Six Nations Rugby

[johnofgwent]

And as I predicted, Wales lost.



Again.



What's their chance of a wooden spoon in the home nations ...

[johnofgwent]

I've never really felt any compassion towards a coach before



BUT at 77 minutes 40 odd seconds, the cameras at God's favourite stadium panned across to the chap who has been given the unenviable task of being the stand in coach for the team whose own fans carry banners proclaiming "with so many wooden spoons, what can we use to eat our spaghetti".



The score had just reached 35-0 and the thought "surely to god it cannot get any worse" was clearly painted in body language across this poor bastard's entire posture, along with realisation he can look forward to a P45 on Monday and a place in the Guinness Book of World Sport records as the shortest serving Acting National Team Coach ever...



And then it did get worse. With the ball stubbornly refusing to quietly fall over a line and cause an end to the nightmare, the welsh, foot by foot, combat by combat, inched towards the try line, and the coup de grace was delivered to end the match.



Well, not quite. because the rules allowed it to be converted too.



But that's not a fair picture. because frankly, the italian team did make the right moves again, and again, and again. Time and again they got the ball and got it through the welsh defence. One particularly effective strategy they used to catch the welsh totally off guard was a short lineout. Their man saw a chance to make a swift incursion into the welsh half, siezed the moment and damn near got away with it.



But somehow, every time they advanced, they were repelled



42-0. Handing them the prized bonus point on the leader board for a four try match.



Not a bad start.



But now I've sat down and watched the game (admittedly on iplayer, we were busy when it was live) I've set off the curse. wales will now lose the rest of the matches and come home with the wooden spoon

[Churchill]

I am a happy Old Fart today, I started getting interested in Rugby a few years ago due to our youngest playing Rugby, today he has rung to tell me he has secured tickets for the Six Nation game in February 2020 at Twickenham between England and Ireland , should be a real Battle Royal.