Sei Williams
@seiwilliams.bsky.social
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Awdur / Author 'Welsh Rugby: What Went Wrong' a 'Deffro'r Ddraig: Rygbi Cymru 1995-2024'
Mas nawr / Out now ar https://www.ylolfa.com/authors/46720593/seimon-williams
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Blog: gwladrugby.cymru
Awdur / Author 'Welsh Rugby: What Went Wrong' a 'Deffro'r Ddraig: Rygbi Cymru 1995-2024'
Mas nawr / Out now ar https://www.ylolfa.com/authors/46720593/seimon-williams
https://amzn.eu/d/eh1qFdl
Blog: gwladrugby.cymru
The Labour Party seem to have put up Hugo off of The Vicar of Dibley to defend the government on Newsnight.
A bold strategy.
A bold strategy.
February 6, 2026 at 10:44 PM
The Labour Party seem to have put up Hugo off of The Vicar of Dibley to defend the government on Newsnight.
A bold strategy.
A bold strategy.
"Removing an elite environment - because it’s easier than fixing the problems that surround it - gets framed as bold decision-making, when really it’s an admission that nobody knows how to make the existing system work".
Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Welsh Rugby: Where nobody contemplates resignation except the fans
There is a straight line you can draw through Wales Rugby over the last decade, and it leads to a system where individual failure is absorbed, explained away, and ultimately rewarded. There is no p…
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February 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
"Removing an elite environment - because it’s easier than fixing the problems that surround it - gets framed as bold decision-making, when really it’s an admission that nobody knows how to make the existing system work".
Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Almost the funniest 6 Nations try since since LRZ somehow dropped it backwards onto his own leg.
February 5, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Almost the funniest 6 Nations try since since LRZ somehow dropped it backwards onto his own leg.
This could get Wales 2025 levels of ugly for Ireland.
February 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
This could get Wales 2025 levels of ugly for Ireland.
I'll never get tired of the FFR's shithousery on their opponents' anthems.
Too, slow or too quick. Pitched too low or too high. Starting with the chorus rather than a verse or tacking on an unexpected additional chorus.
Magnifique!
Too, slow or too quick. Pitched too low or too high. Starting with the chorus rather than a verse or tacking on an unexpected additional chorus.
Magnifique!
February 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I'll never get tired of the FFR's shithousery on their opponents' anthems.
Too, slow or too quick. Pitched too low or too high. Starting with the chorus rather than a verse or tacking on an unexpected additional chorus.
Magnifique!
Too, slow or too quick. Pitched too low or too high. Starting with the chorus rather than a verse or tacking on an unexpected additional chorus.
Magnifique!
How is it possible that somebody so relentlessly hapless as McSweeney is still in his job?
Exclusive: Morgan McSweeney sought official advice about whether Mandelson could be the UK's ambassador to the US on a part-time basis
Officials “had to explain that being His Majesty’s Ambassador in Washington was a full time job… in Washington"
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Officials “had to explain that being His Majesty’s Ambassador in Washington was a full time job… in Washington"
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McSweeney ‘asked if Mandelson US embassy role could be pa...
PM’s chief of staff sought advice on behalf of disgraced former Labour peer, senior government sources claim
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February 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
How is it possible that somebody so relentlessly hapless as McSweeney is still in his job?
This is a magnificent must-read by GwladRugby's Dan.
"But today, looking at the wreckage of Welsh rugby, I find myself asking a question again and again: Is this still my game?"
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"But today, looking at the wreckage of Welsh rugby, I find myself asking a question again and again: Is this still my game?"
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The Vandalism of Our Heritage: A Fifty-Year Lament for Welsh Rugby
For fifty years, much of my life has been measured in eighty-minute increments. My heart has quickened in the mud of Dave Parade; the biting cold west wind at Stradey, and the deafening, soul-stirr…
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February 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM
This is a magnificent must-read by GwladRugby's Dan.
"But today, looking at the wreckage of Welsh rugby, I find myself asking a question again and again: Is this still my game?"
gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/t...
"But today, looking at the wreckage of Welsh rugby, I find myself asking a question again and again: Is this still my game?"
gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/t...
So at every stoppage we're going to get Lawrence Dallaglio's nipples looming at the viewer as he emerges from the shower, then.
Cosmic.
Cosmic.
February 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM
So at every stoppage we're going to get Lawrence Dallaglio's nipples looming at the viewer as he emerges from the shower, then.
Cosmic.
Cosmic.
Reposted by Sei Williams
"There is nothing in the WRU’s conduct in recent months to suggest that its senior figures are, in the words of Logan Roy, serious people".
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Are these serious people?
This morning’s GwladRugby article called for those who reject the WRU’s proposals for the professional game – which increasingly looks like the end for the Ospreys – to focus on bringing forward al…
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February 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
"There is nothing in the WRU’s conduct in recent months to suggest that its senior figures are, in the words of Logan Roy, serious people".
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"Criticising the Union is the easy bit. Finding an alternative way forward is the difficult bit.
And that’s where energies need to be focused if the Union is to be made to change its mind". gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/i...
And that’s where energies need to be focused if the Union is to be made to change its mind". gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/i...
If not this, then what?
First of all, a confession. I support the Scarlets. I am also from Swansea, and my initial first-class (as we then called it, back in the 14th century) rugby watching was pretty much exclusively at…
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February 2, 2026 at 11:17 AM
"Criticising the Union is the easy bit. Finding an alternative way forward is the difficult bit.
And that’s where energies need to be focused if the Union is to be made to change its mind". gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/i...
And that’s where energies need to be focused if the Union is to be made to change its mind". gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/i...
This comment betrays the complete incoherence at the top of Welsh rugby.
The 'optimal solution' talked about cohesion, about having access to players. RCK recently talked about the difficulty Tandy had in arranging a get-together with players.
Yet, simultaneously, they're better off in Gloucester.
The 'optimal solution' talked about cohesion, about having access to players. RCK recently talked about the difficulty Tandy had in arranging a get-together with players.
Yet, simultaneously, they're better off in Gloucester.
February 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM
This comment betrays the complete incoherence at the top of Welsh rugby.
The 'optimal solution' talked about cohesion, about having access to players. RCK recently talked about the difficulty Tandy had in arranging a get-together with players.
Yet, simultaneously, they're better off in Gloucester.
The 'optimal solution' talked about cohesion, about having access to players. RCK recently talked about the difficulty Tandy had in arranging a get-together with players.
Yet, simultaneously, they're better off in Gloucester.
"It is alleged that some senior figures among Welsh rugby’s so-called “big three” have not attended a single URC match involving a Welsh region this season. As Dylan Thomas might put it, doing absolutely LLAREGGUB".
Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Do Not Go Gently, Ospreys.
There is something almost poetic about the Ospreys’ current predicament. Not poetic in the soaring, triumphant sense—more in the Dylan Thomas, rage against the dying of the light sense. Except, in …
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January 31, 2026 at 6:41 PM
"It is alleged that some senior figures among Welsh rugby’s so-called “big three” have not attended a single URC match involving a Welsh region this season. As Dylan Thomas might put it, doing absolutely LLAREGGUB".
Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Lovely touch by Carwyn Leggatt-Jones to put Page in.
Let's not mention the conversion attempt.
Let's not mention the conversion attempt.
January 30, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Lovely touch by Carwyn Leggatt-Jones to put Page in.
Let's not mention the conversion attempt.
Let's not mention the conversion attempt.
Two minutes and 37 seconds more please, Andrew.
*Then* you can call it off.
Ta.
*Then* you can call it off.
Ta.
January 30, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Two minutes and 37 seconds more please, Andrew.
*Then* you can call it off.
Ta.
*Then* you can call it off.
Ta.
Can't help feeling that the Scarlets have missed a trick here.
A lighter shade of grey on this change strip and they'd be unstoppable/invisible.
A lighter shade of grey on this change strip and they'd be unstoppable/invisible.
January 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Can't help feeling that the Scarlets have missed a trick here.
A lighter shade of grey on this change strip and they'd be unstoppable/invisible.
A lighter shade of grey on this change strip and they'd be unstoppable/invisible.
A CLEAR BREAKDOWN PENALTY PROBABLY BUT WHO KNOWS REALLY?
January 30, 2026 at 8:50 PM
A CLEAR BREAKDOWN PENALTY PROBABLY BUT WHO KNOWS REALLY?
Proper challenge for the Italian TV production team here.
I reckon the decision to just go with whichever camera is closest to the action - even if all you see is a collection of arses at a breakdown - is probably the right one.
I reckon the decision to just go with whichever camera is closest to the action - even if all you see is a collection of arses at a breakdown - is probably the right one.
January 30, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Proper challenge for the Italian TV production team here.
I reckon the decision to just go with whichever camera is closest to the action - even if all you see is a collection of arses at a breakdown - is probably the right one.
I reckon the decision to just go with whichever camera is closest to the action - even if all you see is a collection of arses at a breakdown - is probably the right one.
God is clearly a supporter of good rugby and doesn't want us to have to watch any more of this.
#PeaSouper
#PeaSouper
January 30, 2026 at 8:44 PM
God is clearly a supporter of good rugby and doesn't want us to have to watch any more of this.
#PeaSouper
#PeaSouper
Ask the Ref:
The ref calls "tackle, release", the defending player releases, the attacking player gets off his knees and makes another few metres,and his team scores a try a phase later.
What do you do?
Oh, I forgot to mention the ref is Andrew Brace.
*Now* what do you do?
The ref calls "tackle, release", the defending player releases, the attacking player gets off his knees and makes another few metres,and his team scores a try a phase later.
What do you do?
Oh, I forgot to mention the ref is Andrew Brace.
*Now* what do you do?
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Ask the Ref:
The ref calls "tackle, release", the defending player releases, the attacking player gets off his knees and makes another few metres,and his team scores a try a phase later.
What do you do?
Oh, I forgot to mention the ref is Andrew Brace.
*Now* what do you do?
The ref calls "tackle, release", the defending player releases, the attacking player gets off his knees and makes another few metres,and his team scores a try a phase later.
What do you do?
Oh, I forgot to mention the ref is Andrew Brace.
*Now* what do you do?
Temu Hitler on the left, ironically.
Spode off Wish on the far right.
Spode off Wish on the far right.
The National Rebirth Party had their inaugural meeting in Leicester last week.
Take a closer look.
1/3
Take a closer look.
1/3
January 30, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Temu Hitler on the left, ironically.
Spode off Wish on the far right.
Spode off Wish on the far right.
Reposted by Sei Williams
Both Welsh Labour and the WRU trade heavily on their pasts while struggling to articulate futures that feel authentic to the people they represent. Both invoke history while neglecting the values that once gave it meaning ✍️Nye Davies
Rugby, Labour and the Crisis of Welsh Institutions
Nye Davies Sport can often reflect a nation. In Wales, rugby has played a prominent role in the formation of a national consciousness, or at least a shared perception of what it means to be Welsh.…
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January 29, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Both Welsh Labour and the WRU trade heavily on their pasts while struggling to articulate futures that feel authentic to the people they represent. Both invoke history while neglecting the values that once gave it meaning ✍️Nye Davies
Surely the question we should be asking is whether Niamh Smyth trusts X.
January 27, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Surely the question we should be asking is whether Niamh Smyth trusts X.
"If the WRU truly wants to rebuild, it cannot do so from boardrooms alone, or, increasingly, from the other side of Severn Bridge. It has to go back to school".
Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Who’s Who v Who?? — Why Welsh Rugby Must Go Back to School
If Welsh rugby needs to reinvent its pathway — and few would argue otherwise — why are these people in these academic institutions not central to designing it?
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January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
"If the WRU truly wants to rebuild, it cannot do so from boardrooms alone, or, increasingly, from the other side of Severn Bridge. It has to go back to school".
Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.
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Reposted by Sei Williams
