Charvis has almost everything you could want in a modern back-rower - experience, bravery, adaptability, size, fitness, great skills, leadership, and he reads the game superbly.

Although his pace is not what it was, it is still the right side of brisk and on form alone the Newport Gwent Dragons captain would start against England on 2 February.

But at 35 Charvis could find himself left out if Warren Gatland decides that building towards the 2011 World Cup starts now.

Our verdict: ON SIMMER

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