Gatland: We spoilt their party

WARREN GATLAND wants the world to take notice after his Welsh heroes set up a Grand Slam shot with a record-breaking win over England. The win was Wales’s 12th in a row, beating the 1907-10 vintage’s run, and Gatland said: ‘It was one of the best weeks I’ve had with the team. ‘Eddie said they were coming down to spoil our party. Well, maybe we’ve spoilt theirs. ‘It was a bit of an upset — not for us because we were pretty confident in ourselves. We expected to win, but for a lot of people this would have been an upset. ‘We knew exactly where we were and I said to the players England had no idea what animal was turning up this week — but we did. ‘We went through some pain last week in terms of how hard we trained. The message to the players was that there is no way anyone is training as hard as us. It paid off. The

biggest challenge for us now is to not be happy with beating England and accepting where we are at the moment, but to try to build further and create something very special. ‘It would be pretty special if we could win the Six Nations in my final year with Wales. ‘The second half was as good as it gets and a lot of people out there might sit up and take a little bit of notice of that.’ Fly-half Dan Biggar, who came on for Gareth Anscombe, felt echoes of the famous 2015 World Cup win at Twickenham. ‘Maybe it was a bigger game for us than for England,’ said the 29-yearold. ‘Our players really stepped up.’