The performances of Exeter Chiefs pair Dafydd Jenkins and Christ Tshiunza offered some crumbs of comfort for Wales in their record defeat by Scotland in the Six Nations.
But there’s another talent at the Devon club whose play might cheer Welsh supporters after Saturday's 35-7 loss at Murrayfield.
His name is Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and his ability shines through. Cardiff Rugby academy boss Gruff Rees has previously gone on record as saying the wing or centre could turn out to be a "special" future Wales international.
How he has ended up playing for the Chiefs is a story all on its own, but his his potential is unmistakable.
After he crossed for the Chiefs in a Premiership Cup semi-final against Sale Sharks on Sunday, former Wales fly-half Paul Turner took to social media to declare: “Feyi-Waboso future Wales international.”
The youngster's try was a peach of a score. Receiving a pass out wide some 35 metres out, the Cardiff Rugby academy graduate motored clear of a defender on the outside, smoothly picking up speed as he did so. The last line of defence came across, only for Feyi-Waboso to swerve inside to such devastating effect that the man collided with the team-mate who had been left on the floor and ended up on the deck himself, legs in the air, like an extra from a Keystone Kops movie. All that remained was for the 20-year-old to saunter across the opposition line.
“What a score!” BT Sport’s Alastair Eykyn enthused in commentary. “Underneath the posts he goes. The smallest chink of light for Manny Feyi-Waboso, and the footwork, the speed, the power — it’s all there.”
The man-of-the-match award went to home full-back Tom Wyatt with Welsh fly-half Iwan Jenkins kicking 16 points as Exeter booked a Premiership Cup final date against London Irish with a 46-3 win at Sandy Park.
But Feyi-Waboso’s display excited plenty.
WalesOnline's sister title DevonLive called him "electric", with writer John Evely predicting on Twitter that 2023-24 would be “a massive breakout season” at the Chiefs for the three-quarter. Others were impressed on message boards.
Feyi-Waboso left Cardiff for Wasps to pursue his academic studies and joined the Chiefs after Wasps’ meltdown. Gruff Rees said before he left the Welsh capital that he feared the Wales U18 player could be lost to England, and now the former Corpus Christi High School pupil appears to be thriving there.
There again, he probably would have thrived wherever he played. Talent finds a way.
If they are not doing so, the Welsh Rugby Union should be keeping tabs on him.
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