Rick O'Shea and the Scrum V team followed them for the year, with regular pieces on the Sunday show as we brought in top coaches, a nutritionist, and even the cheerleaders who helped inspire them to promotion.
The strength of their team will be scrum-time, a driving lineout and physicality.
Dobson, the Super League Dream Team's scrum-half of the season, booted the conversion from the touchline, and then two of his kicks, one that forced Horne to needlessly shovel the ball out of play and another that brought about a drop-out, kept his side in the ascendancy.
But Lions team-mate and Ospreys scrum-half Mike Phillips is out with a knee injury as Warren Gatland keeps Richie Rees at number nine, the Wales coach naming an unchanged backline for the third successive game.
The team's bulky back division starts with its scrum-half, a position traditionally occupied by the smallest player on the pitch.
Three National Division One players make the team - Bedford full-back James Pritchard, scrum-half Ed Fairhurst of Cornish Pirates and Plymouth Albion flanker Sean Michael Stephen.
Copper's availability is also a relief for Wales for another reason, team manager Alan Phillips revealing back-up squad scrum-half Martin Roberts had a groin problem last week.
He later went on to captain the national team, and he believes the current skipper and scrum-half is pivotal to any success in this year's Six Nations.
Italy have named Kristopher Burton at fly-half, and he will line up alongside Benetton Treviso team-mate Edoardo Gori, who wins his third cap at scrum-half.
Having joined Gloucester in the summer of 2009 and being able to play on both sides of the scrum, Doran-Jones is among those who could take Somerville's place in the team when he leaves for the Melbourne Rebels in May.
Scrum-half Mike Phillips has the chance to confirm his status as favourite for the Test team and he needs to have worked hard in training with Heaslip to avoid the clumsiness that we saw with Wallace and Mike Blair against the Royal XV.
The fourth thought: At that same Meetup where I first learned of the Cynefin framework, the speaker, Simon Bennett, asserted that scrum, and by extension, ideas like Radical Management, is a means to help a team get out of prior patterns of behavior and through a phase of disorder in a relatively controlled fashion.
Kidney refused to lay any blame for his team's struggles on New Zealand referee Keith Brown, who found fault with the Irish scrum on several occasions.
Scrum-half Mike Phillips gets his first start, with Jenkins also naming an entirely new front row from the team that faced Australia.
In another interesting presentation, Alan Shalloway, CEO of Net Objectives, suggested that the reason for this is that Scrum is essentially a bottom-up approach to work, which is highly effective for generating high productivity at the team level.
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Agustin "Gus" Pichot will be at the base of the Argentine scrum in the World Cup quarter-final in Paris against Scotland, cajoling, encouraging, demanding, exhorting his team to achieve something that has been remained an unfulfilled dream for him and his country for decades - respect from the international rugby world.
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