What the Dickens.
These are going to be a long 20 minutes
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pleased that Deaves has got a cap - love an outspoken socialist pro athlete!
Happy with that tbh.
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excellent series for England
have i spoken too soon?
Seems reasonable
Edit:
Objective 1 done. Close though.
Objective 2 done.
My main problem is that instead of applying pressure they blast through out defence so easily i dont get the yellow. Maybe a yellow from a scrum after the 60th minute.
well it took 8 minutes for the floodgates to break which is better than I was expecting
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Respect to you for even watching this. Gambling is the only way of giving it any edge.
Got offered free tickets to go. Erm…no thanks.
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well your bet is still very much live
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I don’t know where the yellow is going to come from. There’s no actual contest so I can’t see where it can even come from. There will be no sustained pressure or anything.
It can only come from collapsing a maul or something.
Staring at 70+ nil here. WTF is the point of this shit.
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I liked Lee Calvert (from the excellent blood and mud podcast) preamble on the Guardian
It is tempting at this point to describe the Welsh Rugby Union as a clown show. But that would unfairly overlook the commitment and dedication, training, expertise, and preparation to produce that circus based entertainment. The public also respects clowns, even the ones that oddly fear them.
The WRU are more like a Baboons On LSD show. Wherein a large group of hallucinating monkeys run about screaming, break everything in the building then start viciously eating each other, with little regard for the paying audience.
The latest symptom of this corporate approach from the custodian of the game of rugby union in Wales is today’s match. Scheduled as it is outside the agreed international window, this means that an already challenged Wales team is shorn of its non-Wales based players, while the nation’s domestic pro clubs are having to field teenagers and rugby pensioners in league games on the same day.
But wait, it gets worse. The national side are also having to play against the most powerful force in world rugby at present, as the Springboks arrive in Cardiff having put every team they’ve faced this November through their industrial shredder. This is all the more galling in the context of the Wales vs New Zealand match last week, a performance of small comforts from the men in red when all expected a walloping for the ages.
Well, barring a miracle, that’s what coming today while in the domestic United Rugby Championship, the pro clubs of Cymru face their own daunting tasks.
So, an egregious example of rugby governance and planning all round from the national union. The players and public have been shamefully let down for the best part of a decade (and more) and the scenario this weekend is the crowning top hat full of turds that exemplifies the whole mess. At this point, it might actually be worth letting the baboons have a go. How much worse could it be?
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Lol!!! There she is. 55 smackaroonies.
Winning 73 nil and you decide to do a bit of deliberate eye gouging. What the hell was that about.
Par for the course with the Boks isn’t it? Usually they get away with it though.
There was no getting away with that one. It was more of straight up criminal offence than any sort of rugby incident.
The most shocking thing is that it was by someone with so much experience.
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https://x.com/timessport/status/2019004928904118409?s=46
Sounds a bit American.
That is absolute fucking WANK.
…as wank as the best game being on a pissing Thursday night.
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Im really, really, really looking forward to us taking on this French side. It’s going to be so good.
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