Posted in Rugby on Nov 8th, 2012
One of the world’s leading consultancy practices is basking in universal glory and acclaim, after taking little more than 300 days to tell Welsh rugby what it had already worked out for itself during a morning tea break in late 2011. Inspired by some of mankind’s greatest feats of race-against-time administration such as LiveAid, the [...]
Posted in Rugby on Oct 28th, 2012
Last weekend I took my kids to watch Cardiff Blues playing Toulon at the Arms Park. They’re sufficiently young never to have known what came before regional rugby in Wales. My eldest was born the year Wales won the first of their three Grand Slams in the professional era, 2005. After last Sunday’s game I [...]
Posted in Rugby on Oct 26th, 2012
Corinthian spirited, and esteemed down-to-earth rugby man of integrity Stuart Lancaster is imminently due to become a complete and utter twat, according to the RFU. In fact, under the terms of his RFU contract, Lancaster’s descent from honourable right and properness into smug bastard-dom is already several months overdue. “It comes with the territory,” pronounced [...]
Posted in Rugby on Oct 24th, 2012
With Dai Young having secured confirmation as ‘coach’ of The Barbarians for its upcoming clashes next year against England and the British & Irish Lions, GwladRugby.com explores one of the great unanswered questions of world rugby: just what does the sporadically chosen coach of a nomadic, invitation-only team actually do? “Essentially, all the coach has [...]
Posted in Rugby on Oct 22nd, 2012
Ham-fisted rugby spectators are taking their passive-aggressive tendencies to the High Court up in London today, in a bid to escalate their quest for access to drinking vessels of greater thickness than a Smart Price bin bag. The news comes as molecular physicists at the University of Pontardawe have been called in to investigate fresh [...]
Posted in Rugby on Oct 10th, 2012
Before I start, a confession: I didn’t know that much about Dai Morris until I picked up this book. “That hard back rower from Neath” was about the sum total of my knowledge of the man they called “The Shadow.” Turns out he wasn’t from Neath at all; he was from Rhigos. Now I know [...]
Posted in Rugby on Sep 7th, 2012
Just over three years ago I went along to the oddest – and most depressing – rugby match I’ve ever attended. Odder even than a 0-0 draw I witnessed years ago. It was Cardiff Blues versus Edinburgh in the last match of the 08-09 season. It had been pencilled in as the final match at [...]
Posted in Rugby on Sep 1st, 2012
Gwladrugby’s very own Dai H caught up with Cardiff Blues’ Michael Paterson for a Q&A ahead of the new Pro12 season. Important things first: good holiday back in NZ? What did you get up to apart from recuperate (I’ve no idea what rugby players do in their off time)? Back in NZ I was recovering [...]
Posted in Rugby on Jun 29th, 2012
After the Australian tests in June saw another series of near-misses by the Welsh team, following their failure to take their chances against France in the World Cup semi-final, it’s a valid question to ask whether our Wales stars, when it really matters, choke on the big occasion. In the final game of this year’s [...]
Posted in Rugby on May 25th, 2012
Welsh rugby fans departing for foreign lands in the professional era of rugby is nothing new. The likes of Colin Charvis (Tarbes), Chris Wyatt (Munster), Rob Howely (Wasps) and Stephen Jones (Clermont), to name a few, all departed our borders in search of a handsome wage when at the back end of their playing careers. [...]
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