(Cardiff, Swansea and Newport have also beaten NZ).

Good article, you don’t see many non-Welsh blogs giving our game this much coverage, so it is appreciated.

On the Prem Select teams – no mention of the “civil war” promised by the vocal minority Ponty fans? Add in the whole Merthyr deal (Peter Pies brother has bought Merthyr and is intent on turning them into a rival for Ponty) and there is enough bilge in that issue to fill a dozen articles. Unfortunately, despite the low brow hilarity of most of it, it does highlight a common problem in Welsh rugby – too much villagism and a lot of ill feeling still festering from the change to pro rugby. Is any of this a real problem? I don’t know – I think low crowd nums are simply due to crap rugby. The once great crowds of Munster, for example, are now wilting given their relatively lower quality output compared to previous years. The average punter won’t pay/travel to watch their team get hopelessly beaten.