"There'll be a selection that we won't see coming because someone has run themselves into the team. That will always happen because someone will impress without us knowing. I'm looking forward to seeing who that is."
So said Sam Warburton before the 2019 World Cup. In surged Rhys Carre to Warren Gatland’s panel after losing 20lb in Wales training.
Carre had featured in only one Test before the tournament in Japan. He fell into the ‘bolter’ category, then, a player who had come from a long way back to claim a World Cup place.
