Also, if you are going to rip players to bits, make sure it's those who are domestic abusers, sexual predators, racists and genuinely vile individuals, and not players who just didn't play as well as you thought they would 🙄🙄🙄 #RugbyValues #HesActuallyAReallyNiceGuy

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The first match I remember watching on TV was the 1990 grand slam, so it's all been downhill for me as a Scotland fan.

It is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, so let’s celebrate the woman whose mastery of several scientific disciplines was so great that she couldn’t be described as a Man of Science. A reviewer of her second book coined the word “scientist” for her. Mary Somerville.

“optimize your writing with AI—” how about you optimize your brain by thinking for yourself and not outsourcing your creativity to companies owned by some of the world’s worst people

gotta take a deep breath in these times and realise that panic and division plays exactly into the hands of anyone trying to seize more power. calm, kindness, and thinking stuff through logically seems the best way. respectful talk to each other.

Our regular reminder to all purveyors of the "Scotland are arrogant" chat, which now seems to be coming out of Wales in addition to Ireland: talk to some actual Scottish people and you may well soon conclude that we are, in fact, the most pessimistic, self-doubting nation around

Maxime Lucu is the love child of Jason Statham and Stanley Tucci.

Please please please ITV Rugby ITV Sport provide your commentators and pundits with a pronunciation guide. There is no Italy player called Angie Cappywazzy. Nor Murco Spainolo. Nor Meeshelly Lamaro. #SixNations #ENGvITA

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I'm still thinking about Nick Mullins describing Peter O'Mahony as 'tough as an old saucepan'. #ITAvIRE #SixNations #RugbyUnion

Every club that goes under or is in extreme financial peril in the UK should be a warning sign for the whole sport. But it's just not. Wasps, Worcester, London Irish, Jersey, now Cardiff. If rugby union doesn't wake up after this, we can only assume it's died in its sleep.

I really, really hope player ratings are phased out soon. Just catching up on last week's Leinster v Glasgow stuff and some of the things written in a player ratings article are needlessly cruel, far too personal, and, in one instance, completely inaccurate. #rugbyunion

It's been three minutes since any Lions content was published. How will rugby fans cope?

The stadium in Marseille holds over 67,000 and it's sold out for Toulon v Toulouse (not a final, just a regular league match, I think?). Maybe time the Eng Prem takes a proper look at how they do things in France instead of talking about franchises.

Looks like crossing the car park didn't put Finn off after all... 😉

The ones who were nice to the marcomms staff 🤣🤣🤣

The idea that women shouldn't work is a thoroughly modern one. In medieval villages, women tended the sick and prepared the dead for burial. When a wealthy tradesman died, often his wife would take over managing his business. Women have always worked. ...

The real winner is Nike rugby shirts.

Important words from Novak Djokovic ⬇️