Alun Wyn Jones

You're not going to please everyone, but then, it's not about pleasing people: it's about winning rugby games.

A bugbear of mine is bragging rights in regional derbies: it would be a lot more worth to the regional game if we did something special in European rugby.

You cannot expect teams to be up for a final every Saturday, but you have to in the Six Nations, and that is the difficulty we have.

I look back at all the contracts I've had, and I never assumed I would get another one. Honestly. I don't take anything for granted. Nothing.

It doesn't matter how young or old you are, and whatever jersey you wear, you realise the derby games prick up the hairs on the backs of people's necks.

I don't regret the way I approached things, because otherwise I wouldn't have achieved what I did, but when I look back, I could have enjoyed things more.

Things come and go - there's win, losses, and injuries, but you get back on the horse - but I appreciate what I've done more.

We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.

There's always a team behind the team. We've got our off-field guys looking after us.

When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.

Welsh rugby has done its dirty washing in public. It's nothing new. We're a tribal bunch. If warring parties want to sway public opinion, they do it in the public arena.

Players want to play a lot of rugby. We're walking contradictions at times in that we want to play a lot of rugby, but we don't want to play too much rugby, and we want to be available for all the big games, yet there are times when you have to sacrifice that because of game limits.