Today - its Ireland Vs Wales

Miracles at Murrayfield Originally uploaded by Monkey Images.

How things have changed since the strange affair in Paris. Yesterday, Scotland put on a Braveheart performance and beat England and Italy put in another credible, if losing, performance agianst the French in Paris. So today, we can believe that

• England are beatable;
• we were playing a better Italian team that we thought;
• the Irish team of strong individuals have discovered how to play as a team ...

Well we can dream like this for at least another 2 hours. By 5 pm today we will have reinforced that dream or started thinking about next year! I'm writing this with 30 minutes to kick-off. Unfortunately no ticket, so I will be shouting at the telly for the afternoon.