Paul Rees delves in to the change in dimensions of the Wales side under Warren Gatland in The Guardian, highlighting centre Jamie Roberts as the key example.
"Size and Wales are words that have not often gone together. In the past 20 years Wales have taken some batterings at Twickenham and various other grounds, their guile and trickery behind the scrum counting for little because their forwards had been flattened.
"One aspect of the Warren Gatland revolution is that Wales no longer regard small as beautiful. England arrived in Cardiff this month with a detailed plan on how to stop the home No8, Andy Powell, a rampaging bull of a forward, and the centre Jamie Roberts, who at 6ft 5in and more than 17st is built like a forward.
"The Wales coach Gatland, knowing what England would do, considered using Powell and Roberts as decoys. "Then I thought, no: this is who we are and what we do, come and stop us. And we won." Roberts was man-marked by a flanker, Joe Worsley, who positioned himself in midfield on Wales' set pieces. Roberts struggled to get away but the one time he did he burst out of his own 22 and started the move which ended with Andy Goode being sent to the sin-bin and Wales taking a grip on the game."
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