Kristian Dacey thought he had seen it all during his playing career, but nothing had quite prepared him for the events of the past few months.
Here’s a man who was a member of Warren Gatland’s controversial Geography Six on the 2017 Lions tour of New Zealand, a hooker with eight Wales caps to his name and close on 200 appearances for Cardiff, someone who has witnessed all the political machinations in Welsh rugby over the past 15 years.
Yet this has been different, this has been something else in terms of the scale and seriousness of the situation.