| 🏴 Autumn internationals 19:55 - Jul 25 with 10492 views | KeithHaynes |
Next up for Wales are the autumn rugby internationals.
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 21:18 - Jul 25 with 5125 views | builthjack |
Money making friendlies for the cowboy hat wearers.
It’s the same dozen countries. Expand the game please. |  |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:14 - Jul 25 with 5115 views | KeithHaynes |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 21:18 - Jul 25 by builthjack |
Money making friendlies for the cowboy hat wearers.
It’s the same dozen countries. Expand the game please. |
Impossible mate, it isn’t a world game. That’s the problem. | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:21 - Jul 25 with 5104 views | onehunglow |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:14 - Jul 25 by KeithHaynes |
Impossible mate, it isn’t a world game. That’s the problem. |
But Wales one of the countries it is big |  |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:30 - Jul 25 with 5097 views | KeithHaynes |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:21 - Jul 25 by onehunglow |
But Wales one of the countries it is big |
Of course but I was answering Builthy onnthe expansion.
However, more people watch and play football in Wales than rugby for sure. | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:31 - Jul 25 with 5091 views | majorraglan |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 21:18 - Jul 25 by builthjack |
Money making friendlies for the cowboy hat wearers.
It’s the same dozen countries. Expand the game please. |
The cowboy hat crowd do my swede in, but it’s an issue that’s not confined to Wales and it’s not confined to rugby. I was watching a news programme after the recent Euro final and they cut to a fanzone up in Newcastle Upon Tyne, there were loads wearing them. | | | |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:46 - Jul 25 with 5052 views | builthjack |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:14 - Jul 25 by KeithHaynes |
Impossible mate, it isn’t a world game. That’s the problem. |
It never will be unless they allow other countries in.
The six nations should be at least 2 divisions, then 3 in another 10 years, and eventually the game will develop.
But the existing ones don’t want that, they are scared of losing their hold on the game. | |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 07:23 - Jul 26 with 5000 views | onehunglow |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 22:30 - Jul 25 by KeithHaynes |
Of course but I was answering Builthy onnthe expansion.
However, more people watch and play football in Wales than rugby for sure. |
I have builth on ignore so wouldn’t have been aware
More players maybe but in the perception of Wales in sport is undoubtably that of a rugby nation,
We have had sone world renowned great rugby players and team.
Less so in football.
Take the great players in the 58 wirld cup out of the equation and the cupboard is pretty bear | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 07:53 - Jul 26 with 4989 views | glanmORJa_k |
Is it any wonder the four regions are struggling, Club Wales plays almost the same amount of matches in twelve months that the likes of the Ospreys etc., do. Who would want to watch the Ospreys or buy a season ticket when the team is faced with blooding their academy youngsters. | | | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 15:00 - Sep 13 with 3462 views | RhonddaSwans |
Pay all that money to watch one win and two losses .
I would rather go and watch a local game than this rubbish.
At least you will be around real fans, with passion for the game and not a bunch of stag and hen parties.
Spewing over children and making a holes of them selves. | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 14:06 - Sep 14 with 3367 views | BarrySwan |
One of the major reasons that Welsh rugby is dying out.
For years the 6 nations comp decimated the second half of the rugby season but the sport just about survived the great spectacle that the 6 national was/is.
However the ramping up of the nothing more than the money making exercise that is the Autumn internationals has just about finished off grass roots rugby by wrecking the first half of the season as well with so many club games now lost to both Autumn and 6 nation internationals that the season is so disjointed and players finding other things to do on Saturdays that parks games and local lower tier clubs are decimated and struggle to recover player numbers.
All to raise money to pay already well renumerated professionals and of course the Alicadoo's and camp followers on the payroll's of the various national rugby boards.
A few years ago my own local side managed the grand total of 11 games all season due to constant interruptions of international games throughout the season, the club like many others with increasing frequency now no longer exists. | | | |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 19:30 - Oct 6 with 2680 views | onehunglow |
Won't be long now
Will we see improvement in the form of wins seeing smiles return
Or more inept dross | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 21:14 - Oct 10 with 2492 views | lifelong |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 07:23 - Jul 26 by onehunglow |
I have builth on ignore so wouldn’t have been aware
More players maybe but in the perception of Wales in sport is undoubtably that of a rugby nation,
We have had sone world renowned great rugby players and team.
Less so in football.
Take the great players in the 58 wirld cup out of the equation and the cupboard is pretty bear |
Would that be a grizzly bear? |  | | |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 08:41 - Oct 11 with 2425 views | onehunglow |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 21:14 - Oct 10 by lifelong |
Would that be a grizzly bear? |
I’m grizzly after reading that crap from July 
What an insulting performance by England last night
Well paid,top PL pros putting on a rapshowxlikectyat
Greece were everything they weren’t .
Skilful,committed and pride and kept going when a honourable draw was on the cards . | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 12:08 - Oct 11 with 2399 views | Whiterockin |
So international rugby is fine but international football is a no no. Mmmm, international rugby players get injured as well. |  | | |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 13:53 - Oct 11 with 2340 views | onehunglow |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 12:08 - Oct 11 by Whiterockin |
So international rugby is fine but international football is a no no. Mmmm, international rugby players get injured as well. |
That’s because the Swansea RFC I followed doesn’t exist as such .
I have little affiliation with Ospreys as it seems the case with many Swansea people .
Ergo,Wales rugby is different .
I feel more attached to Rugby teams as representing them are players either Welsh or welsh qualified .
Few welsh lads in our football team
Suppose you go with your heart
Nobody has to prove national fervour to anyone on here
Nobody should feel intimidated by those super fans who do enjoy a weekend away on the ale whilst Wales play | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 17:58 - Oct 11 with 2276 views | union_jack |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 13:53 - Oct 11 by onehunglow |
That’s because the Swansea RFC I followed doesn’t exist as such .
I have little affiliation with Ospreys as it seems the case with many Swansea people .
Ergo,Wales rugby is different .
I feel more attached to Rugby teams as representing them are players either Welsh or welsh qualified .
Few welsh lads in our football team
Suppose you go with your heart
Nobody has to prove national fervour to anyone on here
Nobody should feel intimidated by those super fans who do enjoy a weekend away on the ale whilst Wales play |
The pinnacle of football in Wales is club football for a great many.
However, rugby in Wales places more of an emphasis on international competition. In England, strangely, if say club rugby is far more important. Supporters of Leicester for example may see international rugby as a threat to their players’ safety. |  |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 18:06 - Oct 11 with 2271 views | onehunglow |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 17:58 - Oct 11 by union_jack |
The pinnacle of football in Wales is club football for a great many.
However, rugby in Wales places more of an emphasis on international competition. In England, strangely, if say club rugby is far more important. Supporters of Leicester for example may see international rugby as a threat to their players’ safety. |
Absolutely bang on the money
It’s fact
Also,Wales rugby team has a higher world wide sporting profile
Try talking to your average Saffa,Kiwi,Aussie about Wales at sport.
It’s also the case the likes of Benny,Barry,Gareth,JPR ,Gerald ,Dr Jack,Tanner and Davey, are still revered world wide .
We have been at the very top of the tree . This has never happened in football
Getting a ticket for rugby internationals or even getting in was tough in the 50s . It was rarely the case with football apart from some ninian peerk fixtures | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 18:39 - Oct 11 with 2238 views | Whiterockin |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 18:06 - Oct 11 by onehunglow |
Absolutely bang on the money
It’s fact
Also,Wales rugby team has a higher world wide sporting profile
Try talking to your average Saffa,Kiwi,Aussie about Wales at sport.
It’s also the case the likes of Benny,Barry,Gareth,JPR ,Gerald ,Dr Jack,Tanner and Davey, are still revered world wide .
We have been at the very top of the tree . This has never happened in football
Getting a ticket for rugby internationals or even getting in was tough in the 50s . It was rarely the case with football apart from some ninian peerk fixtures |
Go anywhere in the world and take a poll of who knows of any Welsh rugby past or present you would like to name or Gareth Bale. I know who would be known the most. | | | |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 19:59 - Oct 11 with 2203 views | union_jack |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 18:39 - Oct 11 by Whiterockin |
Go anywhere in the world and take a poll of who knows of any Welsh rugby past or present you would like to name or Gareth Bale. I know who would be known the most. |
Maybe, but would that be because of his Spurs / Real Madrid career or his Wales appearances? | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 20:12 - Oct 11 with 2193 views | onehunglow |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 18:39 - Oct 11 by Whiterockin |
Go anywhere in the world and take a poll of who knows of any Welsh rugby past or present you would like to name or Gareth Bale. I know who would be known the most. |
Not fifty years later ,it wouldn’t . | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 11:21 - Oct 12 with 2067 views | jack247 |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 18:06 - Oct 11 by onehunglow |
Absolutely bang on the money
It’s fact
Also,Wales rugby team has a higher world wide sporting profile
Try talking to your average Saffa,Kiwi,Aussie about Wales at sport.
It’s also the case the likes of Benny,Barry,Gareth,JPR ,Gerald ,Dr Jack,Tanner and Davey, are still revered world wide .
We have been at the very top of the tree . This has never happened in football
Getting a ticket for rugby internationals or even getting in was tough in the 50s . It was rarely the case with football apart from some ninian peerk fixtures |
This is all very true, but it’s an outsiders perception, it’s not reality.
People in South Africa probably do think rugby is our main sport. People in Wales don’t.
And those rugby legends aren’t revered world wide, in a handful of countries yes. Rugby isn’t revered world wide. | | | |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 12:12 - Oct 12 with 2054 views | onehunglow |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 11:21 - Oct 12 by jack247 |
This is all very true, but it’s an outsiders perception, it’s not reality.
People in South Africa probably do think rugby is our main sport. People in Wales don’t.
And those rugby legends aren’t revered world wide, in a handful of countries yes. Rugby isn’t revered world wide. |
Morning
And neither is football,ie New Zealand .
Those rugby greats I’ve mentioned are and have always representative of wales ,its culture and existence . They transcend the sport. I don’t think Bale did . Giggs a great club man but no great “ welsh” man.
Anyway,good reply | |
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| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 12:29 - Oct 12 with 2031 views | jack247 |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 12:12 - Oct 12 by onehunglow |
Morning
And neither is football,ie New Zealand .
Those rugby greats I’ve mentioned are and have always representative of wales ,its culture and existence . They transcend the sport. I don’t think Bale did . Giggs a great club man but no great “ welsh” man.
Anyway,good reply |
Oh sure, football isn’t the biggest sport in New Zealand, but that’s not the discussion. It is globally and it is in Wales.
There’s a difference between being held in very high esteem in a few countries and being revered globally.
JPR Williams isn’t idolised in the USA, in China, in Brazil for example. He probably is in New Zealand.
I’d bet my life more people in Wales could point out Aaron Ramsey or Ben Davies than Dafydd Jenkins.
More people here could point out Zidane than Dan Carter too.
Anyway. I like rugby and I’ll watch the Autimn internationals if they don’t clash with the Swans | | | |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 12:35 - Oct 12 with 2026 views | onehunglow |
| 🏴 Autumn internationals on 12:29 - Oct 12 by jack247 |
Oh sure, football isn’t the biggest sport in New Zealand, but that’s not the discussion. It is globally and it is in Wales.
There’s a difference between being held in very high esteem in a few countries and being revered globally.
JPR Williams isn’t idolised in the USA, in China, in Brazil for example. He probably is in New Zealand.
I’d bet my life more people in Wales could point out Aaron Ramsey or Ben Davies than Dafydd Jenkins.
More people here could point out Zidane than Dan Carter too.
Anyway. I like rugby and I’ll watch the Autimn internationals if they don’t clash with the Swans |
Bluddy good reply that
I have been in Ontario in Wayne Gretzky (The Great One ) and spoke to some chaps who well knew of the welsh era of pre eminent rugby . The likes of JPR etc ,were the reason they started playing the game .
Same applies to many Englishmen
We really are that good
I’m glad we were alive to see it anyway | |
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