All over for Evans after 111 lineouts

PETER JACKSON

The Beatles’ first album and Ron Evans’ landing on the international stage happened as near simultaneously in 1963 as made no difference.
Please, Please Me arrived to a fanfare of trumpets on both sides of the Atlantic. Evans, through no fault of his own, retreated from a winning debut for Wales at Murrayfield to the sound of The Last Post.
It was his luck to win his cap on the day his captain, Clive Rowlands, helped create a Five Nations record which still stands today for the most linesout or lineouts in one international. There were 111 of them at Murrayfield and nobody suf...

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