Ooh, [rant mode=ON]
What are England doing in blue? It may be an unwritten rule - indeed, it may well exist only in my head - but there are some colours that certain countries should never sport. "National" colours must come from flags, or other readily-identifiable national symbols. England and Wales cannot be blue. White, red and green are okay, although green is pushing it for England. Wales can justify black and gold (from St. David's cross). Scotland or Ireland would look bloody silly playing in red, wouldn't they? Orange was daft enough...
Bah. Double-bah if you're Scottish, I imagine - as England's sense of "ownership" of blue undoubtedly stems, consciously or not, from the Union Flag. Bah!
[rant mode=OFF]
[partisan mode=ON]
Anyway, off to Liberty in a while to watch the Ospreys' Reserves' Wives' Friends' Under-21 XV take on Glasgow. The omens are hardly good. Young players must be developed, of course, and this is the kind of fixture to do it; but it's no use pretending that this is the XXII we'd select by choice. That said, our choices haven't exactly covered themselves in glory thus far...
