Six Nations have announced that they are ringing the changes for next year’s tournament. OvallyBalls had an exclusive mole in the decision room.
Six Nations Clown Five: Listen, chaps, I’m awfully sorry we failed to get the Six Nations behind a paywall so that we could destroy the popularity of the only tournament that is broadly watched, but we’ll try again in a couple of years.
SNC2: I’m not a fookin’ chap.
SNC4: Ah, bellissima! Like me, you are wearing a molto clever disguise to our top-secret meeting in this luxury ristorante.
SNC2: Catch yerself on. I’m wearing what the boss told me to wear: blue.
SNC5: Can we just get back to our onions? We have a tournament to ruin here.
SNC6: Onions? Oignons? En France, we return to our moutons.
SNC3: We quite like our lovely sheep as well.
SNC1: Ach, can we knock the tired wee 70s jokes on the heid? We’ve two major things to discuss here: playing matches on a Thursday (a THURS-DEE!), and deep-sixing one rest weekend.
SNC3: Thursday matches! It was bad enough, look you, when the Friday ones started. Working people are not going to be able to get to these matches, or maybe even watch them on the telly.
SNC5: Surely they will just have their servants do anything necessary on those particular evenings?
SNC6: Bah, the British do not know how to live. They eat their dinner – and quelle horreur d’un repas – at a silly time. They are weaklings who cannot stay up to a reasonable hour.
SNC4: Sono d’accordo.
SNC1: I dinna like the Thursday match, but I’m a wee bit more concerned about losing the rest weekend. That’s 5 Test matches in six weeks. Do we not have a small concern about player welfare there?
SNC3: We’ve not got a huge squad to field from the valleys.
SNC4: È vero, this also concerns us.
SNC2: Agh, it’s all right, we’ll just call on Leinster’s academy if half the squad end up in the hospital.
SNC6: Eh ben oui, we have many teams in the Top14, and perhaps we can bend the rules on players being called up.
SNC5: No worries here either, chaps … heh, heh: and chapesses. So is it all settled, then?
SNCs 1, 3 and 4 (simultaneously): Fuck off / vaffanculo.
SNC5: Perhaps I have not yet properly explained the emoluments available to those who agree to these proposals.
[whispers]
All: Crack on!
Ovally Balls 
No card?
SA are doomed!
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Carley quite correct.
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Carley needs a head wobble himself.
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Hansen back to his usual form with that pass.
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James Ryan is an idiot.
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Stupid Ryan.
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Red! How the fuck is that not a straight red after the way De Jager and Mostert have been judged?
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Carley bottled this one. It’s a straight red. Horizontal missile to the head. The bunker is definitely a way to avoid responsability.
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Well, how was the other, more deliberate, one ‘just a penalty’?
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But I thought the SA point of view, was a tucked arm & head contact isn’t a problem?
🙄😉
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If it wasn’t the forward pass, it should be been scratched for Reinach launching himself over the proceeding ruck.
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Well, that makes up for the other forward pass that wasn’t called.
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Perfect timing for someone to rev a motorbike outside my house – just when Matt Carley is explaining the red.
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Thaum I think the other one warranted a YC, as there was no danger but Ryan’s foul is in a different category. A 20 minutes RC is a small price to pay .
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So glad there’s consistency in red card decisions. What a joke.
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Refit – I think it came down to ‘maximum stupid and head contact’.
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Flair – yes, upon consideration, I think the first should have been a yellow and Ryan deserves the 20-min red (at least).
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Looks like Useless O’Brien will be off too.
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This isn’t looking good for Ireland.
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The crowd think the foul play is by the ball carrier
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Lucky lad. (apart from the bloody nose)
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That has to be another card
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Correct decision. FFS, O’Brien couldn’t do anything else.
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That is a total nonsense
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Ridiculous! The decision amounts to ‘it was such a shit tackle and the tackler came off worst, so it’s only a penalty’.
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Debbie, he made shoulder head contact and didn’t go low at all
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sorry auto corrected to Debbie again
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Debbie Does Dublin?
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Boks need points. With all this dominance to only be 5 up isn’t great.
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A yellow is shown, but to Prendergast.
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Deebee – yep. Was just saying that to the mister. And now Prendergast is carded too.
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Not nilled!
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That was a brief burst of perfect rugby by Ireland. Looked like they had the men advantage for a second.
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Shit! That’s superb from Ireland!
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People have been writing off Ireland as an aging side on the way down. They’ve just scored while two players down against the double world champions
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Oh no, Ireland. Down to 12!
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If only for about 5 seconds.
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Jesus christ.
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Can’t see how Ireland could loose this with so many cards.
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Actually down to 12 now.
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Now Porter being sent off! Fuck’s sake, Farrell, sort out the discipline!
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Lucky to escape with only a penalty try.
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Coulda been down to 11 there. I am disgusted. We have historically been one of the cleanest teams around.
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Amazing! Porter yellow carded for boring in. About time.
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The booing is ridiculous, the decisions were all fair and square
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Boks making heavy weather of this. Penalty try, but should really have done more. Ireland looking stuffed, frankly, but they’re such a good side, you wouldn’t write them off just yet.
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I’m amazed that the Boks aren’t 20 or more points up.
This is the worst side we’ve put out in years.
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Ticht, crowds boo, that’s what they do. They came with great expectations and they vent their frustration. But if they rewatch the game, which I doubt as it’d be unpleasant, they’ll see the refs were right.
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Probably there’s annoyance at the first card-that-wasn’t, but Ireland have fully earned the subsequent ones.
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Ireland should be down to 11 after the penalty try. Under any other circumstances there would have been a card issued
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