Willie Thomas
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"William 'Willie' Henry Thomas" was a Wales/Welsh international rugby union player who played club rugby for Llanelli RFC/Llanelli and London Welsh RFC/London Welsh. He was capped eleven times for Wales national rugby union team/Wales and captained the team on two occasions. In 1888, Thomas was chosen to 1888 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia/tour New Zealand and Australia as part of the first British Isles team. This unofficial tour did not play any international opposition and no caps were awarded.

Thomas was born in Fishguard in 1866 to E.B. Thomas of Pembrokshire. He was educated at Llandovery College before graduating to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1885.

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It feels great; my girls got a victory for the old man. We played very well, particularly in the second half.

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She must have been tired. In the first half, she took her time. But, in the second half, she started forcing shots and doing the same old stuff.

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I'm very comfortable when Derrick has the ball. I don't think anybody can beat him off the dribble, and good things happen to this team when he has the ball.

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That was the game plan. Sometimes they did it well, sometimes they didn't.

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That was a big change! It was a wonderful win. It was great to see the girls get out and be able to run some.

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Balanced scoring is what you ideally would like to have night after night, but everybody is happy as long as they are scoring.

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We didn't shoot well from the free-throw line all night long. But when it counted, we made them in the final minute.

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We are just not a good basketball team right now. I think we are going to be, but we are just not good right now.

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We pride ourselves on our defense, and our defense carried us tonight. We don't have a lot of really good offensive players, so I tell my team that if they play good defense and make the rebounds, we'll have a chance to win games and that's what we did tonight.

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