With our national rugby side in the deepest hole its ever found itself in, we’re asking people around Cardiff if it’s time to let football into our hearts a bit more.
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00:00Yeah, of course it is, mate. I'm proud of you. Do you know what I mean? I wasn't proud
00:05yesterday. I sat, you know, I put my head in my hands like that.
00:09Absolutely.
00:10What's going on? Like, oh my word, English mates are all following me.
00:14Welsh rugby is set in records across the board for all the wrong reasons. 17 losses in a
00:19row is not only a Welsh rugby record, but also a record for any Tier 1 nation in the
00:23professional era. Effectively, at the moment, we're the worst rugby-playing nation in the
00:28history of modern rugby. Sorry sight for Welsh fans, but if you were in Cardiff on
00:32Saturday night, despite a bit of a disappointment after the battering England handed us, people
00:37were still out enjoying themselves in their thousands. So it seems rugby, no matter how
00:42badly we're doing, will hold a place in our hearts.
00:44We've got to stick around. It's our sport, isn't it? So, yeah, I was always told that
00:52We invented rugby. Obviously, it went through England and stuff like that, but it's a nation's
00:58sport, so I think we stick with it.
01:00It has been tough, though, hasn't it, watching the Six Nations?
01:03All around the world, I think so. And not everyone plays rugby. And I know we might
01:08be not playing good at the moment, but that's not forced to give up and turn our back on
01:13our side, like, you know?
01:15Let's stop looking for rugby. We need to get behind the rugby and with women as well. My
01:21daughter plays rugby and she's really good, so we need to have, you know, rugby's a Welsh
01:25sport, really, isn't it?
01:27They really do. It's wonderful, yeah. Yeah, it really does mean a lot to everyone. I suppose
01:33it's just like something that brings people together.
01:36In recent years, though, football has grown massively in Wales. With our Euro semi-final
01:41and World Cup qualification, you could easily argue that we're comparatively better at football
01:45than rugby at the moment. But it doesn't seem to matter to everyone who still think that
01:49rugby should forever stay our national sport.
01:52Well, I don't know too much about rugby, but I know personally I enjoy watching it more
01:57than I do football. I don't know, there's just something about it that's, like, really
02:00fun. Yeah, I did watch the game on the other day, and being an English person, I can't
02:08say too much in a room full of Welsh. But yeah, I think it's a really great game.
02:14No, it's not. Rugby, rugby, you know, loads of people love rugby in Wales. I'm English,
02:20but I normally support Wales because I live here.
02:23I think it's such an important part of the cultural identity. You know, it was a major
02:28selling point in me coming to Cardiff. Obviously, I came here as a student, as a lot of people
02:32do. But I chose to stay because of the rugby scene, really. You know, even if the team's
02:39not doing the best at the minute, it's the faith that they will.
02:42I think there's room for both. Oh my God, why can't we be great at everything? Why should
02:46we limit ourselves by being great at one sport? Let's just be proud to be Welsh and the amazing
02:53sporting nation we've got. I don't see a problem loving both.