05/10/2012 Sport Wales

He Good evening from the Celtic Manor, Newport where two years ago

the World of golf descended on Newport as Europe beat the USA to

win 2010 Ryder Cup. We look at on the legacy of that win, plus much

more on tonight's Sport Wales. Coming up tonight: We talk to Wales

manager Chris Coleman ahead of their must win qualifier against

Scotland. Now we do it or where I want to do it. Wallabies legend is

in town and he says it's now or never for Wales to beat Australia.

After season ending injury we talk to Swansea City full back Neil

Taylor. It is one of those freak things that happen to. I couldn't

do anything about it. Two years ago, and no-one would ever have thought

that the celebrations that we saw here at Celtic Manor on that Monday

could ever be topped, but last weekend at Medinah, the Europeans

staged arguably the greatest comeback of all time. But what's

been the legacy of hosting the Ryder Cup for Welsh golf? Gareth

Rhys Owen has been investigating. The scenes at last weekend were

almost identical to the ones we saw here when Graham McDowell secured

that historic victory. The Greens might have been a Welsh but there

was no red blood here two years ago. In fact, a decade has passed since

the last Welshman played in the Ryder Cup. So, two years on, what

is the state of Welsh golf was Mark we will see maybe in another 10

years -- of Welsh off? The last Welshman to feature for the

European team was built price who stand up all my -- film they could

send back in 2002. Price is now ranked 379th in the world. The

current world rankings don't make happy reading from a Welsh

perceptive, with the exception of Jamie Dodleston who lies just

outside the top 50. Chris Davies has fallen 300 places in the last

two years. This man is now ranked 400 night. I think we stay this has

been our best potential, Jamie Donaldson. Probably struggle to see

other than those two. I was convinced early on that Bradley

would be a Ryder Cup player. He got close a couple of times. I would

loved to be part of the Ryder Cup. But whatever cup you can be

involved in the, you get with. hosting the competition made any

real difference? Probably not. We will see maybe in another 10 years

if there is any fruits to bear from that. I think we have got better

coaches in Wales now than we did before. The legacy is affording

better golf coaches. But this takes time. The year after the Ryder Cup,

we saw a huge increase in the number of people participating. I

went up by 10,000 people. That would be due to the schemes we have

been running to increase funding. Golf development Wales was

established as a result. Two players who have benefited are

these two. We now have a driving range and a four hole course.

is a complete pathway now from beginners to becoming integrated

members of the golf club. strength of golf in Wales now is

very high, too to the legacy of the Ryder Cup and that one coming.

There has been plenty of a Welsh success at an amateur level. This

woman was a key member. So it is there enough support if you want to

take the next step? If you well over a good player, there is. -- if

you are the really good player. If you're a very good player, you get

everything you need. But there has probably not enough funding or

coaching for the masses to get enough players to come through.

in a perfect world we would have the funding to set up some sort of

transitional organisation that would help players in the

transition from top amateur golf to top professional golf. But Olivia

Hall won her first professional tournament this summer after

winning financial help in the early part of her career. But now she

struggles for support. I don't feel there is enough support. When I

compare myself to other nations, other girls have the same age as me,

the girls in Holland have got a fantastic backing from their

national Netherlands golf, and it would be fantastic to gain that

interest in Wales. But I don't blame the Welsh Golf Union all

sport Wales. We need to have more people playing golf to enable us to

get those role-models out there. the time when I was turning pro, we

had the lottery funding. I was very fortunate that it helped me to find

myself. He in 2007, this man played in the Walker Cup, the amateur

version of the Ryder Cup, alongside the current number one Rory

McElvogue. But that is where the parallels end. Despite stint in

European and Asian circuits, his career has now stalled. My funding

continued into when I was a pro. It wasn't enough to cover a season, it

was may be enough to cover two to three events. And then I sold

shares and myself with members of the golf club to fund it. And they

helped me for two years and wants the money ran out, might

opportunity ran out. You can continue working on again correct

you have to have the aspirations to go outside of Wales -- she can

continue working on your game. Despite having a smaller population,

three players from Northern Ireland have featured in recent Ryder Cups.

Is the triple success simply a coincidence? One thing that the

Ulster branch is very grateful for is the support of the executive in

Northern Ireland and sport Northern Ireland in particular if, for the

financial support given to those elite athletes. As far as golf is

concerned, the boys received payments which enables them to have

a competitive programmes throughout the year. Legacies take decades,

not months. The success of the 2010 Ryder Cup will be assisted by the

numbers in the local clubs but measures -- but measured by the

faces of our TV screens be years to come. It will always be numbers, we

can't accept that as an excuse, but I will be very disappointed in the

next two Ryder Cups we didn't see more Welsh players. I think Wales

does not have enough golfers and enough budget to improve the

golfers. I don't see us doing any better. A I think we're going to

get a dozen Ryder Cup players coming out of it because we have

the Ryder Cup here. I think that is dreaming. It takes a while for it

to happen. It doesn't happen in five minutes. If you ask when that

question in 10 years' time, it could be a different answer.

Working hard as everybody is. It would be nice to get myself back on

the track of improving quicker now. I would definitely be thinking

Well, from the drama of Medinah to a man who's hoping that some of the

European comeback magic will rub off on Wales. After two defeats

it's Scotland next in the World Cup Qualifiers so I caught up with

Wales manager Chris Coleman From international football to

international rugby, and in just over a month's time Wales' Autumn

internationals get under with a Argentina who this year joined the

To create the Ruby Championship Wales has been hit the six! It has

been just over three weeks since that defeat in Serbia. We have had

time to reflect. What role feelings now? Three weeks feels like six

months. We are bitterly disappointed. I felt the players

couldn't have done much more in that game. It was a very committed

performance, which was the opposite some days later in Serbia. For me,

it was probably the worst I had felt after defeat as a manager.

After the Serbia game, I felt sorry for the players. A was disappointed

but them but I also felt sorry for them because I think they thought I

was trying to do something that someone else had been doing and it

wasn't necessarily my way. It hasn't been working. For me, after

the Serbia game, it has given me three weeks to sit down and say,

right, now we have got to do it for the where I want to do it. There's

a lot of changes I need to make and I will make for this next camp. I'm

looking forward to it. After that defeat in Serbia, you seemed quite

angry with the players. You said it was time they proved they were the

golden generation. Do you still stand by that Audie regret it now?

A why don't regret that. They will be the golden generation of this

exceed. -- if they succeed. Don't forget, that is not them but in

themselves out there and saying, we are the golden generation, it is

other people. You have mentioned Gary Speed. How much has his death

in affecting the players and do talk about it and the Changing

Room? He will never be forgotten. Not by me or anybody else. But in

terms of football, we have got to move on and go forward. It is a

highly sensitive situation. I felt the pressure of that, I have done

all along. And almost, I have been walking in somebody else's

footsteps because Gary put a lot of good working. As soon as I got the

job, it was not necessarily my way. So what is Chris Coleman's way? You

say you want to draw a line under the last two games. What now?

we meet up with the camp, how we do things. I spoke with Adam Ramsey

yesterday because I think ready to go in another direction. -- I think

we need to go in another direction. It is time to change the captain,

which I will do. When he has turned up, he runs himself into the ground.

But I think he's trying too hard a lot of the time. He feels he is the

captain, he needs to be doing more, and are probably lose Adam Ramsey

as a player. But if you just concentrated on his own game, we

will probably get more out of him. That was at a tough decision. I

spoke with him yesterday and he was magnificent. He was very mature

about it and I think it is the pressure lifted off home. So here

is your new captain Christopher Hunnisett my new captain will be

asked to -- who is your new captain? Ashley Williams. He has

got enough experience on an international level. He is one of

the best defenders. He has been since he has been in the Premier

League. What is the latest on Craig Bellamy? Is he in or not? We have

picked 21. There waiting for confirmation from Fifa about James

Collins his suspension. What I don't want to do is pick him and

then for him to play loud. How much of Craig Bellamy is about physical

injury and how much is about what is going on in his head? He spoke

candidly recently about the effect Gary Speed's death has had on him.

Have you had that conversation with Cray? You can't physically makes

somebody, and play. If Craig is ready and wants to continue, great.

We welcome him. If he doesn't, like you said, he spoke very openly

about one or two problems he has in his personal life, and if that is

something he is trying to concentrate moron, and he feels

coming away and playing international football is too much,

then we have got to respect that. Either way, we need to say, right,

which way are we going with Craig? Ever a game as a must win and it is

almost a case of what happens next? I am not looking at it like that.

Scotland is another game and a chance for us to win. Are you

enjoying it or have you enjoyed it at all since he took over? I would

not Colleter enjoyment. It has been tough. -- call it. Not because it

is an international job but because of the circumstances. Thank you for

talking to us. We wish you all the very best for the upcoming games.

From international football to international rugby and in just

over one month, up Wells's internationals get under way with a

match against Argentina to this year joined the Southern hemisphere

try Nations to create the Rugby Championship tournament. The Pumas

are widely fancied to defeat the Wallabies who have had a less than

successful year. An Australian legend came to South Wales this

week. We cut up with David Campese. -- caught. David Campese, capped by

the Wallabies 170 times between 1982 and 1986. Often absurdly

brilliant. And occasionally slot. - - flawed. But 64 mostly inspired

rise of an discredits the Diego Maradona other international rugby.

When you pass, you pass the ball like this. David Campese was in the

Vale of Glamorgan this week passing on his thoughts about how rugby

should be quite a local school children. You are not the enemy,

they are! The opposition! I have had a problem trying to coach in

Australia but that is because people see me as outspoken. I love

rugby and people have been over here talking to me, but things have

moved on. You look at the current Australian side in the way things

are going, and last season pretty much sums up how things are going

for them. We have struggled in Australia because we have a Kiwi

coach. He does that understand the way we play. He got rid of one of

her best players because he did not like them, they did not get on. We

struggled in the World Cup last year. I do not know where we sit

into the game just now. I have been on at him week in and week out

saying we need an Australian coach. Seeing some of the comments that

have been made by Clare's, it is a toxic environment. For Cooper to

see it is affecting his game... It is about the team. I got into

trouble last World Cup because somebody interviewed me, and they

criticised Cooper. He is a great player, a great individual, but he

has to play as part of a team. I was a winner. I was the last man

but he has a Number Ten. His comments would be taken more

seriously if he was actually playing well but he has not been.

We are one month away from Wales playing against you guys. Is it a

good time for us to be playing? Look at it this way - if you cannot

beat us something is wrong. You have had for Test matches and you

have still struggled. If you cannot beat us this time, forget it. The

thing that has always not amused me but that has been interesting is

that when you play us, you give up to us. You play really well but

then with other teams you do not play with the same enthusiasm. You

have to play with that enthusiasm week in and week out. That is how

you win and how you get respect. You look at the series of games

Wales has coming up - Argentina, New Zealand and then the Wallabies

- is that at a series of should they be looking for three

victories? It depends what you want to get out of it. If you're looking

for the next World Cup, then pick a team and say, this is what we are

looking for her. It is no use chopping and changing. Argentina

has learnt a lot. They have been built up well and they're not used

to that. They're not used to playing rugby week in and week out

but in a couple of years, they will understand the pressure and be

better. Some more up, a very physical team and they know they

can beat us. -- Samoa. Superbly done their by Leigh Halfpenny. Do

you like that spell of weather? You need the guys outside to feed them

the ball. When North comes up the wind, he is huge but give him the

space to move and give him one-on- one opportunities. We've got some

really talented players and Leigh Halfpenny is one of them. You have

some really good players. Let them control and if that does not work,

change. See if they can work it out for themselves, that is what rugby

is all about. We turn our attention now back to football and to a

player who would certainly have started again Scotland next week.

The summer had started so well for Swansea City's Neil Taylor. Eye-

catching performances for Team GB met Premier League clubs were

rumoured to be ready to pounce. On 1st September, his world was

shattered. Swansea City appear to have found some punch over the

summer. Their passing style won many fans last summer. -- last

season. Neil Taylor's and Cole was dislocated and broken. An injury so

severe that he is likely to be out for the list of the season. His

recovery has started already here It's horrible to think back on it.

It is just one of those feet things that happens. I could not do

anything about it. -- freak things. We had an orthopaedic specialist

beside the pitch and he helped to put my ankle back in. That and

another combination of things really helped me to stop it being

worse. Up his rehab has been overseen by the club physio or Kate

Rees, where he has five physiotherapy sessions a week.

first couple of weeks there really hard where they had to lie down

with my leg above me. It was really tough mentally watching the boys

carry on playing. I have now been able to get back into training and

be around the lads and it is easier. The Paralympics was on the

television while I was lying in hospital and it was easier to watch

people like that. It was inspiring because they have gone through much

worse than I have and they still want to be the best. I took heart

from that and realised that it they want to compete at whatever level,

I can do the same thing. Not only does he faced regular sessions on

the physiotherapy table, but he travels to a multiple sclerosis

centre of the week for an hour-and- a-half in the oxygen chamber. How

often do you have this treatment? As often as I can for as many weeks

as I can. I try to go three times a week if possible but Sunday is a

different. Two or three times a week is ideal. He is breathing

medical grade oxygen under compress their conditions. She is under two

at this year's at the moment which is double the pressure we have just

now. He does not feel that pressure but the body recognises it and is

pushing oxygen into places that needs to be. During his absence,

Swansea City's early season form has taken a dip and beer on a run

of three successive defeats, the latest being at 2-0 loss again

stocks city. -- Stoke City. lads need to gain confidence

because they are coming off a run of losses. Another team that you

think will be down there... With Reading been the visitors tomorrow,

while Brian Laudrup get stuck into his team? He is quite laid-back and

quite a quiet man. He is laid back in his approach and gives his

players the information they need and expects them to collect and

deliver on it. He already have a go at them if they need it but he has

been very calm so far and the players need to use that come. The

boys have been around for up long enough. They know what the need to

do. Not only has his club side missed him but the Welsh national

side have struggled defensively. Mentally, the boys have not to

forget the last couple of games but learn from them and start again. In

terms of how we played, they were not good enough and any one will

admit that. We have the players to do that and we know that and have

done it before. Even the manager will say himself, if we do not turn

the tide over the next couple of games, we will struggle to qualify.

With the recovery programme in full swing, when can we expect you back

in action? It comes in stages. I am walking now it and soon I will be

back running. I have been lucky and the last couple of years have been

great playing in the championship and in the Olympics and for Wales.

Now is the time to stand back and build myself back up and get ready

to play again. We wish Neil Taylor all the best with his recovery.