Williams wings it for Wales
18 Sep 2011
Welsh record try scorer Shane Williams broke the hearts of Samoans with a try that proved the difference in a 17-10 WC win in Hamilton.
Samoa led 10-6 at the break and came close to scoring from close range in the last five minutes, but credit to Wales for courage and discipline on defence. Welsh captain Sam Warburton was again the stand out forward and Samoa’s No 8 George Stowers also excelled.
Both teams succeeded in slowing down the other’s ball and there was very little quick recycle and because of this there was very little inspirational on attack. There was also no fluidity to a game that was all crash and bash.
Second half replacement Lee Halfpenny provided the significant moment when he beat three tackles from a kick-off, ran 60 metres, offloaded to outside centre Jonathan Davies and onto Williams who strolled over. Rhys Priestland missed the conversion but a minute before the Halfpenny break he had kicked his second penalty to give Wales the lead for only the second time in the game.
A concerted forward effort produced Samoa’s only try two minutes into stoppage time in the first half, but they couldn’t reproduce the effort in the final five minutes.
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18 Sep 2011, 14:25 pm
To Hurricane: I told you so!
18 Sep 2011, 14:49 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-120: So because of the things a minority of pr.1cks say that gives you the right to tar 45 million people with the same brush? Makes you no better than these haters in my opinion. A better person rises above this kak. The same way I do not think all Kiwis are a bunch of negative, xenophobic, arrogant haters who looks down their noses at ‘africans’ like yourself.
18 Sep 2011, 22:50 pm
Its probably been said before: Wales 7 days rest… Samoa 3 days rest.
Not F’kn right!!!
& guess who has the most rest between games on this WC – you know who… the kiwi Goliaths. 22 days at that versus 14 of some of the other nations.
Not F’kn right!!!
18 Sep 2011, 22:52 pm
@jocuba(jocuba)-253: Was thinking the same thing. Samoa has a real tough one. Kiwi’s having a ball. Easiest group, and best schedule. Playing Arg or Scot in quarters.
18 Sep 2011, 22:59 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-136: And the football WC was a disaster was it??!
Its actually embarrassing that your so-called country got the Rugby WC… or rather unjust. You run it at a loss & your infrastructure is so f’kn parochial its already a f’kup.
& you call yourself 1st world. Why don’t you do the dignified thing & F’k Off for good like you so desperately told us all you woulddo, shortly after first arriving here, when you were so revoltingly abusive.
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