Wales' backline has all too often crabbed one way, crabbed the other way - perhaps paused to let a big lad take it forward - then continued in its lateral way before losing patience and gifting possession away.
One morning, while we were waiting to board a flight to the southeastern city of Guangzhou, where Lang was to perform another concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he admitted that the disapproval of peers is far more daunting than the crabbed notices of the critics.