Those well-versed in the work of Rudyard Kipling - or just fans of beleaguered fictional football manager Mike Bassett - will be familiar with the notion that meeting triumph and disaster and treating those two impostors just the same is said to be the making of a man.
Welsh rugby, though, has always struggled with that concept. The boom and bust nature of the game in this country has already been out in full force in the opening two weeks.
The way the pendulum swings from one extreme of the spectrum to the other so violently has always been unhelpful. Welsh rugby's capacity to live and die by the latest full-time score remains simply unrivalled.
