The Professional Rugby Board has explained how Joe Hawkins' World Cup dream is over while Will Rowlands is still eligible to play for Wales.
Both players, on the face of it, would seem to be captured by the 25-cap rule - with neither possessing the required number of caps ahead of moves away from Wales.
However, when Warren Gatland named a bumper 54-man training squad to kick off the preparations for the tournament in France later this year, Rowlands' name was included but Hawkins was nowhere to be seen.
