Champions can roar with Jones

All-Lions front row helps Wales coach take mind off lengthy list of injuries

For all the talk of injuries in the Wales camp, interim head coach Rob Howley is banking on the return of tighthead prop Adam Jones making a more telling impact on the Welsh RBS 6 Nations Championship campaign.

The casualty list in the Principality has been pored over for months following a disastrous autumn campaign which saw Wales lose all four Tests at the Millennium Stadium, including an upset defeat by Samoa. More upsetting, though, has been the loss of second rows Luke Charteris, Alun Wyn Jones and Bradley Davies, lock/back row Ryan Jones, flanker Dan Lydiate, fly-half Rhys Priestland and centre Ashley Beck, to name just seven.