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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 15d

The Welsh Rugby Union Consultation and Survey 2025:

Gwlad Rugby publishes its own independent survey relating to the WRU's proposals for the future of our game. Please take the time to read and share. It's important that the WRU is held to account on this.

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The Welsh Rugby Union Consultation and Survey 2025

Survey and Report by Gwlad Rugby You can read the Executive Summary of this report here. Introduction On 20 August 2025 the Welsh Rugby Union (“WRU”) published a “consultation to help shape the fut…

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · Nov 16

My kids books make nice presents.

Read one to a small person you know.

Keep kids reading ❤️

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Riaan Louw @ringo26.bsky.social · 13h

United Rugby Championship Round 3 - Review

Another week. Another Rugby Update questioning the motivation of a certain team in Joburg.

Contains naugthy language.

Pls watch, sub, share and go Bafana!
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United Rugby Championship Round 3 - Review

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Leslie @missilepanda.bsky.social · 21h

Welsh pals!

The braids have gone. I repeat the braids have gone.

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James Stafford @jpstafford.bsky.social · 1d

As an author in a world where it is so hard to get news about your books out there, it really does help when people take the time to support your books online.

If you like a book and you take the time to support it online, it really helps authors out. Thanks, Mick.
#booksky #writing

Mick Hoey @mickh75.bsky.social · 1d

James / just finished your wonderful book. For what it’s worth, I found the chapter on Koji Tokumasu a particular favourite of many great stories. Highly recommended to the any rugby fans I know

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @squidgerugby.bsky.social for joining me for two hours and change of @bloodandmud.bsky.social podcast this week – featuring, in no particular order, Liam Neeson playing the role of Matt Sherratt, "penis fencing" and the Rugby Himbo Growth Strategy.

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Welsh Fan Zone TV 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @welshfanzonetv.bsky.social · 1d

Your EE Player of the Match is Mr Rat 🐀

Congratulations Mr Rat 👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 1d

Yes - he immediately injects 1000x more seriousness than the Luxurious Disruptors

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 1d

I can't decide whether this is #SHIT or #GOOD TBH

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 1d

GO HOME, WELSH RUGBY, YOU'RE DRUNK

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#GOOD

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Welsh Fan Zone TV 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @welshfanzonetv.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Williams has just won the Xi'an Grand Prix Final 🏆 he becomes the first ever player to win a tour event in his teens, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, also making him snooker's oldest ranking title winner in history 👏

Hopefully the start of a great day for Welsh Sport 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Gaz Bottom @garjones.bsky.social · 2d

The magic hat is the secret.

Harry Deaves wearing his 50th Ospreys cap with another baseball cap on top saying "Magic Hat".

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 2d

I’m with the Septics on this. Hard boiled eggs are for deviants.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 2d

You have to hand it to Premier Spurts. Who’d have thought it was possible to make their coverage even more shit than it already was?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 3d

The Welsh clubs are the poor relations in the URC and that’s why we get the shit kick off times. If we were in the Prem we’d have plenty of Saturday afternoon KOs to look forward to .

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 3d

I love this man so much

Ospreys Rugby @ospreysofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Touchline talk with Harri Deaves 🗣️

“I dreamt of having one cap and to achieve 50 and share it with some of my best muckas on the field is surreal.”

The 7 shirt is sponsored by Castell Howell 🤝

#OurBloodIsBlack

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Ospreys Rugby @ospreysofficial.bsky.social · 3d

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Iestyn Rhys Thomas @iestyn21.bsky.social · 3d

My report from Bridgend as the Ospreys pick up their first win of the league season with a three try victory over Zebre Parma. #URC #OSPvZEB
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Ospreys 24-0 Zebre: Hosts pick up first win of campaign

The Ospreys picked up their first URC win of the season after they scored 3 tries in a 24-0 win against Zebre at the Brewery Field. After a South Africa tour which resulted in two defeats aga…

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 3d

How do we know if we don’t ask?

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Simon Jones @seimon76.bsky.social · 4d

And this is the real issue.

It’s always been about power and control. The WRU have run the game into the ground and frequently blamed others.

A model of greater independent financial stability for the pro game would be perceived as a threat, it’s why benefactors were initially chased out

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 5d

Short answer - because joining the english system would take away a lot of the WRU's control. Control that they quite clearly want to increase, not reduce. The WRU's "optimal solution" involves them controlling pretty much everything related to playing matters...

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Neil White @neilwhite30.bsky.social · 4d

England rugby fan here living in Wales, the added “edge” of an English/Welsh league can only benefit both nations, really disappointing that it was the one thing ruled out when supposedly “everything is on the table”. I would go to more matches in an Anglo-Welsh league

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 4d

Errrrrr

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 5d

You can dismiss the views of over 1000 people who've been invested in Welsh rugby for over 25 years if you like. We happen to think they're worth listening to.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gwladrugby 🏉 @gwladrugby.bsky.social · 5d

Just reporting what over 1200 Welsh rugby fans have told us in our survey.

How do we know they don't want us if we don't ask them?