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“Back in the day, you’d have to wait until the Sunday morning, with all amateur Welsh League results printed in the back pages of the Wales on Sunday, for Saturday afternoon’s story to be revealed in full. ”
Another change that the internet has offered up over the years is the access teams have to results just a couple of hours – sometimes even minutes - after the final whistle on a Saturday evening. Back in the day, you’d have to wait until the Sunday morning, with all amateur Welsh League results printed in the back pages of the Wales on Sunday, for Saturday afternoon’s story to be revealed in full. If there was a particularly important result that could impact upon your own team’s fortunes you may have even picked up the club’s telephone and called up the particular rugby club to ascertain the score line.
Nowadays, comprehensive results, complete with updated league tables and amended ‘for’ and ‘against’ points are published on the ‘AllWalesSport’ website by around 6pm on a Saturday evening, detailing what’s happened over in neighbouring valleys or down in the cities and towns for all to see – our online, modern equivalent of the Saturday evening ‘green’ and ‘pink’ football sports papers of old. There’ll also be some clubs with Twitter accounts who will post live clips and highlight reels, in addition to providing updated score lines of matches as they happen, although it’s fair to say that this form of information is usually more forthcoming if the club in question happens to be winning the match at the time.
Yes, like life in general, “times, they are a-changin” and there’s not an awful lot we can do about it...
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