When Warren Gatland finalises his Wales Six Nations squad, the one position which will give him a welcome headache is openside flanker.
Max Boyce once famously wrote a song about the legendary Welsh fly-half factory which flung the likes of Cliff Morgan, Dai Watkins, Barry John and Phil Bennett off the conveyor belt, but if Welsh folk hero Boyce was to come up with the same song today it would focus on the long list of top-class number sevens Wales are now producing at a rate of knots.
Justin Tipuric, Jac Morgan, Tommy Reffell, Taine Basham, Thomas Young and Josh Macleod seem to be the front runners when most pundits have a go at putting a Wales squad together on paper, but over the festive derbies another contender has thrown his name into the hat: Scarlets openside Dan Davis.
