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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Novalis, you're "darkest days" really sums it up. During those heady days of the seventies, I remember Tony Lewis describing his schoolboy experiences of what it was like to sit in the Arms Park changing rooms and don the red jersey for the first time - and how the Final Score was never as important as the way you played the game.
Then the advent of the money years did not sit too well with the men from the valleys. Fire and passion were pushed aside as outdated living. But, I think Welsh rugby may be recovering now, though.
Rugby will always win thorugh - nothing so inspiring as seeing a side (any side) coming back when all is lost. Ireland came out of the French game with great pride and good heart - their followers still talking about it. Yet they were the "losers"!
And as I sang Land of my Fathers to my English colleagues (as they retuned from Twickers) a fortnight ago, I think they let me have my day "... because you'll have to make it last another twenty years!".
Then the advent of the money years did not sit too well with the men from the valleys. Fire and passion were pushed aside as outdated living. But, I think Welsh rugby may be recovering now, though.
Rugby will always win thorugh - nothing so inspiring as seeing a side (any side) coming back when all is lost. Ireland came out of the French game with great pride and good heart - their followers still talking about it. Yet they were the "losers"!
And as I sang Land of my Fathers to my English colleagues (as they retuned from Twickers) a fortnight ago, I think they let me have my day "... because you'll have to make it last another twenty years!".