Darren Frear

@ospreylian3 😂😂😂 bonkers

Brewery Field a better ground than Toulon’s Stade Felix Mayol apparently 🤣🤣 Honestly, what has happened to our supporters? In the good old days we used to rightfully take the piss out of the Turks for this one-eyed nonsense. Some of our lot are worse than them.

@Cardiff_Pathway That’s good news 👍

@DarrenFrea Dylan is a great prospect and will continue his studies and rugby journey at Cardiff Met 👍

Really exciting times and we can’t wait to keep supporting and challenging this group to keep developing both on and off the field. Also a nod to our pathway which we are extremely proud of and there is plenty more to follow 👌🏉

@DragonFire1059 @sionbarry That’s still a major issue in mine and many others opinion with no transparency into the why…. They will also have equity in all regions through the debt / equity swap, it’s already happened at Dragons…..

@DarrenFrea @sionbarry It isn’t governing all consistently though, as it owns Cardiff & acts as its benefactor & has since confirmed that it intends to hold onto owning Cardiff until they decide otherwise. RCK confirmed previously this was a major part of the arbitration (owning Cardiff & overreach).

How much in corporate advisory fees - and executive time - did the WRU spend on an aborted Y11 deal when keeping hold of Cardiff longer term (regardless of a legal challenge from the Scarlets, seemingly now won by the union) should have been the position last spring?

@DragonFire1059 @sionbarry it doesn’t replace it.

@DragonFire1059 @sionbarry Once that process ends, the WRU then has to move forward commercially and govern all regions consistently. So PRA25 being back on the table can be a result of lessons from arbitration and a need to avoid future disputes. Legal clarity often creates the space for negotiation….

@DragonFire1059 @sionbarry All will be published in good time but good use of AI for an explanation 👏👏👏 I have good knowledge of how arbitrations work and what happened in this case, the outcome will be good for all parties apart from a the ones at the top with an agenda.

@DarrenFrea @sionbarry Arbitration isn't a negotiation. It's where a neutral third party (arbitrator) makes a final, legally enforceable decision outside of traditional court litigation. It acts as a faster, usually cheaper alternative to court, used for commercial, employment, & consumer disputes.

@DragonFire1059 @sionbarry The union have to offer the regions the same opportunity otherwise they’ll be caught up in further litigations / cases.

@DarrenFrea @sionbarry If the Scarlets got PRA 25 out of arbitration, then why have the Ospreys been offered to sign it as well.

@DragonFire1059 @sionbarry There’s a false narrative that the Scarlets lost the Arbitration, they didn’t and it’s a negotiation, that’s what arbitrations are. we are seeing the outcome now that the Union has put PRA25 back on the table. The Union is tied to the regions and they have to work together….

@sionbarry I've read the arbitration revolved around the Union stepping in to own Cardiff (argued overreach), so if they Union have won that, then they must feel emboldened to hold on to them until they feel the time is best to sell?

@CymraesBalch @WelshRugbyUnion Based on current performance from the WRU execs should get Zero bonus! The regions all have their own community foundations that do a lot of good work with grassroots and the local communities, this is why regional support is important.

@DarrenFrea @WelshRugbyUnion Isn't that what the WRU wants ? I am not ignorant to the needs of grassroot support. I am just furious that the WRU don't give a shit. They still get their bonus

🚨 𝙒𝙍𝙐 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 | Clarity for Cardiff & Ospreys as WRU makes PRA25 offer for all. 👇 ▶️ wru.wales/2026/04/clarit… #CymruAmByth

@CymraesBalch @WelshRugbyUnion Not attending regional rugby will kill it off in it’s entirety, it’s ignorant attitudes like this that has contributed to its current struggles!

@DarrenFrea @WelshRugbyUnion And give the fatcats more of a bonus ? Failure is never ever rewarded.

@TheVietGwent @AllWalesSport The east and west stands were full, that’s 4,500 per stand and a handful of in the North, I think festivals are a strategy from all rugby teams in the UK, this brings parents, grandparents etc and should be what rugby days are about.

We know that the community rugby festival was used to (additionally?) artificially inflate the official attendance, but how many people thought there were more than 9,000 rugby fans in that stadium…?

@ospreylian3 I thought Prem rugby has a minimum ground capacity of 10,001? Hopefully there are plans to bring SH up to that level if planning allows? I’d take what the statement says from the WRU on when they release details of PRA25. Politicians / Councillors are not known for honesty….

Why are Rob Stewart and Torsten Bell saying this guarantees our future until 2030 when the WRU plan to cut a side in 2028? Have they got the wrong end of the stick or do they know more than us?

@CardiffRugbyWeb The Hollywood consortium wasn’t a great deal at all for all parties, the concern was it would be a repeat of the previous failed regime. It was no Wrexham deal….

“Clarity for Cardiff”, claim the WRU. Why were Y11 chosen over the Hollywood consortium? Why has the Y11 deal collapsed? Who will form the club management now? What does “commercial and strategic sense” look like for returning us to private ownership? Yep, great clarity.

@RickyHarries @GeraintKemp @ospreylian3 Maybe it wasn’t 🤔🤔🤔

@DarrenFrea @GeraintKemp @ospreylian3 It's bollocks

I do wonder how different things in Welsh rugby would have been had we stuck to the initial plan of PRA25 with four equally funded regions. It likely wouldn’t have affected Wales’ results at this stage but there would be less apathy which would lead to more tickets sold…

@AsaFoodAndWine That meeting in February was an outcome of the arbitration….. the rumours that Scarlets lost the arbitration are way off the mark, the outcome was the regions are wedded to the WRU and they have to find a way to coexist fairly I posted about PRA 25 and was told it was false 🤔

So many questions to ask about what’s going on with Cardiff & the WRU that it’s easy to miss this nugget. The board met & approved this decision 6 days ago, and nobody leaked it to the press. In the context of the WRU’s recent history, that is genuinely remarkable

@OspreysPodcast @BBCScrumV That’s good information and is what I said about Scarlets a few weeks back, both will sign PRA25 (adjusted) and that will give 2 more years to work out the reduction to 3….. still some details to work out but good for the immediate future as will mean extra funds

So the latest rumour is Y11 signing the Ospreys up to PRA25 🤯 Source @BBCScrumV podcast (Also said to me independently prior to the episode coming out)

@Cardiff_Rugby @Cardiff_RFC @SuperRygbiCymru Cardiff embraced the competition and blooded a lot of academy players through the season then the younger pros came in for minutes and they deserve the final position 👏👏👏 this is exactly what the SRC is supposed to be!

Bendigedig! Llongyfarchiadau @Cardiff_RFC 🩵🖤 The Rags are crowned regular Season @SuperRygbiCymru Champions with their ninth straight win. #YmlaenCaerdydd