“But now I feel we’re definitely building something special there”.
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Asked if Wales needed to improve to beat England, Gatland replied: “I don’t think there’s much improvement at all really”.
Blindside flanker Tom Wood stole a Fiji line-out near the islanders’ line and England, making light of tricky conditions for handling rugby, worked the ball across field from right to left.
Harlequins full back Mike Brown scaled another peak in his career to leave a nation and himself hoping there are more summits to be conquered.
“It’s hard but we’ve just got to focus on the task in hand and there’s no better opportunity to come up here and play England in their own back yard”, he said.
“Tyler was part of our extended squad and trained very well, and will link up with us in London later today”.
“Liam Williams got a knock on the thigh, Samson Lee and Paul James have got tight calves, and Dan Lydiate had a head assessement and has passed that so he’s able to take a full part in training next week”, Gatland said.
“Early in the first half, conditions didn’t favour us being expansive”.
“It’s going to be a tough battle up front”.
“Some of it paid off and some didn’t but we will move on”. “We know we are in good shape”.
“Everything was going to plan and then quite quickly, just some loose play and ill-discipline, we lost control of it”, said May.
Wigglesworth is one of several players pushing to start against Wales after impressing off the bench on the opening night and his argument for selection has been strengthened by Ben Youngs’ below-par evening at scrum-half. Stuart and I can both see he’s going to make a difference. As the tournament goes on, that will only grow and they need to prove they can handle the expectations of a nation.
“They pushed us all the way”.
“So we knew we’d have to push them for the whole 80 minutes”.
Though they finished the game in style, 2003 World Cup victor Greenwood was not quite convinced by the start made by England.
“We will give him every chance to put an England shirt on this weekend”.
It was only deep in the final quarter that the Twickenham crowd of over 80,000 saw England pull away from the Pacific islanders.
“That was pretty electric”, said Barritt.
Lemoine, whose side are ranked 19th in the world and boast just four professional players, added: “Probably this World Cup will be good for tier two countries”.
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“It was something I think all of us will remember for a very long time”.
