75 Quotes by Mike Ruddock

We have an agreement with the regions that a week prior to a Test the Welsh-based players in our starting XV stand down for their region.

We are incredibly disappointed that Sonny has decided to step down from the international stage and made every effort to dissuade him from doing so.

With 12 players away we saw what players can do. It may not have been the toughest competition but the team did develop real cohesion and that will be important during the autumn series.

We kept the ball away from contact and scored some great tries

To be quite honest, it was the best time to play them last season. They might view us in the same light this year having lost a few of our players. We're in a similar position to them last year, but I'd hopefully like to think that we can still perform and get the result that we want at Twickenham.

We've got the players, we believe, if they put their game together can do very well in Paris,

We've had a tendency to hit a couple of flat spots in the games against England and Italy, ... We've got away with it so far, but against a side like France we could be in trouble.

With reference to questions of player power, if there were disaffected players I will raise the issue of any support structure that should have been in place to deal immediately and appropriately with the matter.

We might have surprised a few sides last year,