A bunch of Welsh hairies!
Now I can’t claim this as my own – it has been culled from comments and postings from my brothers. Please find below A Welsh Moustachioed XV. I have added a few selections but mostly only edited the team.
Props by the scrumfull; locks – easy; back row – ok-ish; centres – all right; wingers – no probs. It is yer hookers, 9’s, 10’s and full backs that are tricky. I have had to go to extremes for fly-half and 15 and even then, Robinson, although a Welsh capped 10, has never played for Wales sporting a hairy upper lip. If you want a famous 15, we have to go all the way back to 1890; Billy Bancroft was an outstanding full-back for Swansea, made 33 consecutive appearances for Wales and was Glamorgan’s first ever professional cricketer. According to the (excellent) Swansea RFC site, when he retired he become the groundsman at St Helens. Just as his father and grandfather had been before him. If you want to be a little more contemporary than ‘BB’ we could try Alun Donovan (top right), who is a big mate of the current Worcester Coach. I know that Robert Jones has worn a ‘tache but can’t find a picture anywhere to corroborate it. 
And, because my brothers will dispute it, I have included a picture of 'The Duke' wearing a little bandito-esque number for the Lions.
1 Brian Williams
2 Bobby Windsor
3 Graham Price
4 Phil Davies
5 Bob Norster
6 Tom David
7 Paul Ringer
8 Mervyn Davies
9 Robert Jones
10 Nicky Robinson
11 Clive Rees
12 Steve Fenwick
13 Arthur ‘Monkey’ Gould
14 TGR Davies
15 William ‘Billy’ Bancroft
If anyone out there can suggest an alternative team or players (especially at centre, fly half, or full back), please feel free.
with thanks to Llewel and Meredyd
Paula Yates once said "Any man with a moustache may as well write 'I am a dickhead' on his upper lip." I think we have given the lie to that statement, eh.
Andrew wrote...
this has worked out really well wilbach and opens up all sorts of possibilities in my (probably overactive) mind. One could spend endless hours putting together Welsh XVs of various sorts. Just some examples to whet(sic) the appetetite. Here are 10 - just off the top of my head
1. All players of the same surname ( but not Williams, Jones, Evans, Davies - that would be too easy)
2. Players born in one place eg Tredegar.
3. Players who only spoke Welsh
4. Players who worked as milkmen
5. Players who were teetotal all their lives.
6. Players who never married.
7. Players who married twice
8. Players who spent time in jail
9. Players who did not spend time in jail - am struggling with that one
10. Players who became Members of Parliament (oops - should include AMs now, to be politically correct)
The list is endless and could be a format that may in years to come even challenge charades and Trivial Pursuits as the nation's fav post-Christmas lunch pastime!
wilbach says - Big Colin and i used to do just that. on nights out we would be ostracized and relagated to our own table for working out 'blonde welsh xv's whose names begin with letters from the first half of the alphabet'. loads of fun! for us, ahem... BUT, you try and get a team made up of davies's - we tried and failed!
Posted by: Andrew | July 6, 2007 1:33 PM