Paul Rees reports on a team desperate to turn things right around after last year’s wooden spoon

Warren Gatland was gungho at the Six Nations launch, saying that anyone who wrote off his side’s chances of winning the tournament did so at their own peril.
He would say that wouldn’t he, to cite Llanelli-born Mandy Rice-Davies, but after last year’s whitewash and 12 consecutive defeats in all, the only way, surely, is up.
Wales start in Paris on Friday night. If France play as most of their clubs did in the group stage of the Champions Cup, Gatland’s side will have a lot of defending to do and...