Rugby smarts can curb Welsh swagger

RBS SIX NATIONS:

Forget their shaky start in victory over Italy at the Millennium Stadium last Saturday, this is a very, very good, hungry and well-drilled Wales side coming to Dublin. Their head coach Warren Gatland has them swaggering like the champions they are in the hope they can land a historic third championship title in a row and has filled them with such belief over the last six seasons that they believe they are kings of the world, or at least the northern half of it.

There has certainly been a strut in their step when they pack the bags and leave Cardiff for pastures foreign and aside from title hopes, Wales are chasing a sixth successive away win in the Six Nations that will equal the record of France, the team to whom they last lost back in 2011.