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Shane Williams sparks life into Ospreys as they beat Toulon
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TT2JybI7WRI/AAAAAAAAE8Y/nQS60DC5tsc/s1600/henjak-ospreys-toulon.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TT2JybI7WRI/AAAAAAAAE8Y/nQS60DC5tsc/s400/henjak-ospreys-toulon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565756213871466770" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Ospreys hosted Toulon in what was a bit of a dead rubber at the Liberty Stadium on the weekend. Pride was on the line for the home side, who came away 29-17 winners over the weakened tourists, who had already qualified for the knockout stages. /spanbr /br /Aside from the win for Ospreys, the great news for Welsh rugby is that ace winger Shane Williams came off the bench and was fantastic, coming back from an injury that many thought would see him sitting out of the early stages of the Six Nations.br /br /It was Williams’ first outing since a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/11/shane-williams-out-for-10-weeks-after.html"dislocating his shoulder against South Africa/a in November and he looked fresh as ever, setting up a try for Nikki Walker and looking threatening with ball in hand. He’s since been called back into the Wales squad.br /br /"I’m just chuffed I’m back three weeks early. The timing is perfect. Maybe it was meant to be. Who knows? When I had the injury, they were talking 12 to 13 weeks. But I’ve had injuries before and I’ve always seemed to come back early. I don’t know what it is," Williams said.br /br /"I was a bit worried this time with the age factor and everything. But I just played it by ear. It isn’t an injury you can mess around with. I’ve said this is going to be my last international year and the last thing I wanted to do was rush back, play a couple of minutes and make the injury worse.br /br /"I wasn’t going to push it. I’ve come to a stage now where you’ve got to look after your body and that was the main thing really. I wanted to make sure I was 100 per cent fit before I played any rugby. But I’ve been lucky. I’ve worked very hard to get back and the rehab has gone very well," he added.br /br /Toulon had scored through Matt Henjak and Rory Lamont and were 17-12 up when Williams came on, but he sparked things and set up the Walker try with typically brilliant simplicity, if that’s even a term. Walker strolled over after Williams summed things up.br /br /Alun Wyn Jones scored late on, sealing a good win that keeps up their unbeaten home record in Europe since December 2005.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gCJaT6u1Umw?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gCJaT6u1Umw?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;":: Related Posts ::/spanbr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/11/shane-williams-out-for-10-weeks-after.html"Shane Williams out for 10 weeks following Francois Steyn tackle/abr //span/divspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span03:33/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-5807978067899901939?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divpa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0psiw8m6EcG5PglIhRsJEpYfgXo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0psiw8m6EcG5PglIhRsJEpYfgXo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0psiw8m6EcG5PglIhRsJEpYfgXo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0psiw8m6EcG5PglIhRsJEpYfgXo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=lXEMrZEDO1c:2eAJbLC5Z1A:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/lXEMrZEDO1c" height="1" width="1"/ More...
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