When Nick Tompkins was speaking the other day about what Wales need to do moving forward, he could easily have been talking about his own progress over the past two years.
Reflecting on the second-half purple patch Wayne Pivac’s side produced during their narrow defeat to England at Twickenham, he made the point that it has to be delivered more regularly.
“You can’t just be a flash in the pan, you need to be consistently relentless,” he declared.