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Noise, randomness, ballistic uncertainty.
I watched Swansea RFC play a couple of weeks ago with possibly 100 people in the whole ground. This is the level that some Welsh players are being selected from (Mackenzie Martin most recently.) The Welsh Indigo League manage to get a game every few weeks on S4C Digital. Compare to England - Ealing recently played a televised cup game against Leicester and it felt like they had more well known players on display than the whole Welsh squad.
Compare to NZ - their equivalent feeder level is shown on Sky Sports and has All Blacks playing.
I'd suggest that there's plenty of money around, just that it's in the wrong places. I'm not sure what the solution is, but it needs work from the WRU, not just a little prayer and Max Boyce.
IFW has got concussion symptoms. Not available to play against France!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Very forward thinking
Maybe he’ll do something original, maybe HasellCollns, is Arundel already in France ?
Predictions for this weekend?
France vs: Eng: Hard to call. Both have shown improvement in their latest game, but Eng moreso I think. Whoever manages to maintain the most form from last weekend. France have home advantage. Tricky. Eng to win by 3 points. Maybe.
Wales vs Italy: Honestly it's hard to see past Italy after their last performance. Wales have shown glimpses of nice rugby so that would not surprise me too much, but Italy have been good all tournament and look the more settled side. Italy to win by 5 points.
Ireland vs Scotland: After the last result, Ireland will come out like a raging bull. A lot has been made of the (fantastic) Eng win, but we should remember it required England's best game since 2019 to beat Ireland by a single point. Scotland I think have issues with the psychology and last week's implosion will have made that worse. Ireland to win by 15 points.
Opinions?
I think Scotland are so embarrassed that they will be up for a fight. I think they are going to surprise everyone and just win it. A real "what the hell" type moment.
I'd love to see Italy beat Wales. Just to get the Italian pride up a bit more and maybe increase the amount of kids playing in Italy. It would be like Japan beating the Boks!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
TBH I hope he calls it a day completely soon - far too many bangs to the head. He was a fine player and I do not want to see him join the early onset dementia and CTE statistics.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I know what you mean though. At some point Scotland will beat Ireland in Dublin. It could well be this weekend. But as has been said already, Ireland had to be a bit off, suffer a number of injuries that made the 6/2 split come back and bite them, and still it took the best English performance for a number of years to win by a point. Isn't Sione Tuipulotu injured as well? I dunno. it could happen, but I wouldn't bet the house on it. I don't foresee a world cup style blow out though. It'll be tight.
I think England will win in France.
I think Wales will beat Italy.
Noise, randomness, ballistic uncertainty.
Italy to win
in order to hopefully follow that patter Ingland to win.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
England by 7
Italy by 7 but hoping that G North scores in his last international
The best thing for North would be to sprain his ankle in the first minute so he doesn't take any more bangs to the head. He should have retired years ago with his concussion history.