Shane Williams’ comment: Dan Biggar was the man and not just for his boot

What a performance and what a result.
It certainly wasn’t pretty but no Welsh fan will care when England are beaten in the World Cup at Twickenham.
This was all about sheer courage and determination to win.
Things did not look good in the first half but as the game wore on, Wales just looked to have that mental and physical edge on their opposite numbers. Even as we lost players to injuries at the rate of knots.
As Scott Williams, then Hallam Amos and then Liam Williams were either helped or carried off, I truly wondered how on earth we were going to hold.
But that’s when all the hard work, the sweat and blood from those training camps in Switzerland and Qatar pays off.
You have that extra one per cent in the reserves to dig into and find a way.
Wales were not better than England but they had that ‘edge’, that separates teams when the margins are this fine.
Of course Dan Biggar was named man of the match and who on earth could complain.
He was sensational and not only for those kicks. People worried about the loss of Leigh Halfpenny and whether we’d miss him come those crunch moments.
But when Dan slotted his penalty – the winning kick – from just past halfway, he proved the doubters wrong.
But it was also his game-management that was spot on, he kicked to the corners, kept England at bay by booting upfield and spotting the moments when to pass. He simply didn’t put a foot wrong.
Of course there were other heroes in red shirts. Alun Wyn Jones looked a little short of game time early on but as the game wore on and it was time to roll up the sleeves, there is no-one I would want more alongside me than him.
The defence also had to hold out and it was a huge call by England to kick to the corner instead of taking the penalty kick in those last few minutes.
But Wales drove them into touch to save the situation. Luke Charteris got his long levers on the ball and we held the scrum to win the game against all odds.
We’ve virtually lost a whole back division but when Wales played with tempo and got the ball out wide they were at their best. It wasn’t until the second half that they were able to do that because we didn’t have a platform.
England will wonder how they were only seven points ahead at half-time.
It was tick in the selection box for Stuart Lancaster and Sam Burgess when you consider how little Jamie Roberts got into the game. Burgess didn’t do anything spectacular, but then neither did Jamie.