The duty Bods for Saturday 8th and Sunday the 9th were Chris Davies, Ant Garland, Ady Gillespie and Al ‘Dot Cotton’ Blewitt.
Normal training sessions were undertaken both Saturday and Sunday with a lot of topless rugby to improve the tan lines. Sqn Ldr Rich Lane quickly followed suit and when he removed his T-Shirt all players and support staff were stunned by his horrendous set up, to such an extent that Eric dropped his pint of full fat milk and Alfie Myles cracked his first smile of the tour. To finish the session the squad took part in a focus handling session which required use of nicknames for both players and coaching staff. At this moment a whole range of nicknames were born such as badger teeth, badger feet, badger rig, fridge head, George Forman grill head and fridge head.....and that was just for Nathan Jones. The session was quickly brought to a close when one of the coaching staff who can’t be named (small baldy mans syndrome) flashed as the boys cried out for the return of Steve “barrel” Worrall. Both sessions were hard work with a lot taken from both. The squad were treated to both afternoons off in order to watch the quarter finals of the RWC.
By Saturday night all the gallant English boys were disappointed by their teams performance although Jimmy ‘The Muss’ Bardgett reckoned it would be very different if they had had more Northern Rugby League players in the squad. The dirty Taffs were overjoyed by the result and forced the whole squad to watch a replay of the welsh game on Sunday!
