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Article: Connolly: Thomas is a natural born Wales leader.(News)

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September 18, 2005
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Jonathan thomas is a future Wales captain and has been compared with one of the greatest rugby skippers of all time - John Eales.

John Connolly, the former Wallabies and current Bath coach, was the man who made Thomas captain of Swansea as a 19-year-old.

Connolly was the man who discovered and groomed the young Eales with Queensland in Australia. The tough-talking Aussie, whose nickname is 'Knuckles,' is a huge admirer of ...

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