"He made so many changes, if you didn't get on that field during the Six Nations, you were very unlucky, weren't you," said Shane Williams of Warren Gatland last week.
Certainly, with 29 changes in between the five matches, the Six Nations selections of Wales did represent more of a tombola effort than anything else at times.
Such is the nature of the beast when trying to develop depth and stumble on a winning formula for the World Cup just a matter of months away.
