Should clarify not calling out El Perry here, great game under a lot of pressure. Sarah Bern was just annoyingly good and played the whistle well IMO

This year was the first you can isolate areas where the game was won & lost

2025 the attack never got running and the def was tired by 50mins

2026 messy lineout, Bern pushing Perry to collapse to win pens, & ball stripped in contact killed the attack, but ☘️ won a lot of moments over the full 80

Yeah, structures shouldn't be copy paste unless it's justified.
Travel & cost are big considerations. Mediterranian could be cool, money allowing. I'm pro anything that puts the Spannish and Portuguese in the mix.
I think the main thing is there needs to be more than the PWR and E1 at the top end.

I agree

I just think at that point, if the IRFU is using a provicial model; a Pro12 style comp and a European Cup is preferable to a Brittish and Irish league.
More control, better revenue split
(from a non IRFU point of view, more space to expand which is better for the game in Europe)

4 is a tough sell. Along with the 2 welsh and 2 Scotish, that'd bring the pwr up to 17. Which seems too big for 1 division IMO. That's assuming that the Italians (maybe the Spanish 🤞) don't make a proposal.
Accepting < 4 seems like abandoning both the AIL or URC model for very few pro-opportunities.

As a Leinster fan who remembers 2012, I have always respected the spreys, cannot believe how that legacy can be discarded like a used tissue by the powers that be.

(Not that this would be a fair demise for Scarlets, Cardiff or Dragons either mind you)

Spain disqualified from mens world cup hostimg bid for fielding ineligible city (probs gibralter) 🇪🇦

Dannah O'Brien signs for Glouster Hartbury 🇮🇪

Great signing! Though I always perfer to see Big Mike in blue 😉

I was so stupered so much by non-Grace Moore ealing players making the list I almost missed the fictional Coventry player? Apologies to Peter Sullivan but he's not on the RFU page for the match or Coventry's wikipedia? Is this an AI post?

Almost like some lower ranked teams could use some more tests.

Seeing growth in some countries with strong mens teams (eg South Africa) has been great.
Though really would like to see the countries important to women's rugby history not left behind. (Spain, Kazakstan, Netherlands, Sweden, more recently Madagascar)

It feels like tier 1 mens teams (world rugby unions with 3 votes) had an outsized say
Trapped in Div 2 are Fiji, a team that's shown imense improvement and beat Wales (div 1)
Spain, banished from the 6N will have less game time against teams ranked above them
Brazil, the most exciting new WRWC team

Yeah I am informed that the drive from Wellington to Aukland (both only North Island) is 7 hours compared to Ireland were the train from Cork to Dublin being 3. (And it's a slow train)

I would agree the cost they can control.

Anglophone Bias?

When Ireland have limited the top 4 in the past I feel we've rode our luck penaltywise. The size of the Canadians is forcing errors. But we're really struggling to paint the right pictures IMO

I'd have to agree, probs helped Mo'unga being out of Test match rugby, but he's undeniably been so good for the Lions and Bath despite an eh 6 Nations.

A classic my heart was in my mouth when Swanepoel stepped up to the tee 55 out. But Zimbanwe were scintillating.

There can oly be one for me.

I do wonder if the last couple of pre tour games have given people unreasonable expectations, in 2013 they played a Bah Bahs, also a scratch team and in 2021 they played a Japan team who hadn't played a test for 2 years.

I do love this pumas side and how they attack.

Austria, as a Leinster fan we need a player with expierience winning tight games 😅🙃

Madoussou Fall Raclot, Dorathy Wall and Niamh O'Dowd on the fringes of this, but then again you could say that about a lot of English players so maybe I should be glad it's got a spread of countries. 😅

Unfortunate for Wales 😢

Muzzo was so good!
I think there has been a lot of kneejerk doomerism around Italy after their first 2 games, but they're still competitive in 6 Nations.
What they're doing to try catch Fance or England is the worry.

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@squidgerugby.bsky.social dog heard in the stands at Ireland vs Italy 🐶

I know engagement was already falling in the other place, but in addition I'd imagine with the focus of this account your most engaged fans are more likely to have views that would lead them to migrate whole sale.

I'd have to guess Portugal 🇵🇹for the most players? lot of chopping and changing in the halfbacks and back 3.

4 players that started all games? Germany only had 6 tests so maybe them? but I feel like Romania was fairly consistent (but I can only think of 2 players that might have started every game)

Defo, good to see Erin King, but wafer was robbed (guess it's not technically her first season :( )