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Good evening. Here at the Millennium Stadium, tomorrow Wales

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faces Australia, and the Grand Slam champions need a win to avoid an

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autumn whitewash. Coming up tonight:

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The All Blacks came and conquered, but now the Wallabies are in town

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with so much more than pride at stake for Wales. We've got to

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redeem ourselves and get back up to where we were last season.

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A win against West Brom in midweek and now it's a trip to Arsenal and

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Laudrup v Wenger. And for top-of- the-table Cardiff City, the return

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of ex-manager Dave Jones. Plus we capture the home-coming of

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Olympic silver medallists Fred Evans and Andrew Selby. It's the

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best of the creme da la creme of boxing over five rounds. A

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But we start with tomorrow's game. Last weekend's defeat against the

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All Blacks was Wales' sixth in a row, and it's a loss which means

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Wales has to beat Australia tomorrow to stay in the top eight

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of the IRB World Rankings. Lose, and they face a much tougher draw

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For a month ago, Wales were officially the best side in the

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world with ambitions of making the top four in time for Monday's World

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Cup draw. But after three autumn defeats they are in danger of

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slipping down to 9th. However, it was not all doom and gloom last

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weekend. Outstanding second-half performance. They really took the

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game to the All Blacks in the second half and I am proud of the

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way we finished and dominated territory and possession in the

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second half. We were not able to debt and the game got away from us.

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There was a time not so long ago when finding positives in the game

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did not suffice. We need to take the positives from last weekend and

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we need to look at ourselves and think, what are the mistakes we

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made in the first half that we can fix? Here and if we are more

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accurate and clinical ourselves, the gain can give us a lot. It was

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not only the results the players still not see coming. They have

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been battered and bruised through the autumn season, losing three

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players against the All Blacks. But one is back. These injury problems

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the team has will test our strength and depth. You know, it would

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expose players to weigh fantastic rugby environment. If Scott Andrews

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comes in after an impressive game against the All Blacks. Aaron

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Shingler gets his chance in the back row. Been trying all week. We

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just had to wait for a medical report on him. Fingers crossed they

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will come through so when you look at the team on paper, it is pretty

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strong. But earlier in the week it did not look that way. Rhys

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Priestland, low on form and confidence, keeps the number 10

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shirt. If I spoke to him and said, look, you know, it is tough when

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you get personally criticised or criticised on social media and how

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you respond to that. I said, look, I was coaching Ireland one we got

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knocked out of the World Cup quarter-final against Argentina. I

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didn't get out of bed for three days! I was a lot older than you

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were! So it is just... You will remember if he had somebody good

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experiences in the last 12 months but he Warren bought the last month

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has been like and I think hopefully it will make him that stronger. --

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he will remember. If Wales lose on Saturday they will be out of the

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top rate and out of the top seeds for the World Cup draw. It could

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see them in the same group as New Zealand and England. Surely, then,

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this is the most significant match in the history of them?

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important thing about rankings is if you finish in the top four and

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then you'd get a southern- hemisphere team in your group, so

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whether we are 4th, 9th, 8th, 12, apart from possibly drawing France,

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there is a good chance you will have raised southern-hemisphere

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team in your group. This is such an important week. If we can get a

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victory, we can get a confident squad into the Six Nations next

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year. They came second in the championships and that is by a no

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accident, so it will be a great achievement faster win this weekend.

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So it's all about just getting a win in the Wales camp. I'm glad to

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say I'm joined by former Wales captain Gwyn Jones. I will take you

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back a few weeks, ahead of that match against Argentina, and she

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told us on this programme that anything less than three wins would

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be a step back. -- and you told us. Yes, my crystal ball was not

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working! Massively disappointing. They have not perform to the

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standard we expected, that they expected to and they are miles

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behind where they wanted to be. Warren Gatland's involvement with

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the Lions - has that been to the detriment of Wales? It is difficult

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to say for this autumn's series. It has always been in the background,

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not far away from the players and coaches. We will probably see more

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in the Six Nations Howard becomes official with him as head coach --

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how it becomes. And if we do not take many Welsh players or take

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players and do not use them, that is the real trouble. What we are

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getting now is what will become after the Lions tour. For an extra

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international with the game against Australia. The coach said this week

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there is too much rugby being played. Andrew Hore, the chief

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manager, he has called for people to look at the rugby calendar. Does

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it need looking at a what changes can be made? It is very simple. You

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can play a less rugby if people are prepared to have less money and

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that is what it comes down to. We are playing more games so we can

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get more money and send it back to the regions. If everybody is happy

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to say, yeah, I will do less than 10% -- 10% less, then OK. But they

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are not. We do well in terms of filling the stadiums so that is the

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reality of the world. And the reality is that everybody wants a

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part of the pie and they want more money so they want to play more

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games. If a what changes have we seen? Only one real change. But the

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promise not the back row but what is happening ahead of it. OK, they

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have barely had a chance. I think the big trouble is whether they

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should play Warburton as well. There is not Tayside in the world

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that would play two sevens. -- not a side. Only in the last 20 minutes

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with a place and the like Cooper. I don't think there is room for it

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until the last 20 minutes. Are you surprised Jamie Roberts is

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starting? If he is fit, he starts. No question about that. In big

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games in the past he has proven himself but I think Warren Gatland

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has put out the warning shot of saying some stars who expect to be

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on Lions trips need to stop playing letter -- better. If we will turn

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our attention to the Australian team shortly.

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But now away from the fortunes of Welsh rugby to the feel-good factor

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surrounding our leading football teams, with Cardiff City still top

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of the Championship and Swansea up to eighth in the Premier League

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after their midweek games. And, as Ian Hunt reports, an intriguing

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weekend ahead for both clubs. Can Swansea get that first Premier

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League win at the home of one of the big four sides? It is Arsene

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Wenger who is under pressure, not Michael Laudrup. The Swansea boss...

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Would always say about Arsene Wenger? He has been there for so

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many years, just so great. -- what would I say? Just because they lose

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one game does not mean he is a great manager. Key is. So on Sea

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could not be in better shape after this stunning win over West Brom

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midweek. But, hang on, there is another side with the same

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philosophy, isn't there? Arsenal, anyone? The possession, the players,

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who can move and dominate on their own hand. The way they played

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against Liverpool here. But still, we still have a lot to learn.

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a festival of football, perhaps, at the Emirates, where the professor

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of football has admiration for the way Michael Laudrup has picked up

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tips ability stadium. It was a question mark created by the

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manager and the season. And could intelligently. And of course that

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gives them the places ahead last year and with the players they

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bought in, it makes them very dangerous. The first return of a

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familiar face at Cardiff City on homes -- at home on Sunday. It

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ended in tears for Dave Jones last year, sacked after they lost and

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the play-off semi-finals. Never any bitterness in me whatsoever because

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bitterness eats away at you. I have got a problem at the moment which

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will come to light at -- in a moment. But not any bitterness.

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be at a football club for six years is a long time now. They got the

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play-offs, the final, then the FA Cup Final. So I think that is a

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good achievement for a manager to have at a football club. Sellers is

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the Cardiff do what they could not quite manage under Jones? But the

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former manager stressing the clubs still made good progress under his

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time in charge. For the last six years, another have an investment.

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They never had investment before. They always had to sell to survive.

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Now they have got backers in and hopefully they can go where they

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want to go. I've got no animosity towards the football club but so

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have. I hope they achieve what they are trying to achieve. These were

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the scenes at Sheffield last spring, when Wednesday won promotion to the

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championship but they have struggled to adapt to the high

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level, currently just one off the bottom. I suspect they can come in

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and give us a tough game. I don't suspect anything different. But on

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the back of a poor run and going one Beach, anything can happen in

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this league and usually it does. To boxing now, and Olympic silver

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medallist Fred Evans returned to the ring last Friday in Newport

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alongside fellow Welsh Olympian Andrew Selby. They're taking part

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in a tournament which allows them to sample professional boxing

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without giving up on representing Wales at the Commonwealth Games in

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2014. Steffan Garrero spent the week with them, as they started a

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The traditional dilemma for boxers at the end of an Olympiad is

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whether to remain amateur or join the paid ranks. The World Series of

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boxing has changed this a Andrew Selby and silver medal winner Fred

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Evans. It is a franchise based tournament which takes place under

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professional roles but crucially, it allows boxers to remain eligible

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for the Olympics. The British Lion Herts join the competition this

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year, with four Welshman signing up. In match one, a way to the US

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knockouts, Sean McGoldrick was victorious. Match two saw them had

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to Wales. When I came back from the Olympics I could not go anywhere

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without getting recognised. If people came up asking for

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autographs but it was all to the good. I enjoyed it all. But now

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back into training camp and trying to get fit. I had a lot of fans

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coming to watch me in the Olympics and it was hard but now we have

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nearly all of Wales following me and Fred, so it is good. Obviously

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after we got back from the Olympics, we had a break can got back into

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the gym. It is only an extra two rounds so I think we were just hand

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lead easily. Yeah, excited now, my opponent is a big, strong kid. I

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have seen bits of him from amateur tournaments. So should be a good

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fight. This gives me more time to get into the fight more. Is there

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any kind of fear factor? Smaller clubs, no head guards? It is going

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to be a bit tougher. Just getting used to it will be different.

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Probably feel the shots more because now your hands can be done

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a professional, taped up, so I will be a bit tougher. Longer around

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stop see the shots are coming now. And think it will be better. Just

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have to keep watching with your head because it is easy to get cut.

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If you get cut on your eye, the blood goes in and you cannot see.

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Do you both know anything about your opponents tonight? Mine is

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professional. Level one, drew 1. I know he is tall. He is a pro,

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heavier than me, so she has come down and weight. He will probably

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shoot back up and be a lot stronger! I have seen mine. I know

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he has had nine fights, WSP. Loss You have the best fighters in the

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world. Tonight, we have four Olympians. To silver medal-winners.

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Fred Evans is silver medallist. It is the best in boxing over five

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rounds. This is a wonderful tournament and the first time we

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have had a programme like this at home. I am thrilled to be involved

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in it and I can't wait to watch. Is it plaster of Barry? Good luck

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everybody. No rushing it. Side to side, balance and a smack him.

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opponents in Newport with the reigning WSP champions. Selby,

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clearly disappointed to miss out on a medal at the Olympics, he came

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out a unanimous winner. It is just like the Olympic Games. That was

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how nervous I was. As soon as I got out there, all the nerves went. He

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was head butting me across the eye. If he had got me in the nose, it

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would have been me and a fight. you going to watch Fred later?

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go up and watch him. They lie in heart held a 3-1 lead in the match.

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His find it was a cagey affair. Both unwilling to give too much

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away. Evans lost the first round but clawed his way back. Both

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needed to win the 5th and final round to it seal the victory.

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Evans has done it. Very close indeed. Nerves were kicking him.

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They was a new experience. Didn't know what to expect. He was a good

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kid and a close fight. This was his 12th fight and he has only last two.

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It was a good win. We will keep you updated with the progress of both

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Andrew and Fred. As a professional sportsman, how do you go about

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rebuilding your career and your life after serving time in prison

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for violent conduct? There was the challenge for one former Wales

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international who has helped transform Newport County from the

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did it -- relegation candidates into promotion candidates.

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David Pipe seemed to have it all but put it in jeopardy with one act

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of mindless violence. David Pipe has been jailed for three years

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after wounding a man in an assault aside a club in the city.

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fractured the Scarva man by his mashing a wine bottle on his had --

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head. Now there is a remorse and regret. I was excessive drinking. I

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put myself in that position. If I hadn't had drunk as much as I did

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on that night, I wouldn't have got out of control. Lots of people get

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drunk but not many it smashed a bottle Ovett a head. Exactly. Until

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I saw the footage, that is when it sunk in. I couldn't believe I had

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done that. Where I am from comic you look after yourself. There is a

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lot of camaraderie with the rugby clubs are going on. You look after

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yourself. On a lot of people get into scuffles and I can look after

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myself but in the right way. That was totally out of character. I

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can't describe what I felt. guilty plea, a fall from grace from

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a man they used to captain the Welsh Under 21. His career at

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Bristol Rovers was over. I will not lie and say you get upset and think

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the worse. Whatever you think, in there, it is magnified by a 10

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times. You have limited access to your family. You have to put it in

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perspective. I probably enjoyed my life a bit too much and looking

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back on it now, after learning on it, I can still enjoy my life but I

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get my enjoyment out of the lesser things whereas before I was taking

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it for granted. Going out for food whenever I wanted, the amount of

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money I was earning two getting eight and 54 scrubbing floors. It

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is set fair to do what he does and it worked from me. Going from one

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scale to the ever, you have a different perspective on life.

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release from prison, a new start with Newport. Now, he is the camp

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10. We have given me the chance to get back into wet. -- now, he is

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When somebody is standing by your side when you have made a mistake,

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it gives you the chance to see things are not impossible.

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positive person to have around and the Football Club. He is the fans'

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favourite now. He is a good role model and a good example for people

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that have made mistakes and have been given an opportunity and have

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grasped it with both hands. Retention for him, promotion for

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Newport. They were down and out when he arrived 14 months ago and

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now they are joint top. I will not sit here and say that I have turned

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it around by myself. I would like to think that there has been a few

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positive things going around lately. They didn't think we could do it.

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We are in December and we are top three. People have to sit back and

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look at us and to realise that we have come on leaps and bounds. That

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is thanks to the players. We have the right people in. We have had a

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few slip-ups by we are still in the next. I don't think many people

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would have put us there at the start of the season.

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Time now to take a look at tomorrow's a payment Das --

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opponents. So far this autumn, Australia have lost to France but

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have beaten England and Italy. Sport Wales went into the Aussie

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camp to assess the mood ahead of Two months ago when Robbie deem --

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Robbie Dean came under criticism. The set-up was called toxic. Under

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pressure. You keep going and concentrate on the things that are

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important. Success and failure can force you to take your eye off what

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is important. Sometimes it is easier said than done. Their form

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on the European Tour has seen them hammered by the French, struggle

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against the Italians but a victory at Twickenham is always a welcome

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boost if any side as they look to press on to the end of 2012 with

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victory in Cardiff. Australia celebrate. There is the intensity

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against England. It is where we are as a group. We have to find

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consistency. You see patches of it. Sometimes we play well. It is a

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reflection of where the group is at. It is something we are still trying

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to work,. Tomorrow, they welcome them man that led them to a 3-0 win

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in the summer. Captaincy duties remain with Nathan shop. It is his

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final Test match cap. -- Nathan Sharpe. We will do all we can to

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help him. There has been no winners for the answers. In 2005 and again

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in two pairs and donate. The two sides faced each other with

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Both teams are going to be highly motivated to go out there. We can't

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expect anything less than the Welsh team playing to their full

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potential and capability. If we underestimate, we might be going

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home disappointed. They are playing for their country like we are. We

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have to put it on the line. It is their last game for a while as well.

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This is our last outing. They will have to think about their

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performance for some time before they get the chance to play again.

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They are keen to finish on a good note.

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Robbie Deans admitted the pressure his team are under. Australia are

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second and have drawn with the All blog -- All Blacks. He is under

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pressure. He is not very popular in Australia. They feel he has

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abandoned that style of play with intricate passing and lots of

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angles. That has gone and they are a more pragmatic side now.

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Consequently, he is not popular. They need to win. David said if

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Wales won't be there now, they never will. I think Wales are going

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to struggle. You have to play against Australia and we haven't

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got that power at the moment. Afferent five are not as good as

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they were. We have lots of creative back line players. They are a tough

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team to slow down. We have already lost against them three times this

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year. Can it be 4th time lucky? hope so. I don't think it will be

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through lack of effort this time. Australia have just won at

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Twickenham. It will be close. I think Australia will just when it

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