I hope no supporter of any club in any sport ever has to go through the endless existential dread that has come with being an Ospreys fan lately.

You can actually pinpoint the second when their hearts rip in half Oh I'm looking forward to two years of banter, my Scottish pals. I love you all really. But, this is gonna get spicy 😂

Australia - New Zealand is -5.80 with home advantage accounted for so that makes it into the top five closest matches (at this point). A 1 point gap in the world ranking points is worth approximately 2 points on the field in theory.

WALES TO MEET FIJI IN THE R16 F*CK

Portugal v Uruguay feels like such a Pro D2 fan choice for game of the tournament. They even put those 2 teams in Group D to help people work it out!

The smallest ranking point gaps in the groups (with seedlings) are: E (4) Samoa -1.83 v (3) USA C (2) Fiji -3.83 v (1) Argentina D (4) Portugal -4.21 v (3) Uruguay B (3) Georgia -5.8 v (2) Italy E (3) USA -5.83 v (2) Japan A (4) Hong Kong -7.11 v (3) Chile

Absolutely everything you need to know about the RWC draw and the likely permutations based on current rankings.

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Look, I know it's Wales Online so take this with enough salt to successfully mummify a blue whale... but how, just how... HOW IS THIS BETTER THAN JUST STICKING WITH FOUR REGIONS, HOW ABOUT WE JUST ADD THE WINNER OF THE AIL TO WELSH SHIELD EVERY YEAR IF THIS APPARENTLY A VALID SOLUTION

One only has to watch women’s rugby for a few minutes to see this I’ve had friends who came to women’s rugby first watch men’s rugby games and message me ‘why cant the props run?’

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

You know, I was going to make a 52/48 cursed ratio joke here. But take out the undecideds? It's 53%/47%. You can't even make this stuff up.

I'm here for it.

Something @rugbykino.bsky.social pointed out earlier: the team that wins Group E or F will avoid playing any other group winners until AT LEAST the semi-final. In related news I am very much hoping Ireland end up in Group E or F.

For anyone who hasn't noticed, the top seeds that get drawn into group E or F, can't then meet another Group 1 seeded opposition until the semis at least.

Just 2 days until people lose their shit over Pool E & F draws for the RWC 27.

This is the most defending ROG ever did in his entire career.

Tired of rugby analysts being happy with a lack of knowledge of the scrums So I called up a scrum expert to get the verdict on Ireland's Springbok capitulation TLDR: Ireland shouldn't be worried, but the 'Boks are ludicrously powerful. What makes them so good? www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

@edjenx.bsky.social? @gortoshay1.bsky.social? You've finally made it, lads.

SCENES

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

WRU making a proper contest of it with the SRU this morning.

The biggest “could you have,aye” in history.

This simultaneously pisses me off on about 4 different levels. Quite the achievement.

Guys Eben Etzebeth could blow the Welsh pack away by sneezing why have you gone 7-1

No-one: Absolutely nobody: Me: SA's record away win in Wales was 16-52, in August 2023.

Suddenly i don't feel so bad about the start to the Leinster season. www.rugbyrama.fr/2025/11/25/j...

Fired up from that Wild game. Not ready for bed yet so im going to start catching up on #Connacht rugby. I’m…way way behind

Suddenly i don't feel so bad about the start to the Leinster season. www.rugbyrama.fr/2025/11/25/j...

My thoughts on the size 4.5 ball change. There's lots of diverse thoughts, and arguments for and against. Here is my two cents. With a special mention for @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social irish-womens-rugby-supporters-club.ghost.io/new-balls-pl...

I like this. Good appointment with strong pedigree and a clear vision which has been somewhat lacking from France over the last few years.

We have written extensively about why proposing different rules (smaller balls, closer posts) for women's rugby is a horrid idea. scrumhalfconnection.com/2023/04/18/s...

World Rugby expands trials of a new ball for women’s rugby to HSBC SVNS www.svns.com/en/news/1018...

The mass exodus of Irish forwards has no end in sight....

More Irish players moving to England. Niamh O'Dowd has joined up as injury cover with Gloucester this week until the end of the season. Brittany Hogan will join Sale Sharks in January

This actually might be worse than Grant Nisbett calling every person of colour in the Springbok team Mapimpi

Yeah. See? Totally different.

Up to €190 in my fundraiser for Ireland's National Autism Charity As I Am If I get to €500 by the start of January I'll wear a Luchadore mask at the 3 Leinster home games in January posttopost.sport.blog/charity-fund... #BKTURC #RugbySky #Rugby #LeinsterRugby #IrishRugby #ERCC #EuropeanCupRugby

Mood.

Having the realistic chats and digging out what bright spots we could.

If reports are to be believed, Ryan Baird probably packed down in a 7 man scrum against the Boks with some form of break to the lower leg Nails Hopefully not out too long, he had an excellent November

It's funny. People might think they know what happened in that game, and then you can tell them that our 3rd highest tackle numbers were from Sam. For plenty of other reasons, that game was completely nuts.