Second-Half Show Provides Reason to Be Cheerful for Gatland

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WARREN Gatland wasn't whistling Happy Days Are Here Again, but nor was he humming the funeral march. It was that kind of day in London -- sunshine with showers.

Both sides were able to take encouragement from proceedings: England from their win and Jonny Wilkinson's performance at fly- half, Wales from their pluckiness and refusal to go quietly into the night.

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Second-Half Show Provides Reason to Be Cheerful for Gatland

But there were also plenty of creases for the coaches in the respective camps to iron out.

Gatland had said Wales might surprise England and his prediction almost came to pass as the players' impressive conditioning allowed them to have the better of the second half.

But they couldn't quite get the job done.

England's dark secret is that they are not as brilliant as their admirers think they are. But in Wilkinson they ha...

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