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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 321981" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>Wales' problem will always be what happens in the schools. From my experience, every schoolboy here wants to play 10, or at least somehwere in the backs. No-one cares about the forwards, so children start refusing to play there. We had the perfect second row's playing centre, and wings etc. This is probably not true for some of the better schools in South Wales, but the coaching just isn't good enough at at that level (11-16).</p><p> </p><p>Anywhere North of Llanelli is ignored by scouts. I don't think a scout ever came to watch games in Aberystwyth, not even the county team! We had some seriously good players aswell that could have easily developed into great ones. Finally is the attutude of the youth clubs and coaches at teams like Llanelli. My cousin (from North Wales) went to trialls at the club and made it into the youth setup. He was a big powerful prop (farmer's son). He didn't last long though, as soon as he destroyed some kid who was considered the next big thing, at scrum time, he was basically just told to leave and never come back. They decided to overlook a possibly better player because he wasn't from the Llanelli region and outshone their wonder prop. This for me sums up everything that's bad with rugby in Wales, and why we won't progress much further when we ignore 1/3 of our population! Especially when that third is the farmign region where kids tend to be strong and powerful, you know the forwards Wales are cryign out for!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 321981, member: 13739"] Wales' problem will always be what happens in the schools. From my experience, every schoolboy here wants to play 10, or at least somehwere in the backs. No-one cares about the forwards, so children start refusing to play there. We had the perfect second row's playing centre, and wings etc. This is probably not true for some of the better schools in South Wales, but the coaching just isn't good enough at at that level (11-16). Anywhere North of Llanelli is ignored by scouts. I don't think a scout ever came to watch games in Aberystwyth, not even the county team! We had some seriously good players aswell that could have easily developed into great ones. Finally is the attutude of the youth clubs and coaches at teams like Llanelli. My cousin (from North Wales) went to trialls at the club and made it into the youth setup. He was a big powerful prop (farmer's son). He didn't last long though, as soon as he destroyed some kid who was considered the next big thing, at scrum time, he was basically just told to leave and never come back. They decided to overlook a possibly better player because he wasn't from the Llanelli region and outshone their wonder prop. This for me sums up everything that's bad with rugby in Wales, and why we won't progress much further when we ignore 1/3 of our population! Especially when that third is the farmign region where kids tend to be strong and powerful, you know the forwards Wales are cryign out for! [/QUOTE]
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