Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Scottish pals, just a reminder we don't need to follow the rugby and we can do something else this weekend and save on heartache.

Timely given what we've seen this weekend

I hope Mann has had his eye checked out properly for no damage.

I'm not but you bet I'm watching it back tomorrow

Happy St Andrew's Day fellow Scots 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

He has history too of this.

Imagine being Racing Head Coach. You’re playing TLS away from home, the first forty is in the red & your team is well in the game. You’ve prepped your halftime talk & are seconds from going into the Changing Room - only for an absolute lunatic to headbutt an opponent & kill your chances stone dead.

If you told me a Scottish team wouldn't score a point not sure I'd pick Glasgow

Dupont back doing Dupont things

Seeing the crims win is unfortunate

The racing hooker headbutting someone in the stomach without the ball is wild.

The fundamental difference between Townsend and Franco is that I'd 100% be faking a really big shit so I didn't have to go back into the changing room and face Franco after that half, don't have that with Toony

Franco at half time

Please get Hastings on

Glasgow not quite firing. Jonny Matthews showing why he's not getting picked for Scotland.

Whatever money Boan Venter wants come contract time, give it to him.

I need Edinburgh to win, sorry Welsh folks

This is beautifully set up for Edinburgh to invent another way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. 🤦‍♂️

Big bad Boan back to sort it out

Edinburgh scrum struggling against Ospreys bin juice. Brilliant.

That try for Opsreys was class, well done

Liam McConnell is one of my favourite young players, hopefully a long career ahead of him.

Ready to hurt again. #Edinburgh

Picking fights with Eben is some dumb shit.

I feel so bad for the Welsh boys on the pitch. Just a shit fucking day for everyone involved. I hope they just forget this game ever happened and park it in the bin.

Just award the try, no one cares

Glad he's having a laugh and joke.

Could the Boks get the hundred?

Poor Blair Murray

Death, taxes and Taine Plumtree getting a yellow card. #WALvRSA

Elite level doughnut

That's a disgrace from the commentators

The big Christmas clean is done. I started at 8 am 😂 got a fisher & Donaldson fudge doughnut to celebrate with later.

Bulls and Lions said ”no” to defence today

Leinster have being buying Irish rugby for years. They've now compromised the URC. It can't be allowed to continue. #endleinster

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

@alicesoapbox.bsky.social is so good at this.

The big pre Christmas clean today.

This is absolutely appalling; Tappe Henning needs to deal with this properly and rigorously - no more brushing stuff under the carpet when player safety is at risk.

I'll just say I'd rather watch a game where there are red cards every week for high shots than one where, with everything we know about CTE, early-onset dementia and potentially even MND, the players' safety is rated below entertainment as a refereeing priority.

So I've watched this and I still don't understand how he came to that conclusion. Dragons absolutely done here.

Stockdale not having a good game tonight, couldn't catch a cold.

Ferris just gave the ref and Tmo a compliment

Current prevailing podcast theory is that everyone in the royal family had to come up with a mad story for the press to take heat off of the Andrew formerly known as prince and R360 was Tindall's one

Sam GW is not here for nonsense today especially front rowers

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Glasgow going lighter than expected but still some quality there. Delighted for Kerr, he was promising at U20s.