:00:24. > :00:29.Good evening from Cardiff. Tonight we have a bumper programme. The
:00:29. > :00:33.Olympians, Paralympians, British Lions, Glamorgan Dragons, and a
:00:33. > :00:43.Premiership manager. Stay with us for the programme. Coming up
:00:43. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:49.Other home unions ready for the Rugby Sevens Team GB? You need Team
:00:49. > :00:54.GB playing two years out from Rio. Dog days at Glamorgan, how can the
:00:54. > :01:01.county recapture past glories? supporters have lost the will to
:01:01. > :01:04.live. Tony Pulis on premier-league style and aspirations. If you said
:01:05. > :01:10.to me I would be lucky enough to manage Wales, there would be
:01:10. > :01:15.fantastic. -- that would be fantastic. All that to come, plus
:01:15. > :01:20.we will be hearing from Olympic and Paralympic medallists Hannah Mills
:01:21. > :01:24.and Ellie Simmonds. But first, here we are at their home of Welsh rugby,
:01:24. > :01:29.and with a Lions tour at the end of the season there are discussions
:01:29. > :01:35.already up and down the country on just he will make Warren Gatland's
:01:35. > :01:39.scored two stadia? In four years rugby sevens becomes an Olympic
:01:39. > :01:49.sport. Steffan Garrero has been looking at how will the Home Unions
:01:49. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:56.plan to create the Great Britain As the Welsh side enter their 8th
:01:56. > :01:59.consecutive season and defend their World Cup title plans for a Great
:01:59. > :02:03.Britain side in Rio 2016 are being hatched. Rugby sevens has come a
:02:03. > :02:08.long way from an end-of-season knees-up for the boys, to a full-
:02:08. > :02:13.scale Olympics board. I was fortunate enough to do three of the
:02:13. > :02:19.tournament, Adelaide, Hong Kong, South Africa, back when I was 19,
:02:19. > :02:24.had a great laugh, very enjoyable, the first time exposed to those
:02:24. > :02:29.crowds, you play for 50,000 people in Hong Kong, and at that age that
:02:29. > :02:32.experience is invaluable. The first point I thought I could be a
:02:32. > :02:37.professional rugby player was playing sevens. It was a really big
:02:37. > :02:46.thing for me, boosted my confidence, my skills. It was a massive
:02:46. > :02:52.platform for me, grateful for the coaches for bigamy. -- picking me.
:02:52. > :02:55.Harry Robinson is the latest to the produced getting experience of the
:02:55. > :02:59.Sevens series first. With the lure of the Olympics in four years' time
:02:59. > :03:04.the spotlight is on the shorter form of the game as an end product
:03:04. > :03:08.as well as a developmental tool. is now an Olympic sport, we have
:03:08. > :03:13.had meetings, and there are so massive opportunities for Great
:03:13. > :03:18.Britain. If we get the selection right and the management, there are
:03:18. > :03:25.serious medal possibilities. There is no reason we cannot go to Rio in
:03:25. > :03:29.2016 and win a gold medal in men's and women's rugby. You need to move
:03:29. > :03:32.it on at a pace. Unless we get this organised fairly quickly now we
:03:32. > :03:35.will run out of time compared with other countries who will be more
:03:36. > :03:39.organised. One of the major hurdles to overcome is how to make a
:03:39. > :03:43.British team gel. Sport Wales has seen the International Rugby
:03:43. > :03:46.Board's initial plans for sevens over the next four years. They make
:03:46. > :03:50.no mention of Team GB appearing until the Olympics. Qualification
:03:50. > :03:55.which has yet to be ratified by the International Olympic Committee can
:03:55. > :03:58.be achieved by the individual performances of any of Wales,
:03:58. > :04:04.Scotland and England. Controversially giving GB three
:04:04. > :04:09.shots at qualifying. It is quite a complex situation given the teams
:04:09. > :04:15.that have been voting for this process, it bodes well be in a
:04:15. > :04:18.position against the beat, so it is unfair, they understand it.
:04:18. > :04:22.Separate nations combining for a one-off event is something we saw
:04:22. > :04:27.with the Olympic football team in London, and the British Olympic
:04:27. > :04:32.Association one lessons to be learned from that model. -- want
:04:32. > :04:35.lessons. If you look at the Welsh players, they are brilliant. Deep
:04:35. > :04:43.down they probably wished they had been better prepared in terms of
:04:43. > :04:46.the actual tournament. That was why it was so annoying they lost.
:04:46. > :04:53.you are plainly Zealand and cold, you will get beat. The team has got
:04:53. > :04:56.to plan tournament. You have got to factor all this in. My big we shout
:04:56. > :05:04.is we're not looking back in four years and saying we left it too
:05:04. > :05:08.late, we left too much to do. Imagine playing in tournaments
:05:08. > :05:12.before the Olympic Games, in terms of the I R b seven series that
:05:12. > :05:16.works well, would you like to see the British side involved? I think
:05:16. > :05:24.it has got to be. There has got to be some upfront discussions now
:05:24. > :05:33.about how it will work. United in TD -- Team GB would be at least two
:05:33. > :05:38.years before Rio. We need to get the organisation in town to give
:05:38. > :05:41.them a realistic chance. They will obviously have the Rugby World Cup
:05:41. > :05:47.in the previous year, would it be feasible for any of those, George
:05:47. > :05:51.Joffe, to be dropped in? -- George North. Personally I think yes. He
:05:51. > :05:55.certainly makes the lines to gather them up. He could make the sevens
:05:55. > :05:58.team if he wants to. If you want to be the World Cup, that is your big
:05:58. > :06:04.priority but in terms of the Olympic players, the sevens players
:06:04. > :06:09.would be evicted for me -- big tick. Whether the British team is made up
:06:09. > :06:11.of sevens experts or big name stars we understand the Irish RFU would
:06:12. > :06:16.expect all of their centrally contracted players to turn out for
:06:16. > :06:21.the Republic of Ireland in 2016, even if they qualified for Great
:06:21. > :06:25.Britain. Four years is a long time but the Olympic cycle has already
:06:25. > :06:28.begun. The current crop of Welsh seven players begin the World
:06:28. > :06:33.series on Australia's Gold Coast in a fortnight, and for many this is
:06:34. > :06:40.the start of a journey that could see them end up on a podium in Rio.
:06:40. > :06:42.There are members of the squad that will be in the GB squad in 2016 and
:06:42. > :06:46.there is great motivation to stop we have seen how London has
:06:46. > :06:53.influenced the country, really, in terms of sport, everybody got
:06:53. > :06:57.behind it and it was an amazing event. That would be huge.
:06:57. > :07:01.It is good to here World Cup- winning coach Sir Clive Woodward
:07:01. > :07:06.giving the big thumbs-up to George North and his Lions heads. From one
:07:06. > :07:10.man who polarises opinion to another. And tomorrow after two
:07:10. > :07:16.successive defeats in the Premier League, it Swansea travelled to the
:07:16. > :07:26.Britannia Stadium to face Stoke and a Welsh manager he is never one to
:07:26. > :07:26.
:07:26. > :07:32.Stokes style is not to everybody's taste. It was once described by
:07:32. > :07:36.Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger as rugby, not football. But what does
:07:36. > :07:43.he make of the criticism? Absolutely fantastic when that
:07:43. > :07:48.happens. It even he has so some kind words of a certain periods. --
:07:48. > :07:51.said some kind words. We are happy with ourselves, with our lot. We
:07:51. > :08:01.think we are doing it the right way. We like to play through the pitch
:08:01. > :08:04.quickly,, we like to get around the box as quickly as we can. We are a
:08:04. > :08:08.better team than what people give us credit for, we are not as direct
:08:08. > :08:11.as people think we are but we don't mind them thinking that way. That
:08:11. > :08:17.is fine. Everybody said we were absolute sets to be relegated the
:08:17. > :08:21.first year, it has been a great journey. Since 18 promotion to the
:08:21. > :08:26.Premier League in 2008 the Welshman has guided his team to three mid-
:08:26. > :08:30.table finishes -- since getting promotion. Should heed look at a
:08:30. > :08:34.more direct approach? There is nothing right a wrong, just adapt
:08:34. > :08:40.the system to the players you have, or adapt the place to the system
:08:40. > :08:47.you want to play. The team plays very direct, especially at home, a
:08:47. > :08:54.lot of pressure a new, and you have to try to get out of that pressure,
:08:54. > :08:58.we did have to defend too deep because they are very strong.
:08:58. > :09:05.has signed some good players, they are physically more adept, have
:09:05. > :09:10.given more strength, especially size wise. A proud Welshman, he has
:09:10. > :09:14.offered to take -- take charge for the national side following the
:09:14. > :09:17.death of Gary Speed. For two defeats in the opening World Cup
:09:17. > :09:22.qualifiers he is a sympathetic observer. Been disappointing, I
:09:22. > :09:26.watched the game, you want him to do well because the fact we haven't
:09:26. > :09:30.done so well for a long time. What Wales have to do, they have to
:09:30. > :09:36.start winning a few games. If they can pick up a couple of wins in the
:09:36. > :09:40.next three, four games, the table might change. The back end of the
:09:40. > :09:44.tournament to qualify for a World Cup would then become very
:09:44. > :09:51.interesting. Chris is an experienced manager of. He is a
:09:51. > :09:55.football man and he will get a few more breaks. He has come up and
:09:55. > :10:00.spoken to Ryan about playing for Wales. I think there is a broken
:10:00. > :10:05.leg there for the Arsenal player. This tackle broke the leg of the
:10:05. > :10:09.Wales captain so was playing for Wales ever really on the cards?
:10:09. > :10:14.has come up as they do Ryan, five minutes, it really over the
:10:14. > :10:20.situation with Ramsey and what he had said about Ramsay, he would
:10:20. > :10:27.have to give the all-clear for Rhine to play. Chris wanted to
:10:27. > :10:32.clear that up with Ryan, what they said between each other. Ryan wants
:10:32. > :10:35.to continue with his dream of playing for England. Chris is doing
:10:35. > :10:38.as much as he possibly can to try and get as many good players
:10:38. > :10:45.together as he can, and then put his plays in place to play well,
:10:45. > :10:49.win games. In the cut-throat world of the Premier League he is now the
:10:49. > :10:55.4th longest serving manager in the division. What about the switch to
:10:55. > :10:59.international management? For me the Welsh job is for an experienced
:10:59. > :11:03.manager. I think managing the Premier League club is for younger
:11:03. > :11:08.manager. Having said that, look at Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, they ain't
:11:09. > :11:13.doing too badly. And still a middle-aged man, a long time to go,
:11:13. > :11:19.I hope. I don't think any person would not want to manage the
:11:19. > :11:28.country, I would love one day if you sit in the I would be looking
:11:28. > :11:31.have to manage Wales, there would be fantastic. Wales may have to
:11:31. > :11:35.wait for him, club management is the place for him for the time
:11:35. > :11:40.being, at least. I never take anything for granted, especially in
:11:40. > :11:44.this game. That is why every day I wake up and try to work out what I
:11:44. > :11:51.did the previous day to make sure I stay in it, because I still love
:11:51. > :11:57.the game, still got a lot of energy and passion for it. You have to be
:11:57. > :12:05.dedicated, you have to be full-on as a manager, had fully --
:12:05. > :12:09.hopefully that light inside me keeps burning for a few years.
:12:09. > :12:12.In an intern you can hear coverage of that match on Radio Wales and
:12:12. > :12:17.Radio Cymru. We will stay with Swansea now as
:12:17. > :12:22.the City can rightly boast being home to one of the stars of the
:12:22. > :12:27.London Paralympics. She won more medals on her own than entire
:12:27. > :12:37.countries like India and Argentina. We went to meet the golden girl of
:12:37. > :12:37.
:12:37. > :12:43.It is gold for the 13-year-old Ellie Simmonds, a tremendous
:12:43. > :12:46.performance. In Beijing 2008, aged 13, Ellie Simmonds became the
:12:46. > :12:50.second youngest British Paralympian ever. She returned with two gold
:12:50. > :12:54.medals, became the young sports personality of the year, she then
:12:54. > :13:00.followed that up with 10 world championship titles, and five
:13:00. > :13:05.European gold medals. A poster girl before the 2012 games, her
:13:05. > :13:08.achievements in the Aquatics Centre placed her as one of the faces in
:13:08. > :13:13.the greatest of British sporting summers. Born with a bone growth
:13:13. > :13:20.disorder her father said Mike Gayle has made the world stop and think.
:13:20. > :13:25.-- My Girl. Many congratulations on all your achievements. What has
:13:25. > :13:30.life been like since the Games? Life since the Games has been
:13:30. > :13:34.amazing, the experiences I have got to do, the things I have had the
:13:34. > :13:38.opportunity to take part in has been unbelievable, I'm so lucky.
:13:38. > :13:45.The success I have had at the Games was up there, yet the things I have
:13:45. > :13:49.to do -- I get to do afterwards a rub their as well. Elly was born in
:13:49. > :13:52.the West Midlands with a condition which is a form of dwarfism. For
:13:53. > :13:56.her to realise her potential in competitive swimming she would have
:13:56. > :14:01.to start training full-time with her coach, Billy Pye, in Swansea.
:14:01. > :14:07.Rather than leave the whole family, her father, brother and three
:14:07. > :14:12.sisters stayed at home and she and her mother moved to to Swansea.
:14:12. > :14:16.only wait to get the best out of myself was to move to the Wales
:14:16. > :14:26.international pool, and facilities, the group that trainer, it was
:14:26. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:39.perfect for me to get the best out Leading up to London, I had a lot
:14:39. > :14:45.of pressure on me. The atmosphere and having that massive crowd
:14:45. > :14:55.behind you and having all the places sold out with British
:14:55. > :15:02.supporters, it gave us that extra bit and it really helped. You have
:15:02. > :15:06.to enjoy the success at the time. She was involved in an epic race
:15:06. > :15:10.with the American in the 400 metres but broke the world record. In the
:15:10. > :15:20.200 metres individual medley, it was another gold and another world
:15:20. > :15:21.
:15:21. > :15:25.record. In the 100 metre freestyle, she swam a personal best by over a
:15:25. > :15:31.second but still lost to the American despite swimming as fast
:15:31. > :15:38.as she ever had in her life. I did not expect to swim as well as I did.
:15:38. > :15:45.I said six personal bests. I walked away with two goals, a silver and
:15:45. > :15:49.bronze. After you finish one of the races, the emotion is evident. You
:15:49. > :15:55.splashed water over your face to disguise it. Was it really
:15:55. > :16:02.emotional audit relief? It was emotion after the 400 metre
:16:02. > :16:09.freestyle. It was such a tight race. She broke my world record
:16:09. > :16:15.beforehand and since then I have trained so hard and to have such a
:16:15. > :16:21.tough race, we were neck and neck all the way and it was every
:16:21. > :16:24.emotion possible. The motto of the Paralympics was to inspire a
:16:24. > :16:32.generation and to change people's attitudes towards the Paralympic
:16:32. > :16:39.Games. To you think -- do you think that has happened? The support from
:16:39. > :16:44.the general public has been amazing. Paralympics bought his right up
:16:44. > :16:51.there now. It will have inspired a lot of youngsters and hopefully
:16:51. > :16:57.they will be the next generation. Your father said, "My Girl has made
:16:57. > :17:03.the world stop and think". Is that true? I don't know to be honest. I
:17:03. > :17:13.think I have contributed but it's not just me. The whole of Team GB
:17:13. > :17:18.did amazing. I played my part. what next for Ellie Simmonds?
:17:18. > :17:24.have achieved everything I wanted to achieve but I've always want
:17:24. > :17:28.more. I want to push myself to the best of my ability and when I know
:17:28. > :17:34.I have done that, I don't know what I'll do, but at the moment I'm
:17:34. > :17:37.enjoying it. If I don't enjoy it, I'll stop.
:17:37. > :17:40.To cricket now and another huge blow for Glamorgan this week as
:17:40. > :17:43.star bowler James Harris confirmed he was leaving the county to join
:17:43. > :17:45.Middlesex. So will failures on the field lead to more top players
:17:45. > :17:55.leaving? And where next for Glamorgan after another
:17:55. > :18:21.
:18:21. > :18:25.disappointing season? Ian Hunt This is the new cricket museum at
:18:25. > :18:30.Glamorgan where fans can reminisce about the glory days and trophies
:18:30. > :18:33.won which must feel like an age ago now and when one poor season
:18:33. > :18:36.follows another and you star players bale out, you have to
:18:36. > :18:41.wonder what it will take for Glamorgan to ever have more great
:18:41. > :18:45.moments like these? Recriminations and finger-pointing after another
:18:45. > :18:50.poor season when Glamorgan won just eight of their 38 matches. A
:18:50. > :18:56.radical proposal from the chairman who told us that heads should roll
:18:56. > :19:03.in high places. I don't think we've got the right people there. From
:19:03. > :19:11.the chairman to be chief executive to the committee. To be honest, I
:19:11. > :19:17.think you need to sweep it all away. What Glamorgan a needs now is a
:19:17. > :19:23.whole culture change. The supporters have lost the will to
:19:23. > :19:27.live. There are fed up with it all. Quite frankly, Glamorgan has become
:19:27. > :19:32.a laughing stock. I honestly believe that in order to change the
:19:32. > :19:35.culture, we have to move some people on. Glamorgan's chief
:19:35. > :19:42.executive was unable to respond because he is a hot up -- on
:19:42. > :19:48.holiday. But he responded to up the criticism in a phone interview.
:19:48. > :19:53.are halfway through the job and what is needed is not some radical
:19:53. > :19:58.quick fix. What is needed is a lot of hard work and for the whole club
:19:58. > :20:03.to pull together. We have a pretty clear plan of what needs to happen
:20:03. > :20:09.through the winter. Nobody is making excuses and nobody is hiding
:20:09. > :20:17.what has happened and everyone is determined to fix it. This is the
:20:17. > :20:22.gruesome breakdown of summer 2012. games -- three games. There are
:20:22. > :20:30.second bottom of their one-day league with just three victories.
:20:30. > :20:34.The 2020 campaign was ruined by the rain and poor form. It is pretty
:20:34. > :20:39.simple in cricket to see how well you have performed because it is
:20:39. > :20:45.black and white. It is in averages and way you finish in the table. We
:20:45. > :20:49.are short of where we want to be. Glamorgan have been a losing side
:20:49. > :20:53.for a long time. When it comes under close matches, they know how
:20:53. > :21:00.to lose better than they know how to win. That is something that
:21:01. > :21:06.needs to be turned around. There are no quick fixes. I watched a
:21:06. > :21:13.fair bit of their cricket this season and it seems to lack that
:21:13. > :21:16.absolute determination. We won three championships and those were
:21:16. > :21:23.done by teams that actually believed they could win. I don't
:21:23. > :21:28.get the feeling when I watched that there is a passion out there.
:21:28. > :21:35.are a side were not used to winning games of cricket, they're not going
:21:35. > :21:40.to have the belief. We have to give extra players in war are used to
:21:40. > :21:43.win games and their attitude can become infectious. All we have to
:21:43. > :21:50.get our support staff and coaches to drum into the guys what we need
:21:50. > :21:53.to do to win games of cricket. Doesn't it come down to talent and
:21:53. > :21:59.perhaps that you don't have the talented players that this county
:21:59. > :22:04.used to have? I think we've got a team that is talented enough to
:22:04. > :22:10.perform. We are not the best team in the competition but we do have a
:22:10. > :22:20.team that can perform. When we did perform to our ability we competed
:22:20. > :22:23.
:22:23. > :22:27.with anybody. But they keep hearing the same thing over and over again.
:22:27. > :22:34.This year will be better, we will work hard, but there is never any
:22:34. > :22:42.change. We are looking at a few tours, potentially a tour to South
:22:42. > :22:46.Africa, India or Australia. We are keen to take the players away on an
:22:46. > :22:56.intensive 12 day-trip and get them working hard away from the winter
:22:56. > :22:56.
:22:56. > :22:59.here. We also want to bring in some specialists. You have to think
:22:59. > :23:03.outside the Square and look at different people. But failure comes
:23:03. > :23:11.at a cost with Glamorgan's star bowler James Harris confirming a
:23:11. > :23:20.move to Middlesex this week's. -- this week. To lose a player you
:23:20. > :23:27.have seen since he was 13 or 14, it is disappointing. I think if he'd
:23:27. > :23:30.have stayed, England honours would have come. But he feels that going
:23:30. > :23:36.to the first division will promote his chances further and I can't
:23:36. > :23:43.blame him for that. Cricket is getting more like football with the
:23:43. > :23:46.transfer system. James Harris things he's got a better chance in
:23:46. > :23:56.the first edition so off he goes. The danger is that all second-
:23:56. > :23:57.
:23:57. > :24:00.division clubs could be feeder clubs for the first division. A
:24:00. > :24:10.player like James Harris feels the only way he can further his career
:24:10. > :24:13.is to move on. It is disappointing. Supporters might put up with
:24:13. > :24:17.anything as long as there are more moments like these again. As long
:24:17. > :24:22.as another winter of hard work brings something to smile about
:24:22. > :24:25.next summer. Ian Hunt reporting there and Sport
:24:25. > :24:34.Wales will keep you up to date with all the news from the SWALEC
:24:34. > :24:37.stadium as it happens. But back to the Olympic success now. The first
:24:37. > :24:40.Welsh woman to win a medal in Olympic sailing was Hannah Mills,
:24:40. > :24:49.who came home with a silver. Steffan Garrero caught up with her
:24:49. > :24:54.at an event being held in Cardiff for the first time.
:24:54. > :25:00.This is what is known as extreme sailing, designed to redefine
:25:00. > :25:08.sailing as a spectator sport and it gives the cloud -- the crowd a
:25:08. > :25:18.close-up few. The competition attracts some of the best
:25:18. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:29.professional sailors in the world. What have the past few weeks been
:25:29. > :25:35.like? Manic. We finished the games and went to the closing 7 --
:25:35. > :25:45.ceremony. We then went back and forth to London to do all kind of
:25:45. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:53.random things like for two days and media days. When were you happy
:25:53. > :25:57.with your silver medal? Wednesday when our fleet racing
:25:57. > :26:07.finished and we had a day off before the final race. We secured
:26:07. > :26:07.
:26:07. > :26:13.the silver that night and we were pretty excited that night. Standing
:26:13. > :26:22.there, getting the medal you have dreamed of your whole life, it is
:26:22. > :26:31.kind of frustrating when you wanted the gold but it is just a bizarre
:26:31. > :26:35.feeling. You can't describe what emotions you go through. We feel we
:26:35. > :26:44.have got some unfinished business in Rio. We definitely want that
:26:44. > :26:50.gold medal. Back in her home town, Hannah Mills has joined Team Wales.
:26:50. > :26:56.It is going to be very exciting racing out here. It is really nice.
:26:56. > :27:01.The Olympics was a high pressure event and they wanted to nail it.
:27:01. > :27:06.It is nice to come here and enjoy sailing and enjoy a different
:27:06. > :27:14.challenge. Compared to the rest of the sport, budgets on the extreme
:27:14. > :27:22.series are relatively small. boats are not too expensive but
:27:22. > :27:29.they are made of carbon. They can break quite easily. It is full-on
:27:29. > :27:35.when it goes wrong. They are big boats but the concept is exactly
:27:35. > :27:40.the same. It is just a bit quicker and mental at times! The series is
:27:40. > :27:46.a change of of eight races all over the world. Races are 10 minutes
:27:46. > :27:52.long and courses are mostly oval in shape. It is sailing's version of
:27:52. > :27:57.the Velodrome Warwick running track. To adjudicate amongst the chaos,
:27:57. > :28:07.umpires on the water issue immediate penalties for
:28:07. > :28:08.
:28:08. > :28:13.infringements. As the teams move to the retreat -- Riviera for the next
:28:13. > :28:23.leg, the Welsh group are looking forward to next year. We want a
:28:23. > :28:23.
:28:23. > :28:27.Welsh brand represented for the full tour and the eight events.
:28:27. > :28:31.We wish Hannah Mills and team Wales all the very best.
:28:31. > :28:34.That's it for this evening. Remember to let us know if you know
:28:34. > :28:37.someone who deserves to be our BBC Cymru Wales Sports Unsung Hero this
:28:37. > :28:39.year. They have to be unpaid, and over 16-years-old. All the details