The Total Flanker Guide to: How to Play for Wales

10 steps into the Wales squad:

1. Have one half-decent season.
2. Publish your memoirs slagging off your team mates.
3. Shack up with a celebrity and spend an inordinate amount of time in the pages of OK! Magazine.
4. Get involved in a series of well publicised drunken incidents.
5. Take 2 years out of the game to re-discover yourself.
6. After announcing your intention to return to the game, refuse to turn up for training with your club.
7. Demonstrate how serious your commitment to rugby is by signing up for a series of reality TV shows.
8. Join a club in London to be closer to your kids and then quit after being out-played by a 19 year old.
9. Join a club in the south of France to be further away from your kids, play one half decent game and then drunkenly slag off the club's leading players.
10. Be selected by Warren "Not Desperate" Gatland for the Wales squad.