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View from next door: Japan There’s nothing quite like winning. Performances can be attractive, they can be brave, they can be dominant, but ultimately winning is the aim no matter how it comes. For Cymru on Saturday it…

Some thoughts on the importance of winning, the environment that Steve Tandy is creating and the WRU sabotaging themselves and everyone around them.

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Vile. They should be ashamed.

How bad was that first half?

We had family round for picky bits lunch and I have put a massive, shameful dent in the leftovers...

The sort of thing you could only achieve with vision and a massive majority and...

...oh well

Wizened dog walkers by lamplight listening intently to avoid the hygiene waste streets.

Strong agree

There is a dog called Bobby in the park not adequately returning a tennis ball to his owner and consequently there is a man in Llanishen Park shouting "Bobby Ball" repeatedly with increasing levels of annoyance

The brightest and best of the Beaker people etc etc

Mamdani sat after cleaning up the venue:

"They are still a tad undercooked in the tight five with Teddy out"

Authenticity in politics!? It'll never catch on...

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Until It's Done: Fania Mindell

He's an unbelievable communicator (and his team have amazing instincts for presenting his skills in it) - this is so brilliant in so many ways youtu.be/4ZDWz4UFJnI?...

Even down to addressing the negative parts of the story so matter of factly. Incredible.

Wales has partly paid for this bridge to nowhere as part of paying for the rail line that isn't in Wales and doesn't come to Wales. There's a poetry in that.

Periodic reminder that in opposition UK Labour thought we shouldn't pay, but in government kept us on the hook. Cool.

Close WalesOnline, but wrong sport...

If any of your solutions don't include teams in our biggest & most university-having places then frankly you should have been excluded from the process years ago

The game will not survive another decade of nonsense. Yes, i want a team i have a connection to, but no, not at the expense of everything

The delay in WRU making a decision is bad because:

1) delays are bad, do your job and make a plan. Enough can kicking

But also 2) is that the quality of contribution they've been listening to?

It's been years, and people still want mythical 000s on a grass bank at Pontypool. Grow up.

YouTube video by More Squidge Rugby So Wales are cutting a region | Reaction & Analysis

Crumbs. The comment section on this @squidgerugby.bsky.social video are a train wreck. youtu.be/G6YuqL7_Xf8?...

The absolute pick of the bunch was the melon saying "the capital" doesn't need a team...

...cough...ahem...

YOU PUT THE TEAMS WHERE THE PEOPLE AND MONEY ARE

Neither Faletau nor Adams looked at all good going off. Not good news for the autumn.

Really good to see Basham having a belting game. Sad that he'll undoubtedly be picked up by the fines committee for being dragged from scrapping by Sheedy...

I am crippled with envy at Irish statehood and its emergence as an economic success story, with a government eager to spunk money and tax breaks on rugby union.

We could and should have the same thing in Cymru, if only we had the vision, guts and self-esteem to make it a reality.

I might be late to the party on this but how has there not been a time travel spin off of Chicken Run called Bantam Leap

Outside bet emerges as a contender for next Archbishop of Canterbury

A picture of Dan Fish

Goodness, austerity would mean we couldn't adequately fund rail infrastructure in England with no benefit to us at all.

If the referee specifically says "always illegal" does that not mean it's a full red, not a 20min? (Learner watching on s4c so may have missed something specific) #CARvLIO

I fought the good fight there long before it was cool.

I remain not cool.

Inspired by the WRU I'm announcing i'm just off to centralise an egg just before lunchtime and anticipate no impact on my ability to finish my lunch despite being most of the way through prep

Here's one factor English commentators will miss: on the left is a map of Welsh speakers, on the right is voting intention

I wish we had a national Welsh media and an established, mature discourse capable of pushing Labour figures in Wales on the tension between Starmer's appeasement of this stuff and the idea that Wales is a "nation of sanctuary".

I want to hear the doublethink for myself.