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Clock ticks for Six Nations pretenders

  • Gareth Lewis - ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales Sport presenter
  • 22 Jan 07, 12:54 PM

gareth_lewiswal_badge.gifCardiff - Interesting to see that the Doomsday clock, which signifies how close the world is to nuclear disaster, was moved to seven minutes to midnight last week, its "latest" time for nine years.

This could be a week when even the Six Nations is overshadowed if England's clubs go for the nuclear button and opt out of the Heineken Cup along with the French.

Tick tock, tick tock… we watch and wait. Meanwhile, turning back the hands of time is 34-year-old Colin Charvis.

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So does Jenkins like flog over flair?

  • Sean Davies - ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales Sport journalist
  • 22 Jan 07, 11:46 AM

s_davies_6666.gifwal_badge.gifCardiff - While Gareth Jenkins belongs to the belief that lyrical flow is the way forward in his interviews, the Wales coach has always displayed a more prosaic approach to his rugby selections.

His achievements in 24 years of coaching at Stradey Park were enormous, but there was criticism that a conservative approach in the big games could have cost Llanelli Heineken Cup glory.

Now he has finally been given his deserved chance in charge of Wales, is he showing the same tendency to rely on the tried, the trusted… the mundane?

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About Stevie Miller

  • Stevie Miller - ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland Sport journalist
  • 22 Jan 07, 10:29 AM

stevie millerGlasgow - I played rugby at school until the point everyone realised I was too small to be a forward and not good enough to be a back.

Since then, I've realised the role to which I am best suited on a rugby field is...

Spectator.

However, it has to be said that, in stereotypically Scottish style, I tend to go to the cheaper internationals, resulting in a worrying intimacy with the likes of Argentina.

My favourite rugby moment was watching David Sole slowly walk Scotland out at Murrayfield in the 1990 Grand Slam - that game was won before it had even started.

I'm looking forward to Scotland building on some good performances in last year's Six Nations and maybe a second-place finish.

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