We are immensely proud to have two of the IRB Sevens World Cup winning squad playing at London Welsh.
Aled Thomas and our new star signing Lee Beach have achieved something that very few players, including many of the great and the good in world rugby, cannot claim to have done.
For our own Aled Thomas to score the winning try in a World Cup final is very special indeed and we are also very lucky to now have World Cup team captain Lee Beach fighting for the London Welsh cause.
Click the links below for audio and video of our World Cup Winners
Quotes from Aled and Lee
Captain Lee Beach On captaining Wales to a World Cup victory:
"It's amazing. It hasn't quite sunk in yet. We have always said about going for a Cup final and it came at the right time - it's a World Cup final. I guess it will take a while to sink in. I just don't know what to say. We are over the moon."
On the Welsh game plan: "When we played them in the pool game we went away from our game plan and so we said, look, we have got to go into this game with our game plan and luckily we went well and it is a big win for us."
On the support the team received: "It's unbelievable. There are so many England supporters cheering for us. It is just amazing. I can't describe it."
Aled Thomas On the effort the team put in:
"It's unbelievable, it's really hard to explain. A massive effort. The contact area was awesome. We had a massive day and I guess I was just lucky to be on the end of something awesome there."
On the huge support in the stands for Wales: "I have to say it is absolutely amazing. It's like you say, a home from home. It probably helped that England got knocked out and (their fans) jumped on our bandwagon but we'll take that. We are champions."
On the self-belief in the team: "We came into the tournament off the back of a good tournament down in Wellington and we knew down there that we could upset a few teams. We just came down here full blooded. We just want to hurt people and then (show) cool heads on the ball."
Well done boys! (All we need to do now is sign Tal Selley!)
