Bradley Davies will play his final rugby match on Wednesday night as the popular second-row bows out of the game after nearly two decades in professional rugby.
The 36-year-old will finish up at St Helen's this week as he lines up alongside Alun Wyn Jones in the Barbarians' second-row against Swansea RFC to mark the Welsh club's 150th anniversary.
In true self-deprecating fashion, he called himself the "less famous" Welsh second-row to call time on a career this month following Jones' Test retirement, but Davies still has a career that would be the envy of many.
Starting at Cardiff, he also turned out for Wasps and the Ospreys, while he also won 66 caps for Wales - even captaining his country during the tour of Japan in 2013.
Now, all that lies between him and retirement is 80 minutes in Swansea.
"Well, I would never say never ever," he said. "But it's my last proper game.
"I wouldn't mind jumping in a few more of these, especially after the week we've had. I'll put my name in the hat for a few more if they come up.
"But I didn't get the chance to finish with the Ospreys at the end of the season, with a couple of things. It is what it is.
"Now I get a chance to play in the region. My family can watch and give me a send-off. It'll be half the Rhondda down here cheering me on - or hoping I fail!
"It'll be nice to finish off. I'll still play I think. I might have a game for my local club.
"I enjoyed it. I did a dinner last week and I was asked how I reflected on my career. Everyone always says they've got no regrets, but I've got plenty of them!
"I've played rugby for nearly 20 years now professionally and I've enjoyed every minute of it."
Certainly, as teams prepare for a lengthy pre-season ahead of the campaign beginning in October, missing out on another summer of beasting is one thing he won't regret.
The four regions will be starting their preparations for next season early next month, with some work having already been done.
Stood in the glorious Swansea sunshine after a Barbarians training session that consisted of some cricket, walking touch and sorting out social plans for Tuesday night as Nick Williams' boombox blared, Davies cut a fairly happy figure that an arduous few months weren't awaiting him.
"The Ospreys have been in doing a bronco and the Welsh boys are in camp right now," he said. "It would take a lot of money to get me in right now. I couldn't think of anything worse."
Davies is grateful to the coaches and clubs that have provided him with opportunities during his career. Such is the nature of rugby at the moment, it's telling that all three of the clubs he's played for have been affected by financial uncertainty in some shape or form in the past year.
Both Cardiff and Ospreys have been hamstrung by the ongoing financial paralysis that has cast a shadow over Welsh rugby, while Wasps were one of the English clubs that went to the wall as the game across the border also struggles.
The outlook is grim and Davies, to his credit, has been one of those unafraid to speak out at times. He's hopeful that there's "light at the end of the tunnel" after a campaign quite unlike any other, but it's clear that Davies feels the players were mistreated.
"It's still on a knife-edge at the moment in Wales," he says. "I go to watch local rugby and the numbers aren't there. It's a shame to see.
"The boys were treated like dirt, to be fair. Hopefully with all rubbish out of the way, we can get Welsh rugby being good again and get the regions playing better rugby.
"It'll be very difficult with the squad sizes and the money. But it is what it is. Hopefully it can get better and we can have the next crop of youngster come through."
Referring to the English clubs that have gone out of business this year, with London Irish on the brink of being the third Premiership club to fold, he added: "I think there's rumours about other clubs at the moment as well.
"It's a shame but that's the landscape at the moment. There's a lot of things wrong with the game but I'm hoping the people in charge will put it right."
Moving forward, Davies is hopeful of finding a coaching role as he looks to forge a career after rugby. He works with the academy at the Ospreys while also doing bits and pieces with Bridgend.
"I've got a passion for coaching so I'm hoping to get into that field. It's difficult at the moment with the way rugby is, it's hard to get jobs.
"I'm looking forward to that. A chance to learn my trade and hopefully build up to a first-team coaching job. That's my ultimate aim. I've got a bit of a passion for the lineout.
"I'm a bit of a nause around that. It's what I'd like to do in the future, hopefully in Wales. But the way it's going, probably not."
Given his wealth of experience, he seems unlikely that someone won't look to draw upon the wisdom of Davies at some point. That can wait until after these final 80 minutes.
Unlike second-row partner Jones, who seems likely to have at least one more match left in him, this is it for Davies. Although, in typical fashion, he even has his own prediction about Test rugby's most-capped player and what'll happen next.
"I've predicted this, someone's going to go down in the World Cup, Alun Wyn's going to be on a beach in Mumbles, his head's going to go and he's going to jump in a rowing boat, he's going to row to the south of France and he's going to get man of the match in the final for us and win it for us.
"That'll sum Al up. He'll pick the trophy up."
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