Long before social distancing became a way of life, a similar exercise had been foisted upon the four Welsh regions in relation to their international players. The idea, to keep them more than an arm’s length from the paying customers when not on duty for Team Wales, has cottoned on to such an extent that it has reduced some of the biggest names in the PRO14 to varying degrees of invisibility.
The bare facts point to the Welsh rugby squad going the way of English cricket where the chosen few conserve their energy for the Test arena to the exclusion of just about anything else. Jo...