He's absolutely destroying props this season,

The players know there is pressure on us to beat Scotland. We have to show the form which got us results last year and forget Twickenham.

At his time at Llanelli, Phil was a brilliant captain and just an immensely likeable guy. Since he's left Stradey, he's done particularly well, including winning the trophy last year.

He's one of the favourite sons of Stradey Park,

June's our big travel season, so we may be postponing this to a worse conclusion and it might have been better just to have gotten it over now, ... So, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Thornton from Florida State was absolutely sensational. He's been terrific all season, but he played about as well as anybody has played against us in the last five years here at Cameron.