- The Ospreys provided 13 of the starting Wales team for yesterday's match, by far a modern-day record for any country. Their victory was a triumph for Wales coach Warren Gatland and his assistant Shaun Edwards and also for the Ospreys who don't even have a clubhouse. The Magners League side play their home games at Swansea City FC's Liberty stadium, where the football team beat Oldham 2-1 yesterday to go 10 points clear at the top of League One. Their coach, Lynn Jones, watched 14 of his players beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 20 years with four friends at his cousin's house in Mumbles. 'It was brilliant to see the boys come through like that and I've got to take my hat off to Ryan Jones. He was head and shoulders above everyone'
- England's record from one club is seven. There were seven players from Oxford University against Wales in December 1882 in what is now recognised as the first-ever 'Championship' match and seven again when they became the first champions and Triple Crown winners by beating Scotland in March 1883. Blackheath supplied seven when England beat Ireland in 1886
- In the modern era, Leicester provided seven players for England's match against Ireland in 1984. Dusty Hare, Clive Woodward, Rory Underwood, Les Cusworth, Nick Youngs and Peter Wheeler started for England and Steve Redfern came on as a replacement
- More recently, Wasps have often had seven of the squad of 22 appear in a Test for England
-The record for a club/provincial representation in a major Test is the full 15 out of 15. The record was first set by New South Wales for Australia against New Zealand on August 10, 1907 in the third Test played at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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- NSW have repeated the feat on three occasions.
-The 1907 match ended in a 5-5 draw and was the first time Australia avoided defeat in a Test against New Zealand
- The previous record for Wales was in 1947-48, when Cardiff supplied 10 members of the side at Twickenham and against Scotland at Cardiff. Wales drew with England and beat Scotland
- A call to the club spirit has often helped nations revive. In 1958 France endured a run of six successive Five Nations defeats before making wholesale changes against Australia in March. They introduced seven Lourdes players, including the entire threequarter line, and won 19-0