1. A new elite would inevitably emerge with the creation of commercialised professional rugby in 1995.
2. It's such a shame that too many in Wales could not leave their archaic past behind them and embrace the future.
3. The Welsh being left behind was never an inevitability.
More moral fibre than the rest of her teammates combined and more balls than the entirety of the
@premierleague
player pool in the face of Marxist extremism and intimidation...?
Whatever happens going forwards,
@afneil
at his very best and THE way to launch a new (non-rolling) news channel in the UK's 2021 troubled legacy media landscape 👍
@MickD_wis
@RealJamesWoods
I am - also - depressingly old enough to remember this. Didn't the Dukakis team subsequently leak to the press that their Democrat rival was also plagiarising speeches from politicians as diverse as RFK to UK Labour leader Neil Kinnock and that killed off Biden's 1988 campaign?
I am not suggesting that Pontypool forwards liked to play hard, but they did have a tendency in that era to play rugby with a surgeon positioned at the ready at full-back for club and country...! 😉🤣🤣
@LewDai
@premierleague
For standing for her national anthem?
Or for refusing to kneel to an anti-Semitic, anti-capitalist, anti-police and anti-family culturally Marxist organisation during her national anthem?
@alfordScott
@premierleague
How many of the kneeling EPL footballers in the UK, with their obscene salaries, genuine agree with BLM and believe that capitalism should be abolished and they should earn in line with the rest of society? However vehemently they may oppose any form of racism!
@DouglasKMurray
@SuellaBraverman
1. What will be the actual consequences, if any, for that "rogue element in Whitehall"...?
2. Otherwise they will just retain their taxpayer-funded positions and move on to their next political hit job...?
@Iromg
@OctopusEnergy
How do people like
@g__j
get themselves into such a hideous mess to the detriment of their company and shareholders...?
We're talking about an Ofcom-regulated mainstream linear TV news channel across the UK, not a YouTube channel by ex-BNP members 🙄
'It's almost like these days the only businesses worth being in are diversity consultancies, statue removal services and pharmaceutical companies.'
Mark Steyn reacts to Monkeypox cases spreading rapidly throughout Europe.
🖥 GB News on YouTube
@GreggMac11
@c_reinach
Jaco Reinach had real gas. He had to slow down to cut inside the NZ Cavaliers full back and the flat out backtracking wing still couldn't bring him down in Pretoria!
David Bishop in action during his Man of the Match performance for Pontypool RFC in their 18-6 win over Swansea RFC in the 1983 WRU "Schweppes" Cup final 👇
@JackPosobiec
"Alexa, show me someone who is nowadays even more unpopular than when he used to dress up as a Nazi?"
That should be a question that can't be answered.
Alas...😟👀
@DominicFarrell
@stellacreasy
On days like this, with many UK politicians hysterical that US women are losing a 49 year old constitutional right that has never existed in the UK, over a non-issue in UK politics because it was dealt with via the democratic process in 1967, they can remember what "a woman" is?
For those of you (about 100k so far) that viewed my tweet of the legendary
@dbish09
drop goal for
@pontypoolrfc
against
@bridgendravens
in 1983 Cup semi, this was the earlier 2nd half long range effort from his half-back partner, Mike Goldsworthy, throwing down the gauntlet... 😉
1. In an era when the term is ridiculously over used, a true “legend” who revolutionised full-back play in the 1970s.
2. Will his record of winning all 14 - 11 senior & 3 age grade - matches played for Wales against England ever be surpassed…?
RIP
Bridgend Ravens are devastated to announce the passing of JPR Williams.
One of Bridgend's most decorated players and an icon of World rugby, JPR served the club most recently as Club President.
Our thoughts are with JPR's family and friends at this sad time 💙
🔵⚪
Here we go again!
9 days to The Wern...
As I was "reprimanded" by a few last time for not including a vintage
@dbish09
match hat-trick for
@pontypoolrfc
, I start this time with............a vintage Bish match hat-trick!
At the South Wales Police in 1988.
#PoolerInTheirPomp
@georgegalloway
Do 99.99% of the UK population have any idea how perilously close we are to a miscalculation on either side that sends this into a nuclear holocaust?
Putin can't domestically afford to lose, Biden has the mid-terms looming & Johnson needs to distract all from his domestic woes?
Lots of great memories of WRU Cup matches against Swansea, including those four titanic clashes in the 1980s and the great upset in 2002!
@dbish09
at his finest, from the Pontypool Park mudbath in 1988 ⬇️
2 days to The Wern...
I am not saying that God is a Pooler fan, but he does seem to keep sending snow to postpone the Cup tie and prevent this nostalgia from ever ending...
This morning's vintage Pooler interview is with
@dbish09
after a match against Brian Thomas's Neath.
After another terrible day for Welsh non-Test pro rugby, just another after so many such bad days since 1995 given the unfitness for purpose of successive structures, a reminder of what
@brianmoore666
wrote in Dec 2013. We'll remain the village idiots of rugby, without reform.
@DrChrisParry
Wasn't the "highlight" of her time as German defence minister the inability to send a single operational submarine to sea (before she was 'promoted' to the EU in the time honoured way of a member state getting rid of a domestic political failure)...?
An interesting discussion between
@andrewdoyle_com
&
@ZubyMusic
.
"The ego thing I can more readily understand. But when people are buying into a delusion, a sort of mass delusion, that's more frightening because you can't walk them out of that with ease.."
@TheHistoryFox
@Joe__Bassey
How many Belgians or “Congolese”, let alone members of the Belgian Royal Family, are there still alive who were alive 1885-1908…? 🙄
(1) Does the WRU Premiership, finally in a 30 match season long double round robin format, look like a league that needs to lose 4 teams (only Neath are off the pace?)?
(2) Does the WRU Championship look like a league that needs to keep Pontypool and relegate 4 competitive teams?
5 days to The Wern (weather permitting!)...
Tonight's vintage Pooler match clip is the
@keith_orrell
quadruple in the 47-13 demolition of Llanelli at Pontypool Park in 1987-88.
#PoolerInTheirPomp
7 days to The Wern...
The WRU Cup semi-final against Bridgend in 1983, but tonight's clip is a vintage planned Pooler lineout move used regularly.
"Junna" Jones throws long, Butler taps back to Perky/Pricey on the peel and
@dbish09
supports to score the try.
#PoolerInTheirPomp
@PaulLan84750417
@PaulEmbery
@TaiwoOwatemi
Has any Tory PM been as lucky as Johnson in terms of the unelectable state of the opposition?
At least the left could point to the split between Labour & the SDP/Liberal Alliance in the 1980s when now we're looking at Tory rule - if not necessarily Johnson rule - into the 2030s?
@andrewlawrence
(1) How does Thomas Sowell describe the problem?
(2) Much of the UK higher education sector has been turned into a Ponzi scheme to suppress unemployment?
(3) When was the last time you heard a senior UK politician say there was a problem requiring universities input & expertise?
The big day, Pooler at The Wern.
It's been nostalgic fun for me, a trip down memory lane, but no more video clips. Today belongs to the current players and coaches, the custodians of the badge, jersey and tradition.
Hope they relish being the underdogs, with nothing to lose!
Why was Eddie Butler's time as Pooler captain 1982-85 so successful, even relative to the rest of the Ray Prosser 1969-87 era...?
He was the brain directing the brawn...?
Terry Cobner was an intelligent captain, but he never had a
@dbish09
to control the game from scrum-half...?
8 days to The Wern...
Posting my vintage Pooler match clip earlier than usual today, as I will be up in Ebbw Vale tonight watching the region, but what other try could it be given the Welsh team's opponent tomorrow?
Cardiff. 1975. Windsor to Faulkner...
#PoolerInTheirPomp
@SBarrettBar
That was the trap that Reeves risked walking into, in furtherance of the post-election tax rises political game, because those main estimates submitted on 17 July had to be signed-off by the senior echelon of the civil service...?
@JuliaHB1
This, being modern Britain, will rapidly end-up with the taxpayer footing a huge damages bill without the culprits paying any personal price…?
2 days to The Wern (weather permitting!)...
Tonight's vintage Pooler clip ahead of
@rfcmerthyr
&
@pontypoolrfc
is the second of two long range penalties by
@dbish09
against Swansea in the 3rd round of the WRU Cup in 1987-88. And the famous celebration!
#PoolerInTheirPomp
@MartinDaubney
@JuliaHB1
@benandjerrys
Lesson 61 from 2020: whenever a corporation starts acting woke, alarm bells should already be ringing about the overall competence of their senior management team and the likely future direction of their share price...? 🤔
A lighthearted interview with Pooler's veteran full back Dr Peter Lewis, pressed into emergency scrum-half duty following a
@dbish09
injury, after
@bridgendravens
v
@pontypoolrfc
in 1985. In the days before pro game spin doctors and closely controlled media relations.
@GoodwinMJ
Has there been anybody better over the last 50 years at wading through all the noise and the waffle and analytically getting to the core points...?
As Pooler embark on a pivotal 150th anniversary season, the campaign to return to the top flight of Welsh club rugby below the professional regions, Pooler in their pomp. A 3 tour Lions prop legend, the voice of Welsh rugby, and the calm angelic face of it (that's you
@dbish09
!).
@wallaceme
@coopuk
@afneil
The real problem is that we're creating a society where rogue employees don't even realise they are being rogue?
I bet she genuinely thought there was nothing fundamentally wrong with what she wrote, and that's what is really frightening?
8 days to The Wern...
Posting my vintage Pooler match clip earlier than usual today, as I will be up in Ebbw Vale tonight watching the region, but what other try could it be given the Welsh team's opponent tomorrow?
Cardiff. 1975. Windsor to Faulkner...
#PoolerInTheirPomp
6 days to The Wern...
This morning's vintage non-match Pooler footage is the pre-match Haka from the All Blacks on their undefeated 1989 tour of Wales and Ireland. The days when tourists played a number of the leading top flight clubs. Look at that crowd!
#PoolerInTheirPomp
The finest coup de grâce I think I have ever seen on a rugby field, from Pontypool's 1983 WRU Cup semi-final win over Bridgend. I have never seen it done before or since - intercepted opposition front lineout ball and a scrum-half drop goal (from
@dbish09
)!
1987-88. The visit of Glamorgan Wanderers to Pontypool Park. A bit of heads up rugby, scanning, playing what is in front of you. The vision and a well executed kick by
@dbish09
, the try scored by
@seanyhans
.
There were three titanic Pontypool v Bridgend WRU Cup matches in the early 1980s, with Pooler emerging 2-1. Anyone remember Bleddyn Taylor scoring for Pooler in the semi-final at the Talbot Athletic ground in 1983...?
@BarristersHorse
Don't forget:
(1) Mass rail closures;
(2) Without in most cases preserving the track bed and right of way in case it ever needed to be reversed.
An outside half that follows up and scores a try in the corner.
A scrum-half who can cover as kicker and slot the conversion over from the touchline.
A strong half-back partnership.
@markring10
@dbish09
10 days to the Wern...
Where else can I start recollecting Pooler's Test duty, than with current
@pontypoolrfc
club president Graham Price scoring his try upon Test debut in Paris in 1975...?
#PoolerInTheirPomp
A big thank you to all my new followers over the last 48 hours. Nearly 2,000 - wow!
Now, how do I retain you when I predominantly tweet about flawed Welsh rugby structures?!
😂😂😂