Cardiff Lions
CF10 Rugby Trust | 23 April 2017
A great Cardiff Rugby tradition was continued last week as the British and Irish Lions named their squad for this summer's tour of New Zealand with Sam Warburton selected to travel as captain, joining only Martin Johnson in the very select group to have received that honour twice. Closer to home...
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Uproar At Suggestions Of Cardiff Rugby Merger
CF10 Rugby Trust | 13 April 2017
Now that the title has grabbed your attention, I have to confess that this blog is not a retrospective commentary on the proposed 2003 merger with Pontypridd. Nor is it a futuristic dystopian fantasy about the Blue Dragons, an unloved and short-lived team formed after the WRU announce the...
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How do you build a business?
David Allen | 31 March 2017
Despite literally years of negotiating, the future at Cardiff Arms Park remains as clear as the mud that we frequently played on before the advent of our artificial pitch. What is happening (or perhaps not happening) at the Newport Gwent Dragons (for such is the name of the Black and Amber bar...
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From CAP To Where?
Martin Hughes | 14 March 2017
The tectonic plates that Welsh rugby sit upon ensure life is rarely dull and news that the Welsh Rugby Union are the verge of taking on 100% of Newport and are actively glancing at the other three ensures that there is currently much to think about.
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Love Don’t Come Easy
CF10 Rugby Trust | 05 March 2017
In the first of what we hope will be some regular guest blogs, Lloyd @TreharrisonFord kindly lets us reproduce his blog from his searchingforaffinity site.
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It’s Throwback Thursday!
David Allen | 03 March 2017
Thomas Rhymer was a 13th century Scottish laird who, after supposedly being carried off by elves, returned with the gift of prophecy. As far as I’m aware, there’s no genetic link, but in 2004, Thomas Gerald Reames Davies, a total gentleman, possibly the greatest rugby player that I’ve had the...
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Heritage: An Update
David Allen | 22 February 2017
As first reported last August, volunteers from CF10 are currently working with Simon Down of CRFC to catalogue all the artefacts held at Cardiff Arms Park that document the history of rugby at the ground.
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Next Stop Wall Street
David Allen | 15 February 2017
CF10 recently decided to utilise some of its income from membership fees to purchase shares in Cardiff Blues Limited. The number of shares is small, but the step that the trust has taken in making this purchase is big.
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Like Bloody Buses!
David Allen | 25 January 2017
Surveys for fans of Cardiff Blues are like the proverbial Cardiff bus. You wait an absolute age for one to come along, often they never arrive, and then two appear at once. Cardiff Blues Ltd. don’t have a great record of seeking the views of those who pay money to pass through the turnstiles, and...
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RFC Views Required
Andy Baker | 11 January 2017
A message from our friends at Cardiff Rugby Supporters Club: Have your say about the RFC. Following the disappointment of not making the top 8 in the Principality Premiership, the Rugby Committee want to get the views of those who are interested in the future of the Cardiff RFC team.
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Cardiff Arms Park Survey: Preliminary Results
Andy Baker | 06 January 2017
We're delighted to release the preliminary results of our Arms Park Redevelopment Survey.
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A Design For Life
David Allen | 02 January 2017
Libraries Gave Us Power I recently borrowed a copy of the above book from Kairdiff Central Library and very much looked forward to reading about the many triumphs of the Scarlets since their inception in 2003. On collecting it, my initial reaction was one of surprise given the size and thickness...
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