“The job of Welsh coach is like a minor part in a Quentin Tarantino film: you stagger on, you hallucinate, nobody seems to understand a word you say, you throw up, you get shot. Poor old Kevin Bowring has come through the coaching structure so he knows what it takes… 15 more players than Wales have at present.”
So wrote the journalist Mark Reason as Wales struggled to make headway under Bowring during the mid-1990s. A lot of Wales coaches will understand the sentiment behind the words.
Bowring had succeeded Alan Davies as Wales head coach. It’s not known if Davies had Kipling drummed into him as a schoolboy, but the former Wales coach prided himself on dealing with success and failure in much the same way.
