Howley is an idiot
https://youtu.be/-XzKxa7MWf4
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I'm not a huge fan of rugby especially all the daffodil shit and Eddie Butler prologue etc but nevertheless I still like to see them win.
I had my ACL done yesterday so I'm off work and was just reading that Horley has picked the same team that got gubbed by Scotland for Friday even though we've effectively got nothing to play for!
Surely now is the to blood some players like Sam Davies etc and see what they've got to offer at international level rather than stick with the tried and tested team with tried and tested (and failing) tactics?!
Howley is an idiot
https://youtu.be/-XzKxa7MWf4
I feel sorry for Howley he is on a hiding to nothing with the set-up at the moment, he is simply looking after the side when the main man is away, if he makes a raft of changes that Gatland doesn't like, and the players perform in a new style, he is creating a problem for his boss.
That being said by helping his boss by filling in while he is away he has damaged is own reputation massively. There is no way that the Welsh public will accept him as the next manager.
The WRU should never have allowed Gatland a year of for the Lions
Its like the FAW giving Coleman a year off because he's taking charge of Team GB at the Olympics
The eggers have lost 29 consecutive international matches versus New Zealand. Yes, twenty fecking nine!
The next time some 50-something Allbright-swilling boring git gets all sentimental about the Wales teams of the 1970s to make out they were "great," remind them that the truth is the All Blacks thumped them on every occasion.
Can't be much worse than this if the games were more frequent:
http://www.11v11.com/teams/england/t...osition/Wales/
I think criticism of Welsh rugby should always be done while acknowledging the story where Gatland was taken in a helicopter for x number of hours (perhaps even an hour) when he first arrived and shown all the rugby clubs and told that this is what he had to work with.
Despite this we have always managed to compete by playing above our small stature, and I'm not sure if this group of coaches are too focused on how small we are and forgetting our previous capability to play above ourselves. Whatever the reason, it's bloody depressing to go back through the team selections over the last 10 years and see pretty much the same group of players even though several now have more bad games than good.
We seem to be on a downturn of fortunes currently (every side in every sport has these periods) but are we doing anything/enough to get out of it? Many people responded "it's been two years" when they said in the pre-Ireland press "you don't become a bad team overnight."
The Welsh rugby team has been on the decline for a good few years, but the Welsh rugby 'fans' haven't seen it coming. Players built up into undroppable superstars by the Welsh media - this was only a matter of time
Howley is being used as the fall guy by Gatland who is not the wonderful guy that the rugby fans think he is
The same out of form players picked again as we lurch towards another tier three RWC seeding. Another group of death beckons.
Nail on head. The Welsh media lives in La La Land when it comes to the eggers. In my book both Gatland and Howley are very poor coaches. I expect the WRU committee men were glad for Gatland to coach the Lions so they could enjoy a good old freebee tour too.
I used to care a bit about Wales egg results but now I don't give a toss.
I went to a rugby orientated school (St. Illtyd's) in the 70's when the Welsh Rugby team reigned supreme, at least in the northern hemisphere, and whlst a bit narked that I was pretty much forced to play rugby instead of football (tbf I wasn't much good at football) I was as mad keen on the egg as anyone else, when I wasn't dreaming of pulling on a blue jersey and scoring the winner at NP I was scoring the winning try for Wales.
Last night I was asking the Mrs what we were going to do for dinner Friday night/watch on Telly, when she asked me what I was on about "We're going to the pub to watch Wales" I hadn't even realised we were playing.
The game has changed beyond all recognition from the one I used to play, and the sight of a gurning twat on the telly in a daffodil hat makes me want to stick a boot though the telly.
Oh, and while we're on the subject of "razzmataz" why in the name of all that is holy, do we have those long flags behind the goal for when City score?
The days of easy games in test match rugby are long gone. Clowns who think we should beat any team every game are clueless.
Wales have a very strong side and on their day they will give any team a good game.
As for the supporters, what gives people the right to slag them off for what they choose to wear?
If they are happy crack on I say.