If you're not going to do a full video at the end of the six nations about the Italian games then I'm going to be very disappointed :(

31:30 I love the longer videos and if that means they're a bit delayed, it's totally worth it.

Squidge, I love your videos, your content and analysis, but would it be possible for you to start using chapters for your video. It would make them more easy to follow and I think would also make them have a more clear structure. Thanks so much for the amazing video.

Incredibly optimistic view on Wales Squidgy.

Way back in my school days, I was taught about Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, who is famed for finding beauty in the banal and ordinary. And I think Squidge is the rugby equivalent with this fantastic analysis of a game that frankly bored the piss out of me and everyone else in the pub

Englands defence was incredible because of the lack of ruck challenges, which means they have more men on their feet, one mistake pass leads to a intercept try which wales licked up like a pair of balls on a dog, but apart from that England are building something but will all good things to come is that time is needed, something borthwick doesn’t have, I’m just hoping a miracle can happen in France for the red roses

that dragged out intro to the sponsorship was one of the greatest I have ever seen in my life😂😂

I know a lot of people say that squidge hates Ireland but I think he hates Scotland more because the only time he ever uploads a Scotland game is the calcutta cup

Is Jack Willis the new Marcus Smith for Squidge? Personally, I think Jack is probably one of the best flankers in the world right now. Suppose each to their own.

Bloody great video, really highlighted a lot that I'd missed. Thanks Squidge

I can't help but think that Italy are going to hand Wales' arse to them. The way they play (Ireland light) is so hard for a team like Wales to play that I can only see it go one way.

another great video im starting to look forward to watching these than the actual games now !

Love your videos, humorous but insightful. Great work

I'm really glad to hear you talk about the mental/emotional state of the players. Too often, we get so bogged down in analysis that we forget these aren't robots executing their coaches' gameplan. Belief and passion are essential for a team to be greater than the sum of it's part's.

Squidge so glad this video was posted, was having a bad day so happy to see this was posted this has brought me so much joy

enjoying the longer videos though... keep it up mate!

Love these vids, mate. Keep it up!

Very interesting no Scotland v Wales vid..... But we have a England v wales vid...........

WHOO, SQUIDGE IS BACK. Just in time for the next wales game!

Great video Squidge, as asual ! About every comment asking him for specific videos about this or that match, I don't know if it's a good idea to put that much pressure on creators. Don't forget there's a human being behind the videos, who I'm sure put everything he can to produce quality content in such short amount of time :)

that game was the easiest job for the pundit ever just say "Freddie Steward" eery 30 seconds

Farrell was fantastic on Saturday everywhere but the tee. It is one of those games that he will be remembered for his poor goal kicking instead of his fantastic game management, his near perfect kicking from boot, his sublime passing. Really a shame

Fantastic and made the game more interesting in retrospect. Thanks as ever

Great analysis of Owen Williams's play, Squidge. Fascinating.

I enjoy these videos often more than the matches. Keep it up!

Thanks again for the awesome break down!

Agree with everything apart from AWJ having an “excellent game” he was easily the worst lock on the pitch. The best part of his game is offensive rucking which was ineffective. Apart from one offload you wouldn’t know he was on the pitch.

Great stuff Squidge.

Love your stuff but I think you missed the really obvious. George gave away the softest of penalties and Zamit scored an intercept try. That was all of Wales' points. England left 8 points on the field with Farrell kicking like the tighthead of Old Twatonians III. The score could have been 28 - 0 and no one could have complained about it not reflecting the game.

Mate, your content. Is amazing.

Love the videos!

Squidge I do congratulate you on your detail

Unfortunately probably the worst match of the weekend... Edited... Definitely the worst game of the weekend.

My daughter is a toddler and keeps shouting 'SUPA-FAST!' as she runs across the living room. I showed her LRZ and said 'SUPA-FAST!', she agreed. I've been critical of your work before when it comes to Wales & England analysis, but this was an amazingly good deep dive on both performances whilst sticking a pin your own bias. Thank you Squidge, a pleasure to watch.

Great video squidge and much prefer the extended full analysis. This game was not an entertaining spectacle (for most) compared to the more fluid running/passing/ball-in-hand/high scoring games but I’m glad these games exist because they demonstrate the honesty of a team’s low confidence or adjusting to new set ups. If every game is a ‘classic’ then it quickly devalues the memorable true classic games.

My son put me onto Squidge Rugby and I love it. It's one of the reasons I prefer watching the Six Nations over my local NZ teams in the Super rugby.

you don't realise how good itoje is, until he isn't playing

Been looking forward to this. 🙈

Outstanding video, Squidge. Personally I really enjoyed the match - it was certainly entertaining with some moments of great skill from both teams. It certainly looks like England are on the up right now, but I don't think we'll be seeing an upset in Dublin or Paris.

8:17 that Hitman joke had me rolling on the floor

you've got to do an Italy match! I assume the only reason you analysed this awful match is because most of audience are from these countries.

Thank you for that. I'm been amazed and frustrated at all the negative comments about England this week after what I thought was a very solid performance. Glad to know I'm not going mad.

Anyone else notice the sneaky pic of Tommy Bowe at 27:22 after he says ten phases. Love it 😂

So you're saying Maro is better nowthan in 2017 because we notice him less? I wouldn't drop him but he used to do the subtle stuff AND be a masive impact player in more obvious ways.

Can't be only me that jumps out of my seat every time the crhssshhs noise comes in at the start of a Squidge video

England and Wales providing vital services to insomniacs

Fascinating analysis as ever, highlighting the good and bad play of both teams. Listening to Squidge you'd think that Wales won.

Great video!

Tommy bowe joke made me laugh for a couple minutes. Thanks squidge

“The flanker does a big fart that knocks him off balance”. 😅

I wonder if Wales should consider doing a couple of drop goals with a defence like this. It would vary things and force the defence to rush the 10 more often. This worked well in the RWC for Wales vs Australia

Love you squidge

Henry Slade didn't believe the bollocks, that's why every regime minion is pissed off with him.

"Ants and tired dogs" classic!

Do you plan on doing Italy vs Ireland? After watching the Ireland vs France review it feels like Italy has found a way do dismantle Ireland's defense (the pocket defense where they focus on stopping offloads rather than smashing the player) by having a player cutting the line right in the created pocket! It felt like in first half they should have scored at least twice with this tactic. Impatient on your review!!

I love your videos and wait weekly for your videos but why are you not putting up any about the Scotland or the Italy games?

I haven’t watched yet, but 32 minutes seems like a long time to say “because Wales aren’t very good at the moment”

Great analysis as ever. Nice to see some balanced commentary, as opposed to the normal "England were rubbish" stuff.

Recent 6 nations games covered by Squidge: Scotland smashing Wales ❌ Italy giving Ireland a scare ❌ Chaotic France v Scotland ❌ Snooze fest Wales v England ✅ Just the game everyone wanted….. 😴

Love the detailing in your analysis and work you do, just wonder where you see wales attack improving as I don't think a good defence and kicking game is enough to be competitive any more

Where's the analysis of Wales vs Sco - we want to know what your view was of Wales' defensive disintegration in the second half - not one of their back line knew their role and the obvious tension between Dyer and Biggar from the first half spilled over into that. The amount of defensive cover that Dyer produced from nothing was astonishing.

Not sure about the Hawkins hit on farrell, lawrence couldn't be the extra man he's already ran too close of a line to farrell so wouldn't make a difference however if hawkins had stayed in the play possibly could've expedited the welsh recovery. Loved the kicking analysis, was dying hear your take after the game cause I couldn't make sense of it while watching and you more than delivered as usual.

It was Wales they played, and they were brutal. Lets wait..#Fra #Ire Glad you are back posting.

Leave it to Squidgey to make a boring game alot more interesting with his analysis and tongue-in-cheek humor.

please do Ireland vs Italy or Scotland France ( not the most boring game of the weekend)

Analysis more entertaining than the actual game.

Haha thanks for the shoutout Squidge!

Great, not only still no Italy video, now I'm also worried because apparently Wales is good

Another video over 30 mins? Thank you god

The analysis quality is really down these days. Completely disagree with most everything said here, wales did not put themselves in a position to win. If England sorted their attack out they’d have thumped wales like Ireland did. I’m still not confident of an Italy win but of course like all neutrals I’ll be cheering them on to smash wales

Don't know where to start, really, so I'll just plough on and say, "Wow - what an amazingly insightful, perceptive and utterly absorbing analysis"! Thank you for a nuanced and compelling 30-minutes of research and de/re/pre-construction which effortlessly side-stepped cliché, lazy stereotyping and "received wisdom". In so doing, you masterfully delivered, yet again, a "Squidge-Worthy" analysis, replete with originality, iconoclasm and insight. In other words, "Uttly triffic - Ta!

What happened to Scotland-Wales?

One day I wish to learn what squidge is thinking when it comes to the half second captions. Am I supposed to pause and rewind 18 times per video to get the full content, or is it to annoy people idk

think Pierre answered that question really well, no criticism of his old team

Warrenball (a dumb but evocative term) is a blueprint for how to play winning rugby with average to middling player stocks. It didn´t work in his time with the Chiefs, ironically because it required the team to play beneath themselves. It´s sad in a way that even hardcore Welsh fans see it as the only way for Wales to play, as you suspect that will become a self-fulfilling prophecy and the wins will still largely elude them. It´s worth remembering that, in the years when they weren´t winning 6 Nations titles or knocking England out of their own World Cup (🤗), Wales were frequently abysmal; regularly thumped by the Southern Hemisphere teams, and typically shooting it out with Scotland for 4th or fifth place just above Italy (apart from the years when France were shit, when they could usually be confident of at least finishing third).

i beg u to make a video on how to get better in each position

By far and away the best rugby review I've come across. IMHO England's recent performances show how much they had drifted under Eddie. Eddie who?

Not sure if I look more forward to Italy - Wales or your video analysis of Italy - Wales.

Went in to this 6 nations believing England was the most winnable game for Wales and it seems that way at the moment. I'm not sure Italy are the type of team that we will be able to drag into a torrid game that we might be able to sneak a victory out of by the end. If we do manage, I think there is a *chance* we could pull off something like last year's France game and go on to win it, but that is more of a hope than anywhere near to an expectation. If we don't finish 6th that'll be an accomplishment. I just hope that if we do beat Italy, they don't randomly beat Scotland on the last day - for Scotland's sake and ours!!

Do you reckon Wayne Pivac is available?

Gotta watch that WALvENG RWC 2015 game again.

Englands defense was so good because they were never challenged or made think. Wales endlessly sending 1 man to run at it means england will get the ball back and so they dont need to worry about risking pens, just let wales have it. Wales created nothing, scoring 1 penalty and a try that should never have happened while farrell also missed 10 points of kicks. Could easily have been 0-30 Whatever quick ball we had Williams was absolutely butchering making phillips look like dupont. So many 4 or 5 second rucks with the ball at his feet... Kicking constantly to the best 15 on the planet was utterly absurd with no one doing anything to change to vary or... anything. No dinks over the top, no kicks to touch, nothing. I'm all for finding positives but the reality is we've lost 8 in a row? Are 10th in the world and facing a wooden spoon. Warrenball was effective because it worked and won games. This is just nothing. Wales are an AI set to easy. You KNOW they are offering 0 in attack, you KNOW they arent going to carve you up and score 3 times in 10 mins. What you have to achieve as an offense is known and easy. As I say Im all for finding positives, but this was a simple exercise of containing and waiting by England. Criticisng England for lacking deception and then saying what Wales are doing well in attack is super disingenuous.

Another completely unbiased review of wales rugby, when wales fix the 3 or 4 (well two hundred problems) that they have currently they will be realistic contenders

I've missed a joke here folks - at 29m13s our glorious Squidger has pasted the face of Adam Beard over the actual tryscorer. Anyone know who it really was, and what the joke is? Or is it just Squidge making fun himself for how much he loves Adam Beard?

I pray that Gats is just holding back an entire new game-plan for the World Cup.

This video did not need to end with the image of my parents arguing.

28:38 Bye pencil, bye bottle.

Still not over Slade I see? imagine basing years of jokes on something you were wrong about lol

I will never not feel quietly pleased with myself for absorbing enough squidge knowledge into my bones that some of the absolute blathering the commentators come out with during games strikes me as incredibly dumb and lacking in complex knowledge of the game. Let's not begin to discuss the media post game. Never change Squidge.

I hope that you're right. I really do.

27.21 why does Tommy Bowe appear in the bottom right corner of the screen here?

Please talk also about italian games

5:30 no mention of tackling the player without the ball?

Warren Gatland's focus is not on this years six nations. He has the unenviable task of trying to build something out of practically nothing for the forthcoming rugby world cup. Presently, he is looking at all his options, and if Wales get hammered a few times, so be it. Re-building is never easy.

In future, I'm not going to watch any Wales games, just Squidge's post-defeat analyses. That way, I can believe we are not entirely dogshit

Lots of complaints about doing this game and not others. Squidge I love your passion for the game and raising my rugby knowledge a billion fold. I support you not killing yourself by overworking like you did last you. I appreciate and love your work man keep it up.❤ To everyone complaining, saying how he's biased Vs your country, how about appreciate that this is the best rugby analysis out there and the vast majority of it is free. If you want more, then sign up to patreon and give Squidge money. Maybe he can then hire more people to do more things.

There is a potentially very good Welsh team somewhere - but it was not on the pitch against England. The biggest problem is the forwards. Welsh pack was too full of passengers, of the starting 8 only Owens and Tshiunza were competitive. The bench improved things a little - Jenkins, Dillion Lewis and Reffell were clearly better than the starters. IMO Beard, Francis and Thomas are not even close to the required standard. Beard has a tendency to go missing as soon as the game gets hard, AWJ is too old, Tips has probably been slowed due to injuries and Faletau looks a long way short of his best. The reality is that Wales will, justifiably, be second favourite against Italy. In fact I hope Wales get thoroughly trounced so Gatland realises he needs to cut most of the old guard now

I’ll save everyone some time. Wales are currently awful

This can’t be the only game you’re doing for last weekend surely? One of the worst six nations games ever played in terms of overall quality I’d wager, was like watching Scotland vs Italy from about a decade ago (I am Scottish fyi).

Scottish fan here, politely requesting some coverage of the Scotland games x