Typical Kiwi ref letting everyone get away with everything inthe deck

Attissogbe and Bielle-Biarrey are destroying us in the air. This kick chase tactic is suicidal against them.

Adam Beard picking a risky moment to attempt kicking a ball for the first time in his life. You have to respect the audacity.

Great live training session this for France. Hopefully they'll give us some players in the second half.

My son is in Cardiff and I am trying to get him 2 tickets for Wales v France today. I know that they are in plentiful supply, but because I am abroad, I cannot purchase through the WRU website - even when connected to a VPN. Can anyone help me get hold of 2 tickets?

I had always considered Jackie Brown to be far and away Tarantino's best film and, after just rewatching it for the first time in 20 odd years, I reaffirm this opinion. It was the slickest, most taut of his original LA trilogy and everything since has been bloated and self-indulgent.

In the end they didn't overpower us, they were just more clinical. Fairplay though - and seldom nowadays do I get to say this about any Welsh team - but we looked well-coached,so hats off to Richard Whiffin & Josh Turnbull. They have to back that up with 3 wins now.

The cutting edge the French u20 team has over us is their ability to play the ball out of contact on their feet. Our lads looking for the deck far too quickly and have less facility keeping the ball alive through contact.

I suspect the French speed and power might just edge us in the second half, but this is another very encouraging performance from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 20s. I am very excited about our halfbacks. Gwynne at 8 also looks a serious talent.

Henry Pollock brings out an inner William Wallace that I didn't know I had.

So, let me get this straight. A player can now commit two yellow card offences (one of which is a dangerous hit on a player in the air) and there is a still a chance England have a full compliment for the final 30, along with a big bench to use. Makes no sense

I think Kinghorn will be the key man for Scotland today. He i, by some distance, their best player and they need to get the ball in his hands as much as possible. If they do that, they have a shot.

I just told my inquisitive 12 year old don that Princess Anne is the Queen of Scotland.

Home crowd butting in and ruining a very well taken score.

A scandal for the ages.

Out of thehands square. Never forward for a millimetre. Disgraceful decision. The fix is well and truly in. Massive asterisk next to this if Ireland win.

Criminal Italy not taking the points there.

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.