When the Heineken Cup celebrated its 15th birthday two years ago, fans were asked to select their most memorable games from the tournament’s history.

If evidence was needed to underline the value of youth, you only had to watch the scenes in Cardiff on Saturday when a gaggle of baby-faced assassins from Wales paraded the Six Nations trophy around the Millennium Stadium with the same innocent smiles as kids in a bouncy castle.

I AM now officially parking RWC 2011.

1. Half-back mastery

AFTER years of frustration, under-achievement, near misses and calamitous failure at the World Cup, Saturday’s quarter-final offered the perfect opportunity to rewrite history and set the record straight.