RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

My experience over many decades is that Welsh rugby is rarely in as bad a state as the doomsayers insist or, on the flip side, quite as healthy as their many Six Nations successes in modern times suggest. Supporters and commentators veer from one extreme to another.

So actually I wasn’t at all surprised at their superb display in defeat at Pretoria last week and even less surprised that their U20s have been putting up such a strong performance at the Summer Series in Italy. On Tuesday they play South Africa in the final and remember this is an U20 squad t...