Rhodri and his wife Rhian may be part of a large Morgan contingent but they are not shouting about it.<\/p>\n
Cautious of sounding too boastful, they typify the reserved Welsh nature. Call the Welsh anything, just never arrogant.<\/p>\n
But was there a moment they realised their son was special? <\/p>\n
“Jac was named forward of the tournament in South Africa when he went there with Wales Under-18s and I thought then, maybe he is alright,” said Rhian.<\/p>\n
It is said half-jokingly, but they are immensely proud. If Wales were only going to have one Test Lion on this trip, they have a true Welshman. <\/p>\n
More comfortable conversing in his native tongue than English, actions speak louder than words for the hard-working back rower, humbly representing the Welsh village he is from and now the nation.<\/p>\n
If Morgan means a lot to Cwmtwrch, what does the village mean to him?<\/p>\n
“Everything really,” says Rhian.<\/p>\n
“He’s with his own there. They’ve always backed him, not just for his rugby but for him as a person. <\/p>\n
“He’s as comfortable with three-year-olds as the 80-year-olds who are sitting by the bar.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhodri and his wife Rhian may be part of a large Morgan contingent but they are not shouting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}