Apart FROm The fact that the game has moved on a lot since Flynny’s day, the top players play every summer, if not in international tournaments then they have the long distance pre-season tours.

Far more frequent injuries and serious injuries now. Players pushing their bodies to the limit. In the 80s we’d get by with a squad of 12 pros and a couple of amateurs. Can you imagine trying to get through last season like that? We would have been putting half a team out if that.