Sei Williams

"The job of the WRU is to strengthen the game. But it is fatally wounding it. And we are sick of it". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/10/26/w...

It's 'cats and dogging' in Northampton, apparently. Come on, people. It's pre-watershed. Let's have some decorum here.

Remarkably, the WRU have again scoured the globe - this time with the help of external recruitment consultants - in their hunt for a new PRB chair and have again, to everybody's surprise, come to the conclusion that the best candidate is already doing the job. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

Fresh from seeing Tameifuna deployed in the second row last night, we now have Sale seemingly set on redefining the front row.

I guess that was close to a perfect example of NuRugby2026 and an antidote to its weakness for 78-67 froth. Felt like a proper Heineken (ok, Champions) Cup match. Hard fought. Defences working hard. Long spells of probing kicking. A million points scored regardless. Bravo Gloucester & Bordeaux.

JAC AGAIN!! My word. He's brilliant. And building such an aura that he's becoming almost as invisible to referees as peak Richie McCaw.

Quite admiring of Miles Harrison's commitment, approximately 35 years into a commentary career which has taken in both Max Llewellyn and his 92-cap dad Gareth, to not even pretending to attempt the "Ll" sound in Llewellyn.

Whatever else, a scrum featuring three Welsh players - only two of them likely starters this season - shoving the Bordeaux scrum all over Kingsholm has got to be a bit of confidence boost for them. And us.

Hang on. Lucu at 10? Tameifuna in the second row? What's going on?

That's going to take some turn.

"But incompetence still matters in other ways. It matters for the choice of which clubs survive. It matters for legitimacy. And it matters for the legal route. A policy executed this badly can still be undone by its own paperwork". On the case for 3 clubs. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/b...

"But incompetence still matters in other ways. It matters for the choice of which clubs survive. It matters for legitimacy. And it matters for the legal route. A policy executed this badly can still be undone by its own paperwork". gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/b...

Bernard Herrmann's score to "Psycho" is an unusual choice to soundtrack Leinster's RDS re-opening.

Bernard Herrmann's score to "Psycho" is an unusual choice to soundtrack Leinster's RDS re-opening.

Watching the Scarlets this season feels a lot like watching Wales at Twickenham in February. If it can go wrong, it will. Wales gradually improved, I suppose.

"A pwy sydd nol 'na i achub y dydd? ... ... ... Aneurin Bevan... Owen! Aneurin Owen!"

I'm flicking back and forth between the Dragons-Ospreys and Leicester-Gloucester games. And, while I enjoy a maul try as much as the next person, it's possible to have too much of a good thing, isn't it?

For those interested in the details of the Keystone report for the WRU, it's published on the WRU's new microsite: a.storyblok.com/f/2952419148...

Seriously, though. The argument against the WRU publishing everything was always so that idiots like me couldn't just rip into it all to point out various, ultimately usually quite frivolous, errors and omissions. Dave's 90-page August 2025 disaster has a lot to answer for.

That the WRU have today announced that they published, at 4pm today, a microsite packed with evidence for its decision to move to 3 clubs, and then: a) forgot to add a link to the English site b) added the link to the Welsh text but require a password to see it ...is very on the nose.

"The WRU’s larger failure is not that it occasionally misses a player. It is that it keeps asking why players leave while making the proposition of staying less secure". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/h...

Poundshop Adam Jones.

I don't know what's going on in front of the pavilion at Sophia Gardens on the left, here.. Mini tornado? Teleporting station?

So, the Prime Minister thinks it would be a good idea to allow football fans to drink at their seats. Here - from a Gwladrugby piece of a few years ago - is a warning from Welsh rugby. This is what it's like when fans can drink in their seats. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/t...

So, all the party leaders in the Senedd are now gogs, then?

Thoroughly enjoying Cat Heledd's absolute commitment throughout this game to insisting that she's in a studio when we can all see her standing on the pitch at CAP. Your foot's on the actual touchline Cat.

Absolutely this - a good model would have a clear strategy, which is publicly available, and should be measuring itself against that strategy on a quarterly basis.

Call me a soft northern European if you wish, but I'd suggest that an independent technical assessment looking at 'how the course would perform under a range of conditions' might have included "is it full of about 500 saltwater crocodiles' as one of said range of conditions.

"People are entitled to ask what the strategy is, whether it is working, who is responsible for delivering it and what happens when it does not. Those are not unreasonable questions. They *are* the questions". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/t...

I'm sorry, but how is it possible that Sarah Cooper-Lesadd supported Reform, sought to be and was chosen as a Senedd candidate for Reform, held office as a Reform MS for four months and has only just realised this?

Nasser, luv. We've only just recovered from the commentators' pronunciation of Geraint Jones back in 2005. AnnYouRin Donald, is it? Yours, Wales.

Latest from the "Protect Are Wimmin" wing of politics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The WRU have completely lost the room. They haven’t delivered the change that everybody seems to agree is needed. But then, it’s difficult to do so when what that is keeps changing". Ch-ch-ch-Changes gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/c...

"Unless everybody is of the same mind – and that's never going to happen because, to quote The Barry Horns, This Is Wales – it is impossible to please everybody". Ch-ch-ch-Changes gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/c...

I'd just like to point out that the last team to go into the final Test of a series in South Africa with a chance of winning the series was Wayne Pivac's Wales. You heard.

Well. That was certainly some rendition of the NZ anthem by that bloke and his £20 keyboard from Argos.

15kg put on in 12 hours? Sounds like a standard Christmas at ours.

So World Rugby think that Six Nations matches should be taken to the US so that Six Nations matches can generate the type of income generated by Six Nations matches?

"All these incredible stories. Incredible invasions. Beautiful war crimes. Corruption like nobody's ever seen before. People said we couldn't be this terrible..."

It's worth reminding ourselves of the circumstances which led to Amanda Blanc's resignation from the WRU. Would you go back to that? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Practical Magic remains the only film I've walked out of at the cinema. I guess WB executives are hoping people have forgotten how bad it was. I haven't.

Surely it wouldn't be beyond the wit of The Man to have ensured that the Ospreys' first game at NuStHelen's against the Dragons (24 October) and the Goldie Lookin Chain gig at the Patti Pavilion next door (31 October) lined up? Come on people. Make things easy for yourselves.

Oof. The Boks look annoyed. NZ have some work to do just to hang on here.

Codie Taylor is a fabulous player, but my favourite thing about him is that he looks like an All Black forward from the 1980s. That's right - about 53 years of age. You can't beat a prematurely aged forehead.

"The WRU has not covered itself in glory. That does not however mean that we should all support Welsh rugby’s very own Robin Hood without question or critical analysis". Gwladrugby's Yorkshire Exile takes a look at the campaign to remove the WRU board. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/w...

"The WRU has not covered itself in glory. That does not however mean that we should all support Welsh rugby’s very own Robin Hood without question or critical analysis". Gwladrugby's Yorkshire Exile takes a look at the campaign to remove the WRU board. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/w...

"Tierney, Collier‑Keywood, Reddin — arrived on a wave of goodwill, considering the mess they had inherited, but had within a year burned through it with admirable efficiency." gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/w...