Rod Young

Criminal Solicitor. Cardiff City & Glamorgan fanatic.

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@Vijay456V60026 Andy Caddick

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@SagarH62 It’s Kim Hughes

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@GlamCricket @SomersetCCC
Glamorgan v Somerset on Friday 29th May in Cardiff £20 for an adult ticket.
Return fixture at Taunton on Thursday 4th June. The cheapest adult seat is £39 rising to £46 and £51.
How is that fair?!

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

Wow - This has created a great debate about parenting, I love to see it! 🙌

I can’t help but notice tho- there are some utter melts responding to this🤣

To those people - Allow me to push you right over the edge then…(trigger warning!)

In addition to my football approach - My 5 year old son also does tennis. We insist the coach ‘scores’ his performance, to him, out of 10 each time. My boy is gutted when he scores below 8, but knows if so, he must try harder next time to beat his own score. He bursts with pride when he achieves it.

At a recent swim lesson, he messed around the whole time. So when we got home, he had to give me his pocket money box. I took ‘pennies’ from it (which he was most upset about!) whilst explaining that if he wants to mess around during a lesson, he can ‘pay’ for it himself & waste his own money. He hasn’t messed around there, during lesson time, again.

And during his first ever ‘fun run’ - When the event had finished & everyone else was sat, I convinced him to push himself & run a whole extra lap, alone. He did so, with gusto.

I push him as best I can.

I don’t indulge (and never will) so-called ‘gentle parenting’, victimhood, trigger warnings, safe-spaces or loser mentalities. I will teach him that life can be hard & that he will be knocked. And that’s ok. But always, always dust yourself off, go again & do whatever it is, to the best of your ability.

But - I serve all this (and more), alongside a staple diet of: deep love, support, affection, fun, spontaneity, adventures, laughter, happiness and hugs.

I hope all of these ingredients (and others) combine to one day create a wonderful man. One filled with motivation, decency, integrity, strength, self-belief, respect, competitiveness, courage, resilience, grit, accountability, confidence, grace, kindness, compassion, happiness, humour, good manners, good banter and a whole lot more (including a Hull accent! 🤣🤣)…

If so…that for me, is parenting done well and I’ll say again, an approach which, if many others adopted - would see this country (and our young people!) in a far better place than it currently is.

👍🏻

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

This is a very good question

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@NotFarLeftAtAll Frightening

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@nickwebb2017 How bad is it? Do you know? Looked like his elbow though not whilst he was facing the bowling. Weird. They’d have been all out by now if he’d been fit!!

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@nickwebb2017
No VdG bowling? Injured his arm?

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@FootballLeagueW Cardiff City are far better equipped for the Championship.

[Nigel Harris @NigelBlues]

Just bloody shoot.

4 clear shooting opportunities in first 15 minuted. First 3 saw players take an extra touch so shots were blocked or meek, the 4th which was best touch had 4 players pass it around so wasted again.

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@JackoRugby I disagree Peter. Cardiff lost a world class striker + £15 million because Nantes employed a crooked agent to ‘look after’ him. Why shouldn’t we pursue compensation? The only stain is on Nantes. Ask Sala’s family!

[David Owens @asoundreaction]

How Brennan Johnson stayed on that pitch for 120 minutes was a crime against football, as was bringing on Harris and Cullen, before Thomas - and then not even throwing on Broadhead and Koumas in extra time.

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@LozzaFox @CatharineHoey Unbelievable double standards

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@Savigma @thebarryhorns I’d have brought on Chambers. Can play central defence or midfield or both!

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@timcwegener @LeagueOne25 I can’t even remember that penalty!

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

Just heard from a taxi driver how @JeremyVineOn5 cycled up to his cab at a traffic light and filmed him with his camera and then reported him to police. Taxi driver got a 6 points and a 500 pound fine. What a nasty thing to do -taxi wasn’t moving and as soon as it moved he would have stopped talking Vine should start reporting cyclists rushing through red lights if he wants to play tell tale

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@lady_valor_07 100/100 😂

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@MatthewStadlen @SamanthaTaghoy If it’s stunned it’s not halal meat!

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

So boiling lobsters while they’re alive (ie. can feel pain) is being banned because it’s cruel to animals and causes unnecessary suffering…

…but it isn’t cruel to refuse to stun animals, slit their throats, then hang them up so the blood drains from their bodies????

[Rod Young @Bluebeetle1927]

@sciencegirl Someone who can cook a breakfast