■By ROB COLE
LLANDOVERY captain Richard Brooks is leaving the club after nine seasons in the Welsh Premiership.
No.8 Brooks, 31, remains convinced the Premiership is still the best breeding ground for Wales’ brightest youngsters but that they need to be playing more often than they are.
“I started at Bonymaen and when I stepped up to the Premiership with Llandovery I noticed a big difference in the physicality tempo and speed of the game,” said Brooks, who switched to back row when Swansea Schoolboys decided he was too slow to play fly-half and brought in Dan Biggar....