There is one thing Joe Hawkins won’t let happen in the coming days and weeks.
The spotlight will be on him as a new boy to the Six Nations and there may be many requests for media interviews and photographs.
Hawkins will oblige all-comers on that front, because he is personable, confident and articulate — that much was evident from the time he gave a Wales U20 interview over Zoom as an 18-year-old and took to the task as if he’d been doing it all his life.
