Only one thing to discuss today. Wales absolute thrashing of the much fancied Scottish rugby team.
As
the headline in the Sunday Telegraph put it,
'Wales
34 Scotland 7: Scottish faces turn shade of scarlet as Leigh Halfpenny
brace secures a bonus-point win in Cardiff
So much for the resurrection of Scotland and the
demise of Wales.
As crushing as this capitulation was for Gregor
Townsend, it was a source of sweet, sweet joy – not to mention, vindication –
for Warren Gatland, who can only be thinking of a fourth Six Nations crown on
the back of this emphatic statement.
Can there be a more rousing manner in which to
celebrate your 10th anniversary in a job? Looking at the Kiwi’s reaction at the
whistle of this bonus-point thumping, it was hard to envisage there could be.
Could anyone have foreseen Wales scoring 34
unanswered points and taking the maximum five-point return with four tries?
Gatland did, for one.
Yet even the Kiwi – who is one of Leigh Halfpenny’s
most avid fans – must have been surprised by the full-back showing the rebirth
of his attacking brilliance after such a long drought to score two tries in his
remarkable 24-point tally.
But this was about so much more than one man, one
Scarlet – or even 10 Scarlets, for matter. At an estimate, there were nine
first-teamers missing with injury, eight of whom are British and Irish Lions,
but Wales shrugged of the set-backs quite ridiculously.
There may have been 10 scarlets involved but it was great to see Corey Hill and Elliott Dee playing so well.
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| Corey Hill (Right) |
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| Elliott Dee |
Bring on England at Twickenham next week. I cannot
wait!!
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