Tour ‘great healer’
NZPA London The All Blacks’ crushingly successful and much-praised tour of Wales last year has been singled out as the main point in the Welsh Centenary season by the Centenary organiser, Ray Williams. Summing up the one hundredth anniversary celebrations in an interview in the monthly magazine. “Rugby World,” Mr Williams said: “I think the centenary was epitomised by the All Blacks’ tour. “We didn’t do as well as we might have hoped on the
playing side but we did away with the suggestion that all was not well between our two great rugby countries. “I think the tour was a great healer.” “I thought the All Blacks were marvellous, but just how good they are I don’t know,” said Mr Williams. In a comment perhaps stemming from the reality of a disappointing season rather than the high expectations which preceded it, Mr Williams said: “Beating us is all they’ve done.”
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