But Davies deciding to call time on his international career is the latest in a long lineof high-profile experienced Wales players to retirement since previous boss Mark Hughes quit.
In my view, this is just another in a long lineof bogus (imho) guidelines that feed into the fallacy that retirement planning should be based on pre-retirement income levels.
Solves are recommended such as raising the retirement age to 67, in line with rising lifespan, and turning some portion of our Social Security funds over to Wall Street, a position that is about as popular with the American public as paroling Charles Manson.