AND SO Wales head for Paris on Saturday within sight of the most surprising of Grand Slams, a prospect as golden as the anniversary it marks.
They will make the journey exactly 50 years after Wales last won the glittering prize in the French capital, not any old team but the revered one of Gareth and Barry, Merve the Swerve, Gerald and JPR. As well as making the most of their luck, their successors are one win away from the most historic of action replays.
If that means someone suffering for the cause the way Barry John did at Stade Colombes on March 27, 1971, so be it. Not exactly renowne...