With few signs of imminent improvement, read about how we got to this point in 'Welsh Rugby: What Went Wrong?' https://t.co/FkDoGC1lRb #Amazon via @Amazon Initially published in Nov 2023, revised and updated at the end of the 2024 Six Nations. Published by @YLolfa.

It would be great @rugbyontnt if your pundits had more, impartial information about the instrumented mouth guards. We’d be more than happy to have conversations with them about it.

It is also the date, 18 years ago today, that we lost Grav, one of the heroes of that great day when Llanelli's pub's ran dry. 4/

They eventually exorcised those Halloween demons, exactly 10 years ago, by beating Australia, again at Twickenham, to become the first team to successfully defend the RWC. 3/

21 years on, they got ambushed at the RWC SF by France in the greatest of games. 2/

31 October is quite the day in All Black history. In 1972, they lost at Stradey to the only Welsh team to beat them since the invention of colour television. Then lost again, 6 years to the day later, to Munster. 1/

Paul Thorburn says "hiya"! (And then some dodgy stuff about nationality and rugby's eligibility rules).

@CapS45 You may enjoy our interview with @Rhino_Sport CEO Reg Clark, key member of @Cardiff_Rugby Hollywood rescue group, who wants to buy Cardiff and script a TV series around the team, answers important questions on America's longest running rugby TV show

"When they said four, were they to be believed then? Or are we to believe them now with three? Does that mean they weren’t sure then? Or are they not sure now? After all, they wanted two regions. Or so they said. Then." Nathaniel Hale for Gwladrugby.

Could Germany have become a rugby-playing nation? Or could the US have been a bastion of soccer? Join me and Thomas Adam on the new 'Rugby Reloaded' as we discuss his new book 'The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s':

Thanks to @laurenemmaj for the invitation to witter on about the WRU's latest wheeze on the @BBCScrumV special. For those who've been asking - no, I do not live in a sauna. Oh, and get 'Welsh Rugby: What Went Wrong?' from all good (and bad) bookshops. https://t.co/sGBBqrFhtE

A worst-of-all-worlds bad decision. And entirely on brand

Rather splendidly, the WRU's press release today has hyperlinks to, well, difficult to guess where, I suppose.

So the ideal WRU solution here is three equally resourced clubs who, when they're established in 2028, will have playing budgets of £6.4m. Benetton are on over £7m now, and expect their overall budget to increase by 30% by the end of this decade. Edinburgh are already on £8m.

David Moffett and Former Cambodian Dictator Paul Potts?

https://t.co/wr1iWB7340

An extraordinary clip, and one that is damning of the UK media.

The Battle for the Ashes resumes on Saturday, and you can relive the drama of 'Prescott's Match' and the 1958 Lions' tour with the is 'Rugby Reloaded' classic episode.

A thread. I have read comments about older Welsh Rugby fans wanting to keep 4 clubs because we cannot accept change? Well they say that with age comes wisdom. And wisdom comes from experience. I absolutely want to keep 4 pro clubs not because I’m in my 50’s, but…

If you are in Newport on the 25th and want to show your support for the pro rugby clubs, please come and join us. This is more than just rugby, its also the communities, the employees, the economies and ambitions of the clubs. #WeAreGwentRugby

"Radicalised hard left mob". "Antifa". Calm down lads. You're in Caerphilly, not Mar-a-Lago. Or Moscow.