The memory drifts back to an evening game at Stradey Park a couple of decades or so ago with Bob Norster surrounded by a pack of journalists in the car park post-match.
“Bob, do you think players should be on performance-related pay,” one of the scribes asked the former second row.
Without hesitation, Norster replied: “I wouldn’t go there if I were you. Someone might come up with the idea of performance-related pay for journalists.”