Throughout his obsessive quest for perfection, Jonny Wilkinson used a stark piece of pragmatic philosophy: “Treat every match as if it’s going to be your last.’’
George North, for one, could do a lot worse than remind himself of that before Wales line up in Rome this afternoon even if the fixture has become an excuse for filling their boots since they fell victim to a dodgy piece of timekeep ten years ago.
Nobody has filled them more than North and never more so than on his last visit – a hat-trick when Wales ran riot and very nearly picked the title out of Ire...