To win, Wales will need a performance of the ages

SHANE WILLIAMS
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND

WHEN Steve Hansen picked me to face New Zealand at the 2003 World Cup, he told me in no uncertain terms how it was. This was my shot at redemption after he’d dropped me previously.
Steve could be brutal. He said to me before that All Blacks game that if I didn’t perform, I might never play for Wales again. Talk about telling it as it is, but it fired me right up. I was annoyed I’d been dropped in the past anyway, but Steve put it all on the line for me and my attitude going into that game in Sydney was to be the best wing on the pitch.
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