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Paul Williams: Wales need to get a kick out of their No.10

Paul Williams argues Wales should prioritise a fly-half with an elite kicking game, rather than chasing the traditional creative No.10, as they look to make the most of their strengths and compete at Test level.
Wales fly-halves, from left to right, Sam Costelow, Dan Edwards and Carwyn Leggatt-Jones.

Every supporter in Wales craves an outside half that can run with the ball. The desire for a 10 who can run is more stereotypically Welsh than lamb cawl with a lava bread Welsh cake served inside a cockle shell – it would be a very small meal, admittedly.

This love of a 10 that can make linebreaks reaches back as far as Barry John in the 1970s and the glory days of the ‘OG’ Jonathan Davies in the 1980s.
But a creative 10 isn’t what Wales needs at the moment and the player who gets to wear the shirt long term, be it Sam Costelow, Dan Edwards or Carwyn Leggatt-Jones should arguably be more focu...

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