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Awdur / Author of 'Welsh Rugby: What Went Wrong?' (updated April 2024) @ylolfa . Colofnydd rygbi @cylchgrawngolwg
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The speed with which Rob Page has gone from absolute legend salt of the earth Rhondda boy to out of his depth charaltan here today is making me pine for the calm, rational, dispassionate analysis of Welsh Rugby Twitter.
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"The second half has been all England", says Dallaglio.
The clock reads 43:40.
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It really is pretty remarkable that the WRU got a nearly £100m windfall from CVC for the 6N and URC, didn't pay the pro clubs in 2020-21 and in fact saddled the pro clubs with a £20m loan to cover the WRU's obligations, built a hotel and then proposed closing one of the four down
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Looking at poor Daf Jenkins is heartbreaking. Poor kid. He shouldn't be having to front up to explain this away. It isn't a lack of accuracy. It's a lack, today, of good coaching. Exacerbated by a lack, over most of the last 15 years, of resource.
That's on the WRU.
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I thought he was magnificent in those last 15 minutes. Watkin and Tompkins had done really well, but those last few phases weren't quite as terrifying as they might have been as Fox was running the defence.
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"Second home owners are not in any way linked to the lack of housing supply..." says a 2nd home owner in Abersoch on the One Show
Really?
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So a motion by Plaid Cymru and the SNP to require the UK Parliament to stop ignoring Wales and Scotland is opposed by Tories and ignored by Labour, who bravely abstained.
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Is Davies really saying that allowing the Welsh electorate a say on constitutional issues would be like giving a drunk driver the keys to your car?
He doesn't have a high opinion of voters, does he?
.
@Adamprice
argues that a referendum on Welsh independence would not be a distraction.
@AndrewRTDavies
claims it would be "like giving a drunk driver the keys to your car".
#ITVElectionDebate
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@ConorBurnsUK
Simply not true. Johnson was made Foreign Secretary, Davis Brexit Secretary, Fox got International Trade. Those were the three senior posts dealing with brexit. That they failed and ran away is their fault.
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Still struggling to figure out how a team can look as if they've never previously met for 42 minutes and then look well coached for the next 38 tbh.
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@hrtbps
@aM2FvXZmOTEfX9I
@TPA52
Keep political correctness more or less the same!
Maybe a bit less.
Or a bit more.
Dunno.
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The Welshest building ever.
Briceville Church in Tennessee was built in 1888 by immigrant Welsh coal miners. The church has twin steeples and entrances because the Welsh miners and their families had reportedly broken into two factions. Each faction entered through its own door.
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How do you do, fellow posh, rich, upperclass Welsh people?
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It's quite telling that - on October 21st - a Welsh Conservative MP remembers the Battle of Trafalgar and not the tragedy of Aberfan.
#TrafalgarDay
today. The battle marked a turning point in Britain’s fight to avoid invasion & being dragged into a centralised European state.
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That was bleak.
And it was a defeat a decade in the making.
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@Ichy_Vagenda
As with all of this, it can be reduced to "I didn't mean people like me! I meant them, the people I don't like".
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Thank you
@BBCScrumV
for the heartfelt tribute to Eddie Butler tonight.
In an age of multi-channel, multi-commentator sport, he was a throwback - the voice of his chosen sport.
And I hope somebody gave
@brianmoore666
a cwtch afterwards. Such raw grief for a lost friend.
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Reading Phil Bennett's autobiography at the moment.
This is a book, written in 1981, by a player whose international career began - in Paris - on 22 March 1969. 54 years ago next Wednesday.
This passage could have been written today.
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Three main takeaways from this RWC weekend.
1) Portugal are epic
2) Fiji seem to be becoming more disjointed with every game
3) England remain the only host nation to have been knocked out in the pool stage at their own World Cup.
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I'm nearly 49 and can't remember a worse Wales-England game.
There was nothing to enjoy or even admire in that.
England didn't even have the common decency to lose it, which would have been something.
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Happy Ireland week everybody!
Here's Liam Toland talking about Jonathan Davies in 2011
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@benoonbenoon
@TPA52
Return Wagon Wheels to the size they were before the EUSSR made them smaller!!!!!
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So, Warren Gatland, on over £500k as Wales head coach, and who is putting an emphasis on youth, went to a corporate England-Ireland do in London last Thursday night instead of watching Wales U20s get smashed by France.
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The southern valleys remain an enigma. Republican, strong Welsh identity, yet fully buying into an English nationalist project led by old Etonians.
UK survey of 20k on support for royalty shows Scotland as distinctly republican 👏
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Daf Jenkins has the energy of somebody who is going to be an absolute nightmare to play against - and probably train with - at Test level for a decade.
Daf Jenkins being named Wales captain is superb. Only just turned 21.
You knew he was destined to be a leader after he did this in an Under 20s match in the Summer of 2022.
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Wales currently top England's qualification group.
Theresa May announces at
#FMQ
that St George's flag will fly above Downing St during Women's World Cup next summer. I was under the impression you had to qualify first?
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Welsh is a conundrum. Nobody speaks it yet you can't get a job without it and everybody switches to it as soon as an Englishman enters a pub
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THEY'VE FINALLY RESPONDED TO THE PENNAL LETTER BOIS!
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That item on Welsh Indy on BBC Breakfast just now.
I thought it was very good of Stuart the Bristolian living in Newport to allow us a Government to look after heritage
Although he thinks it "goes too far and the more power we give them, the worse it's going to get"
Thanks Stu
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@stephenjones9
A little disappointed we aren't going to have any more eerie anthems by the child cast of a 1970s folk horror movie.
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Wales' route to the World Cup:
1) beat a team we've beaten in 5 of the last 6 in the semi-final
2) beat a team we've beaten twice this year already in the final
It's on.
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@benjames1796
Is it wrong to feel a tad disappointed that he didn't throw in a quick "l'opportunite est fucking enorme"?
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"I'm a proud Brit, but will be supporting France from now on as our nearest neighbour. I'll be putting tricolores all over my car and I expect lifesize cutouts of Paul Pogba in my local Asda tout suite pal"
...is what I'm fully expecting from all UK media outlets in the morning.
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Proud to announce a damascene moment in my family.
My mam - largely uninterested in politics, voted Thatcher in 79 because she wanted a woman as PM, Tory in 2015, leave in 2016 - has admitted submitting her postal vote for tomorrow.
She's voted
@Plaid_Cymru
Nice one, mam.
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All of the stuff he wants the regions to improve - infrastructure, coaches, S&C coaches, medical staff, training facilities - cost money.
See, Warren, if they weren't paying £2m a year each out to service a debt which should be the WRU's, they might be able to do some of that.
Gatland unconvinced Welsh regions will have proper reset and says it's felt like 'plugging holes in a sinking ship'
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@zoesqwilliams
Using words like "triggered" and "performative offence takers" to describe people who don't like to be described as "existentially pointless" is an odd way to clarify the original article.
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PivacOut has an extraordinary record. Generally about as unloved a coach as Wales have ever had, yet he has a 6N, a win over Australia and a win in SA alongside (effectively) two wooden spoons.
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@sianharries_
@bob_bangalore
The "you don't know you're born" generation may have been born into hardship, but the state provided a ton of "free" stuff which allowed them an unprecedented degree of social mobility.
And then a large proportion pulled up the ladder on future generations.
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An oldie, but it's impossible to even glance at this and think "yeah, the problem in the UK is the EU".
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Rob Page should be sacked just for making us have to go through all of this again.
Wales did not make the Euros this year, but England and Scotland did. So who will Welsh watchers of Euro 2024 be supporting at the tournament?
🏴 42%
🏴 22%
Other: 12%
None: 25%
Respondents could pick multiple teams
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Whatever your views on the present-day monarchy in general or the title of Prince of Wales in particular, it isn't a "belief" that the "last true native" PoW died centuries ago. It's a fact.
The title of Prince of Wales is controversial for some who believe the last true native Prince of Wales died in the Middle Ages.
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Eddie Butler speaking at an IndyWales march??!!
Really didn't see that coming. Excellent stuff.
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@ExeterChiefs
Good stuff. About time, but good stuff.
And congrats to
@ExChiefs4Change
and every other organisation and individual who campaigned for this change.
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Ok, parents everywhere. You might want to rethink taking your kids to minis on Sunday.
One of the world's elite referees thinks this is just a yellow.
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@RemainerNow
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
@campbellclaret
@Channel4News
A very sad story, and indicative of the way this whole issue tears families apart.
But an NHS doctor, married to a German doctor working in the NHS, voted leave? On so many levels, that's unfathomable.
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@Caerlynydd
@Peston
It's amazing how quickly the science changed between 9am on a Sunday morning and 3pm the following day.
Sorry. Not the science. I mean the optics.
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Sioned Harries is spot on here.
We're learning almost nothing about the players, because they're trying nothing.
But we are learning a lot about the coaches.
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The utter contempt with which Gething looks at Rhun ap Iorwerth here is really telling.
And really doesn't suggest that Gethin understands what he's done wrong.
"I regret the way it's been covered and reported"
The FM still can't apologise for his own decision to accept the £200k donation from a convicted polluter who was under investigation.
If there's any hope of a 'fresh start' the Labour FM must accept and apologise properly.
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Some thoughts, not all of them coherent, on...well...all of that.
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Anybody who wants to argue the toss about the influence a referee has on a game of rugby, and how momentum and dominance can become overwhelming with a favourable interpretation of the laws, just needs to have watched today's two 6 Nations matches.
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"...their annual week of visits to Wales".
One visit. Per year. For one week. By "our" prince.
Makes your heart swell with pride, doesn't it?
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall begin their annual week of visits to Wales at a ceremony to mark the renaming of the Second Severn Crossing to the Prince of Wales Bridge.
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@adamparsons
How dare he speak his preferred language when there are professional translators around to help those who don't understand. What a nerve.
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Utterly unsustainable, unfair and repulsive.
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@WelshDalaiLama
The best man opened by suddenly yelling "Fornication!" at the gathering, half of whom were evangelical Christians from Wakefield.
"For'n'occasion such as this..." he went on.
But by then he'd lost the crowd, caused 3 heart attacks and been condemned to eternal damnation.
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@ShaunMJenkins
@huwbbc
So disappointed that "ramming it down our throats" failed to make an appearance.
Only 8/10 on The EntitledBigotometer on this occasion.
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Very few people could claim to have single-handedly lost the Lions a series.
In fact, I can think of only one.
Ronan O'Purple here, showing how it's done.
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Terrific start by Karl Dickson.
Makes a big show of telling Ireland to stay back for the kick-off, then ignores half a dozen getting ahead of the kicker.
Excellent.
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Positives?
It was only 41-13.
The lineout went really well.
Lake got the better of Marx.
The backrow stuck at it.
That's about it.
Attacking-wise, we might as well not have been on the pitch.
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@hughes_eilir
I know this one.
When the virus is carried into a pub, everybody switches to Welsh and the virus panics and explodes.
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I see the Sun are running an article today in which "two experts" debate whether the lockdown should be lifted.
In one corner Philip Thomas, professor of risk management at Bristol University.
So who did the Sun put up in the other against such an expert?
Toby Young.
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Toulouse - an independent club with private investment in a meaningful domestic league - pay a six-figure *transfer fee* for Blair Kinghorn.
Meanwhile, in Wales, several international were offered £30,000 as a total package for this season due to cuts.
Two different planets.
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Christ on a bike. Here's Howley claiming credit for the Scarlets' success.
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Although I will say that
@WorldRugby
have today managed the seemingly impossible.
They've united Rugby Twitter.
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Odd that UK Government should want to spend £8m on a scheme to provide schools in England with a portrait of Barry John.
But who am I to argue?
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The WRU is not fit for purpose
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Lauren is a very good interviewer.
And Nigel Walker showed some openness, honesty and - uniquely at WRU - the ability to apologise.
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Amidst the garment-rending at the WRU strategy, one thing really sticks out.
The funding gap has gone from £25m to £31m to £35m in about a month.
It looks as though, every time they turn over a new stone, they find another present from Steve.
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By the way, for anybody who thinks a vote for
@Plaid_Cymru
at Westminster is a wasted vote...
Parliament just voted - by 4 votes - to reject leaving thr EU without a deal.
Plaid has four MPs.
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It still remains unfathomable to me that Murray, Price and Cawdor were rated as better scrum-halves - by Gatland, at least - than Tomos Williams.
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You were elected as a UKIP list MEP in 2014. You are no longer a member of UKIP - in fact you've set up another political party - yet still keep your seat as a UKIP MEP along with the £100k salary.
Hypocrisy, much?
Looks like the Labour MPs who resigned today aren’t very keen on calling a by-election in their constituencies.
Strange, they are usually big advocates of a “People’s Vote” when it suits them!
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Positives? McNicholl was about 240,000,000% better than expected and looked really competent and dangerous (usually at the right end). Wainwright is an 8, Basham an absolute gem. Good to see Priestland back and in form. Lane good going forward when he got the chance 1/
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Oh good grief. These people are magnificent. 15,000 Japanese fans sang our anthem before a training session, and then had a bash at Calon Lân afterwards.
What a welcome.
🎼 Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,
Calon onest, calon lân 🎼
This is music to our ears! Domo arigato, Kitakyushu 🇯🇵
#RWC2019
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Awful to hear the news of JPR's passing.
One of those players who transcended his sport and his era. A true legend of the game.
RIP JPR.
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The Aberaeron Carnival are going to need to up their game this year.
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You have to have a sneaking admiration for the IRFU, always insisting on an interminable ceremony at the start, including the introduction of the participants to the Republic's president, then 3 anthems, and never allowing themselves enough time to actually kick-off on time.
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So, basically, Wales should have been playing against 14 men for 70 minutes, against 13 for the last 8 minutes and against 12 players for the final four.
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UCU have a handy modeller on their website which shows what your pay - as a university staff members - should be if it had kept up with inflation for the past 12 years.
In many cases, actual pay now is 15+% lower than it would be if Phillip was being truthful.
HEAVEN HELP US!
Government Minister Chris Philp just told
@GMB
viewers
“Over the last ten years public sector wages have kept up with inflation”
That’s complete & utter boll**** and he knows it!
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Loved this.
A proper dissection of the WRU's disastrous mismanagement of the game over many years.
The WRU got away with it for years because the national men's team kept performing. But now the impact can be seen on the pitch.
That Scarlets dig, though...
No topic is as hotly debated in Welsh rugby as the fly-half shirt. And now, six years on from my first attempt to tackle this topic, we revisit Cymru's most contentious issue and run the roost over the *eleven players* in the running for number ten...
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Heard today that Môn MP Virginia Crosbie is known locally as "Ginny Bont".
Not for Menai Bridge, no. It's because she spends all her time in Knightsbridge.
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@adamparsons
I don't. But I think comments like that risk feeding into "the EU are being unhelpful/obstructive" narrative which certain sections of UK society are trying to push.
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Had a text from my niece earlier.
"Who's Alun Cairns?"
I explained, in less than glowing terms, and asked why she wanted to know.
"He's been to our college today talking to us about brexit".
"What did you think?", I asked
"Really small, isn't he?" she said
Yes. Yes he is.
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Genuinely shocked/horrified by the bit about the WRU being able to fine teams for "letting" players go.
Wales chaos - players consider strike action ahead of game against England as pay dispute with WRU erupts amid fears of mass unemployment and tales of lost homes and antidepressant use - bombshell story by
@_AlexBywater
for
@MailSport
…
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So far this month.:
New albums by Blur and (most of) Super Furry Animals, Welsh rugby in complete meltdown, and riots in Ely.
Strong 90s vibe.
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Yes
@kennyboyfox92
. Ireland were incredibly disciplined and committed no penalisable offences for 53 minutes.
Like this, in the first half, for instance.
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Here's an interesting little snippet.
In this century, Wales' results in Dublin in the season immediately following a Lions tour go as follows:
2002 - lost 54-10
2006 - lost 33-5
2010 - lost 27-12
2014 - lost 26-3
2018 - lost 37-27
2022 - lost 29-7
Not great, is it?
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This. Is. Not. What. Staycation. Means.
This is what is known as "a holiday" or "a break".
I will die on this hill.
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