Wales’ Dewi Lake calls historic win against New Zealand ‘amazing feeling’

‘It’s nothing this group doesn’t deserve for their work’ Beauden Barrett: ‘Their defence felt like a brick wall’ Dewi Lake, the first Wales captain to lead his team to victory over New Zealand in 73 years, paid tribute to his teammates, who chiselled this win out of a recent hist

‘It’s nothing this group doesn’t deserve for their work’ Beauden Barrett: ‘Their defence felt like a brick wall’ Dewi Lake, the first Wales captain to lead his team to victory over New Zealand in 73 years, paid tribute to his teammates, who chiselled this win out of a recent history of adversity, sometimes even humiliation. At last, they gave this rugby nation reason to be proud again, as he called the win an “amazing feeling”. “It’s nice to sit in this room and not be disappointed,” he said.

“I think we got asked a lot of questions last week in terms of performance, in terms of things that went wrong. We had tough conversations in the week [after a narrow win over Japan]. We’re a group that trusts each other a lot, and to put on the field what we did today, to make history, it’s tough to put it into words really.

But it is nothing this group doesn’t deserve for the work they put in for the last year, year and a half.” Continue reading...