Thala Msutu

i am no longer #POCout

This got an actual lol from me on the other site

I don’t know why this old man chooses to subject himself to this 😭

So imagine my surprise when I found out that word was actually a bad word after going to a South African school with a lot of those English private school traditions

Scotland will win it, he won't bomb them as he has a golf course resort there.

Interesting! I haven’t been too impressed with him (mostly because the bench generally has not been as impactful) but I am surprised it isn’t him starting over Matiu

46 countries to go?

All of this over some TikTok dances???

Nobody does head loss after a loss better than 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🇫🇷 FRANCE TEAM NEWS

More change than we anticipated! Absolutely buzzing to see Temo Matiu get a debut (would prefer at no.8) 🍇

Jelonch injured, can’t see why Nouchi is dropped 🤔

Centre combo makes sense. Auradou Brennan in on bench to boost lineout?

#SixNations #LeCrunch

Headline from Courtney Lawes' latest column in the times that reads: Time for sheltered TikTok dancers to show resilience. Kill or be killed As a teenager I got into scraps and learnt that actions carry consequences. But younger stars in England team are not willing to fight back — that must change against France

Whereas the younger generation of players coming through, especially in England, are quite sheltered. You only have to look at the TikTok dance that Henry Pollock, Tommy Freeman, Freddie Steward and Fin Smith recorded last autumn. My God, I could not imagine any other team in England’s history where that would have happened. I’m not saying it was unacceptable or a bad thing. I’m just saying there’s a difference between the boys who want to do that kind of stuff and the boys who have been through the wringer and have faced pretty hard times. Boys who have been punched in the face a few times, through their career or through their upbringing, understand the real world. That breeds a resilience that these boys don’t have yet. It’s just a difference in upbringing. Kids I grew up with, the kids I came through with like Teimana Harrison and Dylan Hartley, they could take things on the chin. Ellis Genge is similar to that. But we are seeing with this England team that they are not willing to throw back yet. That is disappointing to see from the outside. There’s no quick solution to that, other than you have to live it and come through the other side.”

Courtney Lawes absolutely BODYING his former teammates at Northampton here, saying that England's younger players are too posh to have endured any sort of real hardship in life, and that's why they're mental weak, soft and doing Tiktok dances…?

I love it when they turn on themselves, I truly do.

Update to yesterday's Bib Theory France squad: TBC at the announcement today, but Rugbyrama reports Jelonch is out injured. Bordeaux's Temo Matiu, perhaps, in line for a debut

www.rugbyrama.fr/2026/03/12/t...

It’s been a few months now of laboured performances. I don’t really think anymore a quadruple is realistic. Team just looks tired. We need to trust and rotate over the next few games - I’d give Calafiori, Norgaard, White(?) and a new front 3 for Everton

Dupont AND Giroud on one poster???

😍😍😍

Jörgensen conceded 5 goals on 0.87 xG

Sam Warbuton has come up with another masterplan then. He appears to think that if one region merges with another, their budgets al so get combined.

Arsenal and Newcastle carrying this dusty league

So currently no English teams winning, two done on set-pieces, two done on transitions, with a number of individual errors.

Wrote in my newsletter on Monday that a few in European football were raising the old Platini quote:
"The English are lions in winter, lambs in spring"

Bodo Glimt, our Arctic overlords, cannot be stopped.

I thought we wanted City to go through so they can be as tired as we are…

But this is also hilarious - Valverde hat trick

Actually this is an almost perfect comparison (Bam is a much better player than Mulder tbf).

What makes this worse is the particular lionizing of Kobe Bryant who has - in the simplest way I can describe it - a complicated legacy

That was such a dumb goal that City just conceded

I can’t believe how stupid this all is.

England live in a state of being perpetually shocked that other countries want to kick their asses in sport

Definitely

Damn how is Thierry Dusautoir being pulled into this 😭😭

Not saying the French are mad on rugby, but they’ve apparently sold 20,000 tickets in Bordeaux on Saturday for ‘Crunch Creator’: some dreadful sounding retired players + influencers game with a real whiff of the Baller League about the rules

a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it . ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .

* Say nice things about Scotland
* Have them pin them up on the dressing room wall
* Lull them into a false sense of bonhomie
* Crush them

The Dutch Destroyer knows exactly what he's doing

Massive derby for both teams’ URC prospects. Stormers could get sucked into the bun fight to get into the top 8 if they lose at Loftus or still be in a strong position to host knockout games.

The last game before the home stretch begins.

Classy touch by van der Flier - unlike the arrogant Darcy Graham