Nigel Davies
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Topic: Nigel Davies
Posted By: surfing-mtber
Subject: Nigel Davies
Date Posted: 18 March 2026 at 6:30pm
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Encouraging interview by Nigel, fully engaged in next season's planning, especially recruitment, and ball carriers in the pack. Also back room appointments as well. Apparently news coming soon. And he hasn't decided his own future yet.  ------------- Joshua24:15 |
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Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 18 March 2026 at 6:39pm
Ladram, amongst others, will probably say the proof is in the pudding - or rather the names being signed. ------------- In a world where you can be anything – Be Kind. |
surfing-mtber wrote:Posted By: Tony Clifton
Date Posted: 18 March 2026 at 6:53pm
| He speaks of 44-45 player squads. Right now we are low to mid 30s in the senior squad. Huge recruitment and retention needed. |
Posted By: ladram
Date Posted: 18 March 2026 at 10:52pm
Quite right and yes i have excused the pun
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Posted By: scarletpimp
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 1:18am
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Tonight , Nigel Davies and several players were appearing at the Crys 16 " Meet the Players " Evening at Parc. In the past , I have thoroughly enjoyed this occasion. Last year my friend and I were able to meet Archer Holtz., who proved both funny and engaging. Several funny stories about James Slipper( who holds the record number of caps for Australian front row forwards). Archer has huge potential, and despite being unlucky vwith injury and serious debilitating illness, has played well. Fletcher Anderson and Jake Ball were two,of the names appear tonight. It is Nigel Davies however who I would have been most interested in listening to. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it this evening, so if anyone who did attend is able to let us know how it went , and in particular what Nigel said.. I would be extremely grateful DIOLCH ------------- I stood yer on tanner bank |
Posted By: ScarletBear
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 1:57am
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I missed it too, family emergency ------------- Scarlets before Wales |
Posted By: Wasp
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 7:28am
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Couldn’t make the meet the players either, sadly. I wonder how we’re going to afford 40+ senior players when we couldn’t afford them this year? I wonder how we can offer job security when we couldn’t do it for Marnus? Intriguing ------------- We're still still here, but I wish we were in an Anglo-Welsh |
Posted By: Wil Chips
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 7:35am
Yes, I'm scratching my head... I'm also not a fan of the approach of 'We've had some really good news this week...but can't tell you about it'... or 'I've got a budget for next season and I'm working to it, but don't know if I'm going to be around'. It's just the sceptic in me that reads these comments as just plain unnecessary really. |
Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 8:12am
------------- In a world where you can be anything – Be Kind. |
Posted By: Fscarlet
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 8:14am
I imagine the money from Munster will have been a fair whack more than we could offer sadly.
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Posted By: ScarletBear
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 8:49am
Could it be Ospreys players jumping to us knowing their ship has sunk? Bois wishing to stay local, bargain prices. Only thing I can think of, unless about to announce major investor at season end. ------------- Scarlets before Wales |
Posted By: turkishrebel
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 9:07am
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HOL actually getting fully involved maybe? ------------- Once a Scarlet, always a Scarlet! |
Posted By: Scrletsfan32x
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 9:13am
| I would like to have a squad of 40 players however we are still on £4.5m per season so i would imagine a lot of these players will be picked up from the SRC teams and the quality would be low and they would be holding tackling bags for most of the season. I can't see us making any significant signings for next year because as it stands we go out of business at the end of next season, no decent player will want a 1 year contract. I'm sceptical about us even surviving atm let alone signing players. |
Posted By: Lincscarlet
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 9:25am
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the Nige interview is fairly damning of the club's set up the last few years, as I read it. If I put on my 'read between the lines x-ray goggles' he seems to be saying what many of us have been thinking. The same problem we've had for years though is how do you 'sell' scarlets to top coaches and players etc with the current uncertainty? Be interesting to see who he can attract
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Posted By: shocker
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 9:52am
| This news comes the same day I had email about renewals |
Posted By: gnasher1975
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 5:21pm
Did you find any pricing info on that email? Couldn't find any when I looked |
Posted By: shocker
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 5:37pm
| No, it just said renewals soon |
Posted By: ap sior
Date Posted: 19 March 2026 at 9:04pm
Got my money ready. |
Posted By: Seagultaf
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 10:11am
Could the money for the expanded squad be coming from the settlement following the recent WRU court case? |
Posted By: Legendinmybathroom
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 10:18am
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To think that we have a highly intelligent Welshman as our DoR, someone with 40plus years experience of professional rugby as player and coach, who has come in since January and has made some fundamental changes to our coaching setup and the way that we approach games, yet the WRU pick an ex England fitness coach (who has no playing experience and had been working outside of rugby for nearly 20 years) as the DoR for the whole of Welsh rugby. This just sums up the WRUs abysmal track record in appointing the wrong people in the wrong roles at the wrong time. I’m so glad that Nigel agreed to come back in January as our interim DoR but can’t help but think that Welsh rugby could have benefited from his vast rugby knowledge had he applied for / or been successful in getting the WRU DoR position instead of dastardly Dave.
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Posted By: SA14
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 11:10am
I think the whole thinking behind it was having someone with no affiliation whatsoever with Welsh rugby. Understandable imo.
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Posted By: Redadare
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 11:18am
Mmmmm what changes on the field? Training? ND has been out of rugby for a long long time,are we seeing it on the field? What am I missing, last time I looked we were last but 1, any other sport DP would of long gone,ND isn't the first man to prop him up but Ill say it again what's changed? Personally I cant see any changes at all,and nothing but nothing will change until DP walks,and that doesn't look like any time soon unfortunately.
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Posted By: Paul10
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 11:32am
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I think the whole thinking behind it was having someone with no affiliation whatsoever with Welsh rugby. Understandable imo. [/QUOTE]
And Reddin had no experience of Olympics before driving UK to its biggest medal haul in 2012 and he had no experience of football before helping Southgate massively improve England's international performances. He just doesn't or can't communicate in an emotional way.
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Posted By: Scrletsfan32x
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 11:32am
| If we do survive the first job of the board is to thank Peel for his service and send him on his way. |
Posted By: Wasp
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 12:27pm
------------- We're still still here, but I wish we were in an Anglo-Welsh |
Posted By: Legendinmybathroom
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 12:40pm
Nigel has stated that there will be further changes to the coaching setup, I wonder if Peel will be following his mate Payne out of the door?
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Posted By: ap sior
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 12:41pm
When does Dwayne's contract come to an end ?
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Posted By: Abbey
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 1:00pm
Is our (and Ospreys) budget being aligned to Cardiff and Dragons next season or are we still on the £4.5m? |
Posted By: Seagultaf
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 1:32pm
Surely to get the same money as Dragons next season, Scarlets and Ospreys would have to sign up to PRA25, which is no longer available. My earlier question remains, are the extra squad players Nigel is talking about, being paid for from monies awarded in the recent court case against WRU? Even if the award is at the lower end of the £2M to £12M range expected, that would fund a significant increase in squad depth. |
Posted By: ladram
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 2:24pm
| Believe kit when I see next year's squad |
Posted By: Scrletsfan32x
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 3:31pm
DIV]Surely the WRU would say that they will take it off the amount we already owe them. |
Posted By: Wasp
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 3:49pm
Correct ------------- We're still still here, but I wish we were in an Anglo-Welsh |
Posted By: Seagultaf
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 4:43pm
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Surely the WRU loan to the Scarlets is based on an agreed payment schedule. Over half of the money, the CLBILS loan, we know is on a 20 year payback. Whilst the Scarlets may however chose to use part or all of any award to reduce debt and consequently loan repayments and interest charges. I doubt the courts would take kindly to any attempt by the WRU to offset any cash award made against loans with previously agreed repayment schedules. |
Posted By: RR1972
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 5:07pm
| did we win the court case? it has all gone very quiet on that |
Posted By: Seagultaf
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 5:14pm
If the Scarlets won, and confidence was high a week ago. Then I doubt we will ever hear, the result will be kept confidential. If the WRU won, I fully expect them to loudly brag about winning the case. |
Posted By: ladram
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 5:16pm
| At least we would know |
Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 7:30pm
 ------------- In a world where you can be anything – Be Kind. |
Posted By: Kentexile
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 8:14pm
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Apologies if I have got it wrong but I believe we were looking at an arbitration and not a high court case. With arbitrations then there will more often than not be agreed confidentiality provisions so only the parties to the arbitration will actually know the outcome.as opposed to a high court case when the judgement usually will be public. Cracking start tonight.
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Posted By: Seagultaf
Date Posted: 20 March 2026 at 10:38pm
I was under the impression that the parties had failed to agree a solution by arbitration and the matter has now been heard in court. |
Posted By: Ruckem
Date Posted: 25 March 2026 at 4:08am
It doesn’t work that way, the WRU can’t receive a bill & use money owed to pay it off without agreement from the opposing party We already have agreed payment plans in place & these cannot be changed legally without agreement from both parties or a party fails to meet the terms We could be awarded say £10m, go straight to the WRU & demand the full amount regardless of other agreements Personally I think we’d use any award as leverage to negotiate a better deal/license terms In terms of Nige, the way he’s talking makes me believe he’ll be here next season & possibly a year after to complete the rebuild to decent squad level/numbers You can see it in the players, how they’ve bought in to whatever Pwds is selling, our performances (barring Connacht) are improving & the boys look a lot happier even Dwayne looks happy again Our attack is starting to fire, saw somewhere we are the most clinical team converting 22 entries, young Carwyn has 5 try assists from his 4 starts, the most in the league is 8 in 13 games The set-piece has returned to expected levels, not 100% sold on AVDB there & would like a dedicated set-piece coach, sorry Emyr that’s you too but he has the academy role I think Nige/Dwayne will be a package & I’m not 100% against it, DP is a great coach just not a great head coach which is fine A new defence coach, set-piece, possibly forwards if AVDB leaves & S&C (honestly think we’ve gone backwards since Carney’s arrival) It’s a hard sell from the outside but if behind the scenes we can offer 3yr contracts then I think there’s a few coaches out there that will see the quality players we have & love a rebuild
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Posted By: Seagultaf
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 2:00pm
| Taylor Cahill linked to a move to Scarlets and he is Welsh Qualified. Apparently a replacement for Douglas who is leaving for Japan. |
Posted By: Scrletsfan32x
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 2:03pm
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Posted By: Tony Clifton
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 2:04pm
That would be a positive. I do like Douglas though.
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Posted By: Paul10
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 2:06pm
| My favourite bit of these stories about Taylor Cahill is noticing that Johnny McNicholl is playing for Crusaders. Good man. |
Posted By: ap sior
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 2:39pm
As did Halfpenny, Murray and Anderson.
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Posted By: ap sior
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 2:40pm
Having played together, Cubby and Johnny would be quite close.
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Posted By: glyndwr
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 3:01pm
As he’s Welsh qualified, it wouldn't be a one year deal as it would be with the intention of capping him for 🏴 as he’s of interest to the national setup. ------------- Yma O Hyd. |
Posted By: Seagultaf
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 3:16pm
As he is a WRU target and Welsh qualified, the WRU will guarantee a two or three year contract, as they have done already for Ospreys. |
Posted By: Legendinmybathroom
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 3:35pm
| If he’s WQ then that would be a good move for the scarlets, especially if it’s a 2 or 3 year contract with the WRU. |
Posted By: Seagultaf
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 3:39pm
Cahill is Welsh qualified, a regular starter for Crusaders at just 22 and a long term target for the WRU. Could be a great signing! |
Posted By: glyndwr
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 4:07pm
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I have a feeling that Nigel will remain as DoR for next year and whomever he looks to bring in under him as part of a new coaching setup/reshuffle will then take over from him post 2027 if things go well for us. ------------- Yma O Hyd. |
Posted By: Tony Clifton
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 4:21pm
| Seems like Nigel is the point of contact now. Haven’t seen anything from Peel for the last two months. |
Posted By: ladram
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 4:38pm
he was sat next to him last week
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Posted By: Redadare
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 5:14pm
Is he actually picking the team or running day to day things? I assume he has no coaching part?
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Posted By: Mugwuffin
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 5:21pm
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Posted By: Tony Clifton
Date Posted: 26 March 2026 at 5:31pm
More mean as far as media goes. Davies was the subject of this BBC article. Seems like Nigel is more the face for coaching staff now.
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