IAN ASHLEY PRICE

The local press had tagged this baby as being a war of the scrums; Kursk, Stalingrad and the worst excesses of the siege of Carthage would pale in comparison to the atrocities that were expected in the front row. The reality was somewhat more mundane. There seems to have been an outbreak of dropsy for the early part of the game and the Puma's managed to get ball back without their hooker doing anything - a minor miracle in itself.

Wales joined the dropsy brigade for most of the first half until… Continue

Forever to be known as the match this was as flat as several miles of linoleum, Wales were worse than indifferent. The All Blacks were poor but it was nothing compared to the Taff. Fantastically inept they threw away a chance to beat the opposition for the first time in er 56 years. Reputations - such as they were - were ruined.

It's nineteen thirty five again.
Or is it fifty three?
It could be five past seven.
Time's troublesome to me.

To win again?
It's not to late.
The Blacks are back.
But not too great.
Let's hope its not a seventy eight

Remember Andy Haden.

The All Blacks are here.

1978 is in the air and hyperbole runneth high; the ghost of Andy Haden throws his misbegotten soul out of the lineout once again.

But it is the nature of man is to forgive ( tempting Von Clauswitz's assertion that "To forget history is to be condemned to relive it.") and so we trudge to Cardiff in our droves in the hope eternal of a 'fair' game.

Oceans of booze will be consumed before we reach Tonypandy and much merriment will ensue with the usual pessimistic murmurin… Continue

Here's something you may have missed. Ferndale is a small village in thr Rhondda Fach. It is an a typical Welsh mining village with a history of coalmining. The local council decided to commemorate and celebrate the village's past by erecting a statue in bronze. Of what I hear you ask. A miner and his family? Winding gear or some other mining paraphenalia? That would be too easy. So they decided to erect a statue of a bronze cow. Yes that's right - a bronze cow.