Josh Gardner

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Cheers to @gwladrugby.bsky.social for joining me for this week's @bloodandmud.bsky.social.

You think I spend too much time talking about how shit Welsh rugby is usually? Brothers and sisters, strap in.

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It's Tuesday, which means the @bloodandmud.bsky.social is late already – but I do have the pleasure of being joined by @gwladrugby.bsky.social this evening to chat surveys, job specs and more.

Hit me up with your SHIT/GOOD below:

Sorry Robbie you don’t have an industry-specific masters degree and a minimum of 5 years experience working in elite sport administration that the WRU think is worth less than the median average UK salary.

The Person Knowledge, Skills and Experience • Bachelor's degree in Sports Management, Business Administration, or a related field. • Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in sports administration or event management, with a significant focus on professional sports competitions. • Prior experience in rugby at a professional or high-performance level is highly desirable.

The people running the WRU are just not serious people, man.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys 🤷‍♂️

Professional Rugby Competitions Manager - The Welsh Rugby Union The Professional Rugby Competitions Manager is responsible for the strategic planning, operational management, and overall delivery of all professional rugby competitions under the WRU’s remit, inc...

“The Professional Rugby Competitions Manager is responsible for the strategic planning, operational management, and overall delivery of all professional rugby competitions under the WRU’s remit, including the International, URC, EPCR…”

Salary: £36-40k.

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Senior management thinks workers exercising their right to undertake industrial action is a bad idea shocker.

Short of David Moffett wanting to remind everyone that he’s believes he’s the only person on earth who knows how to run rugby union, it’s very hard to say.

Pretty remarkable thing for David Moffett to say when he's just invested in the Scarlets…

Sad to report that the Adidas Originals x All Blacks collection goes incredibly hard.

It’s all just so comically slapdash.

They’re obviously banking on attracting players by promising them everything they would ever want - you don’t even have to move! You retain your image rights! Have a million quid! - but the basic logistics are still completely divorced from reality.

Terrible news for Neath RFC

Hahahaha, oh man, these are not serious people…

Think it’s a specific PRL rule backed by the RPA - not a world rugby directive or anything

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Farrell was apparently a special dispensation case because he missed most of last season with injury.

McCall could have actually played him last week to ease him back in - the decision to play him straight from the off with no managed minutes was entirely his.

The Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall criticised the "mental" regulations that blocked some players from appearing in preseason, saying they were not ready for the start of the Prem campaign. McCall's side beat Newcastle Red Bulls 39-17 on Friday night to start the new season, but their performance was clunky. He felt several players, including Owen Farrell, Fergus Burke and Tom Willis, were "unpre-pared" and were close to injury by the end having come fresh from their summer break into a competitive match. "The RFU and Prem Rugby dictate that you have to serve a ten-week period before your next game," McCall said. "For me, people therefore come into Premiership Rugby unprepared for the demands of the game.

Also big Hot Dog Guy about who it was who decided to pick all these players to start the first game of the Premiership Season when they weren’t physically ready for it and at risk of injury

The sheer hypocrisy and self-interest of rugby coaches is always a sight to behold.

Objectively very funny to see Mark McCall complain about another Premiership club exploiting a morally dubious grey area in the rules to get an unfair competitive advantage.

Podcast episode incoming later with @joshgardner.bsky.social

Let us have your #SHITGOOD offerings below.

Exactly, every team is fighting for survival and the only way to ensure that is through working collectively - instead the Scarlets are… getting a random club in the Championship to tell everyone what unique and special boys they are?

It’s bizarre, and exactly out of the same playbook as Neath.

Extreme loser Neath RFC energy to all this you have to say.

Expecting a Zinzan Brooke cameo message any day now.

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the latest nonsense with @joshgardner.bsky.social is here. Come along and get it in full and ad free here.

Oi! Me and @joshgardner.bsky.social will be a along with a pod later, let us have your ##SHITGOOD in the replies

Bucs fans:

Didn’t expect the thematic subtext of the Paw Patrol Movie to be “A paramilitary organisation run by an overly-regimented teenage boy is ill-equipped to deal with situationally-triggered PTSD of its most trusted dog” but here we are.

Bordeaux delivering a “Welcome to the Top 14 kid” to poor, promoted Montauban this afternoon 😬

Right then, time to get ready for next weekend.

“Uhh, rugby… It’s just fun to play rugby” an all-timer post-match line from Justine Pelletier too

Yoooooooooo… CANADA!!!!

“Uh-oh, Canada…”