A damning report into WRU culture
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4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Gareth and Lauren react to the independent review of the Welsh Rugby Union's culture with interim chief executive Nigel Walker and incoming chief executive Abi Tierney.
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| 0:00.0 | Boxer turned bouncer Viv Graham was one of the northeast most notorious hard men. |
| 0:06.5 | It was huge, you were strong, we could take anybody out. |
| 0:09.0 | Not many men on earth could match Viv Graham. |
| 0:11.6 | But his life of violence led to his downfall. |
| 0:15.0 | Why did it happen? |
| 0:16.0 | Why did they do that? |
| 0:17.3 | How did Viv Graham build an empire? |
| 0:19.8 | It was the power, the presence, the aura. And who was he, really? |
| 0:24.4 | Gangster, the story of Viv Graham. |
| 0:27.4 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.4 | You're listening to BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to Scram Fight Podcast, an emergency pod today because a 134-page review of the |
| 0:41.6 | W.R-U commissioned in lights of the revelations published by the BBC |
| 0:45.9 | investigates programme and subsequent follow-ups has been published and pretty damning, |
| 0:52.1 | isn't it? |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah, everything from institutional and cultural problems it faced to, you know, how the board was |
| 0:58.5 | dysfunctional, the governance wasn't fit for purpose, wasn't fit to a point of chief exact. |
| 1:04.4 | To the women's rugby, they're all intertwined but it's a it's a chunky report and we're going |
| 1:11.6 | to try and get out teeth into it. |
| 1:13.7 | This is wonderful we can literally get out teeth into because we weren't given digital copies. |
| 1:19.7 | It's actually a hard paper report. We spent the last hour coming through it. The plan for the rest of the day |
| 1:27.2 | is that we will go to a press conference now where hopefully we'll speak to, well there's the opportunity to ask hard questions to |
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