Player-Power Back As Welsh Stars Look to Ride Roughshod Over Gatland's Law for French Pay-Day
Western Mail › December 16, 2011
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DURING the dark days of Ruddockgate in early 2006, the phrase player-power became something of a spectre hovering grimly over the Wales squad.
Specific details were glossed over, minds were made up, and the consensus emerged that Mike Ruddock's shock departure happened because he received the same reaction to his success from his players as Julius Caesar got from the Roman Senate.See the full content of this document
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Player-Power Back As Welsh Stars Look to Ride Roughshod Over Gatland's Law for French Pay-Day
Time eventually healed the damage, and the elite end of the Welsh game now inhabits vastly different times.
Yet player-power appears to have made a comeback, albeit in a different guise.The drip-drip of top Welsh players who have either opted, or who could opt, to ply their trade on foreign fields, is currently unprecedented. Yesterday, Luke Charteris became the latest defector to as yet undisclosed...See the full content of this document
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