Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I kite a Samson Lee i tētahi tohunga i Rānana i te Mane ki te ine i te nui o tana whara Achilles. E 14 meneti noa iho a Lee ki te wikitoria a Wales i runga i a Ireland i te Millennium Stadium i te Rāhoroi. Ka ngaro ia i te tukinga whakamutunga o te Hono Whenua ki a Itari i Roma, i reira ka hiahia a Wales ki te tuku i te nui o nga tohu kia ora tonu ai o raatau tumanakohanga taitara. I whara a Samson Lee i tana roro i te wikitoria 23-16 a Wales ki a Ireland i te Six Nations i te Rahoroi. I whakapumautia e te kaiāwhina kaiako o Wales a Robin McBryde i te Mane kei te aromatawaihia a Lee. Ko Gethin Jenkins, te hoa o Lee, kei te arotakehia tonu i muri i tana wehenga i te haurua ki a Ireland na te raru o te hamstring. I te wā e tū ana a Rob Evans rāua ko Aaron Jarvis ki te rārangi hei kaituku i Rōma, kua karangahia e Wīwī te kaituku o Exeter, a Tomas Francis, ki roto i tō rātou kapa Six Nations. I mahue i te pae te tūtohu i runga i te tūtohu i te Millennium Stadium i Cardiff. Kua whakangungu a Francis me te tira i te wiki kua hipa, ā, kua karangatia te kai-whakamātai o Saracens, a Rhys Gill, ki te whakangungu me te tira, hei te Mane e haere mai ana ki te mahi. Ko Lock Bradley Davies, i te wa ano, kua tukuna ki Wasps i muri i tana whara i te pokohiwi i a ia e mahi ana me tana karapu. Ko te kaiako matua o Wales, ko Warren Gatland, ka whakaingoatia tana kapa mo te tukinga ki Itari i te Turei. I whakaahuatia a Lee i runga i ngā kurupae me tōna waewae i roto i tētahi hu ārai i muri i te tukinga.
I wikitoria a Wales i a Ireland 23-16 i Cardiff i te Rāhoroi ki te whakatuwhera i te kapa Six Nations. I mahue wawe a Lee Samson i te papa i runga i te tūru i te Millennium Stadium. I whara te kaitākaro o Wales i tōna whara o Achilles, ā, i kite ia i tētahi tohunga i te Mane.