Following what can only be described as a heavy weekend away in deepest darkest Ireland, I am back and reday to continue blogging.
First of all I want to make special mention of Munster claiming the Heineken Cup at the Millennium Stadium. I watched the match - well as much of it as possible through the bottom of a Guinness glass - and have to say I wasn't exactly over enthused with either side.
It wasn't that it was a bad game, or that either side played particularly badly, more that it just nver caught fire the way it should do between these two sides, and therefore left me feeling somewhat disappointed.
But I also couldn't help thinking what it would have been like had either the Cardiff Blues or Ospreys managed to make the final against Munster. As a proud Welshman and also a Welsh rugby writer I would have found it quite difficult to hold my tongue for so long even surrounded by a host of mad-cap Munster fans.
While I've been away I've been an avid reader of my fellow bloggers Celtic League combined player of the season, and I'd like to offer my own opinion on a couple of aspects.
I know Dan said he had no interest in the hair of the player, but honestly you can't really overlook Colin Charvis or either of the Hair-bear bunch boys Adam and Duncan Jones.
But I'm going to look at the best rugby brain and after careful consideration the award has to go to Martyn Williams.
I know he's got a few miles on the clock, and it starting to slow in his old age, but when it comes to speed of mind against speed of body I don't think anyone in world rugby let along the Celtic League, comes close to our nugget.
