SHANE WILLIAMS

WALES AND LIONS LEGEND

Well, I didn’t see any of that coming! Two retirements within an hour of each other on a Friday afternoon is unusual to say the least. Given it involved two of the most iconic players of the professional era in Welsh rugby made it even more stunning. It left me baffled, bemused and wondering what the hell was going on.
Once the initial shock of hearing that first Justin Tipuric and then Alun Wyn Jones had both decided to retire from international rugby had subsided, I asked the same question as every other Welsh rugby fan. Why?
Having accepted the i...