Wales Rugby Quotes

The best nicknames that I have ever come across: -Dai Young (ex-Wales rugby prop, current coach of Wasps) –‘Only the Good’. -Billy Twelvetrees (England rugby centre) –‘36'. - Martin Offiah (ex-rugby league legend)–‘Chariots’ - Nia Wales (ex-work colleague) –‘Chester’ - Fitz Hall (QPR defender) –‘One size’ -David Jones (lower league rugby player who had half an ear bitten off) –‘Dai 18 months’ - The New Zealand junior rugby team -the small blacks -The New Zealand basketball team -the tall blacks

It is a joke currently doing the rounds of the clubs of Wales that in any race to make it to the pitch on time, Quinnell the Elder would have been trampled under the feet of Roger Lewis… It has been officially ratified that our Rog can go from the posh seats into the arms of the lads quicker than Justin Tipuric in a Tardis.’1 (Eddie Butler on Roger Lewis in ‘Wales regions’ chorus of anger finds voice against WRU’s Roger Lewis’, The Guardian, 6 April 2013)

1907 also saw the formation of the NSW Rugby Football League, which broke away from Rugby Union over the issue of player payments. Traditionally, Union had enforced amateurism. That was fine for affluent players, but working-class men could not take time off to train and play without receiving compensation. Again, the working classes had a win, with professionalised Rugby League soon displacing Union in New South Wales and Queensland. Current and future Labor politicians were among League's early leaders. H.V Evatt, who would go on to lead the Labor Party nationally, served as one of the founders of Sydney University's Rugby League club. When he first ran for the electorate of Balmain, Evatt advertised in the official Rugby League journal that he was 'the Rugby League candidate'.