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<blockquote data-quote="bushytop" data-source="post: 887842" data-attributes="member: 56738">Whatever makes you feel better...If it were in Cardiff and Wales were the first host nation to ever get knocked out of a World Cup at the first round stage, I&#039;m pretty sure you would see it differently. With the uphill task we have ahead of ourselves, we will take some solace from it regardless.Both England and Ireland are incredibly difficult matches when their at home... it amazes me that our two most recent slams came in this rotation. What I will say is that during 2008 in particular and to a lesser degree in 2012, us Welsh were being told exactly the same thing then before our trip up the m4. We were told that we had no chance in either England or Ireland... do you know what we were told after beating them? Sh@t 6 nations, even though all the talk at the start of those tournaments was around how competitive it was.I guarantee everyone here that if... and it&#039;s a BIG FAT if Wales win the next two matches, the consensus on here (&amp; elsewhere) will be that Wales won a sh@t 6 nations, where as if either England or Ireland had won it in EXACTLY the same manner, there would be no issue. There does seem to be some double standards within this England Ireland love-in... thankfully we saved Scotland from joining what would have been a disturbing threesome last week.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bushytop, post: 887842, member: 56738"] Whatever makes you feel better... If it were in Cardiff and Wales were the first host nation to ever get knocked out of a World Cup at the first round stage, I’m pretty sure you would see it differently. With the uphill task we have ahead of ourselves, we will take some solace from it regardless. Both England and Ireland are incredibly difficult matches when their at home... it amazes me that our two most recent slams came in this rotation. What I will say is that during 2008 in particular and to a lesser degree in 2012, us Welsh were being told exactly the same thing then before our trip up the m4. We were told that we had no chance in either England or Ireland... do you know what we were told after beating them? Sh@t 6 nations, even though all the talk at the start of those tournaments was around how competitive it was. I guarantee everyone here that if... and it’s a BIG FAT if Wales win the next two matches, the consensus on here (& elsewhere) will be that Wales won a sh@t 6 nations, where as if either England or Ireland had won it in EXACTLY the same manner, there would be no issue. There does seem to be some double standards within this England Ireland love-in... thankfully we saved Scotland from joining what would have been a disturbing threesome last week. [/QUOTE]

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