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Peter Jackson: Not much sign that Wales can close gap

Peter Jackson argues there is little evidence Wales are closing the gap on the world’s best, warning the WRU must replace empty optimism with honest self-assessment after another heavy defeat to South Africa.

All Black World Cup winner Grant Fox

The new Open golf champion was barely four months old when his father’s bombardment in Brisbane condemned Wales to defeat on a scale they had not known in more than a century.

Almost 40 years on, the result still bears supreme testimony to the most one-sided of all World Cup semi-finals: New Zealand 49, Wales 6, the margin widened to an all-time high by a fusillade of eight goals from Ryan Fox’s dad, Grant.
As manager, Clive Rowlands found a familiar silver lining to the dirtiest of black clouds.
Asked where Wales went from here, Rowlands, alias ‘TC’ as in Top Cat, lightened the mood with his...

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