{"id":10425,"date":"2016-03-22T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=10425"},"modified":"2016-03-22T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T12:31:57","slug":"wales-can-go-on-to-beat-new-zealand-says-rugby-legend-shane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/03\/22\/wales-can-go-on-to-beat-new-zealand-says-rugby-legend-shane\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales can go on to beat New Zealand, says rugby legend Shane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WELSH rugby legend Shane Williams is confident Wales will bounce back after missing out on a fifth Six Nations title.<br \/>\nSpeaking exclusively to <em>The Cardiffian<\/em> at Sport Relief&#8217;s Flagship Games in Cardiff, Williams\u00a0said\u00a0Wales are moving in the right direction under the tutelage of Warren Gatland.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10427\" style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shane-pic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10427\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10427\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shane-pic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Still breaking records: Wales record try scorer Shane Williams \" width=\"493\" height=\"370\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10427\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shane-pic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Still breaking records: Wales record try scorer Shane Williams \" width=\"493\" height=\"370\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <strong>Still breaking records: Wales record try scorer Shane Williams<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n\u201cThe way Warren Gatland\u2019s sides have been playing rugby for the last God knows how many years has won a lot of Championships for Wales,\u201d said Wales\u2019 record try-scorer.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think they have got the capacity to evolve and I think the Italy game showed that.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not all doom and gloom that they lost to England because England ultimately went on to win the Grand Slam and they aren\u2019t a bad side.<br \/>\n\u201cHopefully Warren Gatland and the team can learn from what hasn\u2019t gone particularly well for them and they will evolve. They haven\u2019t become a bad team overnight.\u201d<br \/>\nThe former Ospreys man does however believe that Wales will look back at this campaign with a feeling of what might have been.<br \/>\nWilliams, 39, said: \u201cThe first half against England didn\u2019t go particularly well but we\u2019ve said enough about that. Perhaps we should have won the Irish game as well.<br \/>\n\u201cSo it\u2019s the one that got away really but hopefully the Welsh team and the Welsh management have learnt lots from the England game.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Italy performance to finish off shows that we have got strike runners and we can score tries and put teams away.\u201d<br \/>\nOne positive to come out of the Championship for Wales was the return to form of Northampton Saints winger George North.<br \/>\nThe former Scarlets star finished the campaign as top try scorer with four touchdowns, beat 43 defenders and made 473 metres.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s great to see George scoring tries and I think when he gets involves in games and scores tries Wales do particularly well,\u201d said Williams.<br \/>\n\u201cSo it\u2019s good to see him find a bit of form and more importantly a bit of confidence because that\u2019s all you need sometimes.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Six Nations is now behind Wales, however life will not get any easier with the men in red set to embark on a three test tour to face world champions New Zealand in June.<br \/>\nWales have not defeated the All Blacks since 1953 and have never won a test match in the land of the long white cloud.<br \/>\nHowever, Amman Valley man Williams was upbeat when asked about Wales\u2019 chances of ending a 63-year drought against world rugby\u2019s greatest side.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m particularly looking forward to it because I don\u2019t have to play against them,\u201d joked Williams.<br \/>\n\u201cLook it\u2019s going to be very tough. It\u2019s three tests out in New Zealand, which is never easy but the only way you are going to get better is by playing the best sides in the world.<br \/>\n\u201cIt could be nasty as it\u2019s always very tough in New Zealand.<br \/>\n\u201cTo face New Zealand in their own back garden and try to beat them is not a very easy task, but I think Wales have got the capability of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELSH rugby legend Shane Williams is confident Wales will bounce back after missing out on a fifth Six Nations title. Speaking exclusively to The Cardiffian at Sport Relief&#8217;s Flagship Games in Cardiff, Williams\u00a0said\u00a0Wales are moving in the right direction under the tutelage of Warren Gatland. \u201cThe way Warren Gatland\u2019s sides have been playing rugby for the last God knows how many years has won a lot of Championships for Wales,\u201d said Wales\u2019 record try-scorer. &#8220;I think they have got the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4],"tags":[1291,10,1172,3614,154,328,74,1175,339,293],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby","category-sport","tag-cardiff-2","tag-charity","tag-charity-events-in-cardiff","tag-flagship-games","tag-rugby-2","tag-six-nations","tag-sport-2","tag-sport-relief","tag-wales","tag-welsh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wales can go on to beat New Zealand, says rugby legend Shane - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/03\/22\/wales-can-go-on-to-beat-new-zealand-says-rugby-legend-shane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wales can go on to beat New Zealand, says rugby legend Shane - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WELSH rugby legend Shane Williams is confident Wales will bounce back after missing out on a fifth Six Nations title. 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