Cryotherapy chambers, protein shakes, diet sheets and post-match mixed zones are all something of a modern-day mystery to Rhiwbina RFC prop Roy Pesticcio, and why wouldn’t they be?
For Pesticcio is 51 and unashamedly still playing the game the way he has always played it.
“I’m still playing 1990s rugby,” he laughs. “You don’t get the scrum collision in the front row anymore, but other than that the game’s pretty much the same as far as I’m concerned. The all-round camaraderie — being part of a squad and having a few beers with the boys after matches — is still great.”
