sorry didnt make myself clear, the thread titles says this Saturday is our biggest game ever, whereas I would suggest that Hereford in 1997 was a bit more important
and afterwards you slip upstairs and turn off the lights and are a bit disappointed you might not get an earthshatteringly mad night of filth but at the end of the day a shag is a shag. Better to get one than none at all, and you never know you might actually enjoy it more than you originally...
Its the nature of the beast that for some NSC has become, first it was McGhee, then Henderson and more recently Mayo.
(Awaiting the "says the poster with Mickey Mouse Adams as an avatar" comment)
but most of the top players either pull out or make themselves unavailabe if they dont want to play - I'm sure the glory of representing your country it quite a draw for some of them