Two weeks after Grand Slam success, WRU group chief executive Roger Lewis talks candidly to Steffan Rhys about his months spent trailing Eric Clapton with a tape recorder, almost turning down Welsh rugby’s top job and the pursuit of happiness

ROGER LEWIS pauses and thinks for a long time when asked if he is happy. “There are moments of happiness,” he says.

“But how do you define happiness? I suppose it is an inner glow, a sense of seeing people fulfil themselves or seeing what my children have achieved.

“Or being around close, intimate friends I’ve known since I was 12 with no airs or graces and we’re all completely relaxed.

“But at the moment there’s a job to be done and I approach it with an intensity that does not allow it to be diluted.”

Until that job is done, until the Welsh Rugby Union has reached the levels to which he aspires, the man who has headed it since 2006 remains firmly fixed on the continual improvement of both himself and the organisation he heads. And he will allow himself few distractions, despite once having a plan that would have seen him retire three years ago.



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