CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

IT MUST be a sobering prospect for the makeweights, travelling to a World Cup with a bunch of players registering close to zero on the Name Recognition Scale – the seismological equivalents of faint tremors – and burdened by the fear that any meeting with half-decent opponents playing reasonably well might reduce their campaign to rubble. But that’s enough about Wales.
We need to talk about the likes of Uruguay and Chile, fellow outsiders who, unlike Warren Gatland’s team, have no historical reference points to help them survive the rigours of bigtime tournam...