UPDATE: (23/02/17) We contacted the BBC team for comment on this piece and provided a few questions for the broadcast team to try and get insight into the decision making process and reasoning behind the directing of the match broadcast feed. Sadly we were informed they were too busy ahead of the weekend’s rugby to get involved on this occasion. Until around the 1960s there was little doubt watching a…
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Wales release findings of New Zealand tour report
ORGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 2016. After a grim summer tour to New Zealand, where Wales lost all four of its matches, the Welsh Rugby Union has released the findings of its post tour analysis report. Wales faced the All Blacks three times along with what was effectively a Chiefs ‘A/B’ team and lost by an aggregate score of 161-56. Speaking at a press conference where the report was released, Welsh coach…
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Wilkinson awarded Lifetime ‘Mike Pyke Nonchalant Try Scoring Award’
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2011: Long time readers of The East Terrace will remember the highly valued Mike Pyke Nonchalant Try Scoring Award. It is awarded to those players who refuse to go all vulgar and hysterical after grounding the ball for a five point score, and simply trot back to their allocated field position to receive the forthcoming kick off. For these noble warriors there are no vulgar acts of…
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Animal welfare groups outrage at ‘canary’ Welsh rugby jersey
NOTE: When this article was originally syndicated on scrum.com from the old East Terrace site, the WRU actually got in contact with the scrum.com editorial team and wanted it made clear the article was a spoof. Yes, this actually happened. The Welsh Rugby Union is under intense fire from animal rights group after being accused of animal cruelty. Just days after the WRU revealed its new bright yellow ‘change’ playing…