The 1993 Five Nations Championship was the 64th series of the Five Nations Championship, an annual rugby union competition between the major Northern Hemisphere rugby union national teams.
I’m not interested in how talented you are, because talented players are everywhere’. He was an inspirational coach.”That game in 1998 was dubbed by one newspaper as ‘the most violent game in schools rugby’, with forwards Dean Colclough and Alex Sanderson two of the main men getting amongst it. We didn’t have an especially big pack but we were mobile and had some dangerous runners behind who liked to get the ball moving.”(Members of the Wales Schools side in 1997 including Rhys Williams, second from right in the back row. When former Wales and Cardiff fullback Rhys Williams reached into a bag of old match programmes in his shed recently, little did he know the memories that would be awakened.At the top of the pile was ‘Wales Schools v England Schools’ from April 12, 1997. Both were narrow losses.England, on the other hand, had swept aside all who stood before them, their most convincing victory coming prior to their visit to Narberth when they beat Scotland 55-18 in Preston, Lancashire.
Both were narrow losses. It became apparent reasonably quickly that we were a very strong, dominant team.
I was only 17 and I’d never been wound up as much as Gary Powell wound me up that day, chirping at the ref telling him to ‘keep an eye on Flatman, sir’.” Insults (and perhaps blows) may have been traded, but years later the two are friends.In the closing minutes, Wales were leading 17-15 thanks to tries from Rhys Williams and scrum-half Mike Tindall, playing opposite Williams at outside centre, scored both England’s tries, while fly-halves “We should have won that game,” concedes a rueful Williams. In 1997 we turned up with the ‘everyone hates England thing’ in our minds – I’m not sure they really do – and our flanker Michael McCarrick, a future Royal Marine, used it as motivation. To meet him was amazing.”(Williams on the Eden Park pitch before the game against New Zealand Schools. But first, a trip down west.“It annoyed us because it was almost like that was as far away as they could take us,” says Flatman of the journey to the picturesque Pembrokeshire town. “They didn’t like that.”The whole state-private topic is one that Flatman hears often. Maybe we can trace the most famous drop goal in rugby all the way back to that day in Narberth. “We played the traditional Wales Schools style of rugby. Wales v England Rugby Union 1991 - Duration: 13:28. Going into the final match of the schools tournament against England in 1997, Wales had beaten Scotland on the pitch outside Murrayfield, lost away to France – “there were cages around the pitch, it was crazy” – and at home to Ireland in Maesteg. “We were turned over in the last play of the game and Wilkinson slotted a 45m drop goal. )England, in contrast, had size in abundance complemented in no small part by a burgeoning gym culture that was starting to emerge in rugby. (The programme in question features a who's-who of future rugby stars. “We went to Oz and beat every provincial side then battered Australia Schools,” says Flatman of a side that was then considered the best schools side in the southern hemisphere, having already beaten New Zealand.“In theory we should have suffered in the heat but because we were so much stronger and fitter than them, by the end of the game it was cruelty. “He did the same against Surrey Schools and so on, but it was only once you knew him and played alongside him that it wouldn’t have surprised you if you were told he was going to kick the winning drop goal at a World Cup.”“It was the first time I ever played against Jerry Collins,” says Williams, “and there were 13 Maoris in their starting line-up. A total of 135 …
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