6:37 don't despair you are a great analyst, you are funny, you bring joy to countless rusted on rugby fans and you are also able to bridge the gap between generations and the individual ways they consume our sport. Please please keep it up ❤❤❤
I’d be keen to see this kind of video for Scotland. As a Scot, I feel things have slightly slowed into a plateau. With Townsend leaving at the end of this season, and lots of interesting options for a new head coach (Franco Smith, Ronan O’Gara, Dave Rennie, & Michael Chieka all line up for when their contracts end), I’d be keen to see the Squidge analysis on it all and what needs to change.
Never should have took him back... two things . 1 it doesn't work to go back . 2 the first time he had brilliant players already and he got then playing. This time its different
I really don't get Wales. In 2019 they wins Grand Slam, reach World #1, make the semi-finals where they lose in the dying minutes against one of the greatest teams in the history of the sport. Fast forward to 2021 where they achieve a Triple Crown while winning the Six Nations. Then we got 2022, where they beat the Boks at home for the first time ever. Skip ahead again to 2023, where they absolutely smash Australia at a World Cup, where they narrowly lost to one of the greatest Argentina sides ever. Whereas the story of the last few years unquestionably had been _The Rise of The Irish®_ it can be argued that 2019-2023 was an absolute purple patch for the Welsh. Then comes 2024 and they can't seem to buy a win. Wales are better than this. Gatland is better than this. And my guess is that soon, things will click into place and the Welsh are going to open up a giant can of hurting on some unlucky side. Stay the course, guys.
I wouldn't call 2019-2023 a purple patch. Wales were awful and honestly fluked those two titles. Who can forget Frances capitulation in the second half of the opening game of 2019. Wales didn't even get a single BP in a championship involving a terrible Italian side. 2021 wasn't called a near Jam Slam for nothing, that needs no explaining.
@@liamwilliams6651The top three most successful teams in the Six Nations are England, Wales, and France, in terms of the number of titles won: England With 29 outright titles, England is the most successful team in the Six Nations. They also hold the record for the most Grand Slams with 13. Wales Wales has won 28 outright titles and 11 shared titles, for a total of 39 titles. Wales has also won 12 Grand Slams. France France has won 18 outright titles and 8 shared titles, for a total of 26 titles. France has also won 10 Grand Slams.     Ireland has won 16 outright titles and 9 shared titles, for a total of 25 titles. Ireland has also won 4 Grand Slams.   Scotland and Italy have never won the Six Nations title. Italy's highest finish was fourth place in 2013.
@@liamwilliams6651 So you’re saying a side of 3millions people the smallest, won the entire tournament against greats** without a bonus point? Doesn’t this prove how good wales were then? To be able to win without bonus points. 😂 cry more England fan.
@@LERJ_Gaming I'm not even English but whatever. No other side has won the 6N without a bonus point, not even the 2021 Welsh side, so that should tell you everything. How do you even flex not getting bonus points wtf haha.
As an irishman living in Wales, I have been waiting for this deep dive for years. I've had an outsider's eye to watch the WRU completely waste the enthusiasm and tradition for rugby in Wales and could only wonder why not more was being said about it. Even when Wales were winning their last 6N it was clear these days were coming watching their poorly supported regions struggle to win trophies and produce players. The potential for Wales is still there, but the changes need to happen now before even more children start swapping their rugby shirt for a football one.
So with Warrenball in this era of international rugby, I don't know if it'll work still. With defences getting much quicker, and a predisposition for a double tackle into jackal, I'm not convinced the grind is as effective as it used to be. Though on the other hand, the new directive that will stop escorts on kick receiving really benefits the box-kicking strategy that the gameplan promotes.
I think gatland could do more from a DoR position. Shaun edwards or howley taking over as head coach would probably be the best fit after that. The other option is a conpletely fresh start with brand new coaches who build a new welsh way. Thats riddled with risk though
The WRU has damaged the game beyond repair I think. When they divided the national game into the four regions it killed the local rivalry which fuelled development. Great teams that punched well above their weight such as Neath, Newport, Pontypridd etc were reduced to 'feeder' teams and derbies which would draw in 1000s has faded away. Money, investment and player numbers and quality equally diminished. The last of a Welsh golden generation which were able to paper over these cracks has now gone and their successors are sadly not of the same calibre. This isn't Australia where rugby union is the 5th most played sport, this is the national game of Wales and its a damn shame to see and this is coming from an Englishman.
The reality was that these teams were never going to survive as professional entities, and nobody can say they didn't try. They entered into the early additions of the celtic league ( now URC ) and get hosed week in week out by the Scottish and Irish sides and this was before any of them were strong. Add that to being commercially unviable with to few people in Wales per team. Like it or not this was a problem that was always to have to be tackled with the advert of professionalism. However they made a dogs dinner of it anyway. And maybe it was only ever going to be messy.
Paul O'Connell said back in the 2000s passion and effort used to be the whole cake, nowadays it's only the icing on the cake. Wales need a new identity they can't just expect a 15 year old game plan to be enough! Tactically Wales used to be a pressure side, aggressive defense, aggressive breakdown. Nowadays they are soft defensively and dont have the backrow to attack breakdowns like they did
@@Toefingas They don’t see themselves as underdogs. They think they have a right to be at the top table because of the 1970s. As an Irishman it’s funny as f&ck watching them enraged by Ireland’s success. Despite them winning a ton of stuff themselves over the last 20 years.
Ja, it's a tough one... Gatland was a good coach, verging on great! I think things went backwards for him when the Chiefs started going backwards. I don't think he has recovered emotionally or mentally. And that transfers to his players. And after the Pivac years, Wales needed someone with a bit of momentum on their side, excitement, and enthusiasm for the job. Gatland came in with scars and baggage. It was always going to be a tough call. I hope Wales can find a way back. I love Union for its arms wrestles. And Wales was amongst the best of those teams.
This is our second Wales video this year, and in the other (On the 10 shirt) I covered the WRU situation in quite some detail so focused on other areas here, I tried to only cover points not discussed in that video from back during the Six Nations
Squidge we need a video on Morgan Morris. Wainwright and Faletau are injured, with Wainwright looking like hes getting rushed back in to play next week. Plumtree is a good 6, but arguably not an 8. Gatland says that Morris isnt as good defensively as he is offensively. Is this accurate? Richie Rees brought up a fantasic point that one of Cardiff Blues best ever players was Xavier Rush and he did very little defensively. Just seems odd that Wales massively struggle to get ball carriers over the gaine line but dont pick arguably the best ball carrier in Wales, Morris.
For as long as Welsh fans demand a top class test side without supporting the teams supplying the squad, nothing will change. Ospreys are getting half the attendances they were a decade ago. The others have similar, if not quite as drastic, drops. Gatland had competitive regions to pick players from at the peak of Wales’ success. As those regions started to slide, he kept it together for a few years but the wheels came off in Pivac’s second year. Gatland used to make the best of a decent squad. The best of a middling squad just won’t cut it.
In all seriousness, if you want to add something very interesting to your analysis (perhaps not publicly, given how unkind it is), have a look at points scored with Costelow at 10 vs when he’s not there. It’s genuinely fascinating, particularly as it’s often two halves (ish) of the same match.
To answer the question posed by the title: probably not, simply because he and his influence main reason they struggled to move on with Pivac: his fellow Kiwi sought to introduce a more dynamic, attack focused playing philosophy into a team hardened into dour, methodical tackling machines by 12 years of Gatland. The WRU's recall of Waz amounted to desperate retreat into an established comfort-zone of toiling mediocrity, and will likely keep them there.
Ultimately, the game moves on Wales got a lot of success when NH rugby was quite honestly just a lower standard to SH rugby with the 2015 World Cup the middle of this. The turgid style of games finishing 9 - 18 in the six nations with lots of kicking and either one or no tries ended in 2022 for NH teams Ireland and France started leading the way showing how you can play good high speed modern rugby and score tries like SH sides traditionally did. Wales with Gatland use the 2019 play book. You just won't score enough points to win games today with that style.
Gatland needs to go - but results won't improve until the Welsh union sorts out its club sides. Wales don't have the players to field four competitive sides in the URC. They need to reduce their sides to three or even two, concentrate most of their talent in one or two teams, and give that talent lots of playing time together in the way that, e.g., Leinster's Irish contingent have. Wales then need to appoint a young coach with innovative ideas and give him time to build something. Gatland is the last person you want building a new style and generation of talent. He is too old, too dour, and too negative, both in terms of playing style and in terms of general demeanour. He's also insufferably arrogant, which never pays off in the long run - hence the long string of abject performances for every side he's ever coached. I personally think the players get sick of him, but beyond that he doesn't seem to have the capacity to think outside the box. Look at what Farrell has done with Ireland and Rassie with South Africa. Wales will never have the players to match those nations, but nor should they be getting trounced by the likes of Italy.
Yep, I blame Pivac for his horrendous player management in the way he blooded people! My personal hope is that Gatland will bring a young wales team through to being a great team again, and then the WRU really think through who they replace him with… I would see if Pat Lam is interested personally
Sounds like Gatlands player management is also piss poor. I didn't hear about the waterboarding at the time, and not backing his players during the contracts, it's all a bad look. As squidge says, if players decide they don't want to fight for him because of him not having their back, I wouldn't blame them at all
Yeah, you loose the players you've lost the team you've lost the test match. There is no way he should stay unless he's done some serious back peddling and apologising for how he's treated the players over the years. If your players aren't behind you it doesn't matter what tactics you play, you're toast.
I realise you are trying to squeeze as much text as possible in the vid, by speeding up your audio. But there are so many unintelligible passages - e.g. 9:45 - 9:50. You are not communicating any more, and surely that is the point of going to the trouble of making a video.
@@RemyGold No I didn't. Thanks for your understanding and generous reply. I guess you have not thought of the obvious response - why bother doing it too fast to understand? If you intend people to slow it down, why bother speeding it up?
Wales have been on a downward trajectory for a while. Both 2019 and 2021 6Ns wins were just flukes in all honesty. 2019 Wales were gifted the title by France in that second half of the opening match. England were honestly better that year as much as I hate to admit it. Wales didn't even get a single bonus point that year, not even against an awful Italy side. I don't even need to explain why the near Jam Slam of 2021 was a fluke, I think even people who were defending Wales at the time can now retrospectively look back and agree that they fluked their way through it. Their best performance was the one game they lost to France at the last day. These two titles have allowed the WRU to completely ignore the sinking ship and now with the everyone else improving immensely besides Wales there is now nowhere left to hide. The problems definitely come down to their regions and I don't know how they fix it but I'd like to think that a Welshman would know how.
@@Poweroftouch No its not a fluke that Wales have so many titles. They deserve them. But their last two titles were most certainly flukes that were band aiding the sinking ship. France were not a good side in 2019 yet they were beating Wales comfortably until there classic capitulation. Same story in the 2019 WC QF, France winning, in control, about to score a try when Vahaamahina does that stupid elbow. They didn't even get the bonus point against Italy that year. 2019 is subjective however, that's just how I feel about that win, 2021 however was objectively a fluke, no doubt about it. Outside of these two years where they won I don't think they have finished any higher than 5th in the Championship. That's not a team in great form.
Na 2019 England are seriously overated draws with Scotland, and a loss to Wales shows they were more one off wonder games than an actual championship team. Wales to be fair actually won something in 2019.
@@DM-rp9ik The Scotland game wouldn't have been a draw if Wales hadn't wrapped up the grand slam earlier that day imo. I think England had clocked out by being ahead with nothing to play for. Wales really raised their game for their win against England and was by far their best performance of the whole championship and even then it was still just a narrow win. I was happy to see Wales win it that year because anyone but England and all that. However if I look at it unbiased then I definitely think England were a far better side. No bonus points for Wales that year, not even against Italy just doesn't convince me. Even the 2021 Welsh side managed some bonus points.
@liamwilliams6651 Wales won by double scores in that game and beat England again that year in the warm-ups. What kind of team checks out because of events elsewhere that only proves they never had the character to do it. If anything, that just proves that they could only pull a one-off hiest win out of the bag but could never back it up to and show the consistency of champions.
The top three most successful teams in the Six Nations are England, Wales, and France, in terms of the number of titles won: England With 29 outright titles, England is the most successful team in the Six Nations. They also hold the record for the most Grand Slams with 13. Wales Wales has won 28 outright titles and 11 shared titles, for a total of 39 titles. Wales has also won 12 Grand Slams. France France has won 18 outright titles and 8 shared titles, for a total of 26 titles. France has also won 10 Grand Slams.     Ireland has won 16 outright titles and 9 shared titles, for a total of 25 titles. Ireland has also won 4 Grand Slams.   Scotland and Italy have never won the Six Nations title. Italy's highest finish was fourth place in 2013.
@@WetSands or it may sulk and blame everybody for it’s own failure like Squidge, TH-cam etc if it loses to another website, if we keep calling it Du Pont
a 26 minute squidge video about wales out nowhere. we are blessed
6:37 don't despair you are a great analyst, you are funny, you bring joy to countless rusted on rugby fans and you are also able to bridge the gap between generations and the individual ways they consume our sport. Please please keep it up ❤❤❤
I have been waiting for this video for a while
Got to this video so early Warren Gatland hasn’t ruined his legacy yet
Your best, most thoughtful video in a long time. Thank you.
I’d be keen to see this kind of video for Scotland. As a Scot, I feel things have slightly slowed into a plateau. With Townsend leaving at the end of this season, and lots of interesting options for a new head coach (Franco Smith, Ronan O’Gara, Dave Rennie, & Michael Chieka all line up for when their contracts end), I’d be keen to see the Squidge analysis on it all and what needs to change.
How far do you wanna go back? Could go all the way back to 1995 with advent of professionalism and how the SRU messed it up back then.
It was so cool to see you in chasing the sun! South africa loves Squidge!
The second time around is (almost) never the same. Soccer taught me that. And it seems to hold for things as different as politics and rugby union.
I TOTALLY agree with senior player shouts
But seriously who are they!?
Great vid Squidge thank you and good luck in the autumn.
The missing link is Edwards. He made the side fit the plan
Agreed.
Strapping in for this one...
Never should have took him back... two things .
1 it doesn't work to go back .
2 the first time he had brilliant players already and he got then playing. This time its different
I really don't get Wales. In 2019 they wins Grand Slam, reach World #1, make the semi-finals where they lose in the dying minutes against one of the greatest teams in the history of the sport.
Fast forward to 2021 where they achieve a Triple Crown while winning the Six Nations.
Then we got 2022, where they beat the Boks at home for the first time ever. Skip ahead again to 2023, where they absolutely smash Australia at a World Cup, where they narrowly lost to one of the greatest Argentina sides ever.
Whereas the story of the last few years unquestionably had been _The Rise of The Irish®_ it can be argued that 2019-2023 was an absolute purple patch for the Welsh.
Then comes 2024 and they can't seem to buy a win.
Wales are better than this. Gatland is better than this. And my guess is that soon, things will click into place and the Welsh are going to open up a giant can of hurting on some unlucky side.
Stay the course, guys.
I wouldn't call 2019-2023 a purple patch. Wales were awful and honestly fluked those two titles. Who can forget Frances capitulation in the second half of the opening game of 2019. Wales didn't even get a single BP in a championship involving a terrible Italian side. 2021 wasn't called a near Jam Slam for nothing, that needs no explaining.
@@liamwilliams6651The top three most successful teams in the Six Nations are England, Wales, and France, in terms of the number of titles won:
England
With 29 outright titles, England is the most successful team in the Six Nations. They also hold the record for the most Grand Slams with 13.
Wales
Wales has won 28 outright titles and 11 shared titles, for a total of 39 titles. Wales has also won 12 Grand Slams.
France
France has won 18 outright titles and 8 shared titles, for a total of 26 titles. France has also won 10 Grand Slams.




Ireland has won 16 outright titles and 9 shared titles, for a total of 25 titles. Ireland has also won 4 Grand Slams.


Scotland and Italy have never won the Six Nations title. Italy's highest finish was fourth place in 2013.
@@liamwilliams6651 So you’re saying a side of 3millions people the smallest, won the entire tournament against greats** without a bonus point? Doesn’t this prove how good wales were then? To be able to win without bonus points. 😂 cry more England fan.
@@LERJ_Gaming I'm not even English but whatever. No other side has won the 6N without a bonus point, not even the 2021 Welsh side, so that should tell you everything. How do you even flex not getting bonus points wtf haha.
The harsh reality is that even if Gatland brought wales back to their glory days, it’ll fall apart all over again once he leaves.
Big difference is; in 2012 Ospreys won the Celtic league and Scarlets won it in 2017 and were in the final in 2018.
As pure speculation ROG is an interesting suggestion and I could see it being a fit both ways.
I hope Rassie hands Cameron Hanekom his debut against Wales🤣
As an irishman living in Wales, I have been waiting for this deep dive for years. I've had an outsider's eye to watch the WRU completely waste the enthusiasm and tradition for rugby in Wales and could only wonder why not more was being said about it. Even when Wales were winning their last 6N it was clear these days were coming watching their poorly supported regions struggle to win trophies and produce players.
The potential for Wales is still there, but the changes need to happen now before even more children start swapping their rugby shirt for a football one.
So with Warrenball in this era of international rugby, I don't know if it'll work still. With defences getting much quicker, and a predisposition for a double tackle into jackal, I'm not convinced the grind is as effective as it used to be. Though on the other hand, the new directive that will stop escorts on kick receiving really benefits the box-kicking strategy that the gameplan promotes.
I think gatland could do more from a DoR position. Shaun edwards or howley taking over as head coach would probably be the best fit after that. The other option is a conpletely fresh start with brand new coaches who build a new welsh way. Thats riddled with risk though
Hope you are alright squidge. Love the videos but there’s no need to kill yourself over them!
Don't break my heart squidge
The WRU has damaged the game beyond repair I think. When they divided the national game into the four regions it killed the local rivalry which fuelled development. Great teams that punched well above their weight such as Neath, Newport, Pontypridd etc were reduced to 'feeder' teams and derbies which would draw in 1000s has faded away. Money, investment and player numbers and quality equally diminished. The last of a Welsh golden generation which were able to paper over these cracks has now gone and their successors are sadly not of the same calibre. This isn't Australia where rugby union is the 5th most played sport, this is the national game of Wales and its a damn shame to see and this is coming from an Englishman.
The reality was that these teams were never going to survive as professional entities, and nobody can say they didn't try. They entered into the early additions of the celtic league ( now URC ) and get hosed week in week out by the Scottish and Irish sides and this was before any of them were strong. Add that to being commercially unviable with to few people in Wales per team.
Like it or not this was a problem that was always to have to be tackled with the advert of professionalism. However they made a dogs dinner of it anyway. And maybe it was only ever going to be messy.
Paul O'Connell said back in the 2000s passion and effort used to be the whole cake, nowadays it's only the icing on the cake. Wales need a new identity they can't just expect a 15 year old game plan to be enough!
Tactically Wales used to be a pressure side, aggressive defense, aggressive breakdown. Nowadays they are soft defensively and dont have the backrow to attack breakdowns like they did
"waterboarding the squad before the world cup" indeed sounds like a bad look
Love you squidge
If any northern hem. team were to win a WC I'd love for it to be Wales
Why?
@Dreyno dono ...just feel they were hard done by us saffas in the 2019 WC
Love an underdog as well
@@Toefingas They don’t see themselves as underdogs. They think they have a right to be at the top table because of the 1970s. As an Irishman it’s funny as f&ck watching them enraged by Ireland’s success. Despite them winning a ton of stuff themselves over the last 20 years.
Ja, it's a tough one...
Gatland was a good coach, verging on great!
I think things went backwards for him when the Chiefs started going backwards. I don't think he has recovered emotionally or mentally.
And that transfers to his players.
And after the Pivac years, Wales needed someone with a bit of momentum on their side, excitement, and enthusiasm for the job.
Gatland came in with scars and baggage.
It was always going to be a tough call.
I hope Wales can find a way back. I love Union for its arms wrestles. And Wales was amongst the best of those teams.
He notably evades any discussion of the problems with the structure or management of Welsh rugby.
This is our second Wales video this year, and in the other (On the 10 shirt) I covered the WRU situation in quite some detail so focused on other areas here, I tried to only cover points not discussed in that video from back during the Six Nations
Squidge we need a video on Morgan Morris. Wainwright and Faletau are injured, with Wainwright looking like hes getting rushed back in to play next week. Plumtree is a good 6, but arguably not an 8. Gatland says that Morris isnt as good defensively as he is offensively. Is this accurate? Richie Rees brought up a fantasic point that one of Cardiff Blues best ever players was Xavier Rush and he did very little defensively. Just seems odd that Wales massively struggle to get ball carriers over the gaine line but dont pick arguably the best ball carrier in Wales, Morris.
For as long as Welsh fans demand a top class test side without supporting the teams supplying the squad, nothing will change. Ospreys are getting half the attendances they were a decade ago. The others have similar, if not quite as drastic, drops.
Gatland had competitive regions to pick players from at the peak of Wales’ success. As those regions started to slide, he kept it together for a few years but the wheels came off in Pivac’s second year. Gatland used to make the best of a decent squad. The best of a middling squad just won’t cut it.
In all seriousness, if you want to add something very interesting to your analysis (perhaps not publicly, given how unkind it is), have a look at points scored with Costelow at 10 vs when he’s not there. It’s genuinely fascinating, particularly as it’s often two halves (ish) of the same match.
Ireland fan here.... Whats a semi final?
😂😂😂
To answer the question posed by the title: probably not, simply because he and his influence main reason they struggled to move on with Pivac: his fellow Kiwi sought to introduce a more dynamic, attack focused playing philosophy into a team hardened into dour, methodical tackling machines by 12 years of Gatland. The WRU's recall of Waz amounted to desperate retreat into an established comfort-zone of toiling mediocrity, and will likely keep them there.
Maybe, the local teams in the URC are certainly better this year!
Ultimately, the game moves on Wales got a lot of success when NH rugby was quite honestly just a lower standard to SH rugby with the 2015 World Cup the middle of this. The turgid style of games finishing 9 - 18 in the six nations with lots of kicking and either one or no tries ended in 2022 for NH teams Ireland and France started leading the way showing how you can play good high speed modern rugby and score tries like SH sides traditionally did. Wales with Gatland use the 2019 play book. You just won't score enough points to win games today with that style.
Go, go, go! But the WRU can’t afford to sack him!
Gatland needs to go - but results won't improve until the Welsh union sorts out its club sides. Wales don't have the players to field four competitive sides in the URC. They need to reduce their sides to three or even two, concentrate most of their talent in one or two teams, and give that talent lots of playing time together in the way that, e.g., Leinster's Irish contingent have.
Wales then need to appoint a young coach with innovative ideas and give him time to build something. Gatland is the last person you want building a new style and generation of talent. He is too old, too dour, and too negative, both in terms of playing style and in terms of general demeanour. He's also insufferably arrogant, which never pays off in the long run - hence the long string of abject performances for every side he's ever coached. I personally think the players get sick of him, but beyond that he doesn't seem to have the capacity to think outside the box. Look at what Farrell has done with Ireland and Rassie with South Africa. Wales will never have the players to match those nations, but nor should they be getting trounced by the likes of Italy.
Yep, I blame Pivac for his horrendous player management in the way he blooded people!
My personal hope is that Gatland will bring a young wales team through to being a great team again, and then the WRU really think through who they replace him with… I would see if Pat Lam is interested personally
Sounds like Gatlands player management is also piss poor. I didn't hear about the waterboarding at the time, and not backing his players during the contracts, it's all a bad look. As squidge says, if players decide they don't want to fight for him because of him not having their back, I wouldn't blame them at all
Squidge! I came here looking for answers and you've only left me with more questions!! Can't you just do the job?
yeah i'm convinced. he's got to go
Wallabies next please
He needs to stay like it or not , the man knows welsh rugby inside and out , no other manger could turn it around like warren
This is more like Connacht and Ireland than Wasps and Wales. They might improve but the players aren't there
First time watching anything rugby related in a while (basically since they banned people like me), god it's not looking like I'll be coming back.
What did you do?
@@DM-rp9ik I'm trans
Problem is Wales does not have top class players so even the best coach is going to struggle.
Lose 3 in the autumn and bye bye.... got family all tickets to fiji so lets hope it doesn't happen
There is life in wales yet . This is a quality side pending…….
Come on Cymru.
Gatland is not that good even in NZ he could not do much with the Chiefs. I think Wales should dig deep and find a proper coach.
ffs - he's got to stay!
Yeah, you loose the players you've lost the team you've lost the test match. There is no way he should stay unless he's done some serious back peddling and apologising for how he's treated the players over the years. If your players aren't behind you it doesn't matter what tactics you play, you're toast.
Conclusions:
1. Squidge does not know what waterboarding means.
2. Squidge proves gatlands point about the sport going woke...
The answer is no
Are there any suitable Welsh coaches ?
To give the 26 second, less enjoyable, answer: go, he’s out of date.
Warren Gatland needs to go… I’m sure it won’t be his fault, he’ll blame everyone else
Don’t know why you keep mentioning first in the world. Didn’t last long.
Garland to stay!!
If not him who can?
Get Felix Jones. As soon as his contract run out at England, get that lad.
I realise you are trying to squeeze as much text as possible in the vid, by speeding up your audio. But there are so many unintelligible passages - e.g. 9:45 - 9:50. You are not communicating any more, and surely that is the point of going to the trouble of making a video.
You realise you can change the speed of the video...slow it down,or do you just want to complain|?
@@RemyGold No I didn't. Thanks for your understanding and generous reply. I guess you have not thought of the obvious response - why bother doing it too fast to understand? If you intend people to slow it down, why bother speeding it up?
The Antoinne du kak baguette glazing is nefarious.
Wales have been on a downward trajectory for a while. Both 2019 and 2021 6Ns wins were just flukes in all honesty. 2019 Wales were gifted the title by France in that second half of the opening match. England were honestly better that year as much as I hate to admit it. Wales didn't even get a single bonus point that year, not even against an awful Italy side. I don't even need to explain why the near Jam Slam of 2021 was a fluke, I think even people who were defending Wales at the time can now retrospectively look back and agree that they fluked their way through it. Their best performance was the one game they lost to France at the last day. These two titles have allowed the WRU to completely ignore the sinking ship and now with the everyone else improving immensely besides Wales there is now nowhere left to hide. The problems definitely come down to their regions and I don't know how they fix it but I'd like to think that a Welshman would know how.
FLUKES😂😂😂grow IP ffs,joint most successfully team in six nations ,I bet that's a fluke aswell? Lol
@@Poweroftouch No its not a fluke that Wales have so many titles. They deserve them. But their last two titles were most certainly flukes that were band aiding the sinking ship. France were not a good side in 2019 yet they were beating Wales comfortably until there classic capitulation. Same story in the 2019 WC QF, France winning, in control, about to score a try when Vahaamahina does that stupid elbow. They didn't even get the bonus point against Italy that year. 2019 is subjective however, that's just how I feel about that win, 2021 however was objectively a fluke, no doubt about it. Outside of these two years where they won I don't think they have finished any higher than 5th in the Championship. That's not a team in great form.
Na 2019 England are seriously overated draws with Scotland, and a loss to Wales shows they were more one off wonder games than an actual championship team. Wales to be fair actually won something in 2019.
@@DM-rp9ik The Scotland game wouldn't have been a draw if Wales hadn't wrapped up the grand slam earlier that day imo. I think England had clocked out by being ahead with nothing to play for. Wales really raised their game for their win against England and was by far their best performance of the whole championship and even then it was still just a narrow win. I was happy to see Wales win it that year because anyone but England and all that. However if I look at it unbiased then I definitely think England were a far better side. No bonus points for Wales that year, not even against Italy just doesn't convince me. Even the 2021 Welsh side managed some bonus points.
@liamwilliams6651 Wales won by double scores in that game and beat England again that year in the warm-ups. What kind of team checks out because of events elsewhere that only proves they never had the character to do it.
If anything, that just proves that they could only pull a one-off hiest win out of the bag but could never back it up to and show the consistency of champions.
The top three most successful teams in the Six Nations are England, Wales, and France, in terms of the number of titles won:
England
With 29 outright titles, England is the most successful team in the Six Nations. They also hold the record for the most Grand Slams with 13.
Wales
Wales has won 28 outright titles and 11 shared titles, for a total of 39 titles. Wales has also won 12 Grand Slams.
France
France has won 18 outright titles and 8 shared titles, for a total of 26 titles. France has also won 10 Grand Slams.




Ireland has won 16 outright titles and 9 shared titles, for a total of 25 titles. Ireland has also won 4 Grand Slams.


Scotland and Italy have never won the Six Nations title. Italy's highest finish was fourth place in 2013.
@squidge… Squarespace would sell more if you called it the Cheslin Kolbe of website builders
and even more if called Cheslin Dupont
Jip, the little website builder with the magic feet
The website might fall over without being touched though
@@WetSands or it may sulk and blame everybody for it’s own failure like Squidge, TH-cam etc if it loses to another website, if we keep calling it Du Pont
Graham Rowntree just got released for that last section there, i dont think thats actually the case but imagine
In a dream scenario, he becomes forwards coach (he worked with Gatland on 3x lions tours).
Got to this video so early Warren Gatland hasn’t ruined his legacy yet