When you're trying to assess the modern sport of rugby union — or any professional sport, really — eventually, you'll end up speaking about the philosophical outlook of the head coach of any given organisation.
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When you're trying to assess the modern sport of rugby union — or any professional sport, really — eventually, you'll end up speaking about the philosophical outlook of the head coach of any given organisation.
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THE GREEN EYE #298 :: Wales (h)
The last two weeks have been something like a fever dream. The win against England has almost, but not quite, erased the previous two games from memory.
Now we face a Welsh team much better than they might seem.
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02.03.2026 10:39 — 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0We changed tactics in the second half. Kicked way, way more and got the rewards. Left the bonus point behind us, twice, but that's not a shock — we have one of the worst attacking systems in the league atm.
28.02.2026 22:40 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Disappointing performance from Munster.
Attack in the first half was really, really poor. Everything was overly complex and doubling down on itself. Scannell botching a tip-on pass to Kleyn, who had already over-ran it. Coombes as an edge forward by system default.
Second half was better, just.
The way Irish rugby journos write about Andy Farrell is indistinguishable from how a five year old would write about their dad if they could type.
27.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
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On the one hand, sad to see Mike Prendergast going. He had an immediate impact in Year 1 alongside Rowntree and Leamy, but this season, the attacking side of the ball is killing us.
A change was probably needed there regardless.
MUNSTER ANNOUNCE DEPARTURE OF MIKE PRENDERGAST
The senior coach — with responsibility for the attack, primarily — will depart at the end of the season, most likely for the Gallagher Prem.
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That's it! That's the vibe I was getting.
24.02.2026 19:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roses are red, seaweed comes on the tides
24.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Like most modern Star Trek, I came to the new Starfleet Academy after all the outcry about how rubbish it was.
Turns out it's... decent. Good, even. Just different from TNG, DS9 and the rest.
SUPER DELUXE WALLY RATINGS #332 :: England 21 Ireland 42
There was a lot on the line for Ireland.
Six Nations points, obviously. A Triple Crown starter? Yes. But, more importantly, we had vibes on the line. Where are we going as a rugby nation? Is the party over?
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Completely agree, but it's a difficult vector to give up purely from a marketing perspective, especially when you have a few 100k followers.
They see the same shit as everyone else, but purely from a marketing POV, you'd be — in theory, not practice — giving up a big market and a big "voice"
SUPER DELUXE WALLY RATINGS #332 :: England 21 Ireland 42
There was a lot on the line for Ireland.
Six Nations points, obviously. A Triple Crown starter? Yes. But, more importantly, we had vibes on the line. Where are we going as a rugby nation? Is the party over?
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Like this week, I'll have a big article on how Ireland won. Then a podcast. Then a GIF article showing what Ireland did really well, and what it means for Wales. All will do great numbers.
If Ireland lost, the numbers would be half that, even from those already subbed.
Negativity doesn't make money. It just doesn't. It can get clicks, sure, but that's meaningless to me because I don't run ads, and people don't want to sign up to read more of it.
22.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That probably sounded cooler in your head.
22.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every time Ireland win, I get 5+ new subs. Every single time. It was 8 this time. So I'm doubly happy, because I always want Ireland to win.
When Ireland lose, I am unhappy because (1) I always want Ireland to win and (2) people unsub because they don't want to see why the team they support lost.
"You had hoped", that should be. I hope you're not as mad as you sound either, I see you're on a run this morning lashing out at your imagined enemies.
22.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You sound way madder than your dad hoped I was tbh
22.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I've been absolutely buzzing about the win since yesterday. Can't get into the headspace of setting up a Bluesky (!) account to seeth a day later about how other people you don't know must also be seething.
Takes all sorts, I suppose.
Big bump in subscribers between yesterday and today because when Ireland do well, I do well.
Usually how it works in this game.
As an example, I posted some support of Edogbo last week — I wanted it on the platform that was causing the problem — on my locked account. It got around 1000 likes from almost exclusively real people.
But there are 30k followers on the account itself.
But it's a very hard thing to say to marketing people that you want to cut off a few hundred K followers, even if most of those followers aren't real people or, if they were, they no longer use the platform.
22.02.2026 13:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's a tough one for the IRFU because Twitter — on the face of it anyway — is one of their most followed accounts & still a vector of news.
In reality, most traffic is bots, there's very little click through on links, and you're exposed to some of the worst aspects of modern on-line discourse.
The perfect illustration of England's botched approach over the last two weekends.
Taking your best kicking #10 and trying to run a static on-ball game through him.
Ireland will eat that up all day, every day, and come back for more.
