Willams orchestrates the show but Wales are no one-man band
This Wales team shows every sign of building on last year's success after an inventive performance at Murrayfield according to Richard Williams in The Guardian.
"A year ago, the sight of Shane Williams limping out of the opening match of the Six Nations championship would have sent all Wales into convulsions of anxiety. Before his premature departure yesterday the International Rugby Board's 2008 player of the year had given a typically resplendent performance, but he no longer looked like his side's only true star.
"That was the measure of Wales's achievement throughout the first hour of a match that Martin Johnson will have watched with mounting alarm. Next Saturday he and his squad travel to Cardiff to meet a side who began their defence of the Six Nations title with a rampaging demonstration of the kind of open, inventive, joined-up attacking rugby that seems beyond England's grasp, and is particularly dangerous when combined with the kind of cold-eyed experience that was available to build a stage on which the growing band of entertainers could do their stuff. Funny things can happen in the Six Nations, but probably nothing quite as funny as England suddenly acquiring coherence and Wales losing it altogether."
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