There's a thought....

Sealing off and double movement is actually legal when Ospreys are in possession, the more you know

Whitehouse ignoring multiple instances of Ospreys carriers crawling forward on the deck there.

Kieran Williams cynical

FUCK OFF SHITEHOUSE. THAT WAS MORE LATE THAN HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN FFS

Fletcher Anderson is quality. Superb work rate and exquisite footwork means he usually beats his first man. I'd be surprised if the SRU aren't sniffing about.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I only caught the second half, but the standard of that match was poor. The only bright spot was Che Hope, who I thought was decent.

In spite of what Alan Partridge and Tom Shankin on comms may have you think, Mason Grady is cac.

I fear for Cardiff in this second half. With Notnewport in the form that they are in, it is going to be about damage limitation for the blue & blues.

HE'S FUCKING BEEN!!🧑🏼‍🎄

If you need them, call them. ☎️ 116 123.

My son, Siôn, made this short film about our 3 month old border collie, Noisette, discovering the stream and forest near our home. Shot on his bashed up 50€ Motorola smartphone and edited on DaVinci Resolve. youtube.com/watch?v=uR93...

My family and me on Boxing Day, unless I succeed in removaling the 'STAND UP IF YOU LOVE THE DARTS!' chant from my head.

I reckon Jake Ball would have kicked the shit out of Anthony Joshua, had he not gone two full sets of 80 against UBB and Cardiff in the week leading up to the bout. Peel needs to be smarter in managing his game time.

The Scarlets won and the Ospreys lost too. It has been a good weekend, to be fair.

I just caught up on the highlights of Dragons v Connacht and I have to say that I am very disappointed with how the Dragons let Connacht back in for a totally undeserved consolation try bonus point at the end. When you get the opportunity to completely humiliate an Irish team, you have to seize it.

I am going to sleep like a baby tonight.🇹🇷

I'll tell you what - I have been very skeptical about Hawkins, but that was a fine performance tonight and he is starting to win me over. Kicked excellently & won the territorial battle off low possession. He also brings a noticeably more physical presence to midfield. He totally outplayed Sheedy.

Tat Scarlets win was similar to a typical All Blacks-style performance, where they let the opposition huff and puff and tire themselves out, then pounce ruthlessly and with clinical precision, when the opposition makes a mistake. Perhaps a testament to the superior skill level in our rugby DB8A?

Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Cardiff were so toothless in attack that letting them have the ball was 100% the right tactic. This is an excellent example - of which there are many in rugby - of possession and territory stats being completely out of sync with the dynamic of the match.

It is uncommon for my predictions to be off, but, testament to the man that I am, I humbly hold my hands up on this one. Although, in my defence, I didn't factor in the impact that WRU 1 being refereed by their own colleagues would have. Tougher tests will follow, but a win is a win.🇹🇷😎

I guess that’s the difference between Champions Cup and Challenge Cup level really.

Is Johan Mulder always that good?

FUCK OFF REF. ADAMS RAN INTO HIM FFS

Alun Lawrence loves getting held up.

Some of the officiating in that first half rendered me speechless. I suppose this is what happens when the referee is literally employed by one of the competing teams.

Scandalous homer officiating keeping Cardiff in this.

There was nothing at all in that. Ridiculous yellow card. Ref is doing everything within his power to keep Cardiff in this.

Cardiff are done. One way traffic from here.

A Cardiff fan on Twitter has Alun Lawrence at no 8 over Fletcher Anderson in a combined WRU 1 / Llanelli XV. For this reason alone, we will send Dave Reddin's lads packing tonight, in a way that'll leave them frantically scrambling to salvage whatever dignity it is they believe they still possess.

I don't necessarily think that we should be looking past Cardiff, but it is obvious that the key metric for us tonight is the manner of victory. Not only is try BP an absolute must, but we also need to defeat them in a manner that leaves their players and fans with psychological scars.

The last thing I want is to connect with IRL personal and professional contacts. What we desperately need is a poll feature. It was such an important tool for shitposting rage farming on Twitter and is sorely lacking here.

I'm hearing that the WRU are going to tart up the carpark at The Vale, in their relentless pursuit of excellence. Huge announcement planned later this week.

I am hearing a rumour that Jac and Dewi have a break clause in their Gloucester contracts, in the event of the WRU doing a gym refurb. Absolutely game changing stuff today from the WRU.

2025 has been a terrible year for mugs. First, I cac-handedly knock my Celtic Conspiracy mug by @missilepanda.bsky.social off the shelf, shattering it completely. Then my Nathan 'Wacker' Thomas, mug slips from my grasp, mid wash, causing it irreparable damage. My two best mugs, gone 😢

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

It is this time of year where I am reminded of how much I dislike all of the other Welsh teams.

Hear, hear!

The ousting of Gareth Davies & Martyn Phillips in 2020 directly led Welsh rugby to the mess of today. If those two had remained in charge, I the game would still be in reasonably good health, inspite of COVID. I would welcome both back, in a heartbeat. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

WRU 1 fans getting a tad overexcited about this, I feel. That WRU front row will be coming to, face down in a puddle of its own piss on December 19th, by the time Archer Holz and Marnus are through with them. Let's see how cinematic they find that.

Congratulations to all of the Scottish rugby fans on tonight's Glasgow win over Toulouse.

I saw enough today in Bordeaux to suggest that not only will we beat Cardiff, but that we will beat them in style. Their bullshit run of form is built on sand. Furthermore, this is now an ideological battle between Good (us) and Evil (WRU, Y11, etc). Fuck Cardiff & the horse they rode in on.

Possibly the greatest result in Scottish club rugby History?

Can't believe Glasgow just won the champions cup

My son before his first Scarlets away vs after his first Scarlets away, giving me my marching orders outside the Stade Chaban-Delmas.

Leinster won away in the European Cup, against the biggest club in England & x2 European champs, lbut all their fans can do is bitch and whine, because the victory apparently wasn't dominant enough for their liking. They really are such an insufferable bunch of spoiled babies.

UBB's failure to respect Llanelli - a fellow European heavyweight - has left me no alternative but to take matters into my own hands. I will therefore be attending the match in person, with gloating UBB fan @mazmcm.bsky.social firmly in my cross hairs.

The pure disrespect. 😡 I reckon we go tit-for-tat and rest some of our world class players too.

Any Scarlets fans going to Bordeaux know if I can get a couple of spare tickets?