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In two games with Jac Morgan and Dewi Lake starting in the tin-pot Prem, Gloucester have outscored their opponents 93-24 and are now top of the league. Ospreys are massive.

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I know young people today revere the 90s as the last bastion of coolness, good music, great movies, fashion and all that… but I wonder if they’d think it was quite so great if they realised that there was a significant chunk of the 90s when Britain was absolutely OBSESSED with line-dancing.

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In a really troubling day for me, spiritually, I also enjoyed his “You really want a red?” at Tommy Freeman after he’d got him sent off to ice the game. LRZ is an objectionable bellend, but I’m inclined to think he’s much more effective - two tries and a penalty try today - when he leans into it.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hate myself for it, but I did rate LRZ giving the full Pollock celly after scoring in front of the Saints fans against Northampton

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It’s like they don’t realise the Valleys is not a place overburdened with infrastructure so anyone between Llantrisant and Bridgend is going to end up at Prince Charles.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I turned over in absolute disgust when Martin Gillingham referred to Alex Mann as “The Merthyr Mauler”. English rugby journalists look at a map of Wales challenge: impossible.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a really dedicated grudge holder myself, I simply have to take my hat off to Brendan Venter for the lengths he’s going to in order to continue to prosecute his vendetta against the rugby media landscape. 16 years! The man is an all-time hater.

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To be honest, the entire collection goes incredibly hard.

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So the United Colours bit of Benetton have done a new retro collection with the rugby bit, and the headline item is this incredible tribute to the shirt that Wagner Moura’s Pablo Escobar wore in the second season of Narcos. An impeccable fit.

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Maybe they thought they were voting for Frano by proxy?

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Okay so I’ve just checked and in 2017/18 Botica somehow was the Top 14’s leading point scorer but… Oyonnax got relegated! Meanwhile Chris Ashton scored 24 tries that year (on the back of 30 the year before) and has exactly 0 POTY gongs.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At least Zach Mercer has (more) England caps (than he deserves) and was quite important in a Montpellier team that won the league? Ben Botica! At Oyonnax!

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Even Ben Botica can’t fully understand what he’s doing on this list.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Actual professional journalists saying "This has never happened before" in their match reports as if Nigel didn't launch his entire referee-hyphen-comedian late career off the back of this. It was only 2012! We have forgotten the old ways and the old wisdom.

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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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As opposed to RCK doing it a couple of days a week from London?

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Someone else rightly pointed out that the WRU is so full of civil servants and committee men that they view 'business' as some sort of strange and magical thing that requires specialist knowledge they don't have… and it leads to this sort of bizarre hiring policy.

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That explains why he didn’t get the job.

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Also very funny but not funny that the Glamorgan chairman Mark Rhydderch-Roberts was told he would not be getting the job after he "questioned the union’s rationale for reducing the number of regions" in his interview…

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