There I was all set with my Friday night favs, fish & chips and a cold Guinness in hand. I’d been looking forward to kicking back after a rough week and enjoying the Scarlets/Glasgow game. After all, I’ve been a week without rygbi now and with the next Six Nations scheduled for next week, I was badly in need of a Welsh rygbi fix! I even got a new TV for God’s sake!!!!

Oh all right, I admit I didn’t get the new TV just to watch the Scarlets/Glasgow game. But……

BBC1 announced in the pre-hour break that “Now on BBC2 the Scarlets face Glasgow” and Scrum V excitedly announced in their weekly text that the game would be broadcast from Stradley on BBC2. The paper showed the game was due to begin at 17:30 - everything was set to go.

So…..erm…..where was it?

Now, I mean no offense to those fascinated by Snooker. Nor to the players whom I could see, in the multitude of brief bounces I made on and off the channel desperately hoping against hope the snooker would end sometime before the rybgi did, (pauses to take breath due to hellaciously long run-on sentence) were very good.

Or in short: The players whom were obviously at the top of their sport.

But if you ask my opinion I’ll happily tell you that given a choice between the 2008 Welsh Snooker championships and a rybgi match……well, need I go on?

Personally, I think that if you are a broadcaster and you promise to broadcast something, you should follow through and broadcast it! Don’t you? And no offense to these guys either, but somehow Pobol y Cwm and repeats of Cefn Gwlad just don’t engender the same level of excitement in my household as does a good rygbi match.

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