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 | | In his third offering he looks back at Wales' first two games of the tournament which have seen them qualify for the quarter finals, expresses his disappointment at the low crowds in Wales and reserves special praise for prop Dave Whittle who survived an almighty hammering in the first game against the Cook Islands. |
 | | If you look at the Cook Islands they have one or two players who play at a high standard, the rest play in lower divisions, it is similar with Lebanon but you look at the New Zealand everyone is a high class NRL player and the competition out there is so physical. |
 | | Looking forward to the latter stages I think that Wales have the beating of the teams in the French group which, no disrespect to those sides, is not the strongest group. |
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