SHANE WILLIAMS
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND

I HOPE the Ospreys of 2023 have learned the lessons of their predecessors of 2008 ahead of their Heineken Champions Cup clash with Saracens today. Fifteen years ago I was part of a team that thought it merely had to turn up at Vicarage Road to win and progress to the semi-finals. How wrong we were. Two weeks earlier we had spanked Saracens in the semi-finals of the Anglo-Welsh Cup. We felt invincible, but we were naive.
We hadn’t paid our dues in the then Heineken Cup and we came a cropper. It remains one of the most disappointing days in my career,...