Sei Williams

Max Lahiff at 10?

Direct stuff.

Let's not go raving mad here, Justin.

Baps? What sort of gentrified bullshit is this?

A giant cloudy jar containing pickled onions. Another containing pickled eggs of indeterminate vintage. Unmarked clear plastic bags of pork scratchings containing hairs of unknown provenance.

Up to 4 taps on the bar. Beer, mild, dark. Lager at a push

Well, yes, obviously.

The CEO is on "only" £380k or so.

Dw i wrth fy modd i weld fy llyfr newydd yn un o Lyfrau’r Mis y Cyngor Llyfrau!

I am really proud to see the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 version of my book 'Wonderful Welsh Sporting Heroes'/ 'Arwyr Chwaraeon Cymru' get named by the Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru (Book Council of Wales) as a 'Book of the Month'. 📚 @ylolfa.bsky.social

Fair. And this is the key question - are there people out there with the credentials to makes a success of this role who would want to do the job now?

Incidentally, it's just been pointed out to me that the WRU actually, per the job pack on its website, intends to pay its new Technical Director up to £160,000 *a month*.

So nearly £2m a year.

So, having increased its spending on various Board members and senior management by 40% last year, the WRU finds ever more inventory to spend on itself.

This time for a job which looks not dissimilar to that of a Director of Rugby, which it already has.

Good question. In previous autumns, the upper section of Glanmor's Gap has been closed. Yesterday, it was, but sparsely populated.

I guess it's a measure of how bad things are that it looked a larger than anticipated attendance, even if it was the smallest for SA in years, probably ever.

Too Much Gold to Those Too Green Wales’ problem is deeper and more existential. It is not that Wales cannot match South Africa. It is that Wales cannot match anyone of consequence right now.

"Wales cannot match anyone of consequence right now. We have fallen out of the category of rugby nation and into the realm of rugby participant—present, but not competitive; involved, but not threatening".

Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.

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God. Imagine having to go through that all over again.

Fully expecting Dave to have another crunch of The Data after this weekend and conclude that the WRU should make the pro teams pick schoolchildren more often.

Quite a bad day for the WRU, all things considered.

Quite the day for teams not scoring any points.

Ffaberluss work by Max Douglas.

He's had a terrific game.

Yeah. I'm not sure "if we don't let players chuck haymakers at each other then they're bound to have a sneaky gouge now and again" really stands up, tbh.

POINTS MUNS!!!

Definitely.

We're defending well, but we're mainly on the backfoot since turning down the 3.

It does feel as though momentum is shifting a bit...

Not me!

Quite discombobulating to see the Scarlets absolutely dominating a game in the air.

This isn't The Welsh Way [TM].

As a rule of thumb, players are *always* the type of players to do the things they do. That's why they do them.

Fine. If Mann or anybody on the Wales team did anything outside the laws of the game, they should be hauled over the coals too.

But nothing excuses Etzebeth's actions.

Reckon there'll be a profitable line in "Justice 4 Eben" armbands next time South Africa take the field.

Only for the one game, because he'll doubtless get a four match ban reduced to three for saying sorry reduced to two for attending Non-Gouging School reduced to one for bringing nice biscuits.

You'll have watched Wales win more Grand Slams in your lifetime than any Irish fan who is under 95 years of age, and any Scottish rugby fan ever.

Which, from where we were in 2003, isn't bad.

Are you having fun yet? Just before 7pm last night, a day and a half before Sunday morning’s WRU Annual General Meeting (AGM), the Union’s annual report was released to its constituent clubs. You may think that is unreaso…

"In isolation, one might chalk it off as just one of those things. But this is becoming part of a pattern of Union behaviour which suggests a lack of care for the game, and a lack of respect for those who contribute".

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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

There is absolutely nothing to beat sport commentators totally losing their shit when their team - impartiality can do one - do something outrageous.

Glorious.

On the drive down today, I didn't really believe BBC Wales' Feast of Football panel when they insisted that Wales would soon click and give somebody a hiding.

But, my word, that was something else.

YouTube video by S4C What next for Welsh rugby? | Interview with Dave Reddin, WRU Director of Rugby and Elite Performance

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The full S4C Byd ar Bedwar interview with WRU hatchet man Dave Reddin is on YouTube. It’s all in english.