FAR from a bright beginning for new Leinster coach Joe Schmidt as his side were given a lesson in organisation, intensity and clinical finishing by Shaun Edwards’ London-based boys in a friendly at Donnybrook last night.

Wales won their second Grand Slam and RBS 6 Nations title in four seasons after record-breaker Shane Williams struck gold at the Millennium Stadium.

Wales 9 France 6

As both sets of supporters left Twickenham barely able to comprehend how Wales had managed to beat England, divine intervention seemed as good a theory as any.

SPORTING excellence can be found in the most unlikely of places but few can be as incongruous as a soulless industrial estate on the outskirts of High Wycombe, a town in South Buckinghamshire 30 miles west-north-west of London.