Another gong for Williams
Shane Williams has won the prestigious Rugby Union Writers' Club Pat Marshall Memorial Award as the outstanding personality for 2008.
The RUWC honour comes less than a fortnight after the dazzling Wales wing, 31, was named the International Rugby Board's world player of the year.
Williams, player of the RBS 6 Nations, will receive his award at the RUWC annual dinner in London on January 5.
Meeuws done for season
Scarlets prop Kees Meeuws is out for the rest of the season after having surgery on his ruptured Achilles.
The former All Black international, 34, was injured during Friday's defeat by Munster and Nigel Davies fears it could end Meeuws's career.
Scarlets coach Davies told BBC Sport: "If anybody can come back then he can, but in all honesty I can't say whether he will or he won't"