Wales by 5. Heard it here first.

I don't think you can dismiss Wales, or even France. Even Scotland have the ability to pull it all together again if this weekend goes well.
It's wide open this year as ever, even though there are favourites. England's chance will be as good as Scotland if it goes tits up for them this afternoon.
That's the beauty of the 6N.

I predict a Welsh win, and a spate of Welsh fans hand-feeding their own testicles to the lions at London zoo.

Can't travel that far, will Bristol zoo do.

I think Wales will win. They're too good not to. They'll be shitting on the tables in Ynysybwl tonight, as Bill McLaren might say.

I don't think it's being dismissive of Wales. England have a perfect home record under Jones and they are playing some very good rugby. I have no doubt there will come a point where they start to lose a few games and the shine is taken off his coaching but I don't think that's going to happen today. Any weakness England have is more than covered by the strength they have in other areas.

France are an interesting case, the game against Scotland will be really informative if Teddy Thomas can keep doing what he did against Ireland then all teams will be worried.




You think they have tables in Ynysybwl Classic.

To the good people Of Ynysybwl, I apologise I'm sure you have tables.

All the big players in the press are predicting a victory for England.

You are the embodiment of the Welsh confidence Dai, and I for one appreciate the attempts to curb your grubby arrogance.

What is it with you? Grow up.

Will you get out of Scott Baldwin's back garden?

It'll be a bit embarrassing if you end up losing.

England $1.18
Wales $4.45

Might chuck $10 on Wales.

Definitely worth a punt.

50/50 I'd say. If it was in Wales, you'd have to say they'd be favourites. Long gone are the days when we used to send the 2nd team to Cardiff to keep it competitive.

Why?

If you watch a bit of sport, you'll notice people making predictions in the press.

Stop being a tw@t for a second and say what you think. Or are you afraid of being 'embarrased' if you get it wrong?

PS You know the testicles on the bar theme is for your benefit?

Not really. Sport has a way of serving up outlier results. I think this might be one.

Any news on Halfpenny's illness?

Foul day out, could be an arm wrestle. Can't separate the teams for me, a kick will decide this one.

I've knocked Parkes a bit on here but from what I've seen he's been serviceable for Wales in the midfield. But at 10? Surely you're having a laugh.

Pretty pathetic stuff which just makes your inevitable weeks of classlessness to follow if you do win even worse.

If it helps Wales will be in red and England will be in white.

He is pretty unique amongst Welsh fans on here. All the others are good-humoured, decent posters

...except henry

Let’s hope for fun, exciting game.

Anything has to be better than the grubber-a-thon last week against Scotland.

Weather will be shite. England 27 - Wales 13.

You got Ireland V Italy on first. That’ll be 60 minutes of up and unders followed by Italy not making a single tackle.

I hope the bored is fixed by this afternoon. This thread should be violent

Ha. No doubt we've learned from Scotland's mistakes last week and will keep it a lot tighter, only exacerbated by the shite weather and the nerves of the rivalry.

I can’t watch Italy anymore. It is just completely depressing.

It’ll be a ripper, I’m sure.

Match of the round.

Penny is out, Ascombe to 15.

Best to give this thread a miss during the game, as the swarm will be all over it ... desperate for a little excitement after watching Sexy bore us, and the Italians, to tears for a couple of hours

Delicious.

No doubt England will have cheated at each and every breakdown/scrum/line out before bribing the ref to ensure victory/keep it respectable

Halfpenny confirmed out.

I don't see it as amazing news - Wales always perform better with their backs to the wall

Not impressed with scrum.com being integrated into espn. I can understand why though.

Hardlines for the lad and Wales. He was superb last weekend against the sweaties.