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Fiji and Uruguay met each other on one occasion in which they were both awarded caps, a 1999 Test match in Italy which Fiji won 39-24.

Two weeks into the tournament the French players are none the wiser when it comes to what coach Philippe Saint-Andre considers his best side.

“It’s very early still”, Lancaster said.

It was just a bounce of the ball at my feet when I was running at 100 miles per hour, desperate to make something positive of it. “It is clearly obvious there was some contact with the head”, Edwards told a news conference.

It was the thighs that had it for Warren Gatland when he first saw George North in action.

This interview appears in the current edition of Sport magazine. When we spoke to him, however, his enforced spell on the sidelines felt a natural place to start…

But nothing significant. JJ [Joseph] has a bit of a knock, nothing too serious.

While the injuries were of grave concern to Gatland, there was also a sense of frustration in the unconvincing nature of Wales’ victory.

“It was important to reduce the squad as we move into the rugby focused part of our training”.