Posted in Rugby on Mar 26th, 2012
We’ll be announcing the winner of the Grand Slam DVD later today. Meanwhile, here are the answers to the questions: 1. What was Robert Howley the last to do in 1999, that David Young was the first to do in 2000? Answer: Howley was the last Welsh captain in the Five Nations, and David Young [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 22nd, 2012
People often wonder how the IRB world rankings work, well, it’s fairly simple. I was fortunate enough to once witness an IRB world rankings meeting take place, and this is exactly what happened: 1. First, the IRB inner sanctum (herein known as the Council of the Inner Sanctum) all gather in a great hall. [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 15th, 2012
He’s at it again. The three foot high over-exhuberant maniac has turned up for Grandslam week far too early and is plaguing the households of Welsh people everywhere with talk of easy wins and pre-ordering victory T-shirts and DVDs. Do stop it, there’s a lovely butty bach. He’s pointing at all sorts of evidence for [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 15th, 2012
The Severn Bridge Troll – looking a bit like Garin Jenkins in the right light – has been given additional emergency powers to search vehicles heading back to France this weekend to root out Welsh players looking to sneak out to take the filthy Euro. Roger Lewis met Troll earlier in the week to go [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 13th, 2012
One of the things us Welsh are famous for is our love of a good sing-song. One thing you can count on, in victory or defeat, is a pissed-up Welsh person belting out Calon Lan or stumbling over the words to Oes Gafr Eto. With the help of contributors to the Gwlad chat forum, our [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 12th, 2012
For the past couple of weeks we’ve been running a competition to win a special 30th anniversary, digitally-remastered DVD of the classic Welsh rugby comedy film, “Grand Slam,” starring Windsor Davies and Dewi Morris. For a chance to win, you need to answer 3 rugby trivia questions. You also need to be following @gwladrugby on [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 9th, 2012
This week: Dylan Hartley (Northampton & England) Professor Crappenboffin says: “I’m sensing here a real girth, somewhat like childbirth – maybe similar to passing a dwarf. This is a monstrous struggle and every sinew is focussed on the manly task. Man’s lonely inner struggle is epitomised here by the heroic Hartley. I’m also picking up some [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 9th, 2012
John Redwood, self-proclaimed Ambassador to Earth from the planet Vulcan, has urged the Welsh team to display the kind of cold calculating mindset against Italy on Saturday that would qualify them for jobs in Vulcan abattoirs. Redwood, whose human costume requires a complicated system of 3,000 micro-pulleys to produce an ineffective serial killer smile, insisted [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 5th, 2012
Debate has been going on late into Sunday night after the latest round of the 6 Nations. The question everyone’s being trying to answer is, ‘Out of those on show in the 6 Nations, what would be the Lions XV?’ Well, the waiting game is over and Gwlad can exclusively reveal the Lions’ team of [...]
Posted in Rugby on Mar 2nd, 2012
When I lived in London I’d spend many hours on the train back to Cardiff, my eventual destination being Cardiff Arms Park. In the nineties it was the National Stadium, and then in the 2000s it was the Millennium Stadium. But it’s always been, and always will be, Cardiff Arms Park, in spite of what [...]
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