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Thread: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

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    This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    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

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Sludge. Mike Powell the cricketer? Or is it Andy Powell rugby player?
    Agree with you. It’s criminal damage and irrespective of whether you are a football supporter as a member of the public you would be charged by the Police

  3. #3

    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Andy Powell the rugby player.
    Byrne in the 1st part was whinging about his treatment by Howley.
    Then you see this bragging about the high jinx and you realise Howley was right.

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by Hilts View Post
    Andy Powell the rugby player.
    Byrne in the 1st part was whinging about his treatment by Howley.
    Then you see this bragging about the high jinx and you realise Howley was right.
    Yep agreed. Both Byrne and Henson would have won a lot more caps if they had been more grounded.

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by Pearcey3 View Post
    Sludge. Mike Powell the cricketer? Or is it Andy Powell rugby player?
    Agree with you. It’s criminal damage and irrespective of whether you are a football supporter as a member of the public you would be charged by the Police
    Andy Powell sorry , what a prize bunch of plums Byrne Henson and Powell come over as and as for Mike Phillips ! Jesus

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by Pearcey3 View Post
    Sludge. Mike Powell the cricketer? Or is it Andy Powell rugby player?
    Agree with you. It’s criminal damage and irrespective of whether you are a football supporter as a member of the public you would be charged by the Police
    But not south Wales police if you are a Welsh rugby player !

    It's a disgrace

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    Andy Powell sorry , what a prize bunch of plums Byrne Henson and Powell come over as and as for Mike Phillips ! Jesus
    Yeah Phillips was a lad too. Under Gatland the drinking culture has been knocked on the head for now.

  8. #8

    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Sounds like Byrne is making these revelations by trying to make a few bob via publishing a book. If money-grabbing isn't the intent then why not publish it over the internet through a free blog site?

  9. #9

    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Id rather read a Cass Pennant classic than Byrnes effort.

  10. #10

    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    High jinks, innit?

  11. #11

    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    The Tafia celebrate it. Welsh media outlets revel in incidents such as the golf buggy one (people’s lives put at risk) and wax lyrical on scrum 5 over stories of booze fuelled ABH.

    Dull. As. F**k.

  12. #12

    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    All these rugby players with "off the pitch problems".

    It's mainly because they're all as thick as sh1t!!

  13. #13

    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    So they lacked the skill of the new Zealander and lacked the dedication and control to be physically the best? Wonderful players weren't they?

    Based on this it seems right for Byrne to be dropped and send a message to the others.

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    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.

  15. #15

    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Well, Warburton did want to play football, didn't he? Had to settle for egg chasing due to not being good enough.

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by CardiffIrish2 View Post
    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.
    Warburton is a great bloke , met him once told him I was a city fan and he said him and quite a few of the squad go to watch city from time to time , he's massive !!

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by CardiffIrish2 View Post
    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.
    Seen Jamie Roberts out and about before, a nice guy. Big f’cker mind.

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Neil Jenkins was a good bloke , a couple of years back the Welsh squad were on the piss in one bar and it was split into two , in our section we were watching city away at Leeds when we beat them away four nil a couple of years back , anyway he had no interest in pissing it up with the Welsh team he was going potty with us as we watched us smash Leeds , people say he is a united fan but he was cheering on Cardiff big time that night, shook everybody's hands

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    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

    He's the one married to the HTV newsreader, aint he. ?

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker View Post
    Seen Jamie Roberts out and about before, a nice guy. Big f’cker mind.
    He's another gent , and yes he's massive

    Simon easterby lives by me , always happy to chat another nice guy as is getting Jenkins , talked city with him before

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    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.

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    He's the one married to the HTV newsreader, aint he. ?
    Yes

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by Bluebird since 1948 View Post
    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.
    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

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    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
    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!.

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    Re: This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    Warburton is a great bloke , met him once told him I was a city fan and he said him and quite a few of the squad go to watch city from time to time , he's massive !!
    He's a great bloke, occasionally you'll see him and his equally great family in the Deri. Always happy to sign something, take a selfie or just generally be nice to people. Likes his Juboraj curry too. Top bloke

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