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Hello and welcome to LIVE coverage from today’s game as Wales take on Namibia at Stadium Taranaki in New Plymouth

World Cup / 1st Round
Yarrow Stadium / 26.09.2011
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Pippa Davis

Updated 26/09/2011 at 08:22 GMT


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So Wales join Samoa on 10 points in Pool D, the so-called "Pool of Death", with Samoa still to play South Africa on Friday and Wales still to play Fiji on Sunday. It's all going to come down to those two clashes to decide who goes through from this group
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CONVERSION WALES! 81-7! An easier kick this time around for Priestland as he converts the final try from just to the left of the posts
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TRY WALES! 79-7! Alun Wyn Jones is the man to take the ball over the line in the end, although it could have been nearly any of the Welsh side as they were lining up for it.
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Jonathan Davies takes Wales so close to the try line, it is only a matter of time until they score again. The clock has ticked over to 80 minutes though so they will need to be careful not to concede a penalty ...
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Priestland is not having too much luck with his goalkicking from the wings as he misses another conversion attempt, albeit from the opposite side this time
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TRY WALES! 74-7! Halfpenny gets to within a few metres of the line before coming under pressure from Botha. He has Byrne still in support though and offloads to his fullback who has no trouble taking the ball the rest of the way
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Ryan Bevington shows real pace as he runs the ball from just inside the halfway line ... he finds Byrne ... who in turn finds Leigh Halfpenny on the wing ...
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Priestland just hits the woodwork this time with his attempted conversion from out wide on the left wing
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TRY WALES! 69-7! Relentless from the Welsh pack as they force their way towards the line before Andy Powell picks up and finds Lloyd Williams on the left wing, the replacement finding himself unchallenged as he runs the short couple of metres to the line
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The Namibian front row is penalised for collapsing once again, they are simply no match for the Welsh pack and if that was slightly closer to the line (instead of 10m out) that probably would have been a penalty try
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Wacca Kazombiaze, who is retiring after this tournament, goes down with a knee injury and will have to be stretchered off. Namibia don't have any replacements left wand will have to play the final eight minutes with 14 men. A sad way to end a career as this is Namibia's last match of the tournament
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CONVERSION WALES! 64-7! Another two points go the way of Wales as Priestlands kicks another fairly easy conversion. There are still 10 minutes remaining on the clock as well
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TRY WALES! 62-7! Williams gets his hat-trick of tries! Luke Charteris does a great deal of the work to get Wales in a scoring position and after a couple of phases Williams receives the ball once again, stepping first inside and then back outside to get through two tackles, and then dives over the line
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North sets off from his own half once again. He has been running rampant since coming on and has exposed the hole left by Larson in the Namibian defence. It's not to be this time though as he offloads straight into touch, with no support there for him
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CONVERSION WALES! 57-7! Priestland lands his first kick of the evening after North had touched down just to the left of the posts
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TRY WALES! 55-7! Byrne makes it most of the way up the field before a fantastic offload in the tackle out to George North out on the left wing. North cuts back inside on the angle and bulldozes his way over the line ...
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Wales are pretty confident now and are running the ball from their own half any time they get the chance - Lee Bryne setting off after collecting a high ball this time
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CONVERSION WALES! 50-7! Another easy two points for Stephen Jones takes Wales's tally up to the 50 point mark. And that it turns out will be his last kick as he is brought off for Rhys Priestland
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TRY WALES! 48-7! North collects the high ball deep in his own half before running 50m up the field. His offload isn't the best but a great pick up from Alun Wyn Jones sees Wales continue the move. Wyn Jones finds Jonathan Davies on the outside and the Welsh centre has more than enough gas to accelerate away from the stretched Namibian line
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CONVERSION WALES! 43-7! Jones adds another two easy points in the conversion with North having touched down only just to the left of the posts