Latest Observations: The SAS has arrived at the Stadium!

OK, you’ve asked for it, here are my latest observations!

The dawn chorus has started. There are 85 million birds on my roof having a rave and the bloody cat is nowhere to be seen, again. Presumably she’ll turn up the moment I pour milk into my cereal. That’s what usually happens if I decide to have breakfast. She arrives like a bat out of hell, sticks her nose in my bowl and claims it as her own!

Super Gran!

However, she’s not the only one in the family who travels at the speed of light these days! This week Misty has serious competition from my mother, AKA Super Gran.

On Wednesday, not wanting to be outdone by the younger generation she decided to take her daredevil stunts to new heights by testing out the WRU’s latest activity, Scale the Stadium. Despite her age, she climbed up 15 flights of stairs to the roof of the Principality Stadium without taking a breath. Then she zip wired across the roof like a commando and abseiled down the side like she was in the f***ing SAS. At any moment I was expecting her to launch through a window with a hand grenade and an assault rifle, grab Gatland by the scruff of the neck and pack him back off home to New Zealand with cries of “There’s the door mate. Don’t let it hit you on the arse on the way out”.

Anecdotally, can I point out here that no other octogenarians were harmed during the process and this epic stunt did not provoke any phone calls to social services either.

Welsh Rugby In Turmoil

This is all no mean feat for a woman who will be 83 years young later this year. You could be forgiven for mistaking her for an undercover KGB agent on a mission to tackle the turmoil in Welsh Rugby. A hardened Scarlets supporter, she’s been bitterly disappointed by the depths the national game has sunk to this season.

Perhaps Super Gran could have had a little more impact if, in her torrent of spittle flecked fury, she’d carried out a military style sortie on the Senedd’s Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee instead. This week the committees Chair, Delyth Jewell MS declared that the Six Nations competition should be put on the protected list to prevent it from being put behind a pay wall! Are they serious? No offence but how on earth do they think the WRU is ever going to dig themselves out of their current financial hole or earn enough money to develop and improve rugby in Wales if everything they try to do is vetoed by the Welsh Government? Whilst I agree that making the 6 Nations a pay to view tournament isn’t ideal, I’m not sure there’s any alternative at this juncture.

Embarrassingly, Wales earned the wooden spoon for the first time in 21 years this season and we have reached our lowest point in decades. Without doubt something needs to be done fast in order to elicit some kind of recovery from this nightmare situation.

Give Abi Tierney a Chance!

Now I’m not saying the WRU are without blame here, far from it. And remember, these are just my latest observations. But, c’mon guys this isn’t rocket science! If you give all the money to the fat bastards on the gravy train and leave nothing for grass roots level, it really shouldn’t be any surprise to find out that you aren’t developing young talent! However, in a paragraph already fraught with all kinds of legal jeopardy I wouldn’t dare to question the WRU’s decision making process!

But since they have only recently appointed business guru Abi Tierney as the hero tasked with the crusade to turn around Welsh rugby’s dire financial situation, you’d have at least expected her to be permitted a chance to get her teeth into something. After all the poor woman was only appointed 6 months ago. Now in their wisdom some halfwits at the Senedd, whose braincells aren’t holding hands this week, are attempting to pull the rug right out from under her feet before she’s even started!

Surprisingly the WRU is showing that it cares deeply about the future of our national sport, something the Welsh government seems manifestly unable to do. The Senedd are showing pitiless contempt by their refusal to endorse an organisation that is frankly on its knees.

Latest Observations: Conclusion

All in all it’s fortuitous that the Senedd don’t have any devolved power over sport and culture. God knows what other gems of delight they’d sign us up for!

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