Over the last 20 years almost as many embryonic Lions have taken their first steps at what must be the most productive nursery in the British Isles. Every national schools’ body can lay claim to a galaxy of international names but none can have nurtured quite as many at such an early age as the junior group of the Welsh Schools’ Rugby Union. They have been rolling off their assembly line from the age of ten or eleven.
Naturally the majority are Welsh but not exclusively. England have also reaped a reward, massively so in the shape of the Vunipola brothers whose Grand Slam succes...