This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

[Dr Lecter]

There has never been a lot going on upstairs with most rugby players in Wales with as you say the odd exception

Gavin Henson is dull as a brush and often looked for a fight as did mike Phillips , Phillips got a pasting outside Jackson's by one of the bluebirds finest a few years back

Henson gets a bad press but his anti racism work often gets overlooked.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/late...nts-are-racist

Like a modern day Rosa Parks

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Yep.

Local welsh rugby tours and initiations sound like something from a gay porno. The stories I've heard....it is like, ok you can be close friends and be men, but jesus christ!.

Cowbridge RFC used to stick bottles of bud up the rear end of newcomers

Very homoerotic

I don't mind a finger up the wrong un from a woman but .....

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Henson gets a bad press but his anti racism work often gets overlooked.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/late...nts-are-racist

Like a modern day Rosa Parks

Pmsl

[LordKenwyne]

Cowbridge RFC used to stick bottles of bud up the rear end of newcomers

Very homoerotic

I don't mind a finger up the wrong un from a woman but .....

Ye bottles up the bum seems to be a widespread tradition.

[ccfc_is_my_life]

Cowbridge RFC used to stick bottles of bud up the rear end of newcomers

Very homoerotic

I don't mind a finger up the wrong un from a woman but .....

Being fair that probably improves the taste of Bud.

[Dr Lecter]

Ye bottles up the bum seems to be a widespread tradition.

As long as it’s not a bottle of Jack Daniels....

[LordKenwyne]

As long as it’s not a bottle of Jack Daniels....

A bottle of wine was involved in one attempt I'd heard about.

[Bobby Dandruff]

Not the game of rugby itself , I enjoy it

But in today's Wales on Sunday ex player Lee Byrne gives an account of a night out with Mike Powell and Gavin Henson in Cardiff , they were all pissed acting like idiots , Mike Powell is put in the back of a police van , Gavin Henson throws a pool ball at the drinks optics behind the bar , smashing a bottle , several bystanders film the episode , the police turn up ......and tell the members of the public to delete the footage !!

For f sake that's criminal damage , if that was a football fan south Wales police would cuff him and charge him

Byrne goes onto describe many other anti social drunken nights out in Bridgend and Cardiff with senior Welsh players

The double standards we football fans have to put up with is a disgrace , Henson could have taken someone's eye out ......yet the police intervene and do nothing !!

Byrne is signing his new warts and all book at various locations around south Wales in November , I think I will give it a miss

High jinx.

One rule for the ebbgy-ists. Another for everyone else, especially football fans.

Utterly pathetic.

[Louth]

I blame it on the steroids.

[Dr Lecter]

I blame it on the steroids.

Don’t blame it on the sunshine....

[ccfc_is_my_life]

I blame it on the steroids.

Pity steroids don't improve their chins. Seen a fair few acting like cocks and ending up sleeping on the floor.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Don’t blame it on the sunshine....

Blame it on the Swansea

[ian gibson]

There's a great story about Andy Powell and a friend of his battering a bunch of QPR fans in a West London pub a few years ago. Rugby players from other countries always seem so intelligent this current Welsh lot bar a few notable exceptions sounds painfully stupid.

It was the other way round mate. Powell got knocked out and bottled by qpr fans after giving it the big one to them, his big rugby playing mate shit himself and wanted no part of it.

[ian gibson]

That other idiot Mike Phillips was stripped to the waist challenging everyone in the queue outside a club on mill lane to fight him, unfortunately for him one of the soul crew's finest from Butetown was in the queue and immediately obliged Phillips and put the tw*t to sleep with one punch.

[Bluebird since 1948]

It was the other way round mate. Powell got knocked out and bottled by qpr fans after giving it the big one to them, his big rugby playing mate shit himself and wanted no part of it.

My understanding of the story is that Powell and his pal started getting lippy to the QPR fans and knocked a few of them out before taking a pasting then they were seeing running down the road bloodied pissing themselves laughing.

[Bluebird since 1948]

Also the famous story of Mike Phillips being sat on by a bouncer outside mcdonalds or the recent footage of Gareth Davies attacking an old man with a shoe.

The Tafia really do fall over themselves in not condoning these actions, like someone said, they celebrate it.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

That other idiot Mike Phillips was stripped to the waist challenging everyone in the queue outside a club on mill lane to fight him, unfortunately for him one of the soul crew's finest from Butetown was in the queue and immediately obliged Phillips and put the tw*t to sleep with one punch.

Is the correct answer , I thought it was Jackson's

[ian gibson]

My understanding of the story is that Powell and his pal started getting lippy to the QPR fans and knocked a few of them out before taking a pasting then they were seeing running down the road bloodied pissing themselves laughing.

I've seen the cctv footage of the incident in the pub and Powell is clearly seen being knocked out, he's lying on the floor sparked out with a bloodied face and his mate is shitting himself backing away.

[ian gibson]

Is the correct answer , I thought it was Jackson's

You might be right mate, I thought it was on mill lane, anyway Rusty sorted the idiot out.

[Majorblue]

Saw them all one night and they were acting like twats, Powell was rugby tackling people outside the Walkabout.
In fairness though you won’t see many better role models then sam warburton. A real class act on and off the pitch, likewise Jamie Roberts.

The reality is that the majority of rugby players are decent sorts and it is a small number of individuals in reported incidents that push the negative stereotypes.
Footballers are hardly innocents on the nights out lest we forget some recent high profile stories.
As for the initiation rites rugby , sadly, seems to revel in those but it is hardly the only sport to include humiliation in its joining rituals. Granted the Cowbridge example is pretty horrible but then again they are a strange bunch over there.

[Tandy]

Not the game of rugby itself , I enjoy it

But in today's Wales on Sunday ex player Lee Byrne gives an account of a night out with Mike Powell and Gavin Henson in Cardiff , they were all pissed acting like idiots , Mike Powell is put in the back of a police van , Gavin Henson throws a pool ball at the drinks optics behind the bar , smashing a bottle , several bystanders film the episode , the police turn up ......and tell the members of the public to delete the footage !!

For f sake that's criminal damage , if that was a football fan south Wales police would cuff him and charge him

Byrne goes onto describe many other anti social drunken nights out in Bridgend and Cardiff with senior Welsh players

The double standards we football fans have to put up with is a disgrace , Henson could have taken someone's eye out ......yet the police intervene and do nothing !!

Byrne is signing his new warts and all book at various locations around south Wales in November , I think I will give it a miss

Real hardcore that Not as bad as throwing coins, cans and bottles into an away end, wouldn't you agree?

[insider]

Real hardcore that Not as bad as throwing coins, cans and bottles into an away end, wouldn't you agree?

How would you get bottles into the home end to start with you clart

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

You might be right mate, I thought it was on mill lane, anyway Rusty sorted the idiot out.

Rusty , Christ Phillips was doomed

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Real hardcore that Not as bad as throwing coins, cans and bottles into an away end, wouldn't you agree?

No it's exactly the same he could have blinded someone you daft sod

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

How would you get bottles into the home end to start with you clart

This guy is a wind up merchant , ignore him