How Mann is still in, seemingly at the expense of Macleod, is truly baffling. That back row will get absolutely blown away. No chance whatsoever.

Alex Mann's dad in with someone is he? Baffling.

Wedding in Cwmcarn, a mining village in Wales's Ebbw Valley, 1965, photo by US photographer Bruce Davidson.

This selection is incredibly disrespectful towards the Italians.

Estonian lad just went flying on his arse trying to do a triple twist. You've got to be nailing those landings. Poor from Sevelevko. 👎🏼🇪🇪

"Hey boss man, I just want you to know that I was just talking with the lads and we all reckon for real that your breakdancing is totally rad."

The sweeping the ice element of curling is hilarious. I'm not sure if the curlers are pro, but imagine that was their job. 06:00 awake 06:30 6 egg omelette 07:00-09:00 sweeping the floor practice 09:00-10:00 sweeping video analysis etc.

It is my pleasure to remind Steve and any other IRT tough guys, running around the streets, gleefully proclaiming my reign to be over, that they will have the opportunity to proclaim as such to my face on the day of March 6th in Dublin's fair city. Alive, alive, oh, MUTHAFUCKAS 🇨🇮🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Regarding the Genge headbutt on Saturday, it was Alex Mann's patriotic duty to go full Rivaldo and ensure that the world (and the TMO) know that he had been viscously assaulted. If an English rugby player begs you for a red card like that, it is unforgivable not to grant him his wish.

Against my initial expectations, I am actually really enjoying the winter Olympics. Some of the events even look quite easy and I reckon I would do quite well in them. In particular, my status as a record signing lawn bowls player would see me being a medal contender in the curling, piece of piss.🥌

There is a lot of stuff in the media and on social media about how Cymru's disappearance as a T1 nation would be disastrous for the sport of rugby union; its soul, its heritage, its future. I agree. If we go, the whole thing is fucked and the rest of you can pack up and go home too.

This. I know that we don't have a team of world beaters, but the players who took the field should be easily capable of a higher level of performance than what they produced in that 1st half.

I can accept us losing and losing by a certain margin, but the insipid, disjointed nature of that first half performance was hard to stomach.

TAKE THE FUCKING POINTS YOU BELLENDS

Could this finally be their year?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉

Promising from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 d20 last night. Very frustrating to lose a match they should have sewn up a thousand times over, but lots of bright sparks, nonetheless. Back row excellent, half backs clearly super gifted, despite iffy game management 2nd half. Set piece strong. Bowen & Emmanuel real star quality.

Cymru D20 need to play in the wide channels because they aren't getting any joy up the middle.

I just read this in Écran Total magazine and it bowled me over. Khaby Lame, the world's no.1 tiktoker with 360 million followers, has just sold his AI image rights for 3 years to a Hong Kong financial services company for $975m. I have no idea who this guy is and I feel like a right dinosaur.

you’d think Munster fans would have a kinship for a mouthy 10 who has a reputation for being a turnstile in defence

I find it curious how Irish fans seem fixated on Pendergast's defensive frailty, given the 128 cap career of Ronan O'Gara. Prendergast is a defensive titan compared to ROG. I don't remember the constant scrutiny of ROG's inability to tackle so much as a marshmallow, week after week, year after year.

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

Last night I got drunk in a bar watching a 6 Nations match and now my brain is incapable of processing the fact that today is not Saturday.

Hard lines. Comeback was on there. Ireland just failed to pull the trigger when it mattered. Siomedig. 👎🏼🇨🇮

@edjenx.bsky.social Textbook!

The only worthwhile part of the white people snow Olympics is USA v Denmark in the ice hockey. The rest of it can fuck off.

22-0 is a dangerous scoreline.

Ireland are still right in this.

Unfortunately (predictably), this has been met with radio silence from Irish rugby fans eho usually have quite a lot to say. Nevermind, I will just have to go over andstart some crowd trouble in a bar by booing at the telly if Sam Pendergast gets the opportunity to kick for posts.

An intriguing sub-plot to 🇫🇷v🇨🇮 - not to mention a big motivating factor for some Irish players - will be how the lads in Farrell's 23 who didn't make his Lions tour front up. You imagine that likes of Loughman, McCloskey & Osbourne will still be furious at not touring Oz & will have a point to prove.

Some truly heroic defense here from Cardiff.

Fairweather fans scrambling for the lifeboats.🇨🇮📉

I am currently going through the process of acquiring French citizenship and, once I have done so, the first thing I'm going to do is jump on social media and join in with all the 'the Brits' chat.

There are 2 key areas where 🇫🇷 v 🇨🇮 will be won & lost. 🇫🇷 need to contain Loughman in order to gain a foothold. If they do that, they have a shot 🇨🇮 meanwhile need to disrupt Moefana. He is the glue player of that backline & S Pendergast will be looking to nail him early with a trademark big hit.

I know what Jeff means and it is a difficult phenomenon to pin down. It is as if the outcome of the match is destined to be at the fluctuating whim of the French team that presents itself on the day. It is just surprising that no cliché has ever been coined to define this phenomenon.

I like Tandy, but he doesn't half overdo it a bit on the old management speak. You can tell that he has done lots of conferences on leadership and such.

I suppose now is as good a time as any to announce that I will be in attendance for #IrelandWeek 2026 in Dublin. So for those of you bottle-job IRT loudmouths jibbing the Thursday night kick off in Paris, good luck trying to duck me in Dublin on the weekend of March 6th. 🇨🇮🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #TickTock

Any of my Irish enemies going to 🇫🇷v🇨🇮 on Thursday night? I just realised that I will be in Paris for work,so if anyone fancies meeting up for a long overdue reckoning, let me know. @mazmcm.bsky.social , par exemple ?

Brace has to cancel this now while we are ahead

This is proper rugby in Treviso, as god intended.

It is important not to over-hype young players, but I am very excited to see how 18 year old fly half Carwyn Leggatt-Jones goes this evening. He reminds me of Phil Bennett.

This is something I think that we can all get behind. The survival of theOs, but not without suffering for their fans.

Everyone give this a click. It will free y'all from the tyrannical yoke of US tech imperialism and will help out a really cool, hitherto little-know European tech provider.

If the Ospreys survive this, Rob Stewart should have a statue built outside St Helens

I'm all for this kind of action and whereas it is relatively easy to boycott US products in things like food, fashion, cars etc., they really do have us inescapably snookered, when it comes to tech.

I'm watching Ludogorets Razgrad vs OGC Nice in the UEFA cup. Razgrad have been Bulgarian champions for 14 seasons on the trot but they have fewer fans than even the Ospreys and their pitch is like the Brewery Field too LOL it's pathetic haha!😂

If one man can do it...

I'm not being funny right, but if you present or feature regularly on a podcast - and especially if it is one that seeks to monetise via subs, ads, merch, etc. - then BUY👏🏼A👏🏼 FUCKING 👏🏼 DECENT 👏🏼 MICROPHONE. You can get something cheap online that will do the job & it makes a world of difference.

This is a perfect demonstration of how our entire economy is being held aloft by nothing. Tesla doesn't make money. It doesn't matter if it makes cars or robots or "AI" or magic dicksuckers or whatever else falls out of Elon's diseased brain. Tesla doesn't make money. But the stock never falls.

I am one of the most knowledgeable rugby pundits on here and even I have never heard of 'Loughman'. Ireland could be in trouble.

with all due respect Ms Perry, calm down