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Charlie Faulkner - Wikipedia

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Charlie Faulkner

Birth name

Anthony George Faulkner

Date of birth

27 February 1941

Place of birth

Newport, Wales

Date of death

9 February 2023 (aged 81)

School

St Mary's School, Newport

Rugby union career

Amateur team(s)
Position(s)	Prop
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
	Newport Saracens RFC		()
–	Cross Keys RFC		()
–	Pontypool RFC		()
–	Barbarian F.C.		()
–	Monmouthshire		()
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1975–1979	Wales	19	(4)
1977	British Lions	0	(0)
Coaching career
Years	Team
1982-86	Newport RFC

Anthony George "Charlie" Faulkner (27 February 1941 – 9 February 2023) was a Welsh rugby union footballer who played in the 1970s and later a rugby coach.^[1]

Wales caps

Charlie joined Pontypool from Cross Keys in September 1972 and went on to make 210 Pooler appearances and scored 12 tries. He also played for the Barbarians and, in January 1975, made history with his fellow Pontypool front row colleagues, hooker Bobby Windsor and tight head prop Graham Price to be the first club front row to be selected to play for Wales, against France, in Paris. Together, the Pontypool Front Row played 19 times for their country between 1975 and 1979, and Charlie scored a try against Ireland in 1975. During their stay in the Welsh team, Wales won the Grand Slam twice and the Triple Crown three times. The Front Row also represented Monmouthshire and the British Lions in 1977 when Charlie was a replacement on the tour and the trio played in three of the last five games – against Counties/Thames Valley, Bay of Plenty and the game against Fiji on their journey home – the first club front row to play for the British Lions. The Front Row was referred to as the ‘Viet Gwent’ in a song called ‘Up and Under, Here We Go’ by Max Boyce, the popular Welsh entertainer.

The Pontypool Front Row

With Bobby Windsor and Graham Price he became part of the Pontypool Front Row also known as the Viet Gwent (a play on Viet Cong) and immortalized in song by Max Boyce.

Faulkner was a Judo Black Belt and a steelworker by trade – both factors conjoining to make him a formidable scrummager who was mobile in the loose, able to score tries even at the international level.

Personal life and death

Faulkner died from heart failure on 9 February 2023, at the age of 81.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

^ Charlie Faulkner player profile ESPN
^ "Pontypool front row lose 'Charlie'". WRU. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
^ Wales and Pontypool front row rugby legend Charlie Faulkner dies aged 81
^ "Tony 'Charlie' Faulkner obituary". The Times. 13 February 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2023.

v t e British Lions – 1977 New Zealand tour
Forwards	Beaumont Brown Cotton Cobner Duggan T. Evans Faulkner Horton Keane Martin Neary Orr Price Quinnell Squire Wheeler C. Williams Windsor
Backs	Bennett (c) Bevan Burcher G. Evans Fenwick Gibson Hay Irvine Lewis McGeechan Morgan Rees B. Williams J. Williams
Coach	Dawes

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