Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
There’s better Welsh players than him who never achieved that. I’d feel more sorry for likes of Rushy, Sparky and Big Nev. At least Ash went to a major finals.

We’ve produced some good players but not that many top, top players imo. We’ve never had a strong enough squad imo weve always had to compliment the top players with average joes. 1994 was probably our strongest squad and we were a penalty kick from reaching the finals.

We didn’t play well enough this campaign, we struggled with injuries or suspensions to key players and just don’t have the strength in depth to back up when the key ones are injured or struggling with form.
The problem I have with that is that Norn Ireland have had far less strength in depth than we have but are on the verge of a third World Cup finals in 36 years. Of course the likes of Rush,Hughes,Saunders, Giggs, Ratcliffe, Southall and Toshack are more deserving of sympathy because they never made it to a major finals. A great shame.