Replacing the Chief Financial Officer with a Chief Commercial Officer. I wonder what the banks will make of an organisation, which has broken its covenants several times and had to take out a number of short-term loans, not having a full-time CFO.

If you're treating RugbyPass's entirely made up and pointless player rankings as something worth debating about, I'm afraid you are simply Contributing To The Problem. 🤷‍♂️

Wales with England, Zimbabwe and Tonga. Happy with that. NZ, Aus, Chile and Hong Kong. SA, Italy, Georgia, Romania Argentina, Fiji, Spain, Canada Ireland, Scotland, Uruguay, Portugal France, Japan, USA, Samoa

No confirmation that Y11 are one of the bidders but the WRU briefing that a deal to move to 3 is weeks away. The easiest way to that is Y11 or one of the other team owners buying Cardiff? www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

ITV to screen the Nations Championship. £80m for the first two tournaments. archive.ph/2025.12.02-1...

Competition Income at the WRU in the first column. Adjusted for inflation in the 2nd column.

The sport in Wales is doomed

From the Inside Welsh Rugby newsletter. The WRU want control but them having control won't change anything? So why have the control then? open.substack.com/pub/walesrug...

How grassroots cricket, football and rugby is struggling across England. Clearly it's because the respective federations don't own and control the professional game right? archive.ph/2025.11.29-0...

Haha this is a fucking shambles www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

Big signing for Newcastle Meanwhile in Wales... www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/...

He's a fitness coach. Aldred was the kicking coach

This is SA who all play in the URC against Welsh players who play in the URC. Welsh regions don't look this poor against the SA teams.

Which player is going to go for an Arthur Emyr style drop goal attempt in the 78th minute?

Player numbers in Wales from the latest WRU report 15531 registered senior players.

Snigger www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyu...

Sad news everyone. R360 has been delayed till 2028

Scarlets player to sign for Munster. Cheers WRU www.rugbypass.com/news/munster...

Not sure how this compares other nations? Wales have almost the opposite issue where players get changed quite often! archive.ph/2025.11.25-2...

The WRU's plan for the semi pro level of the game in Wales. They control that as well as the regions. This is cartoonish levels of megalomania. wru.wales/2025/11/in-f...

Teams for SA (that I think Tandy picks not who I would pick) Murray (?), Dyer, Roberts, Hawkins, Rogers, Edwards, Hardy Thomas, Lake, Assirati, Davies, Fender, Mann, Wainwright, Deaves Coghlan, Southworth, Warren, Carter, Plumtree, RMW, Sheedy, Beetham

Oh look - it's a league determining its own commercial destiny. No sign of FFR anywhere near this. Contrast with Wales, where the WRU negotiates bad deals on our behalf whilst holding a knife to our throat.

If any of the owners agree to these proposals then they are not serious people. It’s not viable and makes zero financial sense.

When you consider this and the fact that the WRU were briefing journalists at the game last week, this clearly isn’t a credible or professional governing body. Good on the Dragons for calling it out because quite frankly someone needs to. WRU are going to kill pro rugby in Wales.

Following a suggestion from the always excellent and entertaining home improvement podcast @bloodandmud.bsky.social , we have decided to launch: "THE ROAD TO WRUIN" A daily update on the Mad Machinations of the world's stupidest sporting governing body, the Welsh Rugby Union. DAY ONE.....

And what comes next?

The interviewer should have probed much harder on these points: - Why is pro rugby in Newport such a non-negotiable, when it has been an abject failure for 20 years? - What is the incentive for business people to invest in the commercial arms of pro teams, if they have no say in rugby operations?

The ongoing madness of Welsh Rugby gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/i...

The WRU right now

The WRU deciding that they're not incompetent it's everyone else www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The WRU plan

Suggestion that there's to be a tendering process for the West?

Could HoL being all about fan experience be happy with a set up at the Scarlets where they get to do the fan stuff and WRU run the rugby side? Perhaps why Moffett hands in his resignation? The Fan First Revolution: A New Blueprint for Rugby www.linkedin.com/pulse/fan-fi...

Wales Squad Props Smith, Thomas, Carre, Southworth Griffin, Assirati, Coleman Hooker Belcher, Lake, Coghlan Second row Beard, Carter, Davies, Fender, Jenkins, Thomas Back Row Faletau, Mann, Morgan, Morse, Plumtree, Wainwright

The 82000 unsold figure is unlikely to include the thousands of tickets allocated to clubs which may be returned unsold. The extra (4th) game against SA could be the difference between the WRU breaking even or making a loss.

Very glad, if knackered, to say that Vol 1 of Jocks, Dragons and Sospans, the new history of 53rd Welsh Division has been submitted to the publisher. Now to finish Vol 2. #WW2 #SWW #History

GO HOME, WELSH RUGBY, YOU'RE DRUNK

Australia, England, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland and South Africa have released a statement that they won't select R360 players for internationals. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyu...

Remarkable stat.

Teddy Williams has carried his 2024/25 form into the new season, been huge across these first two weeks. Went hard at Munster's maul on Saturday night in an area actually becoming a bit of a strength for Cardiff now after many years of trouble.

@histofeveryyt.bsky.social Following on from your struggles with YouTube have you seen this from another aviation historian?

@lordhardthrasher.bsky.social Have you seen this about the Not A Pound for Air to Ground YouTube channel?

Reddin - top 5 is highly optimistic That's in the WRU consultation document explaining where your model is sodding optimal. FFS

"the challenge that no one else in rugby is doing is exactly the reason we should be doing it and not the reason we shouldn't be doing it"

Excellent write up by Ben James as part of the Inside Welsh Rugby Substack open.substack.com/pub/walesrug...

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Both barrels from Le Tache. If you want thunderous outrage then there's isn't a better writer than Le Tache. archive.ph/2025.10.04-1...