Head to heads: Will Welsh experience trump Irish youth?

MATCH-UP: Dan Sheehan faces a veteran in Ken Owens. Pic: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

In every case, it is a veteran Welshman up against a younger Irishman but does having more caps and greater experience necessarily translate to the upper hand in a one-on-one match-up?

SIX NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP

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