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Head of Policy & Campaigns Mind Cymru • Sport • Music • Cardiff Rugby & Wycombe Wanderers Supporter • Views are mine, all mine!

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An Unexpected Crisis  - Cardiff Central
YouTube video by WRRAP Welsh Rugby Podcast An Unexpected Crisis - Cardiff Central

New pod! 🔵⚫️

Dan, Frazier & Harley cast an eye over Wales’ Six Nations so far, discuss Corniel Van Zyl’s future at Cardiff and preview the Blue & Blacks’ game against Leinster where an unfamiliar crisis is set to unfold…

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25.02.2026 07:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 3

Think that comes back to when you make a mistake you need your keeper to rescue you and that hasn’t really happened this season

04.03.2026 12:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Next three games are huge for working out where we actually are

04.03.2026 11:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Junior does well not to get in the way either. A lovely strike and would’ve been a 10/10 performance if we’d added a second

04.03.2026 08:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That number 8 is still in Bute Park😂

03.03.2026 21:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Consummate away performance from #Chairboys at a ground we have a pretty awful record at too.

Probably should’ve been more than one and Barnsley pretty toothless. Morley and Boyd Munce excellent, special word for Grimmer too who kept their winder out

Sneaking into the play offs with that win💙

03.03.2026 21:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really hope if we manage to take the lead we don’t bring in another centre back and go to a back five with 15 to go😂

03.03.2026 18:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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02.03.2026 19:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The time for waiting is over – sign CVZ up Even for the never-ending cataclysm that is Welsh rugby, there’s a particularly discernible amount of chaos and uncertainty about the future of the professional game in the country at the mom…

Cardiff Rugby appear to be stuck in limbo waiting for whatever Y11 and the WRU are up to.

If the current club management don't act soon though, all the good work over the last three years will start coming undone.

Sign Corniel Van Zyl up!
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01.03.2026 16:47 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Lush, init…😂

01.03.2026 10:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus pawb!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Happy St David’s Day everyone!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Cofio, gwnewch y pethau bychain

Remember, do the little things

01.03.2026 09:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Burton’s keeper had a bit of a nightmare minute that made this comfortable

28.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do we know why he was sent off? What wound him up that much?

28.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Goal difference is pretty healthy compared to all the other sides in the play offs and around us

28.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great win. Just a shame Stevenage and Reading also won (even if it does draw a few higher up back into range)

28.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Boyd Munce, Morley and Henderson keeping fit is important, as that’s probably the best balance. Mullins, Leahy and a gradually returning Scowen to take some of the pressure off. Need to sort left wing as well

28.02.2026 13:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is tough, but alternatively we’ll be looking to take points off those around us or those we’re trying to reel in. That’s possibly a glass more than half full view though😂😂

28.02.2026 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Think today’s result may influence whether we gamble on Tuesday

28.02.2026 12:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I only realised watching the final whistle celebrations just now that Beetham never got back on the pitch.

Having to ensure a 15min yellow card due to the ball not going dead is the most Cardiff thing ever😂😂

Leinster couldn’t even beat us then😂

#YmlaenCaerdydd💙🖤

28.02.2026 12:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hopefully we can be comfortably ahead and he has a little less pressure on him 🤞🏻

28.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think he’ll come in from the bench. Both he and player seemed to suggest that he needs careful management in his return. Maybe start on Tuesday?

28.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great technique on it as well to keep it in play

28.02.2026 08:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you consider the conditions as well, it’s a remarkably disciplined performance

28.02.2026 08:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Interesting stuff as it often doesn’t feel like we win the penalty count @cardiffcentralpod.bsky.social 👇🏻

28.02.2026 08:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Damn you and your stat based facts!😂😂 Where’s the fun in that?!😂

28.02.2026 08:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s an incredible performance, considering we have a track record of being on the wrong side of the penalty count. Also just shows that if we don’t over chase turnovers and give cheap 22 entries our defence can cope

28.02.2026 06:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They got one from a scrum when they emptied their bench just before half time, but that felt like the first. It was very low whatever the number was

27.02.2026 22:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The speed Millard brings defensively is so important for us. He just gets in the eye line and turns players back in. We really missed him when he was injured

27.02.2026 22:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hell of a tackle by Mulder though💪🏻

27.02.2026 21:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also Benny T, nothing spectacular but kept to his job of keeping a pair of dangerous centres pretty quiet

27.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0