Rugby

In fairness, they used to have Delilah which is obviously a banger but the WRFU decided that banning this would make up for the toxic workplace they were found to have created. If it were my decision I'd be pushing for this massive number I first heard after a Joe Cordina fight, but yeah, anything better than the stereophonics...

https://youtu.be/jjFHqMxLGjg?si=u5cCq_izmhhOYg79

Clinical from Wales (Biggar's injury will be a concern and the only blot). But I have never seen such a bad Australia performance as that. Quade Cooper and Michael Hooper (plus a few others) must have been seething. Woeful.

That transformation surely means Gatland has cemented his place at the top table of coaches down the years.

It's been bagged by the football lot so they'll never use it at the rugby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLXtf1XFczk

Is rugby and football as partisan in Wales as it is in England? Anyway, their loss and if this means they're stuck with the stereophonics I'd be motivated to look beyond an existing football association....

tbh I'm glad they got rid of Delilah - it was always really jarring to hear thousands of people joyously singing about some incel stalker prick stabbing a woman to death.

I'm not a huge fan of the Cranberries' work (post the first album)

The NOISE tho, must have been amazing to be there.

Yeah, I looked into getting a ticket last week - could've got one for about £250, but couldn't make the logistics work...

Make sure you never go to a traditional folk night.

Mack Hansen on his way to the try line on Saturday

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France predicting Dupont might be back for 1/4s…

He’s back in training on Sunday.

https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actualites/William-servat-antoine-dupont-sera-de-retour-pour-l-entrainement-dimanche/1422100

(Double post)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/66949020

This sucks. Another club going to the wall, seemingly out of nowhere.

Post is gone!

But I think I saw jersey?

Jesus, NZ not taking any Italian prisoners.

They're ruthless aren't they?

Italy are better than this. So passive.

Ioane deserved that.

Yup. They seem to have bought into the awe that other teams had for nz a decade ago. No pressure on the ball. Stood off everything. Discipline killed them in the first half too and the flood gates went.

Why are the ITV commentary team incapable of identifying the countries playing?
Tonga have been called Fiji more than once, they don't even play in the same colours.
Is it just incompetence or is it racism?

The also like to lay into Tameifuna for his weight, I actually look forward to the RWC going behind a paywall if only to get ITVs grubby mitts off of it.

The nrl final between Penrith and Brisbane was one of the best games of rugby league I've seen in a decade. Search it out if you're at all interested

Gutted to have missed it and spoiled it by seeing the score this morning. Will definitely catch a re-run somewhere. Sounds like a cracker.

Samoa are looking sharp

What a finish.

England are a shambles.