I’VE known Steve Tandy for a long, long time – ever since we started at Neath as apprentices on the same day way back when in 1998! I’m absolutely delighted for him with his call-up to coach the defence for the British & Irish Lions against South Africa this summer. He will do an absolutely outstanding job.
I’m a couple of years older than Steve, but our careers went alongside each other for long periods and I count him as a good friend. I’d heard he had been given the Lions gig before it was officially announced and when I spoke to Steve last week to congratulate him, he couldn’t hav...