6N 2018: Wales v Scotland, 3 February

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WALES v SCOTLAND
3 February 2018
KO: 14:15 GMT
Principality Stadium, Cardiff

Live on [ITV, RTE, SC4, FR2, DMAX / BBC (H)]

Referee: Pascal Gaüzère (France)
Assistant 1: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant 2: Matthew Carley (England)
TMO: David Grashoff (England)

A. Head to Head

122 Played 122
70 Won 49
3 Drawn 3
49 Lost 70
1,624 Points 1,263

B. Recent Form

9 March 2013
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
18–28 to Wales

15 March 2014
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
51–3 to Wales

15 February 2015
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
23–26 to Wales

13 February 2016
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
27–23 to Wales

25 February 2017
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
29–13 to Scotland

C. Teams

WALES 

Leigh Halfpenny (Scarlets); Josh Adams (Worcester), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Hadleigh Parkes (Scarlets), Steff Evans (Scarlets); Rhys Patchell (Scarlets), Gareth Davies (Scarlets); Rob Evans (Scarlets), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Cory Hill (Dragons), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys, capt), Aaron Shingler (Scarlets), Josh Navidi (Cardiff Blues), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester).

Replacements: Elliot Dee (Dragons), Wyn Jones (Scarlets), Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Bradley Davies (Ospreys), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Aled Davies (Scarlets), Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues), Owen Watkin (Ospreys).

SCOTLAND

Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors); Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Chris Harris (Newcastle Falcons), Huw Jones (Glasgow Warriors), Byron McGuigan (Sale Sharks); Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors), Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors); Gordon Reid (London Irish), Stuart McInally (Edinburgh), Jon Welsh (Newcastle Falcons), Ben Toolis (Edinburgh), Jonny Gray, John Barclay (Scarlets, captain), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh), Cornell du Preez (Edinburgh).

Replacements: Scott Lawson (Newcastle Falcons), Jamie Bhatti (Glasgow Warriors), Murray McCallum (Edinburgh), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors), Greig Laidlaw (Clermont Auvergne), Pete Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Sean Maitland (Saracens).

Think we can all agree getting rid if cotter was a mistake. Townsend is a step backwards.

mid_gen wrote:Price and Russell have blown this game for Scotland....absolute gash from both of them.

Wales haven't had to do anything, just defend and wait for Scotland to throw the inevitable speculative pass or simply kick the ball straight to them.

Disappointing first game...I hope France turn up.

Very much how Scarlets play, I'm glad we're adopting their style.

22 points and counting for Halfpenny.

This is going to be a total gubbing. Well done Wales, the only rugby team on the pitch today

Gwlad wrote:

Scottrf wrote:

The Oracle wrote:Still think Wales need a bigger cushion.

You can tell you're not watching.

Stick to soft play you're clueless Oracle

If mods are going to warn pre match please look at all of Gwlads comments during the match and back up your threats.

So finally scrum halfs so have to put the ball in straight and you are allowed to neck roll players again!

The standard has been set.

Bravo 1/2p very good performance

Andrew Cotter 'You feel its slipping away for Scotland'. Slipping away? Good grief man...

R!skysports wrote:Think we can all agree getting rid if cotter was a mistake. Townsend is a step backwards.

Jumping the gun a bit. Scots either think they're too good, or too bad... I don't think it will be Scotland's year but they're heading in the right direction under a smart coach like Townsend. They can only get better from this.

In this forum's competition, the lowest score predicted for Scotland was 9 points. It's quite possible Scotland will be nilled now, since they will probably turn down kicking chances.

We're going to get nilled aren't we!

Full credit to Wales here. Absolutely tremendous rugby. Dunbar/Taylor are obviously far more important Scotland than I realised.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear

mikey_dragon wrote:

R!skysports wrote:Think we can all agree getting rid if cotter was a mistake. Townsend is a step backwards.

Jumping the gun a bit. Scots either think they're too good, or too bad... I don't think it will be Scotland's year but they're heading in the right direction under a smart coach like Townsend. They can only get better from this.

Feck me I hope so!

Yep

Only one team in the 2H. Looks like Scottish players already gave up... shame as 1st half was entertaining.

One thing is sure, whatever the odds or injuries are, you can never writes off Wales during the 6N.always turn up. Well done. Very solid performance so far.

Is there still time for a comeback?

My wee girl has been whinging to get Peppa Pig on. Happily obliging now! Humiliated at Cardiff again

You could see from one angle it went down and the other angle he made the line.

Never in my dreams did I think this would be the outcome today, all I can really say is well done Wales!

Congratulations Wales. Very professional performance. Extremely disappointing from a Scotland perspective. We're getting a proper shoeing here and we've been every bit a poor as Wales have been good.

Some extremely naïve rugby from Scotland, shocking defending and, worst of all, Wales just looks miles fitter than we do.

Price and Russell both very poor, and Chris Harris looks like a lightweight Graeme Morrison. Du Preez completely anonymous as well. Only positive was probably Jon Welsh's scrummaging!

Very disappointed all around, but it's a big and deserved victory for Wales. Bigger, stronger, fitter and more skilful. Nothing to do with home advantage either.

tigertattie wrote:Is there still time for a comeback?

Lol, at least you’ve kept your sense of humour tattie

tigertattie wrote:Is there still time for a comeback?

Could be a game-changing TMO decision...

Poor poor Scotland.

Townsend should have started Llaidlaw.

throwing the ball around at speed is ok but you need control too.

Scoreline starting to flatter Scotland!!

RDW_Scotland wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:

R!skysports wrote:Think we can all agree getting rid if cotter was a mistake. Townsend is a step backwards.

Jumping the gun a bit. Scots either think they're too good, or too bad... I don't think it will be Scotland's year but they're heading in the right direction under a smart coach like Townsend. They can only get better from this.

Feck me I hope so!

Nope was always a stupid decision. Townsend always to flaky and trying to play 7s. Not a.clue.

This is one of the worst performances in the last 15 years and that is saying something.

Unbelievable!

TightHEAD wrote:Poor poor Scotland.

Townsend should have started Llaidlaw.

throwing the ball around at speed is ok but you need control too.

Bingo. Failure of 9 and 10 to steer the game. Failure of captain to steady the ship. Laidlaw fixes the 9 and captain problem.

Still need a 10 with a brain mind...

R!skysports wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:

R!skysports wrote:Think we can all agree getting rid if cotter was a mistake. Townsend is a step backwards.

Jumping the gun a bit. Scots either think they're too good, or too bad... I don't think it will be Scotland's year but they're heading in the right direction under a smart coach like Townsend. They can only get better from this.

Feck me I hope so!

Nope was always a stupid decision.  Townsend always to flaky and  trying to play 7s. Not a.clue.

This is one of the worst performances in the last 15 years and that is saying something.

It's just been poorly executed. Russell has been awful, Price has gifted Wales at least 7 points and the Harris experiment has been a disaster.

Enjoy this Wales, and with a bit more execution, I seriously think you can beat England next week. Watson aside, and Hoggs howitzer boot getting us out of trouble on occasion I'm struggling for positives.

Bit lazy tmo that. Should have checked final pass.

Don't want to sound like I'm trolling but it's a dark day when AWJ is cutting the midfield to shreds!

Thank god, we've made hard work of this on occasion! I can relax now with the bonus point win in the bag. Very happy with the result .

Again I am going to say, Scotland may be playing badly but that to me is due to the way Gatland set up this team and tactics to fully counter Scotland. Its this reason that Scotland have looked bad, they have been pressured in all the right areas and have lost their composure due to Wales tactics.

This is what Gatland does, as an Irish fan I have seen this far too often against us.

Another superb try for Wales , Even Andrew Cotter must see that Scotland have lost this now.

Other than Hogg, Watson and Jones, every single Scottish player should put their hands in their pockets and reimburse every poor Scottish supporter that traveled to Cardiff.

Price, Russell and Harris to pay double

I don't think the Laidlaw selection would have made a difference to be honest. Price was the right choice, he just played extremely poorly. Same with Russell. The Harris decision on the other hand is looking like a shocker.

Take the 3

100/1, I believe, that Wales would win to nil.

tigertattie wrote:Other than Hogg, Watson and Jones, every single Scottish player should put their hands in their pockets and reimburse every poor Scottish supporter that traveled to Cardiff.

Price, Russell and Harris to pay double

Jon Welsh deserves a mention as well. Wales were supposed to dominate the scrum, but he kept us solid.

Gregor must just be a puppet coach, this has scott Johnson written all over it. He was there in the tunnel, I think I've cracked it boys

funnyExiledScot wrote:

tigertattie wrote:Other than Hogg, Watson and Jones, every single Scottish player should put their hands in their pockets and reimburse every poor Scottish supporter that traveled to Cardiff.

Price, Russell and Harris to pay double

Jon Welsh deserves a mention as well. Wales were supposed to dominate the scrum, but he kept us solid.

Yeah the place we were supposed to dominante was the the attack, we were a panicky mess, whereas Welsh and Reid did quite well at the scrum.

R!skysports wrote:Take the 3

You may as well practice a move.

Do we need a TMO every try ffs.

Why did they need to check the grounding on the try before this?

Well done Wales, better team by a country mile and a cracking performance, all the best for the rest of your campaign lads

Well played Gatland and Wales

Disappointing to kick that out...

Well done Wales. Brutally punished a dismal and unintelligent Scotland effort.

Hope the next one is closer!

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:Well done Wales, better team by a country mile and a cracking performance, all the best for the rest of your campaign lads

This exactly. Wales were tremendous and keep up that tempo and don't let the occasion overwhelm you and I think England can be beaten!

Congratulations Wales - thoroughly deserved win with a lot of strong performances.

I'm apoplectic with rage at that Scotland performance - Townsend has a lot to answer for. He got this badly, badly wrong and I really hope he takes responsibility after the game.

He's certainly not been helped by the players though - almost all the players had their worst ever games in a Scotland shirt.

Pathetic.

Bloody hell, didn't expect that with all the new players. Feel sorry for the Scottish lads who have been enjoying themselves around Neath since yesterday.
Well done Wales lads though, maybe a bit of fresh blood and enthusiasm from the new players is exactly what a stale and energyless Wales needed after the last few years.

Yes very poor tmo decision for the bonus point.