I Won't Play for Wales Again Unless I'm Sure It's Helping Our Rugby's Future

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AS HE WALKED off the pitch and out of the World Cup, Gareth Thomas looked like a man who knew his future was uncertain. He may have been clutching his 100th Welsh cap but his face was a picture not of joy, but of doubt and despair.

Now the man who led Wales into rugby's greatest tournament and suffered along with all his countrymen as his team lost to Fiji and so failed to progress beyond the pool stages has had time to consider the way forward.

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I Won't Play for Wales Again Unless I'm Sure It's Helping Our Rugby's Future

Whenever pressed on the subject of his plans for after the World Cup, Thomas always said he would never retire. He wanted, he said, 'to be like Allan Bateman' and carry on playing forever.

But the disappointment of that historic defeat by Fiji has forced Thomas to reconsider. Now, he says, if he is picked to play for his country again, he will turn down that chan...

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