All Black Bryan Williams remembers lessons learned from Lions loss in 1971

Bryan Williams became an All Black aged 19 and won several series but was also in the first All Blacks team to lose a series against the LionsThe radio in the Williams’ little house at 35 Kingsley Street was tuned to the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, just like every other set in the country. It was the afternoon of Saturday 18 July 1959 and the All Blacks were playing the Lions in the first Test at Dunedin. The games were not on TV. Instead everyone followed them through Winston McCarthy, “the voice of New Zealand rugby”.McCarthy had a lot of catchphrases: “Goodness gracious me”, “The…