SHANE WILLIAMS

I know exactly how the Welsh players are feeling at the moment because I’ve been there.
I came back into the side after the 2003 Wooden Spoon campaign and helped Wales to reach the last eight at the World Cup later that year. We put up a great show against New Zealand and pushed the eventual champions, England, all the way in an epic quarter-final. Those performances laid the foundations for our first Grand Slam in 27 years in 2005.
We didn’t win another Six Nations game until our final match in the 2007 Championship, and then suffered the crushing blow of losing to Fiji at th...