Losing Leigh Halfpenny,Jonathan Davies and Rhys Webb is cruel. But perversely Warren Gatland can use this misfortune to galvanise his team for this critical Rugby World Cup clashWe have a special game. People from rugby from all around the globe are enjoying each other’s company. The World Cup is connecting people and there was the sight this week of Scottish and Japanese supporters enjoying a wee dram prior to the game at Kingsholm. It makes you proud of the sport, even whether the entente may not be so cordiale when England meet Wales at Twickenham on Saturday.
It is one of the biggest fixtures in the game regardless but, or with the winner taking a enormous step to a set in the quarter-finals,this encounter will be up a level. Not for nothing does the Wales captain, Sam Warburton, or say it will be the biggest game of his career and he speaks as someone who has captained the Lions and led his country to a grand slam and in a World Cup semi-final. It is massive.
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Source: theguardian.com