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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers to @gwladrugby.bsky.social for joining me for this week's @bloodandmud.bsky.social.

You think I spend too much time talking about how shit Welsh rugby is usually? Brothers and sisters, strap in.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 1d

It's Tuesday, which means the @bloodandmud.bsky.social is late already – but I do have the pleasure of being joined by @gwladrugby.bsky.social this evening to chat surveys, job specs and more.

Hit me up with your SHIT/GOOD below:

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry Robbie you don’t have an industry-specific masters degree and a minimum of 5 years experience working in elite sport administration that the WRU think is worth less than the median average UK salary.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 2d

The people running the WRU are just not serious people, man.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys 🤷‍♂️

The Person
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Sports Management, Business
Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in sports administration or event management, with a significant focus on professional sports competitions.
• Prior experience in rugby at a professional or high-performance level is highly desirable.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 2d

“The Professional Rugby Competitions Manager is responsible for the strategic planning, operational management, and overall delivery of all professional rugby competitions under the WRU’s remit, including the International, URC, EPCR…”

Salary: £36-40k.

recruitment.wru.wales/jobs/6553855...

Professional Rugby Competitions Manager - The Welsh Rugby Union

The Professional Rugby Competitions Manager is responsible for the strategic planning, operational management, and overall delivery of all professional rugby competitions under the WRU’s remit, inc...

recruitment.wru.wales

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Senior management thinks workers exercising their right to undertake industrial action is a bad idea shocker.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 6d

Short of David Moffett wanting to remind everyone that he’s believes he’s the only person on earth who knows how to run rugby union, it’s very hard to say.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty remarkable thing for David Moffett to say when he's just invested in the Scarlets…

“But the more we did our due diligence, the more it became obvious that this was not something we could do at this point in time because the RFU and PRL [Premier Rugby Limited] are in a state of disarray.

"There’s no way we can invest in a team, no matter how good they are, when they do not know what their future looks like.”

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 6d

Sad to report that the Adidas Originals x All Blacks collection goes incredibly hard.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 6d

It’s all just so comically slapdash.

They’re obviously banking on attracting players by promising them everything they would ever want - you don’t even have to move! You retain your image rights! Have a million quid! - but the basic logistics are still completely divorced from reality.

Bronwyn Jones @bronwynjones.bsky.social · 7d

R360. You can’t penetrate the US Market without a NYC team. No one in Miami gives a shit (& good luck to playing in that humidity). London can’t manage to keep all of its teams going. And why would you watch this over all the rest of the rugby going on?

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 7d

Terrible news for Neath RFC

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Sunbeds should be banned in UK, skin cancer experts say

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 7d

Hahahaha, oh man, these are not serious people…

An American takeover of Coventry
Rugby Club has collapsed because of lack of clarity around promotion and relegation between the first and second tiers of English rugby.

House of Luxury, a marketing agency based in the US, last week withdrew from the process of buying a 55 per cent stake in Coventry, the Champ Rugby club. After two months of talks, House of Luxury, which also owns a controlling stake in Scarlets, told Coventry that it could not progress.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 9d

Think it’s a specific PRL rule backed by the RPA - not a world rugby directive or anything

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Blood & Mud Rugby Podcast @bloodandmud.bsky.social · 9d

latest episide with @joshgardner.bsky.social is here. We actually start talking about rugby in the first five minutes. For this we can only apologise

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 9d

Farrell was apparently a special dispensation case because he missed most of last season with injury.

McCall could have actually played him last week to ease him back in - the decision to play him straight from the off with no managed minutes was entirely his.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 9d

Also big Hot Dog Guy about who it was who decided to pick all these players to start the first game of the Premiership Season when they weren’t physically ready for it and at risk of injury

The sheer hypocrisy and self-interest of rugby coaches is always a sight to behold.

The Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall criticised the "mental" regulations that blocked some players from appearing in preseason, saying they were not ready for the start of the Prem campaign.
McCall's side beat Newcastle Red Bulls 39-17 on Friday night to start the new season, but their performance was clunky. He felt several players, including Owen Farrell, Fergus Burke and Tom Willis, were "unpre-pared" and were close to injury by the end having come fresh from their summer break into a competitive match.
"The RFU and Prem Rugby dictate that you have to serve a ten-week period before your next game," McCall said. "For me, people therefore come into Premiership Rugby unprepared for the demands of the game.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 9d

Objectively very funny to see Mark McCall complain about another Premiership club exploiting a morally dubious grey area in the rules to get an unfair competitive advantage.

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Blood & Mud Rugby Podcast @bloodandmud.bsky.social · 9d

Podcast episode incoming later with @joshgardner.bsky.social

Let us have your #SHITGOOD offerings below.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 14d

Exactly, every team is fighting for survival and the only way to ensure that is through working collectively - instead the Scarlets are… getting a random club in the Championship to tell everyone what unique and special boys they are?

It’s bizarre, and exactly out of the same playbook as Neath.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 15d

Extreme loser Neath RFC energy to all this you have to say.

Expecting a Zinzan Brooke cameo message any day now.

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Blood & Mud Rugby Podcast @bloodandmud.bsky.social · 16d

the latest nonsense with @joshgardner.bsky.social is here. Come along and get it in full and ad free here.

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Blood & Mud Rugby Podcast @bloodandmud.bsky.social · 16d

Oi! Me and @joshgardner.bsky.social will be a along with a pod later, let us have your ##SHITGOOD in the replies

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 17d

Bucs fans:

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 17d

Didn’t expect the thematic subtext of the Paw Patrol Movie to be “A paramilitary organisation run by an overly-regimented teenage boy is ill-equipped to deal with situationally-triggered PTSD of its most trusted dog” but here we are.

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Josh Gardner @joshgardner.bsky.social · 18d

Bordeaux delivering a “Welcome to the Top 14 kid” to poor, promoted Montauban this afternoon 😬

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