Mick Cleary salutes the reappearance of the contract jinx as Warren Gatland's Wales continue to flounder in The Daily Telegraph.
"It may well be that Warren Gatland will come to merit the extension signed only a few weeks ago which takes him through to the 2015 World Cup. The mood in Wales, though, is bleak, and that in a country that has done its fair share of wailing and breast-beating. It knows its scales of desolation to the last teardrop.
"The arrival of New Zealand among them this week is only likely to render things All Blacker. Several generations have been raised now at granddaddy’s knee hearing tales of the last victory over the Kiwis way back in 1953. That’s a lot of time and a lot of hurt. Wales are floundering in their third worst sequence of results in their 129-year history: six Tests without a win. It’s alarming stuff."
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