Martyn Williams: I can't imagine Wales not winning

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🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Round Four of the Six Nations ended with decisive victory for England at Twickenham, Wales taking one step closer to Grand Slam glory, and Ireland stepping it up against France who went AWOL again. With Brian Moore this week is the former England fly half Rob Andrew. After England's resounding win over Italy Brian and Rob discuss the merits of having Ben Te'o, Manu Tuilagi, and Joe Cokanasiga all playing, Jamie George's 20 metre pass, and whether England have now over-kicked with the forwards getting involved too. Rob also states that this has not been a compelling tournament with only two matches being a contest.Former Wales flanker Martyn Williams joins to discuss whether the Grand Slam will happen saying it will be an anticlimax if it doesn't and he believes Cardiff will be the difference come Saturday. They also put forward the importance of this being the last Six Nations match for both Warren Gatland and Joe Schmidt. Speaking of Joe Schmidt, we get an Irish perspective from former prop Paul Wallace after their bonus point win over France. With many saying Ireland have their mojo back Paul is reluctant to agree as he remains concerned about their conversion rate.As for Scotland they are once again ravaged by injury, but former Scotland back rower Ally Hogg is remaining positive about the tournament saying they can always muster something against the English.We also speak with Nigel Owens about forward passes and TMOs, and Natasha "Mo" Hunt about the Women's Six Nations.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello, welcome to Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.
0:10.9	Round four, the Six Nations has ended.
0:12.6	Lots of points at Twickenham.
0:14.7	The Welsh defence confounding Scotland,
0:16.6	who rather helped in that regard.
0:19.5	An island stepping up against a France team. God knows where they were. God knows where. I've no idea. Apart from Exrable, I've nothing to say. I don't know what to say about France, but we will find something later on. Because with me to discuss it always, the former England and lines fly half. Rob Andrew. Hello, Rob.
0:36.9	Hi, Brian. England, I call this the Armaged and Lions fly half. Rob Andrew. Hello, Rob. Hi, Brian.
0:38.5	England.
0:40.5	I call this the Armageddon option.
0:42.0	It was... When you've got Doca de Sineer, you've got Mano 2-Langy, you've got Ben-Tio, you've obviously got strike runners.
0:49.4	And I wrote about this in my telegraph column, and it was this.
0:53.9	Players who I call power carriers are players that I define as ones
0:59.0	where the defence automatically thinks, right,
1:02.4	I cannot take a chance on this guy and drift.
1:06.8	I've got to stay swear because if I don't get a full shoulder tackle him,
1:10.0	I have no chance of bringing him down,
1:11.6	and that has consequences, whether or not it gets the ball, etc., etc.
1:15.7	If you have only 2 or 3 or 4 of those,
1:20.1	good teams from set defences can manoeuvre their best tacklers
1:24.4	to make sure they take the runners,
1:27.0	they can double tackle and so on.
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