Josh Gardner
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Commissioning editor, @guitar . The one you don’t like off the @bloodandmud rugby podcast. Beatrice Rigoni stan. Knackered dad. 🏴
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Imagine what’s gonna happen when the NFL scouts discover Fiji.
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Congratulations to Ireland on peaking a year out from the Rugby World Cup again.
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As discussed in great detail on the pod, our favourite bit of this game, by far.
Please enjoy 60 seconds of some gloriously ramshackle rugby that ends up with perhaps the most unique and brilliant try you’ve never seen, courtesy of my new hero, Yoshihito Yoshida 😍
Come with
@joshgardner
and me to 1992, where the charts are mixed, the TV is patchy and a celebratory exhibition game has a red card.
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I feel like the least Bryan Habana owes us after five weeks of that relentless fucking Sage advert, is to finally reveal the identity of the winger who was slow to turn.
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This is a legitimately terrible idea for rugby and for the Six Nations.
Six Nations upheaval on the cards as South Africa set to join from 2025, with most likely scenario involving the Boks replacing Italy, rather than an expansion to seven teams. Story for
@MailSport
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If you're a rugby fan who wants to watch all the internationals, as well as the European club competitions you're currently looking at:
BT Sport: £29.99
Premier: £9.99
Sky: £32
Amazon: £7.99
That's 80 quid a *month*… and we wonder why the sport is struggling to attract fans?
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When I see people saying that England v Scotland was "a boring game" or "a bad game" I think what they actually mean is, "I don't actually like rugby, I just like England winning so I can be a prick about it".
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Remember when Maradona spent the 2015 Rugby World Cup out of his mind and terrifying the suits in the posh seats at Argentina games? Good times.
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The very definition of Acceptable Shithousery this, even from a Barrett.
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The only thing madder than Makazole Mapimpi having only 23 caps at 31 years of age is the fact that he’s scored *19 tries* in those 23 caps.
In short, he is absolutely fucking class.
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Congratulations to Japan for continuing the unblemished history of Rugby World Cup hosts always making it out of the group st… OH WAIT NEVERMIND.
#JPNvsSCO
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This is like the Cunt Avengers.
I welcome Ann Widdecombe as our lead candidate in the South West, the Brexit Party is a stronger alliance as a result. This is great news.
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In 2019, Wales won a Grand Slam, were briefly No1 in the world and made it to a World Cup *semi*-final and Warren Gatland didn’t even get *nominated* for coach of the year.
The mastermind behind an unforgettable year in Irish rugby
Andy Farrell is named the World Rugby Coach of the Year for 2023
#WorldRugbyAwards
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I swear to god if Britain has somehow ruined Super Rugby Aotearoa for everyone…
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Eddie Butler’s penchant for florid prose was easy to poke fun at, but there’s nobody - nobody - you’d rather have narrating a rousing sporting montage than him.
He was the soundtrack to some of the best sporting moments of my life.
Wales, and rugby, will never forget him.
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Not sure Jonathan Joseph is gonna enjoy watching back his ‘attempted tackle’ on Semi on Monday… 😬😬😬
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Things that might genuinely get new, younger fans into rugby union:
• A global calendar
• A genuinely good videogame
• A Panini sticker book
• Empowering players to express themselves on and off the pitch
What won't:
• Welsh clubs playing English clubs every week.
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Far be it for me to criticise the wisdom of Eddie Jones, but Elliot Daly looks about 300% better at 13 today for the Lions than he ever has in two years as England’s full back. 🤷🏻♂️
#Lionsrugby
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Willis Halaholo has spent more time living and playing rugby in Wales than Nick Tompkins, Johnny Williams, Will Rowlands and Tom Francis combined, so unless you kicked off about them not being 'Welsh enough' to pull on a red jersey then you need to have a word with yourself.
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I’m gutted, but for Wales to have got so close to a final given the injuries we had to absorb along the way - Anscombe, Faletau, Jenkins, Navidi, Williams, Francis, North - it says a lot about this team and the grit and heart they showed. Hold your heads up, boys. Proud.
#WALvRSA
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Dan Biggar is EXTREMELY correct in screaming at the rest of his team for being absolute fucking morons tbh.
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I just can’t stop thinking about Gareth Bale. The 17 years we’ve had
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England sacking Eddie Jones because his borderline-abusive style of management has alienated players, coaches and staff at the RFU… only to replace him with Richard Cockerill… I tell you what man, that is some funny shit.
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Pivac tells Jac Morgan (5'11/102kg/most turnovers in the URC this season) that he's too small and not good enough over the ball to play openside in SA, but continues to pick Taine Basham (6'0/95kg/joint 46th in turnovers in the URC) without hesitation.
🤷♂️
Wayne Pivac tells Jac Morgan he needs to get bigger and stronger in candid chat as he drops him from Wales squad
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Tom Curry should be ashamed of himself for this behaviour.
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L’OPPORTUNITÉ EST FUCKING ÉNORME
Definitely worth a watch, Ronan O’Gara giving the most Irish team talk while actually speaking French.
#rugby
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If you had 'seven days' in the How Long Until James Haskell Walks Back His Public 'Apology' To Simi Pam And Makes It All About Him And His Hurt Feelings sweepstakes… congratulations!
You win a lifetime's supply of telling him to fuck off.
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Of course Exeter are triggered by Glasgow fans wanting to bring their bagpipes into the ground…
They must find the notion of someone wanting to celebrate their own culture, instead of lazily appropriating someone else’s, very strange indeed.
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Sorry but James Lowe trying to be a clever dick and losing the game as a result is absolutely one of the funniest things to happen in rugby this year.
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France v Ireland a game of such unimpeachable quality and drama for the neutral, not even Gordon D’Arcy pronouncing Antoine Dupont’s name wrong every single time for 80 minutes could ruin it.
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This is, legitimately, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
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Reform coming second in every Valleys constituency is only shocking if you've never been there.
Scary? Absolutely. But only surprising if you've not been paying attention for the last decade-plus.
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Hard to remember a game of this magnitude have more massive moments for a ref to make marginal decisions on, but Wayne Barnes and his crew broadly got them right tonight.
Refs in rugby get a load of shit (not always unfairly), but they deserve credit for having a blinder too.
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I’ve watched a lot of rugby union in my time right, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a number 8 trap the ball between his legs and bunny-hop forward like Macalou is doing for Stade today.
He did it for 3 consecutive scrums!
Fundamentally unserious behaviour and I love it.
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Gareth Anscombe fucking DESERVED that more than any player has ever deserved anything.
After everything he’s been through since 2019, to come off the bench and nail THAT kick to win Wales’ first test in South Africa ever?
Fairytale stuff.
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Alun Wyn deserves to be a bit selfish and have his 150th cap in front of his family and a packed stadium in a game Wales will win.
Don't agree? Here are his career milestones to date and the circumstances in which he won them.
We're gonna lose at home to Italy, aren't we?
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Remarkable to see England and Eddie Jones get out-coached at HQ by a part-time rugby league coach.
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Am I the only one who thinks Peyper's elbow japes after the game can be both an extremely silly thing for him to do AND not that big of a deal?
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‘He uses his arms’ says Dallaglio as Manu has his arm clearly at his side… such an inexcusably biased commentator
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All the attention will be on AWJ today so before that starts, a quick thread on Dan Biggar.
Very few great players have had to *earn* their 100 caps like he has.
Almost from the moment he first put on that Wales 10 jersey, people have been trying to take it off him…
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Today hasn’t been all bad - I now have a new gif to use when people are being boring bellends on the internet.
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Be SURE to watch until the end.
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Leigh Halfpenny bidding for a kicking clinic with Dan Biggar at Alun Wyn's Testimonial Dinner auction is top trolling on his part, fair play…
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Why does this SRU promotional photo of Glacial Greig look like the photographer's walked in on him taking a shit?
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When all is said and done, Josh Adams’ biggest crime might be describing a gender reveal party as ‘an important family milestone’ and not ‘a stupid thing that only dickheads do’.
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The difference between Wales and every other team in the Six Nations is that they don’t have 23 players physically and technically able to cope at this level.
That’s not Gats’ fault, or the regions, or the URC - it’s the result of a decade of under-investment from the WRU.
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Regardless of your feelings on him, if you're not enjoying Chris Ashton metaphorically erecting a 30-foot tall middle finger in the middle of the Twickenham pitch and the pointing it straight at Eddie Jones, you should have a word with yourself.
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Wales heading to Rome in two weeks to avoid the wooden spoon
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If you can’t bring yourself to fork out £7.99 to watch a whole month of test rugby, I’m afraid you might have to just admit that you don’t really like rugby 🤷🏻♂️
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How on EARTH can people continue to defend the quality of the Pro14 when newly-crowned undefeated champions Leinster can get their arses handed to them by the bottom club in the Premiership like this?!
#LEIvSAR
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The ‘old-fashioned rule of keeping politics out of sport’ is it?
Football has got itself into such a mess. Time to go back to the old-fashioned rule of keeping politics out of the game.
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For absolutely no reason whatsoever here’s current Wales attack coach Stephen Jones scoring a try in 2009 - the Pumas assume Wales are having a kick at goal and switch off, and Jones takes the tap to score.
Dunno why I’m reminded of that. 😬
Happy St David’s Day! 🏴
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Previously, the record for most tries scored by one player on a Lions tour in the professional era is seven - a figure hit by both John Bentley and Tony Underwood in 1997, but that was with a 14-game tour.
Josh Adams has scored eight tries in three matches. 🤷🏻♂️
#LionsRugby
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Pichot campaigning to be World Rugby president with a pledge of ‘develop a decent rugby video game’ sounds silly, but the reality is EVERY major sport is keeping fans engaged during this crisis using a licensed game… while rugby players are currently having a FIFA tourney…
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Warren Gatland watching the team that he took to number 1 in the world playing like morons and losing to Italy at home.
#WALvITA
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This won’t be popular, because I know non-Wales Twitter wanted a Fiji win, and you’re pissed we didn’t play ball.
But Wales won because they were the better team on the day, not because of the ref.
Did we get a bit of luck? Yeah - most narrowly winning teams do, so what?
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In a career full of amazing tries, this is the moment I always come back to - the moment I realised just how special George was.
The pace, the unbelievable power, the skill, the awareness and intelligence… he had absolutely everything.
A modern great.
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You can’t legislate for Mike Adamson, there’s no point getting upset about it. It’s like being annoyed with the wind for blowing your fence down.
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The Farrell thing also likely fatally shafts the credibility of the Bunker concept before the RWC has even started.
When we’re happy for lawyers to second-guess a decision a top level ref took TEN MINUTES to get right, how are officials meant to have confidence in anything?
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Hogg should be nowhere near this team next week - his defensive positioning and work under the high ball has been poor two weeks on the bounce, and he’s done nothing in attack.
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Sorry to say that there will be no more podcast after Monday as clearly rugby has reached its absolute zenith, and there’s absolutely no point wasting everyone’s time carrying on.
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Guys, I'm starting to suspect that maybe it's not all 'mind games' and being cantankerous for the cameras, and perhaps the reality is that Eddie Jones is just a total bell.
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If I was Stephen Jones, and I’d said something comically ignorant and stupid about women’s rugby on Twitter, I’d probably just apologise, as opposed to spending my weekend patronising women who call me out… but I guess that’s why I’m not an award-winning rugby journalist 🤷🏻♂️
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Italy are a better than Wales because they’ve invested in their coaching, pathway and clubs for over a decade - golden generations don’t happen by accident.
The WRU has done the opposite over that time, and plans to spend even LESS next year on pro rugby.
It’s a disgrace.
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Given the amount of whinging at the ref Finn Russell is doing today, I’m not sure any Scottish fan is allowed to say anything about Dan Biggar again.
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This is genuinely the funniest thing any rugby player has ever done.
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The correct time to sack Wayne Pivac was March 2020.
It’s too late now, there’s no salvaging this.
Besides, the National coach being an out of his depth, arrogant chancer who mainly cares about jobs for the boys is the perfect encapsulation of the values of Welsh rugby.
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What do you call one tearfully resigning Tory?
A good start.
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So as I understand it, this is where we’re at with the whole Bongi/Tom Curry thing, discourse-wise?
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The way London Irish and the English rugby press go out of their way to frame what Jackson did as if it was a bad injury or some other unfortunate situation that happened to him - as opposed to a horrendous thing he did that had a victim and consequences - is SO telling.
Paddy Jackson back in spotlight for right reasons as Irish eye European success
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I brought in the hotshot lawyer who helped Owen Farrell escape a ban... the England star would not have been let off so lightly without him
✍️
@CliveWoodward
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World Rugby is honestly the biggest impediment to growing the game it’s supposed to be promoting sometimes.
Sort your shit out
@worldrugbymedia
After just a few hours up, the video has been taken down manually by an employee of World Rugby, and copyright strike given to the channel.
Some 60+ hours of work went into that one video, so rest assured we shall try our upmost to get it restored, but this is not in our hands.
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Accepted wisdom: Finn Russell can’t just come on and throw the ball around like he’s playing a preseason 7s tournament in a
#LionsRugby
3rd test against South Africa.
Finn:
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Sorry, I don’t care what heartwarming stories of overcoming adversity these kids choirs have - they must be stopped.
#rwc2023
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If you punch your own player for being clinically thick, is that still a red card?
Asking for Dan Biggar.
#RWC2023
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Saracens asterisked golden era of excellence comes to an end in a half-empty aircraft hanger in Paris, their desolation soundtracked by Ram Jam’s Black Betty repeated so many times it felt sarcastic.
Lovely stuff. They won’t be missed.
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What’s that, verified real world scumbag Shannon Frizell is also a total scumbag on the field? I am SHOCKED.
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I wish I enjoyed anything in life as much as Frans Steyn enjoys kicking massive penalties from downtown
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Don’t care about anyone else, Wesley Fofana is absolutely in the 2010 Streets Will Not Forget Rugby Team - absolute BALLER.
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It’s 2022 and BT Sport are still allowing Dallaglio to pretend to be some sort of impartial observer regarding the Premiership club he literally sits on the board of.
"It's worrying times for all rugby fans"
"In terms of Wasps, it is a complex situation"
"Everyone is working around the clock to find a solution"
@dallaglio8
on
@WaspsRugby
's fight for survival...
#GallagherPrem
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Leinster and Ospreys entitled to feel pretty miffed that they’ve been forced to have 28-0 losses this week because they were told the EPCR couldn’t reschedule games, but now that the French clubs won’t travel to the UK, everything is ‘postponed’.
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Instant lifetime banning order.
No excuses.
We have to stamp this sort of thing out.
Rugby is no longer the national sport with stuff like this going on…
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Maybe it’s just me, but I’m struggling to summon much anger about Wales.
Is it dreadful? Obviously. But we’ve just had 16 years of unprecedented success - titles, Grand Slams, RWC semis…
It was never gonna last forever - that’s sport. It’s just our turn to be shit for a bit.
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Neil Francis here, describing half-Filipina Marcus Smith as having an 'Oompa Loompa tan' – even by his usual basement-dwelling levels of being a total prick this is disgraceful.
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Ben O’Keefe seems to be feeling a lot of pressure not to give big decisions against South Africa.
Funny that.
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Given that Slade was riding the COVID conspiracy train along with several of his Exter teammates last summer this isn't remotely surprising, but still… the standard anti-vax hogwash he's spouting in this is dangerous, deluded and unbelievably selfish.
Henry Slade exclusive: 'I am not going to have a Covid vaccine - I don't agree with it all' |
@KateLouiseRowan
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As if I needed any further reason to absolutely love Andy Powell, Donnacha O'Callaghan has bloody given me at least four in his Times column today - not least this from the 2009 Lions:
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This is, and I don't say this lightly, fucking disgraceful from the WRU and SRU - using the name of a beloved and seriously ill man to hawk your pointless Mickey Mouse game, but conveniently forget to mention you're not giving his charity a penny.
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After a fortnight of saying this crop of England players are basically worse than Hitler, we’ll now get a week of fully erect hagiography proclaiming how this new golden generation will win the World Cup.
Because the only setting English rugby media has is ‘silly hyperbole’.
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“Shall we get any Italian or Canadian pundits to cover this Italy v Canada game?”
“Nah fuck it, let’s just get Lawrence and Sir Clive to wang on with barely veiled ignorance about both teams.”
“The usual then, great.”
#ITAvCAN
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Given nobody in a green jersey could kick for toffee today, expecting Rassie to leak 40-minute video this week focusing on why the rugby ball is biased against South Africa, and with a strong implication that wind is a bit racist.
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Today’s game sums up why I don’t think South Africa will ever join the Six Nations
The rivalry between the Boks and the All Blacks is the best and biggest in rugby, and the sport as a whole would be infinitely poorer if we got less of it every year as a result.
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