Cymru Am Byth!

[BOFH666]

Cymru 11 - England 9!

NICE ONE BOYS!

(Rugby Union score for our non-British friends)

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Cymru Am Byth. Hmm...

That's what I usually sound like with my mouth full of Sunshine Krispy crackers 😛

 

[BigJim]

Watch it mush, you is skating on thin ice! 😛


Keep me sweet now!😉

 

[BOFH666]

Watch it mush, you is skating on thin ice! 😛


Keep me sweet now!😉

Hey come on, we've waited five years for this! Besides, watching that game it's obvious there's a LOT more to come from the Welsh side, we should have popped at least two more tries over than we did and actually farkin' using the overlap when it's 5 on 2 might be a good idea. 🙄 We've got a week to study up on the mistakes and then, in theory anyway, a relativley easy game against Italy to put the study into practice.

That being said, I don't think we've got a shot at winning the competition this year and we'll probably do our usual trick and loose the easy games (Italy next week for example). But oh would it be nice for the grand slam to come down to that Wales / Ireland match in Cardiff at the end of the tournament.... They'd have to reinforce the stadium just for the national anthem!

As for England... sorry to say it mate but they really did suck today and, on second viewing (DVD recording of the match going into permanent storage 😀), there wasn't a lot there to give hope for an immediate turnaround. I hope I'm wrong, I really do, it's fine for us to stuff the English but I'd much rather see them competitive. And you've got France next week I think? That's either going to be a really good game or a football match, here's hoping it's the first option.

Oh, and it must be said, and I think you'll join me in this one Jimbo... THIS is how you tackle someone!

(Note lack of wussy padding and body armour used in lesser imitations of the game.... 😉 )

 

[BOFH666]

For those wondering what the hell those kar-razy brits are babbling on about, I offer this passage from the "Xenophobe's guide to the Welsh", available in all good bookstores now:

One might well ask what the Welsh have to feel proud about. A Wleshman could point out, in response, that the Welsh enjoyed one of the oldest and richest cultures in the world when the English were still illitearate barbarians (which was, according to most Welsh historians, not that long ago); that Wales was the cradle of British Christianity when England was still a pagan wildernesss (also not very long ago) and that the Welsh enjoyed the reputation of being among the fiercest fighters in Europe when the English were already weakend by soft living (about this morning).

(snip)

Some people say that the Welsh have a love/hate relationship with the English but they are, in fact, 100% wrong. For a start there is precious little love involved. Yet hate is also conspicuous by its absence which is surprising, given that the English conquered the country through treachery, killed its last native ruller in a particularly nasty manner and, over a period of several hundred years, comprehensivley looted its natural resources.

(snip)

Rugby gives a tiny impovrished nation the opportunity to beat another with more than ten times the population and to beat it decisivley and regularly. Rugby is the chance the Welsh have to humiliate the English at the game they invented. Rugby gives the Welsh their pride back. Rugby gives them revenge.

The Welsh are (normally) extremely proficient at rugby. They enjoy it and take it seriously. This is because rugby - with its physical agression, tactics, disciplined use of force and organized violence - is the closest thing modern day life can offer by way of Wales' traditional national sport: War.

The Welsh military scorecard is impressive: convincing away wins for the Welsh longbowmen in Ireland and France and some honour as part of a mixed team in Scotland (Welsh archers being the only part of the English army at Bannocburn which did not break). True they lost the series to England after a dispicable foul on the Welsh captain (involving the removal of his head) put him out of the game but only after some solid wins at home and away. (It is however curious that Welsh victories like Leominster, Cardigan and Coleshill are rarely mentioned in English history books.) South Africa, then as now, was something of a bogey, but the points deficit at Isandhwana was decisivley made up at Rorke's Drift.

Alas, Rugby, like warfare itself once open to all, is being ruined by professionalism. Wales is a small nation (both in population and average height) whose only advantage was enthusiastic amateurism. It is difficult to see how, in the long term, such a few poor, short people can produce teams to oppose larger numbers of taller people with the money to spend on selective breeding programs.

Yet misfortune leaves Welsh rugby open to a Welsh speciality - the unlikely win against the odds. This is pulled off with surprising frequency, the Welsh being at their best when they have their backs against the wall. They are at their worst when it is an odds on certainty that they will beat a joke of a team from somewhere that most people could not place on a map - in that case it is guaranteed Wales will loose.

(snip)

Some feuds are provisionaly scheduled to last until the day of judgment, but others can be temporarily put aside in the interests of persuing a common feud of greater importance. You can get away with being English when the British Lions are playing, or when the Welsh have just beaten the English at Cardiff, at which point your Welshman will, in fact, become revoltingly affable. 😀

 

[AffectionateDan]

(Note lack of wussy padding and body armour used in lesser imitations of the game.... 😉 )

Also note the cauliflower ears, the gap-toothed smiles, the concussions, broken limbs, and overall busted-up physical condition of said alleged athletes... 😛 🙄 😉

 

[BOFH666]

Also note the cauliflower ears, the gap-toothed smiles, the concussions, broken limbs, and overall busted-up physical condition of said alleged athletes... 😛 🙄 😉

But enough about American Footballers... 😉

 

[red indian]

Who...........

....are the current reigning world champions of Rugby Union?


Lets get things in perspective shall we you sheep shagging taffies!!!!



Well done anyway, we never realy turned up did we? very poor show.

 

[BOFH666]

Re: Who...........

....are the current reigning world champions of Rugby Union?


Lets get things in perspective shall we you sheep shagging taffies!!!!

And you might remember I supported England during the World Cup, so there was no need for the insults.

Looking back I wonder if that world cup win wasn't a very bad thing for the long term health of English rugby. So many members hung on longer than they should have to form that superb side that when they all seemed to retire from international competition at once there wasn't anyone to fill the holes. Wilkinson is still injured and without him England just don't seem to be that good. Their record since the world cup speaks for itself really: played 12, lost 7.

Their latest, greatest hope got manhandled on Saturday by a guy who's only a stone heavier and shaves his legs for gods sake! After that boot to the face Grewcock should be looking at a ban. Accidental or not it was a moment of sheer stupidity and his oscar winning performance after being pushed (yes, pushed, it's obvious on the replay) by the Welsh captain in retaliation has no place on a rugby field.

And, more worryingly from the point of view of someone who wants to see the English team play good rugby, there was no sign whatsoever of a try. I'm struggling to remember a time when England were playing with posession ten yards from the posts actually, though I'm sure there was at least one.

Wales on the other hand looked like a team that could deliver, at least until nerves (and some crap kicking from Jones) got in the way. The pack did their job and held their own, the runners showed their potential when they had the chance and, in the form of Gavin Henson, they finally have someone to rally around. Now it's up to the team, but if they come out to play Italy the same way they went against England in the first twenty minutes, they're going to be in good shape. Hand on heart, IF they get their confidence right and IF they start using the chances they create (7 on 2 overlaps for example) then they have at least an outside chance of the title this year. But that's a couple of big IF's, personally I think we'll be mid-table but you never know.

 

[BigJim]

England havn't been a prolific try-scoring team in my living memory. It's one thing that's always irritated the tits off me. Drop goal here, penalty there...