Liam Williams was declared fit to play after injuring himself in the win over Scotland. “We are playing the greatest Welsh side ever, so we’re going to have to be at our absolute best. He achieved the honour of captaining his nation in 2016, and duly led his team to their first Six Nations Grand Slam in almost 20 years, as well as a win record of 85 per cent. We came out a bit cold and tried to play a bit too much, but we learned pretty quickly at the start of the second half. Before Super Saturday and the Mobot at the London Olympics. Nobody was going to take Wales lightly coming into the 2019 Guinness Six Nations championship, but the smart money was still on No 2 ranked Ireland to make it back-to-back titles. For heaven’s sake, some of yesterday’s heroes barely won another significant match in their whole seasons, bar the five games of the international Slam.”, “Clearly, six months before the World Cup, Wales are the form team from the Guinness Six Nations Championship — and they have clear gains to make between now and Japan. The conditions were terrible and it wasn’t great. "When you talk about the biggest matches of your career it's hard to look past this Saturday," says Anscombe. But we will have to be a lot better than we were today against England. Josh Navidi on the 150 stone French pack, the biggest in Six Nations history: “The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Thomas Young and Jonah Holmes made their Six Nations debuts and Jonathan Davies skippered his country for the first time. We’ve got a job to do which is to play much better but also deliver a performance our supporters can be proud of.”, Matchday Moments: Wales set up the decider by beating Scotland at Murrayfield, “We had a couple of good defensive sets in that second half, but it was certainly nerve-wracking. That is a good position to be. On that note, he discusses the long list of broken bones that he suffered in his career, in particular the knee injury that forced him out of the Japan World Cup in 2019 and ultimately led him to retire from the sport prematurely; how it impacted him mentally, and how he has dealt with leaving rugby after so many years in the game. “Anything can happen when you work hard and you’re a proud nation, and we’ve shown that. England and Ireland, by contrast, can only tip their sodden hats in the direction of Cardiff and reflect on why they ultimately fell short.”, “This will mean so much to Warren Gatland. So whilst the spoils of victory still glow warm around the principality; wru.wales takes a look back at how the 2019 Grand Slam was won ... As far as pre-tournament predictions go, Warren Gatland’s statement that Wales would win the Grand Slam if they won their opening game in France is right up with the boldest of all time. "Hell of a year that was," interrupts Parkes, the older of the pair.