Huw Baines is a freelance rugby journalist. Raised in the Barbarians' spiritual home, Penarth, his grandfather played for Coventry and his father for Cardiff. His playing highlight in the sport came as the crusading hooker of Dinas Powys Under-9s in 1994. He completed his journalistic training at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.
Ask John answers questions on the Leopards' tour to Italy in 1974, brotherly Test sides, Pat McGrath, England's games against the Barbarians and Jacques Brunel
"We were only five metres away in the last Test of getting that try and with Jonny's inevitable conversion, we'd have won it." Tom Hamilton talks to Lions fullback Matt Perry
Toulon's Heineken Cup final victory over Clermont Auvergne may have ended a long title drought for the Top 14 club but two of their players are no strangers to success
"People on the outside think unfounded thoughts on Toulon." Tom Hamilton talks to RCT lock Nick Kennedy ahead of Saturday's Heineken Cup final against Clermont