RHODRI MCATEE
THE FORMER WALES SEVENS AND CORNISH PIRATES WINGER.

When Wales won the Sevens World Cup as 80/1 outsiders in 2009, we ended the evening sober. It was something like £300 a round in the Atlantis Hotel nightclub and none of us had become millionaires overnight! We went into that tournament just happy to be in Dubai as we’d been to all manner of places – Georgia, Copenhagen and Hannover – just to qualify.
We were very relaxed all the way through even when we met New Zealand. We’d beaten them 7-5 the year before in Wellington when their scrum-half h...