Nerveless: Leigh Halfpenny celebrates after kicking the winner in the 2012 thriller

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Wales were gathering a mighty team before World War 1 intervened and nearly wrestled a Grand Slam off one of England’s strongest ever teams and the mainstay of the side was a no-nonsense mean machine pack that fought its opponents into submission. Step forward the so-called ‘Terrible Eight’ – Jack Jones, Harry Uzzell, Percy Jones, the Rev Alban Davies who skippered the side, John Williams, David Watts, Thomas Lloyd and Edgar Morgan. Their reputation went bef...