ON THIS WEEK’S COLUMN…
- WRAP OF A WRAP
- ROYAL FLUSHED
- EDDIE SHOULD KNOW
- (DESTI)NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP
- AN ACTUAL ITALIAN JOB
- SING WHEN YOU’RE WINNING
- HARPIN’ ON…IRELAND’S NEXT OPPONENTS
- 500TH EPISODE SPECIAL
- LEINSTER SQUAD UPDATE
- JAVAN SEBASTIAN ARTICLE
- TROLL PATROL
- COMPETITION UPDATES (incl Celtic Challenge)
- NEXT HARPIN’
WRAP OF A WRAP
Our newest contributor is Hugo Gordon, and our schedule worked out in such a way that he had arguably the two “cushiest” assignments for an Irish podster in the opening three weeks of the 2026 Six Nations – first previewing the French game, when there was still even a smidge of hope for an upset away win, and finally wrapping the England game, when Ireland actually got one.
It goes without saying that this pod in particular was a pleasure to record, especially since we could spend the first portion reversing the mood from the previous week when we panned our attack plan, such as it was.
ICYMI you can have a listen here.
ROYAL FLUSHED
“They did nothing to win”
Mike Tindall slates Ireland despite record England win
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The whole point of this 80+ column is meant to be to turn the spotlight on anything BUT the Leinster & Ireland men’s rugby teams, but after that performance in Twickenham I think it would be rude not to bring it up a few times anyway. Besides, I do get away with it on a technicality in that the three Front 5 articles devoted to it involved reactions from non-Irish sources.
First up is Mike Tindall – look, while this stance may positively reek of sour grapes it is probably one that a lot of English fans will take when summarising the match. Plus it’s true, Borthwick’s men were below par and we did explore this on our wrap pod, it was definitely a factor.
But Ireland were pretty low on confidence too and there was no guarantee that we could take full advantage of England’s shortcomings, so to say we “did nothing to win” is disingenuous to say the very least.
And then of course there’s this – given his royal family connections….does Tindall really think he needs to be the poster-child for such a gaslighting opinion? REALLY? At THIS particular time? Baffling. I’ll leave it there.
HARPIN' ON RUGBY 