Powder-puff pack has Wales on the skids and Georgia licking lips

By PETER JACKSON
THE last time Wales lost more than six in a row, the head coach in question went on to win the World Cup, not once but twice.
Steve Hansen took eight years to turn chronic failure into serial success on a global scale and then only because the All Blacks brought him home. Without a similar refuge, Wayne Pivac must stand or fall with a squad going downhill like the clappers and the Klammers, Austria’s famous alpine ski family.
The New Zealander’s long-term objective – “to build a side capable of winning the World Cup in 2023” – sounds an...

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