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<blockquote data-quote="Lardinho" data-source="post: 155055"><p>I was born in 1978 so wasn't born when the series went ahead, but I've seen many clips and the 71 and 74 Lions tours are legend.</p><p></p><p>As for the players of yesterear, well Gareth Edwards is a rugby pundit from time to time and gives rugby interviews for various programmes here etc. JJ Williams is one of the BBC Wales rugby pundit team and appears on TV all the time during the 6 nations and does commentry on the Welsh club games. JPR Williams stuck with his job after playing but always loved a game of rugby. He was the surgeon who operated on an abcess I had on my neck when I was 2... JPR cut me open and healed me!! It has a nice scar too, so I show it off haha but JPR is a bit of a legend really, tough as old boots and loved a good fair fight. He used to turn up at certain clubs in Bridgend I think it was, getting on close to 50, and say "Anyone got a game for me? C'mon boys, I want to play" and would quite happily play 80 minutes for that club's 3rd side, at number 8, where he played a lot of his club rugby. Phil Bennet and Willy John McBride don't do much rugby pundit work these days, but both have been interviewed for various DVDs of the Lions etc. along with people such as Barry John, Gerald Davies, Mervyn Davies etc.</p><p></p><p>As to my first memories of watching rugby as a fan, which I didn't get into for a few years after I started playing mini rugby at London Welsh under 7s, I remember seeing a world cup highlight programme from the Inaugural rugby world cup in 1987, I then watched rugby avidly and remember very clearly Wales winning the Triple Crown in 1988, Adrian Hadley scoring 2 tries from the wing against England (one of the many players, whose poaching to rugby league left the Welsh side depleted for the next 10 years, along with Jonathon Davies, Scott Quinell, Scott Gibbs, Paul Moriarty, John Deveraux etc.) and living in Cardiff, I went to see Wales play Scotland, being in the old children's enclosure in the old Arms Park, being 20-10 down to the Scots at half time, only to come back in the 2nd half and from 19-20 down, Jonathan Davies scoring 2 drop goals in the last 10 minutes, each to raptuous applause, to win 25-20. After that most of my early memories are of the Lions beating Australia in 89, Scotland pipping England to the Grand Slam in 1990, England winning back to back slams in 91 and 92 and the 1991 world cup. Slowly I became more and more rugby mad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lardinho, post: 155055"] I was born in 1978 so wasn't born when the series went ahead, but I've seen many clips and the 71 and 74 Lions tours are legend. As for the players of yesterear, well Gareth Edwards is a rugby pundit from time to time and gives rugby interviews for various programmes here etc. JJ Williams is one of the BBC Wales rugby pundit team and appears on TV all the time during the 6 nations and does commentry on the Welsh club games. JPR Williams stuck with his job after playing but always loved a game of rugby. He was the surgeon who operated on an abcess I had on my neck when I was 2... JPR cut me open and healed me!! It has a nice scar too, so I show it off haha but JPR is a bit of a legend really, tough as old boots and loved a good fair fight. He used to turn up at certain clubs in Bridgend I think it was, getting on close to 50, and say "Anyone got a game for me? C'mon boys, I want to play" and would quite happily play 80 minutes for that club's 3rd side, at number 8, where he played a lot of his club rugby. Phil Bennet and Willy John McBride don't do much rugby pundit work these days, but both have been interviewed for various DVDs of the Lions etc. along with people such as Barry John, Gerald Davies, Mervyn Davies etc. As to my first memories of watching rugby as a fan, which I didn't get into for a few years after I started playing mini rugby at London Welsh under 7s, I remember seeing a world cup highlight programme from the Inaugural rugby world cup in 1987, I then watched rugby avidly and remember very clearly Wales winning the Triple Crown in 1988, Adrian Hadley scoring 2 tries from the wing against England (one of the many players, whose poaching to rugby league left the Welsh side depleted for the next 10 years, along with Jonathon Davies, Scott Quinell, Scott Gibbs, Paul Moriarty, John Deveraux etc.) and living in Cardiff, I went to see Wales play Scotland, being in the old children's enclosure in the old Arms Park, being 20-10 down to the Scots at half time, only to come back in the 2nd half and from 19-20 down, Jonathan Davies scoring 2 drop goals in the last 10 minutes, each to raptuous applause, to win 25-20. After that most of my early memories are of the Lions beating Australia in 89, Scotland pipping England to the Grand Slam in 1990, England winning back to back slams in 91 and 92 and the 1991 world cup. Slowly I became more and more rugby mad. [/QUOTE]
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