Rhys Webb has been ruled out of the Six Nations with a knee injury. Big blow for Wales.
Our squad has been decimated by injuries. Warburton, Lydiate, Faletau, Webb, Biggar, Jon Davies, Liam Williams. All 7 are Lions. It will be a real test of our depth. Fortunately we have some fantastic back rowers both established and coming through, Gareth Davies is a good replacement for Webb but the other 3 are tough to replace with Priestland also injured, it could be that most of the Scarlets back line start our first game vs Scotland with North the odd man out and he used to play for Scarlets. Scarlets are playing fantastic rugby under some very good coaching, it will be very interesting to see if Gatland and co can get the same out of them at international level. What has set the Scarlets apart though is not what their backline do but how the forwards use the ball and in particular the front 5 with Rob Evans an excellent distributor for a prop.
Davies, Patchell, Evans, Parkes, Williams, North, Halfpenny.
I'd expect the forwards to be something like - Evans, Owens, Lee, Bradley Davies, AWJ, Shingler, Tipuric, Navidi.