The 26-year-old takes over from World Cup skipper Gareth Thomas to become the 125th man to wear the Wales armband.
Thomas does not want the Heineken Cup to be considered in isolation, but rather as part of a wider discussion about the structure of the sport and the management of elite players.
Thomas once jointly held the Twenty20 Cup record from 2004 to 2006 after scoring 116 not out for Glamorgan against Somerset Sabres and now he hopes the ECB consider spreading the games out for the sake of spectators and players.
European number one Montgomerie will face strong competition from holder Miguel Angel Jimenez and Ryder Cup duo Paul Casey and Thomas Bjorn.
When Thomas Boleyn has gone, Cromwell shares a cup of Gascon wine with one of his officers.
Clancy heads into the Track World Cup intending not to lock horns with Thomas and Wiggins for team pursuit places.
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Crusaders then got their own back by doing the league double over the Frenchmen last season, although Catalans won at the Racecourse Ground in the Challenge Cup, thanks to a last-minute Thomas Bosc drop goal.
"Neither of them has to run the event to fund their own program, " says Thomas Ehman, Oracle's rules adviser and a Cup participant since 1980, when he was a rules adviser for the New York Yacht Club defense.
If Newport-Gwent Dragons are involved in a Heineken Cup qualification play-off, Williams and Rhys Thomas are likely to be released to their region.
Turner pointed out that Thomas had another strong game in the region's EDF Energy Cup loss away to Gloucester and that he would be talking to the player to persuade him to stay.
Thomas Pasqualini, a 50-year-old supply-chain official at Solo Cup, says an executive physical at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in 2006 spurred him to fix his unhealthy lifestyle.
But with the likes of RFU chairman Martyn Thomas likening Farrell to Martin Johnson, the revered captain of England's World Cup winners in 2003, there seems little chance of the hype dying down any time soon.
Thomas won the Vezina and Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011.
Laird, who plays most of his golf in the United States, shares the lead with Dutchman Maarten Lafeber (Carnoustie), Argentine Ricardo Gonzalez and Denmark's Thomas Bjorn (both St Andrews), an assistant-captain for Europe at the Ryder Cup.
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