There are a couple of comments on each player, on how we’ve played, and if he has got a couple of video clips to show, he will.
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Citing commissioners will watch the game from touchlines using Hawk-Eye camera technology and can give warnings for offences that referees may not see.
“He has been the huge reason, maybe even the catalyst, for why we’re back-to-back winners of the Six Nations”.
“They take control of that group and that kind of allows them to go into that crucial game against Australia without it being do or die. We are fully aware of the threat that is coming our way”.
Wales open their campaign against Uruguay at the Millennium Stadium on Sunday, two days after England and Fiji kick off the tournament at Twickenham.
“Obviously, we are still waiting for their team selection to be made, so we can have a really good look at them”.
“It is a self-fulfilling prophecy; you sing about how proud you are to be English then it snowballs and they get behind you”. “If we don’t do it 100 percent we will not win”.
“We wouldn’t say that if we had won something but it focuses the mind, means you don’t get complacent and keep driving hard because you are so hungry. We haven’t spoken about any points score”, Williams added.
“I think England are in good shape”, said the 35-year-old, who retired from rugby in May after 15 years at Sale Sharks.
“I have done the preparation physically and mentally, and I can completely focus on the rugby”.
I’d say England and Bath, those kind of teams, do that fantastically well.
“As it’s in England, it will generate a lot of interest due to the home nations”.
Sadly, this has left Leicester’s own cathedral of rugby, Welford Road, for the first time when a World Cup is on these shores, without a World Cup game. More of the same throughout the four games in Pool A is what the Welsh defensive coach is hoping for.
Edwards praised the performance of Wales flanker Dan Lydiate in last month’s 16-10 warm-up win over Ireland in Dublin.
“Everyone is talking about that, but our last game is against Australia so the other teams will know the permutations before we do”.
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I know they lost to Australia not so long ago but I wouldn’t read too much into that. “If they can slow down our ability to recycle the ball quickly, stop our counter attack and restrict where we are on the field, they will be able to stop us”.
