Wales down shoddy Scots
12 Feb 2011
GARETH DUNCAN reports on Wales’ 24-6 win over Scotland in Edinburgh on Saturday.
With Wales without a win in their last eight Tests, head coach Warren Gatland made a key change to his startling line-up as James Hook was named at pivot ahead of Stephen Jones. The latter has held monopoly over the No 10 jersey in the past few seasons, seeing Hook feature at inside centre and even fullback. However, Hook’s start at flyhalf paid early dividends for Gatland’s charges.
Hook inspired Wales to a strong start to the match as his break in the in the eighth minute led to wing Shane Williams’ early try. The flyhalf added the extras and kicked another three penalties for a 16-0 lead.
Wales had clear ascendancy over an errant Scotland, but the former suffered a double blow in the second quarter when lock Brad Davies (professional foul) and fullback Lee Byrne (dangerous tackle) were sent to the sin bin in quick succession.
The hosts managed to build some momentum against 13-man Wales but poor handling and ball retention saw them squander several try-scoring opportunities. Wales also defended admirably. Scotland only managed to add three points through flyhalf Dan Parks as the score read 16-3 in the visitors’ favour at half time.
After the restart, Scotland enjoyed early momentum as Wales had a poor start. But like in the first stanza, the home team lacked composure on attack and could only add three points to their tally.
Hook, who struggled to continue his impressive first-half performance, cancelled out Parks’ three-pointer with his fourth penalty before Jones replaced him in the 65th minute. Wales then sealed the win as Williams grabbed his second try thanks to inside centre Jonathan Davies’ chip ahead.
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16 Comments
12 Feb 2011, 21:04 pm
farking dragon farkers
i’m off to the pub
12 Feb 2011, 21:05 pm
Very poor quality of rugby, I despair for the game in the northern hemisphere
12 Feb 2011, 21:07 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-1: Have a few for me
12 Feb 2011, 21:10 pm
congrats dragons!bloody cowards played like they had english d.icks up their arses!
12 Feb 2011, 21:17 pm
more poetry, how lovely.
12 Feb 2011, 21:20 pm
@cab(cab)-5: They say that they’re quite like humans.
12 Feb 2011, 21:52 pm
This game proves to everyone that both Wales and Scotland would never ever win a world cup.
Two players up and attacking the Welsh line and they still cant score.
12 Feb 2011, 23:55 pm
Scotland were utterly shite today, they couldnt score in a f—ing brothel, Wales were there for the taking but we made them look semi decent. Our handling was absolutely atrocious and Southwell played an absolute shocker, why Lamont wasnt on to start with is mind boggling.
13 Feb 2011, 09:03 am
OK, come clean, what were those who called Scotland for 6 Nations winners smoking???
13 Feb 2011, 10:29 am
Scotland BEAT the Boks last year…hhmm
13 Feb 2011, 10:37 am
@Grizz(Grizz)-9:
Tea leafs ma bru. You shood try em. Makes life kinda cooool and anything is possible in my universsssseee…
13 Feb 2011, 16:10 pm
@CoachPete(CoachPete)-7: World Cups aren’t necessarily won by tries, however, you are correct, these two teams will struggle to get past the Qtrs. Scotland in particular were poor but they’ll spring at least one surprise in this tournament yet.
Well done to Warren Gatland and Shaun Edwards, they bounced back under pressure.
13 Feb 2011, 17:03 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-12: Scotland were piss poor, Wales were not much better, i personally seen through last weeks performance, France are not the world beaters people think! they scored three tries last week through mistakes not through structured play. Both Scotland and Wales yesterday would have been sodomised then teabagged for good measure against any of the 3 Nations teams.
As for that welsh C–t Davies im sick of his biased and overexcitable commentary when Wales so much as put in a decent kick to touch, he doesnt seem to realise that the welsh superstars usually become anonymous in games against proper opposition, they cant even beat the Boks when they are playing horrendously.
What the F–k is up with Scotlands scrum, we have some massive guys almost as big as the Boks yet cant scrum to save our lives, the french pack last week must have weighed around 840kgs yet absolutely minced ours, then yesterday the fat bast–ds from Wales (all carrying in excess of 15 kgs of fat) anally raped our scrum again. Wales will get hammered by the Boks at the world cup and wipe that smug look off Davies and Butler (who has the most irritating voice ever) *** faces!
13 Feb 2011, 22:16 pm
The Scots had their pox win against the bokke! They will be at the bottom of the 6N table, nothing unusual for them! All in all a kak game of rugby!!
14 Feb 2011, 01:54 am
@dquinn25(dquinn25)-13: hi m8, not sure what’s up with Scotland’s scrum but I don’t think it’s the front row, Murray and Ford are proven Lions and the loosehead is a decent scrummager. Perhaps they need to look at the locks?
It was poor from Scotland but the Welsh were backed into a corner, the coaches jobs were on the line. Next game the pressure is on Scotland, I won’t be surprised if they beat Ireland. France to lose at Twickenham and Wales to struggle in Rome.
14 Feb 2011, 22:13 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-15: You could be right both Kellock and the new guy whose name has somehow just escaped my brain dont look like the strongest of guys, in saying that none of the french forwards are huge and it doesnt seem to effect them.
Id go for England for the slam at the moment, good find with Ashton on the wing, good team but in my opinion the best of a very average bunch. At the moment i cant see past either the Boks or NZ at the world cup, Australia may do well too
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