Richard T
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Richard T
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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-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The WRU plan
October 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Suggestion that there's to be a tendering process for the West?
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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
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The Fan First Revolution: A New Blueprint for Rugby
Rugby is more than a game; it's the heartbeat of communities. It's a sport built on tradition, pride, and an unrivaled sense of camaraderie.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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
October 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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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
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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GO HOME, WELSH RUGBY, YOU'RE DRUNK
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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...
England's vow to ban players if they join Mike Tindall's rebel league
NIK SIMON: New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, England, Scotland, France and Italy have all joined a collective move against the competition ahead of its proposed launch.
www.dailymail.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Remarkable stat.
8 - Saracens' Tom Willis beat eight defenders v Bristol Bears, the most of any Prem Rugby player at the weekend, and the sixth time that a Number 8 has beaten 8+ defenders in a match since the start of last season, with all six instances having been recorded by Willis. Wilful.
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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.
October 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
@histofeveryyt.bsky.social

Following on from your struggles with YouTube have you seen this from another aviation historian?
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@lordhardthrasher.bsky.social

Have you seen this about the Not A Pound for Air to Ground YouTube channel?
October 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reddin - top 5 is highly optimistic

That's in the WRU consultation document explaining where your model is sodding optimal. FFS
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"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"
bender and bender from futurama standing next to each other with the words doooomed
ALT: bender and bender from futurama standing next to each other with the words doooomed
media.tenor.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Excellent write up by Ben James as part of the Inside Welsh Rugby Substack
open.substack.com/pub/walesrug...
What's in an answer?
After a month of surveys and listening, Welsh rugby nears a decision on its radical plans to change
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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.
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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...
archive.ph
October 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
And that's that then.
October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Yesterday's interviews with the WRU yielded very little in terms of news that we didn't already know. But one very interesting revelation came from Geraint John (on S4C Newyddion). He let it slip that the WRU HAVE read "the other survey."

I wonder what he's referring to there?
October 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Another useful piece of information was confirmation that the WRU board will meet next week to discuss the WRU Exec's proposed plan for the future.

Gwlad will be delivering a copy of our report to all 12 board members today. We hope they take the time to read it before the meeting.
October 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Surely R360 need a DoR? Please take this man away from the WRU.
October 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Revolut, which seems to be some kind of bank(?), involved in R360

www.cityam.com/revolut-chai...
Revolut chair Gilbert backs R360 rebel rugby league
City grandee and Revolut chairman Martin Gilbert has emerged as an investor in the rebel R360 rugby union league.
www.cityam.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
More on R360.

Sounds dreadful. The RFU and SARU will need to give permission under World Rugby regs for games to be played in England and SA, as will Spain and Portugal.

archive.ph/2025.10.01-0...
archive.ph
October 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Drop out of the top 12 in the autumn and Wales could be in for a very tough World Cup.

Any brave new dawn plans that Tandy has should take a back seat to ensuring that Wales don't drop below 12th
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM