a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/Sb1fn-RUPyI/AAAAAAAAC2I/gbPglW4KMO0/s1600-h/wales-italy.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/Sb1fn-RUPyI/AAAAAAAAC2I/gbPglW4KMO0/s400/wales-italy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313508275702218530" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Wales survived a monumental scare at Stadio Flaminio but their hopes of a successful RBS 6 Nations title defence look bleak following a 20-15 win over Italy./spanbr /br /Wing Shane Williams scored his 46th Test try and substitute Tom Shanklin touched down eight minutes from time, while fly-half James Hook added 10 points from the boot to thwart an Italian side after full-back Andrea Marcato kicked five penalties.br /br /Six Nations strugglers Italy, without a win in the tournament this season, led 15-13 entering the closing stages before Shanklin's vital score.br /br /Wales, though, will need to record an emphatic victory over Grand Slam-chasing Ireland in Cardiff next Saturday - possibly by 20 points - to retain Six Nations silverware.br /br /Italy, who went toe to toe courtesy of a wonderfully-committed effort by their pack, arguably deserved at least a share of the spoils.br /br /Wales, captained for the first time by lock Alun-Wyn Jones, had expected a fierce onslaught during the opening 20 minutes, and while that duly materialised, Italy then refused to follow the script by wilting.br /br /Williams' try saw him equal Gareth Thomas' Welsh record of eight against Italy, while he is now only one behind Gareth Edwards' Welsh-best of 18 in Five or Six Nations rugby.br /br /But Welsh highlights proved few and far between during a performance that was comfortably their worst in the Six Nations since Warren Gatland took charge 15 months ago.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0XzRYN3nuJ4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0XzRYN3nuJ4amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span04:17br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Credit: /spanpress associationbr //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/32316390-1013813112271110305?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com'//divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=cfkmx5p4o4k:peVEqWOwvq0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/cfkmx5p4o4k" height="1" width="1"/ More...