WARREN Gatland will have been pleased with most of what he saw yesterday, but the shoulder injury to captain Alun Wyn Jones is a huge blow.
Jones will not fly out with the squad but still has a chance of getting fit for the Test matches. We were in a similar situation on tour in 1997 when Martin Johnson didn’t play for the first two weeks after bringing an injury with him. It wasn’t so much his captaincy we needed, it was more him as a player and I think this situation is the same with Alun Wyn.
There’s a lot of competition in that second row; if he does fly out later in the tour it will ...