Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't know what's going on in front of the pavilion at Sophia Gardens on the left, here.. Mini tornado? Teleporting station? 040
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, the Prime Minister thinks it would be a good idea to allow football fans to drink at their seats. Here - from a Gwladrugby piece of a few years ago - is a warning from Welsh rugby. This is what it's like when fans can drink in their seats. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/t...gwladrugby.wordpress.comThe “Principality” Stadium ExperienceOn Saturday, I watched a match at The Stadium Formerly Known As Cardiff Arms Park (TSFKACAP) for the first time in a long time. My absence was partly about life just jogging along – moving (a longi… 2163
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So, all the party leaders in the Senedd are now gogs, then? 0162
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thoroughly enjoying Cat Heledd's absolute commitment throughout this game to insisting that she's in a studio when we can all see her standing on the pitch at CAP. Your foot's on the actual touchline Cat. 130
Reposted by Sei WilliamsNicks Johnston @nicksjj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Absolutely this - a good model would have a clear strategy, which is publicly available, and should be measuring itself against that strategy on a quarterly basis. 152
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Call me a soft northern European if you wish, but I'd suggest that an independent technical assessment looking at 'how the course would perform under a range of conditions' might have included "is it full of about 500 saltwater crocodiles' as one of said range of conditions. 3101
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"People are entitled to ask what the strategy is, whether it is working, who is responsible for delivering it and what happens when it does not. Those are not unreasonable questions. They *are* the questions". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/t...gwladrugby.wordpress.comThe Great Welsh Rugby DistractionPeople are entitled to ask what the strategy is, whether it is working, who is responsible for delivering it and what happens when it does not. Those are not unreasonable questions. They are the qu… 0162
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm sorry, but how is it possible that Sarah Cooper-Lesadd supported Reform, sought to be and was chosen as a Senedd candidate for Reform, held office as a Reform MS for four months and has only just realised this? 7121
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Nasser, luv. We've only just recovered from the commentators' pronunciation of Geraint Jones back in 2005. AnnYouRin Donald, is it? Yours, Wales. 031
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Latest from the "Protect Are Wimmin" wing of politics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukReform's Dan Thomas resigns as Wales leader after arrestGwent Police said he was arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour. 170
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"The WRU have completely lost the room. They haven’t delivered the change that everybody seems to agree is needed. But then, it’s difficult to do so when what that is keeps changing". Ch-ch-ch-Changes gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/c...gwladrugby.wordpress.comCh-ch-ch-ChangesUnless everybody is of the same mind – and that’s never going to happen because, to quote The Barry Horns, This Is Wales – it is impossible to please everybody. 3123
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Unless everybody is of the same mind – and that's never going to happen because, to quote The Barry Horns, This Is Wales – it is impossible to please everybody". Ch-ch-ch-Changes gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/c...gwladrugby.wordpress.comCh-ch-ch-ChangesUnless everybody is of the same mind – and that’s never going to happen because, to quote The Barry Horns, This Is Wales – it is impossible to please everybody. 241
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'd just like to point out that the last team to go into the final Test of a series in South Africa with a chance of winning the series was Wayne Pivac's Wales. You heard. 2382
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Well. That was certainly some rendition of the NZ anthem by that bloke and his £20 keyboard from Argos. 030
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/202615kg put on in 12 hours? Sounds like a standard Christmas at ours. 021
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So World Rugby think that Six Nations matches should be taken to the US so that Six Nations matches can generate the type of income generated by Six Nations matches? 5252
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"All these incredible stories. Incredible invasions. Beautiful war crimes. Corruption like nobody's ever seen before. People said we couldn't be this terrible..." 171
Reposted by Sei WilliamsRuck the WRU @ruckthewru.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's worth reminding ourselves of the circumstances which led to Amanda Blanc's resignation from the WRU. Would you go back to that? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...bbc.co.ukWelsh Rugby Union chairman shocked by Amanda Blanc resignation letterWelsh Rugby Union chairman Richard Collier-Keywood says he was shocked to read the damning resignation speech of former board member Amanda Blanc. 141
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Practical Magic remains the only film I've walked out of at the cinema. I guess WB executives are hoping people have forgotten how bad it was. I haven't. 000
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Surely it wouldn't be beyond the wit of The Man to have ensured that the Ospreys' first game at NuStHelen's against the Dragons (24 October) and the Goldie Lookin Chain gig at the Patti Pavilion next door (31 October) lined up? Come on people. Make things easy for yourselves. 270
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Oof. The Boks look annoyed. NZ have some work to do just to hang on here. 010
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Codie Taylor is a fabulous player, but my favourite thing about him is that he looks like an All Black forward from the 1980s. That's right - about 53 years of age. You can't beat a prematurely aged forehead. 010
Reposted by Sei WilliamsSei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"The WRU has not covered itself in glory. That does not however mean that we should all support Welsh rugby’s very own Robin Hood without question or critical analysis". Gwladrugby's Yorkshire Exile takes a look at the campaign to remove the WRU board. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/w...gwladrugby.wordpress.comWhere’s The Beef?The WRU has not covered itself in glory over the last year and a half. That does not however mean that we should all support Welsh rugby’s very own Robin Hood without question or critical analysis.… 162
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"The WRU has not covered itself in glory. That does not however mean that we should all support Welsh rugby’s very own Robin Hood without question or critical analysis". Gwladrugby's Yorkshire Exile takes a look at the campaign to remove the WRU board. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/w...gwladrugby.wordpress.comWhere’s The Beef?The WRU has not covered itself in glory over the last year and a half. That does not however mean that we should all support Welsh rugby’s very own Robin Hood without question or critical analysis.… 162
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Tierney, Collier‑Keywood, Reddin — arrived on a wave of goodwill, considering the mess they had inherited, but had within a year burned through it with admirable efficiency." gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/w...gwladrugby.wordpress.comWhat are you doing, Dave?Tierney, Collier‑Keywood, Reddin — who had arrived on a wave of goodwill, considering the mess they had inherited, but had within a year burned through it with admirable efficiency. 242
Reposted by Sei WilliamsJames Stafford @jpstafford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Have you taken a look at the sample cover and inside pages from AJ Bernardo for the potential Siya Kolisi project? 021
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Had cause to go to Port Talbot earlier (don't ask) to meet someone at the Grand Hotel. They sent us to the 'Legends'var, which sounded horrendous but was actually covered in Aberavon RFC photos and memorabilia. Including this, of the formidable Mrs Mainwaring. A rugby anorak's dream bar. 280
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I'm at my mam's and she's decided to watch a 1977 episode of Mastermind on BBC4. Contestants include "Mrs Walker - Occupation: Housewife" and "Lord Beaumont". 1180
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"The WRU doesn’t have a sufficiently effective pathway, and if they tried to argue otherwise you’d probably beg them to stop, if only to avoid making fools of themselves". Nathaniel Hale, for Gwladrugby, on the Indigo academy proposals. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/i...gwladrugby.wordpress.comIf You Create a Desert, Don’t Be Surprised When the Harvest Fails and the Predators ArriveWho is responsible for developing Welsh rugby players? If the answer is “whoever has a website, a set of cones and parents willing to pay the monthly fee”, then we haven’t created a pathway. We’ve … 100
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Two absolutely epochal terrible reviews by England there. 000
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"The last couple of weeks have seen what appears to be a well co-ordinated campaign to sabotage the WRU’s attempt to move to three regions...The tactics used are straight out of the MAGA playbook". Yorkshire Exile for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/m...gwladrugby.wordpress.comMAGA meets the WRUThe last couple of weeks have seen what appears to be a well co-ordinated campaign to sabotage the WRU’s attempt to move to three regions…The tactics used are straight out of the MAGA playboo… 040
Reposted by Sei WilliamsJames Stafford @jpstafford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I believe rugby needs a Siya Kolisi graphic novel so much that I commissioned an artist to bring the concept alive. If you think this is what rugby needs, please read my call to arms and help out if you can! #siyakolisicomic #books #Springboks theeastterrace.com/rugby-needs-... 🏉📚 0147
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Reading an old book by 'Dromio', the South Wales Argus rugby writer of the first half of the 20thC, and, well, if I was H.T.Day of Newport, I'd be a tad hurt by this... 130
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Whoever did the English-language audioguide commentary for Verona Cathedral must have been a Reeves & Mortimer fan. "God", he says in describing a 15thC fresco "sends down a Dove From Above to show his pleasure...". Uvavu. Beyond. 130
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"Those that know those that know speak of a culture of supreme confidence and hubris at the top of the WRU. As someone wise once said – the problem with being confident is that, at some point, someone asks you to prove it". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/l...gwladrugby.wordpress.comLet’s Go Compare The Last Decade of Welsh Talent.There is a rather extraordinary paradox at the heart of Welsh sport. Over the last decade, since around 2015 especially, Wales has produced an almost absurd number of sporting achievements for a co… 1103
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Twenty six thousand pairs of eclipse glasses in three days?! 26000?! Twenty. Six. Thousand. Fair play to Taimur - that's an extraordinary bit of foresight. 020
Reposted by Sei WilliamsRuck the WRU @ruckthewru.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It turns out that £800,000 gets you.... not a lot, 18 months later chrislethou.substack.com/p/the-catast...chrislethou.substack.comTHE CATASTROPHIC COMPLACENCY OF THE CONSULTANCY CLASS CONTROLLING WELSH RUGBYThe Welsh Rugby Union has Perfected the Art of Kicking Issues Down the Road to an Art Form 293
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It's over 13 years since Peter Thomas characterised the WRU's attitude to the pro clubs as "power, control, divide, conquer, wipeout". The faces may have changed, but it sometimes seems that little else has. 1305
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Are we really paying multiple six-figure salaries for these people to then spend eight hundred grand on consultants to tell them how to do their jobs? " Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/w...gwladrugby.wordpress.comWhere is the England ‘B’ Team these days?(In charge of Wales, that’s where.)Twitter — or X, if you insist on calling the site by the name of that billionaire’s latest branding experiment – is a ruthless, unbecoming and horrible place. It is also, occasionally, a plac… 184
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Frankly, any format which shunts Joe Root down to a non-batting number 7 should be fired directly into the heart of the sun. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...bbc.co.ukManchester Super Giants Men v Welsh Fire Men - Cricket - BBC SportFind out the in depth batting and bowling figures for Manchester Super Giants Men v Welsh Fire Men in the The Hundred Men on BBC Sport. 120
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Did we not learn from dubbing 'Shane'* into Welsh 40-odd years ago, lads? * not Shane Williams, obviously. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukStar Wars dubbed in Welsh for the first time to celebrate landmark anniversaryThe Welsh language version of the classic 1977 film will feature Matthew Rhys as Han Solo. 130
Reposted by Sei WilliamsSei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"To paraphrase 'The Peter Principle', sometimes you have to wonder whether Welsh rugby is being run by smart people who are putting us on. Or by people who have no idea what they’re doing but really, really mean it". By me, for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...gwladrugby.wordpress.comWatch Out! The WRU’s About!This is just a quick skip through two years of the WRU’s leadership of our national game. Twenty four months. Not that long, really, to have crammed in so much chaos. 4259
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"To paraphrase 'The Peter Principle', sometimes you have to wonder whether Welsh rugby is being run by smart people who are putting us on. Or by people who have no idea what they’re doing but really, really mean it". By me, for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...gwladrugby.wordpress.comWatch Out! The WRU’s About!This is just a quick skip through two years of the WRU’s leadership of our national game. Twenty four months. Not that long, really, to have crammed in so much chaos. 4259
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The Prime Minister might need to have a word with his newly-appointed Secretary of State for Wales. 3122
Sei Williams @seiwilliams.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"What Welsh rugby needs now is ...greater self-awareness. It doesn’t need headlines full of spin or statements that rip the credibility from the people saying them. Supporters are not asking to be protected from the truth". Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/w...gwladrugby.wordpress.comWimbledon is over. So stop the spin.Players and coaches should not become the face of the messaging of an organisation that many supporters simply don’t believe a lot of what they say anymore. 150