Wayne Pivac could have been forgiven for sending out a search party to see if he could locate certain members of the Wales team that faced Ireland last weekend, with so many going missing in action.
However, Wales’ head coach has resisted the temptation for a radical shake-up of his side for the game with Scotland in Cardiff on Saturday, instead just making two changes up front and two behind, one of them injury-enforced, to the line-up that took the field in Dublin.
Here are the main headlines from his team selection to face the Scots and the reasons for those alterations.