IT is 10 years, more or less to the day, since Declan Kidney was first appointed coach of the Munster rugby team. He only got the job because the initial appointee, Welshman John Bevan, accepted it and then turned it down on seeing the turmoil that professionalism and the advent of the European Cup was creating in Irish rugby.

IT IS the try seared into the memory of every rugby fan.

Wales’ man of the moment Stephen Jones knows the expectation of a nation is riding on his shoulders every time he steps out in the revered number 10 shirt worn by legends such as Barry John, John Bevan and Neil Jenkins.