Look, given we've had a week's reprieve from armageddon, me and @joshgardner.bsky.social are doing anither episode this evening. Send your #SHITGOOD like an ICBM into the replies...

My favourite bit of Angine de Poitrine lore is they only started wearing the outfits because they wanted to play the same bar twice a week without it looking obvious. As if punters would assume their town was home to TWO SEPARATE double-neck-toting microtonal instrumental jazz-rock weirdos.

Adjusted for inflation, The Darkness’ sophomore album “One Way Ticket To Hell… and Back” is the 34th most expensive album ever made.

Bordeaux are the better team, Toulouse have better individual players. It’s made for one of the most fucking fascinating games of rugby of the season

Ramos with a try saving spot-blitz tackle and an incredible 50:22 in the same passage of play. WPOTY.

A fantastic afternoon for practised Moefana haters such as myself, you have to say.

“Damian couldn’t answer any of these basic questions about himself and current events… which is exactly the same as his baseline”

Penaud going off for a HIA is completely unnecessary, because you simply don’t need to check on the health of something that isn’t there.

You know it’s time to give up on being cool when you’re watching the Scrubs reboot and you have to pause it because you need to Google the really nice jacket John C McGinley (age 66) is wearing. In my defence, it’s a great jacket. 🤷‍♂️

Literally, you would have to send Artemis III to retrieve me.

If this is the final podcast we do before The Great Burn, I’m glad I managed to squeak “refs are getting cucked by TMOs” in before the end.

Kinda messed up how, since Toulouse humiliated them in the Top 14 final a few years ago, Bordeaux have seemingly delighted in showing not a hint of compassion to other teams. This is about as merciless and brutal a soul-taking as you’ll ever see.

Don’t blame Huw for forgetting the absolute humiliation the Ospreys handed out to the Scarlets in the Challenge Cup knock-out stages 12 months ago, the poor Turks are a sensitive bunch.

Well in the fucking Drags!

To be denied a match-winning try away from home, in Ireland, in a European knock out game… for this. Gonna be very hard to not be tin foil hat about this tbh.

The most obviously backward “clear and obvious” forward pass I’ve ever seen. Obscene.

The TMO is gonna find a way to not give this mark my words.

You know you’re going to get balanced commentary performance when they’re literally saying they “hope” the Ospreys don’t get scrum dominance after 30 seconds.

This is a real statement performance from Bristol, and that statement is: please sack our head coach as soon as possible.

This is the most Sunday-assed Saturday in living memory.

However many Fijian lads Castres have on the field right now is the Optimum Number Of Fijian Lads.

When Eddie Hearn promised more rugby signings to come after Pollock… was he talking about Craig Evans? 😬

Every time I watch Josh Kemeny, I’m surprised he hasn’t got more of a look in for the Wallabies. I know Australia have plenty of good flankers, but big, rangy, skillfull blindsides are rocking horse shit let’s face it.

If you can’t do that to Henry Pollock, the game really has gone.

Be good in the WWE too.

Christian Ambadiang is FAST, goodness me.

Bristol Bears posting a £5.6m loss last season (up from £4.8m) really does show how fucked English rugby’s maths is. Worth remembering that Ospreys losing £2m a season was touted by Y11 and the WRU as why the club no longer deserved to exist. That’s a smaller loss than all but 4 Prem clubs…

A sad day for fans of the Last Good Rugby Game™️

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How old I feel watching this:

Taulupe trudging off with his arm in a sling on Saturday only to get named in Cardiff's Challenge Cup squad on Monday…

If you’re Taulupe Faletau, surely you have to be wondering if it’s time now? He’s managed to 21 games for club and country since the World Cup due to a varitey of major injuries, he’s 35, he’s looking at another long rehab. He’s an icon, a legend, a triple Lion. He’s got nothing left to prove.

“Are there any good rugby teams?” The most pressing question of 2026.

The only real thing the WRU has been able to claim in terms of progress is “We’ve stabilised our financial situation”. Now they’re £7m in the hole, and Q1 isn’t even over yet… despite having just had the Six Nations and all the earning potential that offers? Stability, yo.

If you wanna know how much client journalism has been going on at WalesOnline over the last few months, the deluge of unflattering revelations published today about Richard Collier-Keywood is instructive. For example, this cannot be new info - why have they been sitting on it for weeks/months?

You can tell nobody in the fucking editorial chain here – from the top all the way down to this dingus – has ever actually done real work as a copy editor here. Because what he's describing – laboriously rewriting AI into coherent copy – is always more hassle than just fucking writing it yourself.

Good riddance to the arrogant prick, but this is blatantly a play by the union to defang the EGM and try to avoid scrutiny for the WRU's plans for the game. They will do ANYTHING, it seems, to avoid having to admit they're on the wrong side of history.

Did wonder why Toby Booth had decided to take up a job with Hong Kong and then I saw the stash and it all makes sense. A rare Castore W.

Amongst the wholesomeness of the France squad doing a video chat with a poorly lad before the England game, is yet another reason to love Thomas Ramos. He’s talking to a *child with cancer* and when he’s asked how he’s doing he’s literally like, “Ugh yeah fine I suppose… 🙄” King shit.

Lady sat next to me on the train is (through headphones, mercifully) on minute 7 of what the progress bar tells me is an 18-minute WhatsApp voice note from her friend and, I’m sorry, there is nobody in the world I like enough to put myself through that.

Why all TMOs should be in prison Pt 3472. Ruling this worldie of a try out for a marginal offside at the ruck two phases before. Jail for 1000 years.

New Stade Francais heritage shirt is 😮‍💨

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One of Rob Regan’s alternative plans for Welsh rugby that would retain all four regions (note, “one of”) has more detail and rigour than anything the WRU has published so far.

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The fact that Ramos is Too Real for even his fellow professionals to acknowledge his excellence makes me love him even more.

World Rugby Player of the Year 2027. The morally correct choice.