WALES WOMEN
ONE BY one, players filter in and head towards the fridge. One by one, brown paper bags filled with breakfast and lunch are taken out. Some players are happy to take out brekkie (waffles today), exchange tips on how best to heat it (some favour the microwave, others the toaster) and retreat to the beanbags in the team room for the intake of those early-morning, pre-training calories. Others rummage through the bags until they discover the one with their favoured protein bar flavour. It’s the little things!
As Bristol, Wales and Team GB star Jasmine Joyce points out, not having to think about food prep every day is one of the benefits of being professional. It may be one of the less obvious perks to the full-time contracts a dozen Wales players received at the start of the year (and the part-time retainer deals for
