Monday 28 January 2013 21:59, UK
Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny is looking forward to making his Millennium Stadium return in Saturday's Six Nations opener against Ireland.
Halfpenny continued: "The first game in the Six Nations is always important because of the confidence a win brings, as we showed in Dublin last year. The focus is on getting a good start. "We are determined to put things right after the autumn and prove people wrong. From day one in training we have been working hard to make sure we are fully prepared, with no stone left unturned to make sure we get it right on Saturday. "We are the (Six Nations) champions. That brings pressure, but we showed last year, off the back of the World Cup, that we could cope with pressure and expectation. We dealt with it and won the Grand Slam. "The squad is still really young but hugely experienced and it is about taking things to the next level and stepping it up. "We did not show what we were capable of in the autumn until the second half against New Zealand. We were back to the team we were in the (2012) Six Nations and we can take huge confidence from that and the Australia game, when we took them to the wire and were disappointed to lose."
