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Antoine, you literally just scored one try, to do this directly from the kickoff is just… uncharitable. Unchristian.

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When you’re walking down the high street and a Charity mugger tries to come up to you so you pretend to be on an important phonecall:

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These spam calls are getting out of hand, man.

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An incredible test match to have absolutely no skin in the game for you have to say. I think if I was a Springbok or Wallaby fan my head would be have been sent so far into space I’d be racing past Voyager 1 by now.

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To get done for crossing when you’re attacking with a FOUR MAN ADVANTAGE. Check this man’s betting accounts.

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South Africa making Wales 2015 look positively clinical attacking against ELEVEN men

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This is the stupidest game I’ve ever seen.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

André Esterhuizen is never going to be allowed to play 12 again.

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Update: the only home teams to win across the Prem and URC so far this weekend are Saints, Sharks and Lions. Eight away wins and a draw has to be some sort of record?

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One game left to play in round one of the Prem and there has been exactly one home win so far. If this is what ring fencing does to home advantage, I don’t mind it.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What in the name of all that is good and pure would inspire any sane person to pick a home and away kit that is basically the same colour?! Puma you’ve lost it!

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UPDATE: it’s… cornrows. Oh no.

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He’s literally warming up in a scrum cap to hide it as we speak. Unless he’s gone full Grace Jones with it, this is gonna be an underwhelming reveal.

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TNT helpfully informing us that Henry Pollock has a new secret haircut that he’ll be “revealing at kickoff”, so the Prem has that going for it I suppose.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Really, really telling that the guy the WRU want to replace Richard Collier-Keywood is a guy who is a "former senior partner at global consultancy giant McKinsey & Company". I'm sure he's *definitely* the guy who's going to fix the WRU's chronic addiction to wasting money on external consultants…

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I see Eddie Hearn has been catching up on his @bloodandmud.bsky.social podcast backlog…

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In this one interview the WRU’s new CFO says: • That they have to cut a region, because they can’t afford to invest in it any longer. • But they can’t cut any jobs at the bloated WRU head office because “you can’t cut your way to success”. Where are they finding these people, honestly?

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mike Tindall: a man absolutely addicted to sharing the worst ideas possible in public.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At this point, I’m very used to sports teams - especially rugby clubs - making themselves dramatically more generic with boring crest redesigns, but the Sharks one might be the most catastrophic downgrade yet.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The really exciting thing for Wales is what a different team they looked again with Kiera Bevan at 10. The depressing thing is how much they looked like Wales of the last 2 years as soon as Llecu George came on.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everyone’s new favourite Wales player surely? She’s a proper scrapper.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There was a time when The Rugby Paper was a relatively respectable outlet. It's hard to claim that's still the case when they are constantly publishing these "guest blogs" that are basically paid SEO fodder for gambling companies. Times is tough for online media, I *really* know – but c'mon!

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Far be it for me to *shudders* defend Henry Pollock, but as far as I can see, he didn’t actually make any mention of the NFL. People are assuming he’s talking about the NFL, but the only other sports he actually name-checks are boxing and MMA (lol).

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Gotta feel sorry for Cameron Hanekom: scoring the series-winning try for the best team in the world against their greatest rivals in an historic finale… but he could be playing for Wales instead.

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You know this Greatest Rivalry thing has gone on too damn long when the South African lineout has completely disintegrated.

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New Zealand have been so so extra when it comes to holding players on the deck and clearing beyond the ball this series (look you gotta also what you gotta do) and it’s taken until the 67th minute of the fourth test for a ref to notice

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How has Libbok come on and played WORSE?! SA should just work out how to play without a 10 and stick another lock in there instead.

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The more phases South Africa get in the NZ 22, the worse they look - just aimless carries into set defences over and over. Whatever other superlatives you rightly give to the Boks, they really look rudderless whenever they’re attacking organised set defence

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SFM can’t come back out for the second half, surely? A 40-minute all-court disasterclass capped off by him booting the pen dead at the end for no reason. It’s staggering how much worse the SA attack looks with him at 10 currently.

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Really enjoying “Matthew Carley shouting at Karl Dickson when he spots a penalty” as if he isn’t holding a large flag that could be, yknow, of some use in getting his attention.

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