When Ioan Lloyd reflects on the whole experience of having made his Wales debut at 19, a couple of words sum it up for him: “Absolutely crazy.”
The utility back from Cardiff had made just four starts for Bristol when he won his first cap against Georgia in November 2020, with a second outing to follow versus Italy a fortnight later. As he looks back, some two years on, he readily admits it was surreal in the extreme.
“I was not really living in the moment at the time. Everything was going so quickly. It was way ahead of where I was actually seeing,” he says.
