Category Archive for 'Rugby'

The Vatican has revealed that the Pope’s shock resignation on Monday came after a long night of soul-searching following England’s victory over Ireland in Dublin at the weekend. Sources close to the Pontiff reveal that Pope Benedict gave up watching the game after O’Gara’s penalty miss in the 70th minute, mumbled “well that’s it then”, [...]

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Freddy Michalak, the rugby equivalent of Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards, is to spearhead the rearguard campaign to persuade the public that the horsemeat being illegally fed to them is actually proper lush. The ‘enfant du merde’ of French rugby is to star in a new commercial to promote equine meat products. The advert begins as [...]

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Stalemate has caught hold surrounding the latest inertia of preliminary pre-discussion dialogue in the run-up to the next Welsh Rugby Professional Rugby Game Board meeting, as serious coffee and biscuit irregularities threaten to usher owners, regulators, administrators and Tracksuit Stalins back to their hideously furnished offices forever. “The first version of the agenda I saw [...]

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SPOILED

Online Welsh rugby forum Gwlad has been SLAMMED by a member of the public for “ruining” his enjoyment of the Wales v Ireland game. J. Edgar Hoover of Merthyr Tydfil was unable to watch the game live due to personal reasons, although when pushed on the matter, he said, “Well, I needed to clean out [...]

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WRU Big Knob and management show-pony Roger Lewis has trotted out of the stables fighting over claims that the Welsh rugby squad has been found to contain more than 15% horse.  This week’s revelations go to the heart (and kidneys, liver and all mechanically recoverable connective tissue) of the Wales team’s recent on-field problems, and [...]

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Welsh rugby fans now no longer have any excuse not to know the words to our anthem. A new smartphone app has been launched which helps you learn the words through phonetic spelling and coaching. Check it out on the iTunes store here. The app was recently launched over in the USA and you can [...]

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Kohn to reveal all

In an EXCLUSIVE interview new WALES STAR Olly Kohn has revealed that such is his passion for REPRESENTATIVE RUGBY / Wales that he actually bleeds red. During the course of this GROUNDBREAKING interview with Oprah, to be broadcast later this week on the the British Board of Boxing Control website, the SECOND ROW TOTEM pierces [...]

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Don’t sing the National Anthem?

Bit of politics and culture tonight, my friends. It is Ireland week after all, so we need to remind our Celtic cousins about our superior cultural heritage, don’t we? Siôn T. Jobbins’ book about our National Anthem is going to stir up a fair bit of debate. In the week where the latest census revealed [...]

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My New Year’s Resolution

It’s now 13 years since I started as an Admin/Editor at Gwladrugby.com. What a lot has happened in Welsh rugby since the start of the millennium. Gwladrugby was a pioneering site in many ways. A blog before the word was invented. Social media before Twitter or Facebook came along. The site doesn’t make a penny [...]

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Bachan y filltir sgwâr

“Peel…must be No 9 choice” medd y pennawd o’r Western Mail sydd yn ymddangos yng nghanol  Hunangofiant Dwayne Peel . Yr awdur? Rob Howley. Yn anffodus, nid sôn am gemau rhyngwladol yr hydref oedd e ond taith y Llewod i Seland Newydd yn 2005. Mae’n anodd credu bod chwaraewr mor ddisglair mor bell o feddyliau [...]

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