The importance of the breakdown has perhaps never been as prevalent.
Wales coach Wayne Pivac certainly knows that. Since taking over from Warren Gatland at the end of 2019, there's always been someone in his coaching ticket looking after the breakdown.
"We have a couple of hundred breakdowns in a game," said Pivac before this year's Six Nations. If you compare that to scrums and lineouts, it's such an important part of the game - not only with the ball, but without it.
