When the fledgling Ospreys first took flight in the Celtic League, they had no idea that it would come to this: a ten-day trek to Europe and Africa.
The tournament’s quantum leap from inter-provincial to inter-continental has left the former double champions halfway through a trip from Swansea to Bloemfontein via Treviso, from one non-Celtic region to another. New Frontierism isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be.
The Celts have been pushing the boundaries back as a matter of sheer economic necessity, forced to look at the bigger picture in a far-flung search for new stre...