This is what annoys me about Welsh rugby

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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

[Pearcey3]

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

[Hilts]

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.

[Pearcey3]

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.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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

[Pearcey3]

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.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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

[Organ Morgan.]

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?

[Hilts]

Id rather read a Cass Pennant classic than Byrnes effort.

[bobh]

High jinks, innit?

[Kiffa]

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.

[G rangetown Blue]

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

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

[surge]

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.

[CardiffIrish2]

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.

[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.

[ccfc_is_my_life]

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

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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 !!

[TH63]

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

[The Bob Banker Spanker]

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.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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

[BLUETIT]

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. ?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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

[Bluebird since 1948]

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.

[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.

[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.