When Richard Hibbard played for the Barbarians against England in 2019, he wore his Taibach RFC socks.
The Port Talbot club was where the man who went on to scale the heights with Wales and the British and Irish Lions played his early rugby.
Other former Wales internationals to have cut their rugby teeth with Taibach include James Hook and the late Billy Mainwaring, renowned hard-man who also figured for Aberavon in the 1960s and 1970s.
