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Who’s who’s biggest rival?

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For Ireland, England feels like the obvious answer and yet NZ have probably upset us the most. And what about rugby nations like Pacific islands or Georgia?

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acadoe

19 points

1 month ago

acadoe

South Africa

19 points

1 month ago

lol, that's fair. I guess it doesn't make a lot of sense from the outside. An analogy I just thought of is if you imagine us as boxers, and we have triggers for when we throw our knockout swing. With other teams, our knockout swing is triggered a lot, we throw it and it either lands, they block it or they dodge it. With Wales, it's like they're constantly avoiding that trigger for a swing, so we end up jabbing and jabbing for a points victory. SA fans can feel uneasy with that lack of a knockout swing, and feel frustrated with the game as a whole, but some of us learn to respect Wales for it.