AS DISRUPTIONS TO match preparations go, this one is certainly unique.
The Welsh rugby team are currently staying in the 4-star Oatlands Park Hotel in Surrey but spooky sightings have forced two of the team to move rooms ahead of Saturday’s Pool A clash with Australia.
Dan Lydiate and Sam Warburton hope to haunt the Wallabies this weekend, but they’ve experienced some terrifying tribulations of their own first.
“It was a problem for the first couple of days,” Welsh fitness coach Paul Stridgeon told a press conference this morning.
“As soon as Dan Lydiate saw it and then managed to get back to sleep, Warbs (Sam Warburton) couldn’t get back to sleep so he was a bit tired for the first couple of days. Now they’ve moved from that room.”
As for who the ghost was, Lydiate had a theory.
“Dan said he saw a big figure at the end of his bed, stood on the radiator with a massive beard. He thought it was Jake Ball (a Welsh rugby player with a huge beard).
“Someone said Henry VIII, but I don’t think he’s ever been here.”
