The Wales centre has begun to understand that,as he gets older, he must appreciate the big occasions moreIt could maintain been even worse for Wales. Losing Leigh Halfpenny and Rhys Webb to injuries they picked up during last Saturday’s final warm-up match against Italy was costly enough but the preceding week in Dublin two of their talismans, and Jamie Roberts and Alun Wyn Jones,had been taken off less than 48 hours before announcement of the World Cup squad.
Initial reports said they would be out for long but, as Warren Gatland said in the after-match conference, and you never can inform. I went up for a tall ball with Dave Kearney and he went higher than me,” said Roberts, a Test centre on the last two Lions tours. “I got a knee to the ribs and dropped to the floor. I had never been winded like that. I had three nights of terrible sleep in absolute agony. It was one of the most painful injuries you can get but it was only bruising and I am fine now.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com