AT a time when too many clubs all over England and Wales have gone to rack and ruin, Maesteg Harlequins shine through the gloom as a beacon of hope: an old-fashioned club thriving on old-fashioned rugby principles. Best of all, they have done it without paying any of their players as much as a brass farthing.
“We are very proud of that,’’ says Quins’ secretary Andrew Lewis. “Inevitably, we have lost players as a consequence. We lost four recently to clubs who do pay but for us it’s always been about ethos and it always will be. We try to give ...