"This is what we’ll be doing. It works. And if you’re not willing to jump on the train, you won’t be playing in my team.”
It was Warren Gatland speaking, when he met Wales’ players for the first time after taking over as national head coach in 2008.
The Gareth Jenkins regime had ended abruptly amid the carnage of the 2007 World Cup, with Fiji knocking Wales out of the tournament at the pool stage after the Welsh players allowed themselves to be drawn into a game of running rugby against the world-renowned masters of running rugby. “It was idiocy in the extreme,” summed up Adam Jones in his book, Bomb.
