THERE was a time when the Welsh Rugby Union went to elaborate lengths to avoid awarding caps, almost as if it were a cost-cutting measure. When the All Blacks rumbled into Cardiff Arms Park in November 1974, Wales had ample reason for believing they would break the habit of a lifetime and rise to the occasion.
Their six-strong Lions’ Test contingent from the invincible tour of South Africa that summer were reunited en masse. JPR Williams joined them in a way which could never happen today, turning out for the London Welsh sixth XV after the Big Five selectors asked him to prove his fi...