The Breakdown | Covid-safe training camps will test players and coaches to their limits

Players in Six Nations squads face six weeks in their biosecure bubble, and coaches must look after their mental wellbeingWhen Steve Hansen was Wales’s head coach, their training base in the Vale of Glamorgan became known as the Jail of Glamorgan because of the way he operated as a prison warden, always checking to see if any of his players was trying to escape. One morning, he confronted one of his charges after patrolling the car park before sunrise and discovering a motor with a warm bonnet and exhaust. It was Dafydd James, a Test player on the 2001 Lions tour, and when the wing did not adm…