Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools

BEFORE the mid-1970s Plymouth College, although competitive enough locally, had no great pretensions as a rugby school – but that changed radically with the arrival of Roly Jones, one of the hundreds of fanatical, rugby-daft, Welsh school teachers and educationalists who breathed fire into the English schools system in the 70s.
I’m not sure English rugby has quite acknowledged this huge debt and if Wales have occasionally nicked some of England’s most promising schoolboy players I’d say that is still a small pric...