Wales 20- Australia 32

Millenium Stadium, Cardiff, September 15th, 2007

"Jeez, mate. Folks at home told us it rained all the fuckin' time in this neck of the woods. Will ya look at it - blue sky, I've got the shades on, it's just like Brisbane."

Quite.

Except in Brisbane they may have had the courage to open the roof...

A good game that came pretty close to being a great one. Enough what ifs to make us Welsh believe that we may still leave an imprint on this World Cup. Perhaps it is the heart saying that. The head might reply that, as in 2003, the imprint may be that of a team playing attractive rugby, exciting, bums-out-of-seats rugby, but ultimately we will be overpowered by the big boys.