Nicky Smith has no plans to follow the lead of Cardiff’s Seb Davies and give Wayne Pivac a ring to ask him what he has done to be cast aside by Wales.
Perhaps on the grounds that it's good to talk, Davies made a call to Wales' head coach after being overlooked for the tour to South Africa in the summer. But the 41-cap Smith won't be going there.
“It’s difficult, really, because we did have a chat at the beginning,” said the Ospreys prop, who hasn’t featured in a national squad for 14 months.