the ten commandments

1---thou shalt always wear your country's colours with pride.
2---thou shalt always be fitter than your opposition.
3---thou shalt always win your own scrum and line out ball.
4---thou shalt always make your tackles.
5---thou shalt always move the ball with pace and precision.
6---thou shalt always work hard to support the ball carrier.
7---thou shalt always play heads up rugby.
8---thou shalt always have a place kicker with an 80% strike rate.
9---thou shalt always concentrate for 80 minutes.
10--thou shalt always remain humble and respect your opposition.

these are the sacred words that should be set in stone as you enter the millenium stadium.
oh almost forgot.
thou shalt remain sober on a night out in cardiff.

How many are currently obeyed do you think

What the current Welsh does and doesn't do, imo

mr-bryns-attitude wrote:1---thou shalt always wear your country's colours with pride. Yes
2---thou shalt always be fitter than your opposition. Yes
3---thou shalt always win your own scrum and line out ball. No
4---thou shalt always make your tackles. Yes
5---thou shalt always move the ball with pace and precision. No
6---thou shalt always work hard to support the ball carrier. Yes
7---thou shalt always play heads up rugby. No
8---thou shalt always have a place kicker with an 80% strike rate. Yes
9---thou shalt always concentrate for 80 minutes. No
10--thou shalt always remain humble and respect your opposition. No

thou shalt remain sober on a night out in cardiff. Are you kidding me? NO!

Do Wales ALWAYS make their tackles or ALWAYS support ball carrier or are Wales ALWAYS fitter than the opposition???

Seriously?

Well, ALWAYS is a bit... I don't think any team, bar certain very good, dominant All Black or Springbok teams, could claim to always be better in any areas of the game in every match they played. So, in a pedantic sense, no.

But generally I think that they have superb levels of fitness and get to the breakdown quickly as a team. I think they normally do that. I think they normally make their tackles. Those are possibly their two greatest strengths- I think their weaknesses are a lack of creativity and ability to play what's in front of them (bar the occassional moment of individual brilliance) and they have a shaky lineout and an up and down scrum.

So that's what I was hinting at there.

to be fair to the scrum and lineouts since gatland has taken charge our consistency in those pieces have improved alot, and our scrum is probably the best in the Nh

Actually a better list for Wales would be.

1) Though shalt not throw buckets of sick in Taibach rugby club (Biggar)
2) Though shalt not go dogging in the evenings. (Bryne)
3) Though shalt not lose to England in Cardiff (Everyone)
4) Though shalt not lose fights to bouncers in McDonalds (Phillips)
5) Though shalt not blame Wales because your a cack coach (Holley)
6) Though shalt not beat up Taxi drivers (Collins)
7) Though shalt learn to handles ones drink and keep thy mouth shut (Henson)
8) Though shalt not skip Wales training camps to go to the South of Italy with 25 slappers. (Henson)
9) Though shalt not go through more than 3 clubs in a season, and still be unemployed by the end of it (Henson, Ospreys, Saracens, Toulon, unattached)
10) Though shalt ring Scott Gibbs for a taxi and NOT steal a golf buggy. (Powell)

Or pehaps even:

1) Though shalt not concede 60 points to the Ospreys in a derby game (Scarlets)
2) Though shalt reduce walk up ticket prices so people actually come to watch the games. (Ospreys)
3) Though shalt spend some time on tackling practice (Scarlets)
4) Though shalt not make the Wales team then join a wánk team like Exeter. (Mitchell)
5) Though shalt not keep the club shop open when all the shelves are bare! (Ospreys).
6) Though shalt sack the marketing man, when you reduce your jersey prices to £15 and still have a shop crammed full of them at the end of the season (Blues).
7) Though shalt not, (as a prop) hang around on the wing and be made to look like a lemon when a wing screams past you. (Mitchell against Scotland)
8) Though shalt not blow a big lead in the last 5 minutes and lose a game (Wales vs Barbarians).
9) Though shalt endeavour to beat Ireland every year, just to listen to O'Driscoll's excuses.
10) Though shalt make sure when the opposition has 13 players on the field to score more than 3 points in those 10 minutes! (Scotland V Wales)

alyn to be honest with no 8 would YOU turn it down?????

welshy824 wrote:alyn to be honest with no 8 would YOU turn it down?????

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/14/gavin-henson-announced-the-bachelor

No I'd shág (sorry give them an oppertunity to impress me) the lot of them; then settle for the one in the black dress, 2nd on to the right of Henson.
Well it's either that or training in freezing conditions in Poland...
Exercise is exercise I guess!

Very good Mr Bryns - for the World Cup, surely we are looking at the following:

1---thou shalt listen to Inverdale patronising the opposition
2---thou shalt deliver every cliche known to man whilst commentating
3---thou shalt miss Bill McLaren enormously (see 2, above)
4---thou shalt always describe the French as "temperamental" even though thou has no idea what that actually means
5---thou shalt try not to anger All Blacks supporters by describing them as "chokers"
6---thou shalt talk about the "Welsh way" without a firm understanding of what that actually means
7---thou shalt, as Eddie Butler, regard it as unimportant to correctly pronounce the names of opposing team players
8---thou shalt mention that England are World Cup winners no fewer than fifteen times per match
9---in particular, thou shalt also do the above in matches not involving England
10--thou shalt try not to copy the Haka whilst hammered

Good luck everyone.