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  • Ex-Wales International Ceri Jones will join the Worcester Warriors from Harlequins in the summer. He has been with the London based ‘Quins since he left Newport in 2003. He has...

    Ceri Jones Joins Worcester

    Ex-Wales International Ceri Jones will join the Worcester Warriors from Harlequins in the summer. He has been with the London based ‘Quins since he left Newport in 2003. He has...

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  • Interesting battle this game, at times anyway. Injury ravaged Cardiff Blues just overcome Harlequins 20 – 6 (trust me, it was closer than the score suggests) in the Heineken Cup...

    Cardiff Blues Beat the Quins

    Interesting battle this game, at times anyway. Injury ravaged Cardiff Blues just overcome Harlequins 20 – 6 (trust me, it was closer than the score suggests) in the Heineken Cup...

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  • Ever wondered how the RFU would fix the stain of the Bloodgate scandal?
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You mean it isn't obvious?  By declaring everything is ok, but then giving us rolling subs.  Presumably following the logic if people are going to cheat we can cover it up by making it legal.
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Coming next week - Gordon Brown announces bank robbery becomming legal since plenty of top level execs have been doing ti anyway, let's just make it available to all and sundry.
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But then what do I expect from a Union that appoints Lawrence Dallaglio to set up a task force to clean up the game?  It was doomed from the start.

    Bloodgate Over – Thanks to Rolling Subs

    Ever wondered how the RFU would fix the stain of the Bloodgate scandal?

    You mean it isn't obvious? By declaring everything is ok, but then giving us rolling subs. Presumably following the logic if people are going to cheat we can cover it up by making it legal.

    Coming next week - Gordon Brown announces bank robbery becomming legal since plenty of top level execs have been doing ti anyway, let's just make it available to all and sundry.

    But then what do I expect from a Union that appoints Lawrence Dallaglio to set up a task force to clean up the game? It was doomed from the start.

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  • An enire summer of Welsh rugby news, rumours and infighting - all condensed into one rambling post.<br></br>
Want facts and figures?  Me too, but we never get them in Wales - we have the Western Mail instead.<br></br>
Instead here are my opinions, my rantings and my rubbish writing - saved up all summer for this one post.<br></br>
Read if you dare.

    Welsh Rugby Summer Rants

    An enire summer of Welsh rugby news, rumours and infighting - all condensed into one rambling post.

    Want facts and figures? Me too, but we never get them in Wales - we have the Western Mail instead.

    Instead here are my opinions, my rantings and my rubbish writing - saved up all summer for this one post.

    Read if you dare.

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  • So the IRB have decided to go on the offensive with cheats.
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No longer content with simply punishing law cheats such as Tom Williams, Dean Richards and Harlequins the IRB have decided to become proactive and stamp out loop holes.<br>

</br>To that end they have changed the rugby laws to stop teams goign to uncontested scrums when it is simply because they are getting hammered in the set piece.<br>

</br>Not yet cumpolsory laws these new ELV's are quite interesting and could help to a degree.  Read the article to learn more

    Scrum Laws Are a Changing

    So the IRB have decided to go on the offensive with cheats.

    No longer content with simply punishing law cheats such as Tom Williams, Dean Richards and Harlequins the IRB have decided to become proactive and stamp out loop holes.

    To that end they have changed the rugby laws to stop teams goign to uncontested scrums when it is simply because they are getting hammered in the set piece.

    Not yet cumpolsory laws these new ELV's are quite interesting and could help to a degree. Read the article to learn more

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