IF I WAS still playing I’d be equally alarmed and concerned at having to take a 25 per cent pay cut as the current professionals are in Wales. We are too often guilty of overinflating the salaries of our elite sportsmen and claiming they aren’t worth the money.
Well, how many jobs do you know where people go to work every day and put their bodies on the line? One bad injury and it can be a case of life or death, lower down the scale it can mean an end to your livelihood.
Players have mortgages to pay, families to fund and all the usual expenses to meet. The ones who earn the big...