Real Radio broadcast on their news bulletin that Wales were to be stripped their Grand Slam title by the IRB as new rules were introduced that banned foreign coaches from leading a national side to a major trophy. For the faintest sliver of a second my gut flipped ... until I realised the date. Mean, just mean. Yeah, Mean Radio!!!!

haha

LMAO!

Don't worry, I don't even think the most hardened fan could take it away!


Nice one I like it.

Other news; Seru Ranbeni has been banned for 14 weeks for eye gouging, silly fool!

Jack White still hasn't been signed to take over England!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/english/7330028.stm

No Jack White..............

However we have something else.............Martin Johnson! Lets just hope Rob Andrew don't get in his way too much.

After such a pathetic display by the Ospreys, I now have to hope Cardiff have the strength of character to carry the flag. Certainly, it was a gutless performance by the "Real Madrid" of Welsh rugby. No discredit to Sarries, but we had enough talent to destroy them. We failed to step up to the plate and that team (especially the coaching staff) should be hanging their heads in shame.
No game plan, no passion, just pathetic!

(Rant over)

Good effort from Cardiff away in France. Need to pump money in in the Summer to get some powerful forwards in and you never know next year.

Overall, poor poor poor day for the Welsh rugby regions

Edited at 16:44 Sun 6/04/08 (BST)

dont know how stella will be feeling because his ospreys losing but cardiff winning in football.

also shame on you cardiff blues! didnt see the match but 16-10 at half time then final score 41-17. not good.

always next season

Lets hope its a poor day for Welsh rugby tomorrow!

C'mon Tigers!

I think it's gonna be a close game, can't see Tigers hammering them like last year! If anything it has the potential to be the opposite, Tigers are still in their new phase of running rugby........

No Henson - Trouble for the Ospreys

I think it will be very close! Here is hoping for a Shane Williams master class!

Just popped in to say thanks for including women finally!

Ger' out, woman!

I do believe one lovely lady graces us with posts on this thread, and now two if you can keep it up, Katie!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7341673.stm

That just in ^^^^^^ What's you lot in that league think?

I've always been against the play-offs, but with how Rugby is at the moment, with all the games they have to play, both domestic and International, I do believe it's a system that works!

That is great news! The Magners league needs some kinda face lift and something that will keep the crowds in as the intensity is below par at the moment. Hopefully this will help the all that which will then help the national teams. Great news!

Edited at 18:31 Fri 11/04/08 (BST)

I was always dead set against running a league like that. It always upset me when a team won the Premiership then had to play in the play-offs to win it. But in todays climate of rugby, the amount players and clubs have to suffer through, I think it's defininatley a bonus!


*Counts down to Tigers kick-off*

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Prediction for today then?

Leicester 27 VS Ospreys 37

First try scorer - Shane Williams

Hopefully the weather is nice

Hmmmmmmm.......not looking good from a Tigers point at this moment!

Don't know what the coach is doing, team don't look right......

It's either gonna be a runaway win for the Ospreys, or it'll be 3 points win to Tigers! No passion from the Tigers at the moment, lets hope Lofreda has a very strong word. Not that hard to tackle................


Game over! Backwards ref not knowing, once again, how the game is played! Leicester lacking passion, bad mixture.......

Edited at 16:09 Sat 12/04/08 (BST)

Now that was convincing

Well done Ospreys!!!!!

I enjoyed the game even if the tigers didnt play that well or what martin said at end!

Good kicking by hook

I was also hoping castrogiovanni would score a try to see if he would repeat what he did last time (that was sooo funny)

Get well soon mike I'm gutted about him being out for a while

Also well done blues last night. Didnt see the game myself because I was working but I seen the highlights and looked a really good game. Glad to see nicky back too


Oh yeah a few things I forgot to add. Well done ospreys and unlucky tigers

Good choice shaun. I'm so happy about that. Also edwards is a welsh name lol I love that saying! Here is link if anyone wants to see

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7343211.stm

And finally thanks for changing the thread name

One last thing I do agree the ref made some bad decisions

Edited at 17:42 Sat 12/04/08 (BST)

Shaun was always going to stay with a winning formula.......he has sense!

Ospreys thouroughly deserved that win today!

They wanted it more, you could see it!
As much (And i hate to say it) As much as Saracens wanted it last week!

But i have to say, the referee had NO bearing on that result today, i think Roland is a top class Ref (Even tho he has been the scourge of Welsh teams in the past) The Ospreys were better from 1 - 15 End of!

have a good evening egg Chasers, im off to get rat a'd.........and Lisa ya Blue nose, you were lucky!!

lol very true





Yes i agree with that too





and how dare you say that mr!

*Feels slighty outnumbered by the Welsh*

Funny you wasn't posting much when the world cup was on!

Now where's all me English boys to help me argue with them!??


I agree, Wale...oops mean Ospreys did deserve to win. Tigers played absolute crap!

Lol I thought I did! Win or lose, proper fan here!

If anything wales should be called opsreys! Not the other way around