We’ve just seen the 2020-21 club season kick-off in Wales, Ireland and Scotland and already we are moving into international mode. Wayne Pivac and his Welsh coaching team must have been tearing out their hair during lockdown, but for the next eight weeks they will be hard at it once again.
France, Scotland, Ireland, England, Georgia and one other final fixture in the Autumn Nations Cup play-off will virtually be a re-run of last year’s World Cup campaign in Japan. The biggest difference between then and now will be the restrictions imposed on the players by Covid-19.
They will l...