When Elliot Dee made his Test debut against Georgia in 2017, the expectation among the more informed rugby pundits was how he would eventually be the man to replace Ken Owens as Wales' first-choice hooker.
The Penallta product was a key figure in the Wales squad leading up to, and at, the 2019 Rugby World Cup, firmly embedded as Owens' understudy. He has only started 10 of his 41 Tests for Wales to date, but that wasn't too much of an issue; after all, at one time Owens himself found himself stuck in the 'super-sub' category behind the likes of Matthew Rees, Scott Baldwin and Richard Hibbard.
