God. Imagine having to go through that all over again.

Fully expecting Dave to have another crunch of The Data after this weekend and conclude that the WRU should make the pro teams pick schoolchildren more often.

Yeah. I'm not sure "if we don't let players chuck haymakers at each other then they're bound to have a sneaky gouge now and again" really stands up, tbh.

Definitely.

We're defending well, but we're mainly on the backfoot since turning down the 3.

It does feel as though momentum is shifting a bit...

Not me!

As a rule of thumb, players are *always* the type of players to do the things they do. That's why they do them.

Fine. If Mann or anybody on the Wales team did anything outside the laws of the game, they should be hauled over the coals too.

But nothing excuses Etzebeth's actions.

You'll have watched Wales win more Grand Slams in your lifetime than any Irish fan who is under 95 years of age, and any Scottish rugby fan ever.

Which, from where we were in 2003, isn't bad.

Still being in the red against Wales is quite the achievement, fair play.

Give him a contract extension, I say. At least until the end of February.

All we need now is the inevitable Rhys Henry call up and I guess we should all just bunker down for the rapture.