Another cringeworthy and inaccurate rugby post from one of our leaders

[valley boy]

In wales , rugby has a cultural resonance and importance that goes way beyond what it's like in other countries ( what about New Zealand? )

It's SO embedded in our DNA as a nation ( that's your opinion )

Kevin Brennan , Cardiff West MP


What a complete load of rubbish , I like rugby but it's so far up it's own arse its unbelievable

He goes on to say that it helps identify us as a nation which in other words means if you are on holiday in holland and some local says ahh welshman, you like rugby !, then that means everything else means jack shit

Thank you mr brennan for telling me what it means to be welsh , thank u BBC wales for those stupid trailers , praise the lord

What a load of crap . Has he ever watched the regions on tv when the crowd is one man and his dog with embarrassingly
empty stadiums.
The Internationals are a social event not a sporting one.
The masses will be coming out of the woodwork on Saturday wearing their red shirts and stupid daffodil hats but being unable to name you half the welsh team and not having attended a local game in their lives.
The local scene in relation to rugby is struggling big time. With clubs relying on junior sections just to keep going.
People from outside Wales would know us more for Gareth Bale or Ryan Giggs as oppose to our rugby team.
A few years ago the WRU were really up against it financially and the Welsh Assembly did nothing to help them . Thats how much rugby means to Wales.
Its just popular as one big piss up.

[the other bob wilson]

What a load of crap . Has he ever watched the regions on tv when the crowd is one man and his dog with embarrassingly
empty stadiums.
The Internationals are a social event not a sporting one.
The masses will be coming out of the woodwork on Saturday wearing their red shirts and stupid daffodil hats but being unable to name you half the welsh team and not having attended a local game in their lives.
The local scene in relation to rugby is struggling big time. With clubs relying on junior sections just to keep going.
People from outside Wales would know us more for Gareth Bale or Ryan Giggs as oppose to our rugby team.
A few years ago the WRU were really up against it financially and the Welsh Assembly did nothing to help them . Thats how much rugby means to Wales.
Its just popular as one big piss up.

Martyn Williams said that in 2016 the Welsh football team surpassed anything the rugby team had ever done - in terms of impact on the world stage that has to be right. I was a very big rugby fan once, now I'd say I like the game and enjoy a competitive match played between two equally matched teams, but missing a Six Nations game doesn't bother me in the slightest now and it does grate with me the way we're defined as a nation by what is a minority sport worldwide.