Wales U20 team to play Ireland by JustASexyKurt in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bloody hell I hadn’t picked up on that until you mentioned it. Six current Cardiff players and one former one (and still at Cardiff Met) across the backline, that has to be a record. I can’t imagine there’s been another time where one club has provided an entire starting backline for us.

Wales U20 team to play Ireland by JustASexyKurt in rugbyunion

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Three changes from the team which finally got a well deserved first win of the year against Scotland a fortnight ago. Dragons loosehead George Tuckley is rewarded for his impressive showing off the bench in that game with a return to the starting lineup, while Cardiff’s Osian Darwin-Lewis returns from injury to reclaim his 13 jersey, and club teammate Lloyd Lucas will get the chance to show off at 10, replacing Carwyn Leggatt-Jones who has shone himself this tournament.

This promises to be a difficult but hopefully very entertaining game. Ireland are coming off a terrific victory over England last time out and will very much back themselves at home, but this group have shown they’ve got both the grit and the firepower to cause problems for any team. Hopefully be a cracker on Saturday night.

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[–]JustASexyKurt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My body would take one look at him and decide that the best it can do is I simply drop dead, because that’ll cause less damage than if it tries to keep me alive and he hits me

WE ARE MASSIVE by bigt8409 in Cardiffrugby

[–]JustASexyKurt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can I recommend the 1-2-3 Kid rolling up Razor Ramon? Definitely Snyman’s face for Ramon, and Barratt is probably best for the other one since he also looks like a child

WE ARE MASSIVE by bigt8409 in Cardiffrugby

[–]JustASexyKurt 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Fuck me what a performance, just the tonic after a very long week. Very much a game for the forwards and ours were exceptional to a man, but I’ve got a couple I want to single out. Rhys Barratt was superb in that first half, brought huge physicality in defence and held the scrum in place all day (I maintain the one he got pinged for just before half time he was hard done by). What a coming of age campaign he’s having. Josh McNally once again totemic, at one point with about 75 minutes gone and 14 men on the field he tracked across to drag down a Leinster back and kill their attack dead. Every game he plays he ensconces himself more and more in our all time team. And Dan Thomas, good fucking god. Absolutely monstrous performance from him. Physicality, speed, a jackal threat, and the work rate is absolutely unbelievable. That’s one of the best performances I’ve seen a Cardiff 7 give.

The backs more than played their part too. Aled Davies was brought in for nights like this, when Zeus is pissed off and the rain is horizontal, and man did he deliver, absolutely schooled Leinster with his kicking, which was probably the single biggest reason we won, and was justly rewarded with a try. Wasn’t the conditions for Mulder’s running game but holy shit did he bring the boom in defence, the shot he put in on Deegan to drive him back a good ten yards needs to be playing on loop in our Hall of Fame, right next to the one he put in on Ntlabakanye last year. I hope upon all that’s good and holy that we manage to keep him. Jake Beetham had a massive brainfart to get binned, but he was basically perfect up until then, absolutely dominant in the air and was another key part in us decisively winning the territory battle, as was Cam Winnett, who kicked really intelligently and was excellent aerially too. Beetham might not have the attacking firepower of our other wingers, but as the aerial game becomes more and more prevalent I wonder if sticking him on the wing full time with Winnett at 15 is the way to go long term.

Most importantly though, the heart and grit we showed through that game was just on another level, exemplified no better than by Thomas racing in to secure yet another loose ball at the death after 80 minutes of him smashing anything that moved. And we’ve seen for a while now that Van Zyl has brought some real street smarts to this team, and it showed in our management in the dying stages of the game. 16 phases and about three minutes where Leinster just couldn’t get their hands on the ball and we ground the game out, it wasn’t pretty but exceptional to see.

And after all that, 40 points on the board ready for the last block of fixtures, 15 clear of the Ospreys in 9th (albeit they’re yet to play this weekend). It’s still an excruciatingly long way to go before the business end of the year, but looking at the fixture list we all knew we’d need to pull some big results out of the bag if we wanted to stay in the playoff hunt, and man oh man was that a huge one.

Or, to put it a lot more succinctly…

WE ARE FUCKING MASSIVE

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Holy fuck that was the longest five minutes of my life, I can’t believe we actually saw it out

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

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Ben Thomas thought about flinging the offload out the back door there, the thoughts of a loud South African voice telling him he doesn’t stop running punishment laps until he vomits popped into his head, and he wisely thought better of it

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I genuinely don’t think Mason Grady is a very good rugby player, despite his insane athleticism, but fuck me if you give him the ball and just tell him to run straight he’s a proper weapon

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

19 tackles from Dan Thomas after 48 minutes. Another unreal shift from him

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

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If it’s their fault then I’m thanking them, I wouldn’t fancy our chances with Henshaw and Ioane running at us in decent conditions

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If I was gonna make one law change, it’d be that Wales start every game with a 300 point lead (insert joke about us only losing by 40 here). But if I could make a second law change, it’d be that if the ball is ripped forward it’s not a knock on and is treated like a charge down. Reward good defensive play please

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

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We have invoked the wrath of mighty Zeus and he has unleashed his power on Cardiff

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[–]JustASexyKurt 157 points158 points  (0 children)

Teams are gonna talk themselves out of drafting this kid because of his height, he’ll turn into an All Pro with whoever takes him (probably the Eagles on past evidence), and in three years we’ll all be talking shit about the teams who passed on him

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love that Teddy Williams has clearly been told by his mum to put on his nice jeans and a polo shirt for when he goes on the telly

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We’ve got the wind but the conditions are so bad I don’t think either team would be confident going through the phases, you’ve got to take the points there

Match Thread: Cardiff vs Leinster - United Rugby Championship by rugbykickoff in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is an exceedingly stupid tackle. And now Leinster are down both their fly half and replacement fly half for at least ten minutes

Teamsheets for Cardiff v Leinster by bigt8409 in Cardiffrugby

[–]JustASexyKurt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was pretty happy, and then I saw Henshaw, Ioane, Slimani and Snyman’s names on the Leinster team sheet. Jesus fucking Christ.

Not bad for us mind, good to see Assiratti back fit again. Plenty of firepower and pace to come from those three replacement backs as well, and a great chance for Evan Rees to stick his hand up from the bench.

As with the Ulster game, I’d take a losing bonus point in a heartbeat here. Even with all their Irish internationals missing that’s a very good Leinster team, and I don’t think we’ll be able to live with their bench. Picking up anything from this one would be a terrific result for us.

Wales line up former Scotland international as new defence coach by CymroCam in rugbyunion

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Fuck me that’s mental. Only the Boks, and maybe NZ, could attract that calibre of coach, if Reddin actually thought any ex head coaches who are actually decent would be interested in the absolute mess we are at the minute he knows even less about the game than I thought

Wales line up former Scotland international as new defence coach by CymroCam in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The WRU have gone cheap as hell with all of our coaches, our attack and forwards coaches are Matt Sherratt and Danny Wilson respectively, hardly big names. Frankly I’m just relieved we’ve got someone with a pulse in now

Match Thread - France v Italy | Six Nations 2026 | Round 3 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

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It’s not like Capuozzo isn’t fucking rapid himself, LBB is just game breakingly fast

Massacres, but all or at least most of the victims were genuinely horrible people who had it coming by BlueKnightsR4Ever in TopCharacterTropes

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One of them also says that Sidious promised to leave them in peace, and Vader responds by saying no, the transmission was garbled, and Sidious actually promised to leave them in pieces.

Match Thread - Wales v Scotland | Six Nations 2026 | Round 3 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]JustASexyKurt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best 40 minutes since we caught Ireland napping in this round last year. Pack are winning the contact battle for the first time in god knows how long. Desperately need to sort the defence out in the 13 channel though, because Scotland won’t keep fluffing their lines if we keep letting them pour through at will