Ronald Gwyn Waldron (born 14 December 1933)
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international player. He later took up coaching and is best known as the former head coach of Neath RFC
Neath Rugby Football Club ( cy, Clwb Rygbi Castell-Nedd) is a Welsh rugby union club which plays in the WRU Championship. The club's home ground is The Gnoll, Neath. The team is known as the All Blacks because of the team colours: black with onl ...
during the late 1980s when Neath dominated British rugby for a number of seasons. Waldron built a team of senior international players including Jonathan Davies and Allan Bateman. In 1990 he was appointed coach to the Wales national rugby union team
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but after certain players from the Cardiff club found his training methods too physically demanding he resigned in 1991.
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1933 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Neath
Welsh rugby union coaches
Welsh rugby union players
Wales national rugby union team coaches
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Neath RFC players
Barbarian F.C. players
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