team, to boot.
You have your cake, you eat it and you even get to snort up the crumbs.
JM isn't a real star player. 10 years ago, he wouldn't have even got into a Welsh match day squad. Is he genuinely top 5 in the world in his position, as Warburton, Tipuric, Faletau and Lydiate were for the best part of a decade? I don't think so. The fact that he is our best player says a lot.
Alas, regionalism has killed the hostility and passion that existed in those fanbases.
As it should be. I remember in the days before regional rugby, many club fans would only grudgingly support the national team, so long as their team's players were picked.
He is wrong in the sense of what he is saying is completely irrelevant to the context. Even among younger fans, I am not aware of the support of a player over the team being part of European culture. Besides, even if it were, Welsh rugby doesn't have any star players to support.
The Llanelli Molten Beans n Sausage Pasty Disaster of 2026.
In any sense, Cobblers-Keywords is talking shit - this phenomenon does not exist in rugby.
Strange culture.
Don't they regularly change the team that they support?
Rather than two soulless compass point teams, I would genuinely rather that pro rugby in Cymru ended. Revert to a semi-pro domestic comp with Cardiff, Llanelli, Swansea, Newport et al, while maintaining 4 beefed up, WRU-funded age-grade academies, with all the pro quality talent playing abroad.
My POV on Welsh rugby is that the writing was on the wall from the moment we bottled walking away with the northern clubs in 1895. That was the chance for rugby to become a professional, mass participation sport along working class lines. It took 130 years, but we were always doomed from that point.
You say that nobody will support a generic compass point team, but you will be eating those words, once Malcolm Wall unleashes his TikTok strategy on gen z.
*44 fully pro clubs in France.
Among many depressing elements of the WRU's likely "optimal solution" is that they will still spend less per club than the Scottish Rugby Union. And yet they still believe that their extremely centralised new system will allow Welsh rugby to outperform its better-resourced competitors.
My condition for a 'West' side is that it must be called 'Llanelli RFC', play in scarlet in Llanelli, sospans, and that anybody with even the slightest association with either Ospreys or Swansea RFC must be ostracised and excluded from this new club, for life, along with all of their family members.
My considered analysis on this is that, on the one hand, the WRU can get fucked, while on the other hand, the WRU can stick it up their arse. You could make a compelling case for either. www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
I propose the two Welsh teams are named Rangers and Celtic. Spice it up.
The SRU, already £10m in debt, are going to spunk away millions more sending its teams to Shitsville Colorado, to play some team that Americans don't even know exist, in front of 2 dogs and a teaspoon. You carry on validating this mess, if you want.👍🏼
Haha what a batshit nonsense league! The sooner we have nothing more to do with it, the better.
Oh tee-hee-hee!
I am sorry to hear that you have gone soft.
I love how the new IRFU 1 European jersey pays tribute to the team's tendency of pissing themselves in fear, whenever it comes to crunch time. A lovely and attentive nod to the province's culture and nascent History. Castore have really knocked this one out of the park.👏🏼👏🏼🔵🟡
Guilty by association - all the more so given how Leinster fans don't even have a song.
Flat out agree with this. Every time Irish rugby fans dirge it out, I thank His God Almighty and all of the other sky pixies for inventing the mute button on my telly remote. 🙏🏼
100% hard agree
In the top 3, along with Sweet Caroline and American Pie.
