Lured out of hiding

OK.  The temptation to emerge from my lair proves too great.  I must say, helping Delboy out is insufficient reason (haven't the English spent the last 600 years selflessly protecting the Welsh from harm at great expense to the English taxpayer?  And are they grateful????), but any man south of the Mason-Dixon who doesn't list Dabney and Thornwell on his ST syllabus deserves some respect.  Three criticisms of these `giants' of the South spring to mind: