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BREAKING NEWS: WRU introduces reality television career training

The Welsh Rugby Union has responded to the crisis currently engulfing the game in the principality by offering new employment packages to Welsh based players and completely overhauling its junior, youth and academy guidelines.

Faced with a stream of top players leaving Wales to play in England and France, as well as a barrage of embarrassing results at both international and domestic level, the WRU has been forced to act to stop the rot from setting in permanently. At a packed press conference in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, the WRU unveiled its 'Reality Rugby Pathway Project' (RRPP).

The RRPP programme will seek to ensure that Wales' top players have the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the lucrative world of reality television once they retire from the game.

Inspired by the success of Welsh stars Gavin Henson (Strictly Come Dancing/71 Degrees North) and Gareth Thomas (Celebrity Big Brother/Dancing on Ice), the WRU is looking to ensure as many players as possible are able to pursue reality television careers when they are no longer able to make a living from sport. The RRPP will offer all professional players in Wales individually tailored training programmes to best prepare them for a career in reality television.

For the full story: http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/story/174789.html

Gavin Henson ruins lives

Gavin Henson has RUINED the lives of thousands of Welsh people forever. Or something like that.

According to the Daily Mail (UK newspaper/rag/Nazi recruiting pamphlet) the Ospreys player “petulantly refused to join his teammates’ salute to the thousands of Wales supporters” after the narrow Welsh win against Italy at the weekend.

The headline for their match report was the incredible “Henson ruins the day by snubbing his own fans in Rome”.

Making fun of the Daily Mail for writing awful rugby reports is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. And when we say shooting fish in a barrel we mean a large barrel. With no water in it. And only dead fish, not living ones. Dozens of them. And in shooting this barrel you are using a rocket launcher from about one foot away. Let’s just say it’s not exactly a paper with much of a rugby reputation.

The East Terrace feels contaminated by even picking up such a right-wing fascist rag as the Daily Mail, but in the interest of rugby journalism we felt we should address the latest bit of Henson Hysteria from the Mail’s Michael Folley.