Adam Beard piles more misery on Warren Gatland

“Ko tēnei haka mō te tāngata katoa o Aotearoa”

(This haka is for all the people of Aotearoa)

“Toitū te mana o te whenua, toitū te mana motuhake, toitū te tiriti o Waitangi”

(Forever the strength of the land, forever the strength of independence, forever the Treaty of Waitangi)

The only people offended by that are those who want to divide us. And they can far cough.

El-Abd is doing poorly in the D2 as a DoR; a position he was promoted to on the basis of good performances as a defence and forwards coach.

Sinfield, Borthwick, and Wigglesworth are the real talents in the English set up, but El-Abd and Harrison are much better than they are given credit.

Same happened with ses and he’s now with Edinburgh, which was a slightly odd decision because they’ve got some serious issues as a club and have had for a long time now. Regardless, it showed some backbone to decline the opportunity to be under his big brothers wing at glasgow and he may well have the makings of an equally good player.

Apparently there’s a third one too, who is said to have potential to be the best of them, playing at hooker with the tahs. So they will prob need to ensure he gets a few early opportunities or he will be heading north pdq as well…

1. His time has slipped and the game has moved on. Evidenced by the lions in SA, the Chiefs and now wales just not making significant gains

2. His record with wales was outstanding and sustained over achievement first time and welsh rugby is in the financial 💩

On balance if it was my call, I believe in loyalty but only where it’s justified and for me that holds with Gatland for now, at least through the 6N and maybe until the end of 25.