A formidable hooker, he was a mainstay for Wales and the British and Irish Lions throughout the 1970s. The valley clubs were great, everyone was saying well done and having a few pints and had a collection to help me on my way. Bobby 'the Duke' Windsor was part of the legendary Pontypool front row, immortalised in the Max Boyce song. LEWIS STEELE: James McConnell enjoys a day to remember with 19-year-old Liverpool midfielder getting an. favorite Wall Art and Photo Gifts from Memory Lane Bobby Windsor, Pontypool and Welsh international rugby player.

It’s the pinnacle of everything, I had been chuffed to be selected for Wales and the Lions was brilliant. There were some crazy times off the field on that tour, but we trained like dogs and took the rugby really seriously. Bobby Windsor was the hooker of the triumphant Wales team of the mid ‘70s and a key figure for the invincible Lions on the tour of South Africa in 1974. The old hooker, revered the rugby world over as ‘The Duke’ for his fearless ferocity on the pitch and bonhomie off it, never intended to live to tell the tale. Anybody who knows their rugby knows that Bobby Windsor is a legend of both the Welsh team and The British and Irish Lions.Windsor made his debut for Wales against Australia in Cardiff in 1973, a match Wales won by 24 points to nil with Windsor scoring a hooker's try, and took over from Jeff Young as first-choice hooker.

Eddie Howe admits Newcastle may have to sell players this week to protect the future of the club with the. There are 100 tablets missing from these packets and unless you produce them, we’re taking you to the hospital to have your stomach pumped”. Robert Williams Windsor was born in Newport on 31 January 1946 and educated at Brynglas School before becoming a steelworker and later a sales representative. If someone with a good sense of humour wants the same thing as me, come on over and see how we get on.It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. He took some real stick from the opposition during games, but he was a gutsy man, a real hard player and a great player too. On the later tour of New Zealand in 1977 he played only in the first test and did not recapture his form in South Africa. The days when Mike Burton was instructed to hit South Africa's Free State one-eyed lock, de Bruyn, to blunt his fearsome reputation . After rising through the ranks at Cross Keys and then Pontypool, he earned his first international cap with Wales in 1973, against Australia, and he marked the occasion by scoring a try in a 24-0 victory.