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Stephen Jones confident Wales are laying the foundations for sustained excellence

Source: guardian.co.uk Sport

Nov 04, 2009

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The fly-half says his country can build on recent success – starting against the All Blacks on Saturday

Wales are aiming high again after 30 years of sporadic success and deep lows. When they say they are confident of doing well against New Zealand, a team they have not beaten since 1953, it is an assertion backed up by a new-found ambition that last week saw them open a £4m centre of excellence that will allow all the national sides from the Under-16s upwards access to state-of-the-art training and support facilities.

The centre, at Wales's Vale of Glamorgan base, boasts four training pitches, one indoors, one with floodlights and another based on the exact dimensions of the Millennium Stadium, a fully equipped gymnasium, two administration and training blocks, team rooms and changing rooms. Geography sometimes worked against Wales in the days of the club system with 18 first-class clubs crammed in the south of the country often provoking jealous rivalry, but it is now working for them with most of the players who will use the facility based within a 90-minute

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