“Nervous? He didn’t seem a bit nervous. He just got stuck in. You could see he would be one for the future.”
So says former Skewen coach Richard Ball, recalling the day Dewi Lake made his debut for the club in a Welsh Championship derby with Trebanos.
Coincidentally, the match was the then 17-year-old’s first outing at hooker after his conversion from blindside flanker. It was a keenly fought affair, not without what the late Bill McClaren might have called ‘a bit of argy-bargy’ had the great man been behind the mic that day.
