8th March 2026: me, an armchair pundit, gives my verdict on England's disastrous 6 Nations 2026 campaign:
Repeat everything Chris Ashton said about Wales verbatim but replace every instance of the word 'Wales' with 'England'
9th February 2026: Chris Ashton, former England Rugby Union international, gives his opinion on Wales' poor performance in the opener against England:
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Orly? Sport should offer respite from the very real problems of the world.
I'm not getting much relief!
@jhaskins.bsky.social jeez, we think Spurs have problems. Apparently the entire rugby infrastructure of western Europe is in total disarray.
...would now cycle between Eng & Fra in perpetuity.
Oh dear.
...while Sco & Ire slaughtered England.
I've got no idea about France. I thought they'd walk it.
But one piece of Schadenfreude I like: someone like Dawson hinted at the start that the new, shrunken timescale "would benefit teams with more depth of players", blatantly hinting that the 6N...
Regardless of what happens against Italy, Steve Tandy's job is: you have 18 months to stop the World Cup being a car crash.
Italy seem to be on a decent trajectory.
The other 4....? Erratic doesn't even begin to cover it. Wales have made Sco and Ire sweat a bit, but Eng slaughtered Wal...
And yet NZ "find" players like Dan Carter, who could have played either cricket or rugby (sickening tbh 😂)
Matt Dawson always thinks England will win everything.
What all of the pro-Elland pundits forget is that England probably has a bigger population than Irl, Wal, Sco & Ita combined. They *should* be good with that population difference.
We're gonna need a bigger supercomputer
No, you wouldn't put money into that man's pocket
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I would love to go to "An audience with... Matt Dawson" and demonstrate decades of maturity and in-depth analysis.
Well well well. Serious result for Italy
I have no idea how to read this 6 nations.
I'm just wondering if Wales' knowing that they're the bottom of the pile might be good going into the 2027 Rugby World Cup. All the other teams seem to be beyond erratic - barnstorming playing away one week, then weaker at home the next.
Q: "That email was really good. Did you use Copilot or Claude?"
Me: I used my brain and the journalism degree I earned to allow me to write a clear email. WTF??
Evening
"We're the knights of the round table,
We dance whenever we're able. "
100%. Every time I put a magazine in our white "paper" recycling bag I think, yeah, I'm sure this will fix the future despite all the 1000s of armaments being chucked around every day, and private jets, SpaceX and so on.
@quentyn.bsky.social so, that "joke" I made the other week about The Day After Tomorrow. Turns out it really isn't that much of a joke at all, and even the scientific view of "we're not sure how much it will weaken or how quickly it will collapse" is true.
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
£8.40 for an adult ticket 🥳
Or maybe even Barry Town United! That would be a very easy commute.
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"And how is Mrs Modric?"
Eh? What? Luka's wife? I didn't even know they played football in Bridgerton.
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Also real life: Trump stops war, prices remain at "war high" for as long as suppliers can get away with it. "Ah well you see we purchased this batch in the middle of the conflict when prices were high."
