PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

MARK Ring never thought Welsh rugby would come to this; their four regional teams failing en masse to meet the modest qualifying criteria for the non-champion zone of the Champions Cup.
And so, in keeping with the national team’s disappearance from the world’s top ten, Europe’s elite club tournament kicked off for the first time without a single Welsh team, not even a token one to make up the numbers for old time’s sake.
Five of the Six Nations are there among the 24, all except the one beaten by the rest earlier ...