Trolls, Twickers and Gits

Jeremy Beadle was, without a shadow of a doubt, the most irritating, slimy git to grace our TV screens.

Odd then, posthumously, to hear that he was a charity workhorse, amusing, engaging and a font of all trivia.

Isn’t it odd how the person can be SO very divorced from their public persona?

I recall the joke from the mid 90’s –

Q: You have a gun with 2 bullets. In a room are Sadam Hussein, Adolf Hitler and Jeremy Beadle. Who do you shoot?

A: Jeremy Beadle, twice, to make sure.

Hmmm. I’m sure he was a genuine guy who did an excellent job at hiding that particular quality in all his public appearances.

Now, this rugby lark…

It is all a bit worrying, this optimism going up to Twickers. I really get awfully worried when the tone is light and the portents good. That, I fear, is when we Celts are at our most vulnerable.

It has, however, given rise to the wonderful observation by an un-named pundit (un-named here only because I missed his intro and so can’t remember who the Welsh commentor was – it sounded like Devereaux but I’ve been wrong before)

‘Iain Balshaw still sleeps with the light on…’

I heard it this morning on the radio. I nearly crashed just outside St Fagans.

Last night I watched a reworking of the Billy Goats Gruff story with Bernard Hill. It was a good part of a good series. Then I tuned in to watch Sport Wales. The feature on the Twickers trip featured Shaun Edwards. The thing is, I SWEAR that Bernard Hill’s make-up artist had Mr Edwards as her model when they were transforming Bernard into the Troll for the show. Scarily accurate.

So, I think we will have real problems in the scrum and will show weakness at fullback. And will narrowly lose.

But to (mis)quote Keegan – I would love it if we beat them, really LOVE it…’