Yikes, 13 days to go to the Japan game and I expected sales to be bleak but not quite this bleak. Pretty obvious that those back rows of the upper tier have been taken off sale too. 61k for the same fixture last season, the drop off seems stark unless there's a big late take-up.

A Reform member in Portsmouth who served with distinction as a Royal Marine in Afghanistan and Iraq was told by an ITV undercover reporter that they shared the same military background. That was a lie. The Marine, believing him, took him for a drink. They spent hours talking about their 'shared' service. He shared deeply personal stories from the front line. He thought he was talking to a friend who had been through the same things. He has since learned that the man across the table was an actor with a hidden camera, sent by a television company to damage the party he volunteers for. He said he feels VIOLATED. A man who put his life on the line for this country had his most private memories extracted by deception for a TV programme. This just shows you how SCUMMY the mainstream media are.

A Rugby World Cup REFEREE is joining WRU’s coaching staff 🏉👀 Ben Whitehouse will retire from refereeing after Saturday’s Ospreys-Dragons derby, joining Steve Tandy’s Wales team full-time.