Former Pontypool coach, who has died aged 93, brought a new breed of physicality to Wales after a 1959 trip to New Zealand
It was the middle of October in 1989, a few days before Pontypool faced
New Zealand, and the rain was beating hard on a mobile office at a steelworks a few miles from the town. Inside it, Ray Prosser, the club’s coach who had forged the career of many an international forward, was explaining his philosophy on rugby.
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