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The last brilliant Wales U20s team that beat Antoine Dupont's France on way to Grand Slam

Antoine Dupont didn’t even earn a mention in some of the match reports which were written.

Indeed, that night, the scrum-half who caught the attention was Reuben Morgan-Wllliams.

It was 2016 and Wales were playing France in the Under-20s Six Nations.

Then only a schoolboy, Morgan-Williams sent out a series of quick passes and looked quite the part for Wales. It wasn’t totally obvious the player facing him would be installed as world player of the year within five years and hailed by no less a No. 9 than Aaron Smith as being on another level.

But Morgan-Williams, who has since gone on to feature for the Ospreys, held his own back then, just as he did throughout a stylish Grand Slam-winning campaign for Jason Strange’s Wales U20 team.

They were up against a France U20 squad which contained four of the players who helped the French team put Scotland to the sword in the senior Six Nations tournament last weekend, with Dupont joined by Damian Penaud, Anthony Jelonch and the hooker Peato Mauvaka, who made such a storming impact off the bench at Murrayfield.

But the Welsh kids six years ago prevailed 16-10, albeit their opponents had a man sent off with 24 minutes to play.

Making the win even more commendable was the absence that evening of one of the best players in Strange's team in Owen Watkin, plus Dan Jones at fly-half.

They remain the last Wales U20s team to win a Grand Slam.

Here's what has happened to them.

His old coach at Cardiff Blues, John Mulvihill, reckoned the north Walian had the ability to play 50 times for Wales.

And that absolutely looked the case in 2016 with the rangy Williams giving Jason Strange’s team real attacking power with his ability to hit the line at pace.

He looked on course for a senior cap

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