In the build-up to last Saturday’s game in the Principality Stadium the joke doing the rounds in Wales was that they were just three red cards away from a Grand Slam. To put this in perspective, you could have backed Wales at 20/1 to win the Triple Crown before the start. There are an estimated 70-plus Welsh players playing in the Premiership or the Championship, of whom about 25 would be contenders for the Welsh squad. As in the first fallow week, they will all be obliged to play for their Premiership employers this weekend. Who knows, but it’s all somehow typically Welsh, for it’s invariably all or nothing with them.

Source: The Irish Times March 02, 2021 05:01 UTC