PLUS POINTS have been thin on the ground for Wales this season. A string of defeats, many of them heavy, preceded the extraordinary impasse between players and union over contracts, a dispute that put the staging of the Wales v England fixture in serious jeopardy.
Before RW sits down to chat to Jac Morgan, we’ve already been told that questions about the contracts issue are off limits. No worries. We were not expecting the young back-row to give us chapter and verse on the subject, but a sign of just how delicate things are at present came when we asked whether he was in the Wales leadership group. “Um…” replied Morgan after a pause before Verity Williams, the team’s estimable communications manager, interjected with: “We do have a group but we don’t necessarily always commit to who’s in it.”
Whatever role Morgan plays off the field, he is surely destined for stardom on a grand scale. Last autumn, he made a storming impact when coming on against Argentina,
