BRIAN Davies survived a stormy debut for Wales at Lansdowne Road in a draw against Ireland marred by an Arctic wind of gale-force. Two months later, in January 1963, he lined up in Siberian conditions at the Arms Park in a lost cause against Richard Sharp’s England.
Again, Davies kept his place and duly helped Wales stop the rot with a win at Murrayfield. Nobody got past the Llanelli centre on an afternoon when Scotland were rendered pointless during the infamous match of supposedly 111 lineouts.
Clive Rowlands’ kicking the ball as no scrum-half had kicked one before meant that ...