Gatland has put a huge amount of faith in a predominantly young team.... For instance, George North, 19 years old and has played for Wales more times than he has played for the Scarlets....
Choosing Rhys Priestland at 10 instead of Hook worked and Steven Jones not even in the starting 22, risky but it worked well....... Warburton, Faletau, Lydiate, Halfpenny, Jonathan Davies, Scott Williams have all played exceptionally well with a maturity belying their age....
He has managed to put together a team with a good mix of youth and experience and the team has worked well together.
Most important of all there are no major injury issues in the Welsh camp, it must be a good feeling for Gatland to be spoilt for choice instead of "having to make up the numbers"
Go Wales.....
Mark.