posted Nov 30, 2008

The BBC sport homepage; top-billing for England's failure, Wales' victory gets second spot. Impartiality? C'mon BBC, surely we deserve the headline...

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posted Nov 30, 2008

Impartial. Yes actually. I live in England and don't have sky so can't actually get to watch any of our matches this autumn. Plenty of Wales, Ireland and Scotland though. What are you complaining about exactly. At least your games are shown on the BBC.

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posted Nov 30, 2008

a few points to bear in mind twinkletomaz,

its not our fault you dont have/cant afford sky.
Sky bought the rights to the game because they were willing to pay moer than bbc.
irrelevant of which is shown on tv, it should go based on relevance.

for instance, the bbc news site, they have the most important thing above the smaller things...irrelevant as to whether it was shown on tv or not. or would you rather see how a cat was saved from a tree than whats been happening in india at the moment?

a victory over a southern hemisphere team > an expected defeat.

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posted Nov 30, 2008

The BBC coverage, particularly online is ridiculously biased towards English rugby at present. It gets all the coverage and everything else is a sideshow. The headline of the day was undoubtedly Wales beating Australia as it was the only NH result of any importance in the series. Some of the reports of NZ "thrashing" Ireland and Scotland were way over the top as neither performed any worse against the Kiwis than England and Wales.

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posted Nov 30, 2008

My Lions XV:

1: Jenkins
2: Rees
3: A.Jones
4: Gough
5: A-W.Jones
6: R.Jones (c)
7: M.Williams
8: Powell
9: Cooper
10: S.Jones
11: S.Williams
12: Henson
13: Roberts
14: M.Jones
15: Byrne

SUBS:
Hibbard, R.Thomas, B.Cockbain, J.Thomas, D.Peel, J.Hook and T.Shanklin.

BBC will probably give me a warning for picking all Welsh players for a British and Irish Lions team...In my defence, we are leaps and bounds ahead of the other nations (oops im in trouble for that aswell).

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posted Nov 30, 2008

"My Lions XV:

1: Jenkins
2: Rees
3: A.Jones
4: Gough
5: A-W.Jones
6: R.Jones (c)
7: M.Williams
8: Powell
9: Cooper
10: S.Jones
11: S.Williams
12: Henson
13: Roberts
14: M.Jones
15: Byrne

SUBS:
Hibbard, R.Thomas, B.Cockbain, J.Thomas, D.Peel, J.Hook and T.Shanklin.

BBC will probably give me a warning for picking all Welsh players for a British and Irish Lions team...In my defence, we are leaps and bounds ahead of the other nations (oops im in trouble for that aswell)."

C'mon blobinator even tongue in cheek that's not particularly funny. If you really think there are no players in the Britain and Ireland that can compete individually with the Welsh you must live in a strange little bubble indeed.

Wales are well ahead of the others I agree, but a Lions team without Brian O'Driscoll is pretty much unthinkable and the Irish 2nd row packs a way bigger punch than the Welsh even if Donncha has been taking the odd afternoon off. Euan Murray at 3 and Mike Blair at 9 seem like definites at present along with many of the other positions having feasible challengers.
Maybe you're just trying to initiate some debate??

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posted Dec 1, 2008

I'm Welsh, but I think we'll all be surprised by Scotland's 6N. They are playing very nice rugby.

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posted Dec 1, 2008

Great win on Saturday, bodes well for the future but I don't see any team winning all their games in the 6N. Scotland are getting it together, Ireland will win their share, England will improve significantly with a couple of selection changes and a coherent game plan whilst (heavan forbid) Wales could have a couple of key injuries. France are France - poor or brilliant. Could even end up with 2/4 nations on the same points - exciting prospect eh?

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posted Dec 1, 2008

Wales moving in the right direction, no where near perfect but still some great play. The ozzies played very well in patches and the best of Wales was way better than that. Welsh line out was awful and another intercept try given away. I think Wales have the best chance I can remember of a back to back 6 Nations title and even Grand Slam - France away is a problem but Welsh history their in recent years is not too bad. Scotland up front are impressive but have much to do in the backs. Ireland and Italy will both be tough but only Ireland are likely to upset the Welsh apple cart. As for England - well that'll be three succsesive six nations win on the trot then.

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posted Dec 2, 2008

As long as Wales dont get complacent like after the 2005 Slam then all will be well.
Maybe not another slam but they must be favourites for the championship.

Have to say the test match against Aus as the pick of the AI's and a fantastic if tense win.

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