Tinus de Beer monotoning his post-match PoM interview then inexplicably pointing straight at the camera while saying "our die hard attitude to the end" is my new favourote thing.

What's going on, Ospreys? "Try sponsored by Days Rentals" is it? "Number 15 jersey sponsored by Flawless Cleaning Services", would you? Game's gone.

'Welsh rugby governance...where the phrase “finding rock bottom” is treated less as a warning and more as a challenge for someone to “hold my beer”'. Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/i...

Clarity Just Confuses Me gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/c...

Stop press. My wife *did* receive a letter from Reform. My kids and I had one letter between us, she had one addressed only to her. I think it's fair that I continually point out that she is therefore far more Reformy than the rest of us, right?

"The tone of the press release is of responsible, pragmatic, grown-up governance. None of which survives a quick glance at the actual text. Because we are, to all intents and purposes, back exactly where we were on 8 April last year". gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/c...

Starting to get more election bumph through the front door. One letter, from Reform, was addressed to me, my son and my daughter but not my wife. I don't know why she gets off so lightly.

The amazing thing is that those 2019 Johnson voters have not learnt a single fucking thing.

I mean, come on lads.

You know when you're watching a match on catch-up, and you're about 30 minutes behind, and your team is 17 points up and completely dominant and it looks odds on they're going to score 50 and then your phone goes nuts and its your rugby chat group? Shit feeling that, right?

Brosseau has been comically ill-disciplined so far. Four penalties and a yellow card given away in the first 13 minutes. Chapeau!

It's difficult to look at the sparsely populated Aviva Stadium and not conclude that something is fundamentally wrong with the Champions Cup.

While this is very much women's rugby's day at the start of the Six Nations, I just wanted wish a Happy St. Scott's Day to all who celebrate.

Horrible flashback to that Elliot Daly try against Wales in 2017 there. Missed left footed kick to touch, two long passes left for the touchdown in the corner. Shudder #ENGvIRE

Good Lord, Dragons. What have you done?

Still. Two Welsh clubs going out of Europe thanks to extremely ropey refereeing decisions saving their out-on-their-feet opponents is a step up. Perhaps there is life in Welsh rugby yet.

But, luckily for the referee, his TMO has saved his career here by spotting a, and I use the following quote marks advisedly, "forward pass".

I think we're about to see astonishing scenes in Ravenhill. Ulster are about to have a penalty try and yellow card given against them. Unprecedented.

As a Welsh rugby supporter, this is quite the dilemma. Support the Welsh team as Cardiff face Treviso? Or watch Toulouse-Bristol in what is surely going to be an extremely silly game of nonsense?

Stormers will be kicking themselves there. A point down, 15 v 13, and they play an exceptionally narrow last play of 20-odd phases without once going wide into silly amounts of space or thinking of a drop goal.

It's such a shame that Mark Lewis Jones and Steffan Rhodri are the only two Welsh male actors currently alive. Lucky for them, though, I guess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a bit like watching Gareth Jenkins-era Wales. Give it to Shane..I mean Sorba!!1

Oh, good. Hail coming in horizontally, is it? There are some days that working in a shed at the bottom of the garden seems a bad idea.

"At that age, you are not identifying the best players, merely the earliest developers: the biggest, the fastest, the ones who, by chance, arrived first. It is like judging the best apple just after planting the tree". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/g...

Thoroughly enjoyed the BBC Rugby Union Weekly pod from post-match Paris in which the straight-faced introduction went: "Usually, we'd open here with Ireland's Triple Crown or Wales getting a win at last. But, after what we've seen here, we have to start with England, don't we?" Adorable.

My wife just popped into the room where I'm watching sport to say that she wishes that she was into sport, because she can see that people get joy from it. I've spent the evening flicking back and forth between the Scarlets losing and the Swans losing. Nobody's enjoying this.

"At some point, the ambition has to match the history. Wales needs to think like a nation of winners again". Nathaniel Hale, for Gwladrugby, reflects on an epic weekend of Six Nations rugby. “But Anyway, Let’s (Not) Talk About England” gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/b...

Let's go optimistic here. This team has heart. It may not yet have all the component parts to be a reliable Test team. But it has heart. And a growing belief in what it needs to do. It has inexperienced players of great skill who will strain every sinew. Proud of these lads. The win will come.

Funniest try ever. Absolutely magnificent show and go by Rhys "All Court Game" Carre.

Poor Joanna. She clearly had no idea what she was getting herself into.

Also, nearly half of Britons think public services are a mess and somebody should do something about it.

'The WRU keeps repeating that governance has now been “professionalised”. To many inside the game, it increasingly looks like a system full of new titles and reshuffles rather than clear results'. Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/w...

Yep. Looks fine.

I mean, that penalty was awarded with 70 seconds left. By the time Russell placed the kick, the clock had lost 20 seconds.

It's been a while since we could blame the ref for shepherding an opponent home. So, there's that, I suppose.

Fagerson there. Dear oh dear.

This is approximately 240,000,000% better than anything we've managed this season. Scotland have been comically clumsy, though. I don't think we can expect them to be this hapless for another 40.

I presume we shouldn't refer to Scotland's loosehead by name, and should agree to call him "The Scottish Prop", right?

GIVE IT TO SHANE...I MEAN CARRE...

That breakaway featuring only front 5 forwards was the undoubted highlight of that, and probably every other, half. Magnificent.

Bit of a tough few weeks, so we wanted a straightforward, simple, feelgood film to watch. And chose 'Song Sung Blue'. Two hours of [spoiler alert] alcoholism, car crashes, amputation, heart attacks and death. It's a film about a Neil Diamond tribute band, Hollywood, for pity's sake.

A remarkable Wales selection for the Scotland game. Truly remarkable.

"This is not a blip. Not a phase. And the longer Welsh rugby insists on treating it like one, the longer it will remain stuck inside it" Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/t...

"Come for the atmosphere, the message says. Come for the songs. Come because you always have. But don’t look too closely at the scoreboard". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/w...

"Eventually the words will run out, and all that remains is the evidence". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. Words Don’t Win Games gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/w...

The Labour Party seem to have put up Hugo off of The Vicar of Dibley to defend the government on Newsnight. A bold strategy.

"Removing an elite environment - because it’s easier than fixing the problems that surround it - gets framed as bold decision-making, when really it’s an admission that nobody knows how to make the existing system work". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/w...

Almost the funniest 6 Nations try since since LRZ somehow dropped it backwards onto his own leg.

This could get Wales 2025 levels of ugly for Ireland.

I'll never get tired of the FFR's shithousery on their opponents' anthems. Too, slow or too quick. Pitched too low or too high. Starting with the chorus rather than a verse or tacking on an unexpected additional chorus. Magnifique!