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England, in such control. It's a penalty against Wales. Wales will be | :00:26. | :01:01. | |
on the scoreboard at last. Wales score! Six minutes to go. A third | :01:02. | :01:16. | |
try. What drama is left. England survive the late challenge by Wales. | :01:17. | :01:29. | |
Hello, good evening to you. Welcome to the Six Nations special, yes it | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
is defeat but if you are looking for therapy, we have a doctor in the | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
house. And that was it himself. Also joining us, Wales's under 20s. | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
Wales's women are here as well. Only one place to start. Sadly it at | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Twickenham, the ultimate game of two halves. Fast Eddy was focused on the | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
draw, firing shots off about the legality of Wales this progress, gin | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
but both coaches were conservative and confident when it came to | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
selection, naming unchanged teams. Who would win with the unstoppable | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
force met the immovable object? There was an appointment in the | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
midfielder waiting room. Gareth Davies and Dan Biggar left Darren | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
Brown in a foul mood last time but who would be heroes and villains of | :02:43. | :02:43. | |
this time around? Brown for the line! Wales scurry | :02:44. | :02:59. | |
back, it is loose. Rob Evans got back, did he get a hand on the ball? | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
That's an knock-on, isn't it? Or is it a rolling along the ground? | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
Hartley... Roberts with the tackle. The defence has recovered. Paul | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
Clinton could work, I think that was legal. Jamie Roberts gave away the | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
penalty. On the lake there, doesn't roll | :03:31. | :04:00. | |
over? I think that such right. -- that is a try. Inconclusive. Held | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
up, five metre scrum. You have been overruled again! | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
That wasn't so smoothly than by England. | :04:17. | :04:26. | |
Anthony Watson! And England, in full control, just after the half hour | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
mark. The referee lets England counter | :04:34. | :04:50. | |
rack. And it's a penalty to England. Everything going their way. | :04:51. | :05:12. | |
Wales will be on the scoreboard at last! A gift from England. Great | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
work from Dan Biggar. More worry, Warburton does not look | :05:19. | :05:32. | |
good. Thank goodness for that, thumbs up. | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
The referee's puzzle has gone, it won't count. It went off and England | :05:44. | :05:55. | |
player, was it forward out of Jonathan Davies's grasp? | :05:56. | :06:10. | |
Faletau for the line! Wales, a third try! Is their time? After the | :06:11. | :06:37. | |
conversion there will be a couple of minutes left. | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
England's defence around the fringes, solid. George North for the | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
line! He is in touch. That's it, think. Ten seconds to go, the | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
referee's whistle has gone. They should take the line-out. | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
Danny Care kicks it into the crowd and England survive the late | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
challenge by Wales. We will get the views of our guests | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
soon. We just didn't turn up, unlike us, I | :07:23. | :07:38. | |
said in the box after 25 minutes, do I need to make some changes? Make | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
some replacements to get some energy, because it was very unlike | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
ask, very disappointing and it cost us the game. It was one game for 60 | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
minutes and another game for 20, the cubicle at knife-point in the first | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
60 because the last 20 belong to Wales. A funny performance by us, | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
times we were immaculate, really sharp, intense, but then be dropped | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
off at the end. We weren't at the races first off, I'm not sure what | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
it was, then they were too far ahead of us and we gave away some soft | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
penalties as well in the second half, it has cost us. I was happy | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
the way we played the first 40 minutes, we were aggressive, played | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
on the front foot, it's a shame we didn't replicate the first half in | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
the second half but that's something we can work on. You always believe, | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
which just wished it went on for another couple of minutes but | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
England played well, then you the work how to slow it down and stuff, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
credit to them but we were second at the races. I don't know what the | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
answer is, I will be honest and say you have to begrudge goal of | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
yourself and say we didn't have enough energy in the first half, | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
very unlike us. Wales have been together for eight years, we have | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
been together for six weeks so to put in a performance like that shows | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
where the team is going, we have work to do and we're not the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
finished product. Congratulations to them, they have won the Triple Crown | :09:21. | :09:21. | |
and they deserved to win today. Not only that but also the Six | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
Nations title after what happened at Murrayfield. Good evening to you. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Must be a pleasant drive across the Severn Bridge for you? A bit easier | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
than last time! Was it Wales absolutely terrible in the first | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
half or working and that dominant? It's a combination, England were | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
smart, they attacked the fringes of Sean's defence, they went short side | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
against Cuthbert and they just start Wales of traditional reference | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
points to get them into the game, and for 40 minutes, they had nothing | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
to feed on, they couldn't get a collision, penalties within leaking | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
field position and you ally that to an uncharacteristic Wales 40 | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
minutes, they have been big occasions before because the coaches | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
will think, what did we get wrong? This is a side that has gone to | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Twickenham and was successful there, they nailed the game in the World | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Cup with the experience they have, you wouldn't expect them to see what | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
turned up for 40 minutes. Sometimes there isn't a straightforward | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
explanation for those performances. In theory could have been looking at | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
30 points in the first 40 minutes because there was no foothold for | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Wales at all, just a couple of glimpses of chances, that scoreline | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
could have really been bigger. Take yourself back to the 2011 Rugby | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
World Cup quarterfinal, Wales getting off to a blistering start | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
against Ireland, that is something we have seen under Gatland, they | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
were so ordinary in the first half. Not a lot to add to what Dean said. | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
It was and characteristic. We pride ourselves on our defence, these are | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
some of the missed chances. I thought we kicked poorly as well. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
This is the back three, and in fairness to England, they are | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
grasping the initiative of the new game, you see in the Southern | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Hemisphere, when they get the ball, they think, how can I score a try, | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
how can I eat the guy, get pace into the game? The back three just | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
embodied that. -- how can I eat the guy. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
It came from a kick in the first half, we didn't chase as well as we | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
normally do, it was uncharacteristic but I think we were flat, every time | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
we came into their half, gave a penalty away or whatever it was, | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
that was unusual, we were flat, slow, ponderous, and we offered | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
nothing, it's the worst performance under Warren Gatland, the first | :12:20. | :12:31. | |
half. Do you endorse the behaviour of coaches, publicly saying that the | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
players were showing a lack of enthusiasm yesterday? It's | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
difficult, but anyone who watched the game would say that tactically, | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Wales knew what they have to do to beat England, the performance wasn't | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
there by the players. The players will be hurting more than myself or | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
the fans because it was a poor performance and it affects them, | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
they just lack intensity from the start. Defensively, like we have | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
mentioned, the worst defensive record under Warren Gatland. If he | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
had any hair, you would have pulled it out at half-time. But there are | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
positives, the way they came back in the final quarter, goes to show they | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
were frustrated, they weren't happy with their performance, but a lot of | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
work to be done, it was a strange game to what is a Welsh man because | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
you look for your big players, the one to have consistently played well | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
for Wales over the years and unfortunately they were second to | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
the English players yesterday. We hear of Wales wanting to play a more | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
expansive game but in attack they looked like they didn't know what | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
they were doing. He has earned the right to play wide, but the options | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
off then big, they weren't options. He has gone for a switch, Jamie | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Roberts has run straight into Dan Biggar but he was the only option. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
There was no blindside option, no inside option, it's really not much | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
that he can do there. That wasn't the only incident, there were times | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
when they took the ball flat, there weren't any options. If you look at | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
those instances, if you were going to galvanise that side, you would | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
want a line-out, get it off the top, put Jamie Roberts... They didn't | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
have any of that. So any ball they had, they were playing in broken | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
field which suited the English team. There are times when Care -- Biggar | :14:43. | :14:56. | |
looks, where is the... The scrum was under pressure, so the traditional | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
Gatland start point, that get everything in behind, attrition, | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
direct, weren't there. But Wales were gifting England opportunities. | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
England looked dynamic in attack, they were very smart at getting the | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
outside edge. I think the mayhem he would have caused going to the | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
caller would have created an opportunity. This was there all the | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
time for England. He should have nailed his man and put Watson over. | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
But we had some star points, we had a line-out after 37 minutes, it | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
wasn't great position, and then we had a series of 11 rocks or phases | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
and we passed the ball five times, we're playing against England, with | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
the muscle heads they have got in their back row and we pick and | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
drive, that's our choice, then we had a series of scrums at about 55 | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
minutes in their 22 and we did exactly the same, pick and drive. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Four months ago we were playing against Australia, desperate to | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
spread the field, look what they did in the last 20 minutes when we did | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
throw the ball about, its place in rugby. We have just had the World | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
Cup, the lessons of the Southern Hemisphere, they are getting | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
lighter, the game is faster, they are passing the ball more and it's | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
only high risk rugby if your skills on good enough to catch and pass and | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
you can't control in wide areas. We have two up skill ourselves because | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
unless we do, playing three tests in the summer, we will be miles behind | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
them. That is coming from the coaches? They are in a position | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
whereby they are being told to play a certain brand of rugby. They are | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
being encouraged to undergo back to the point you asking shame about, is | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Warren Gatland right to call them out? He has done it before. It might | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
be a tactic he might want a response. He does that when he is a | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
bit angry. He did it in 2010, he threw Ryan Jones under the bus... So | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
he has to lead before and it might work, personally I don't like it | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
because I think they should have loyalty and they win together and | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
lose together, but it's a fair tactic to use but he has got to get | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
a response. What about the coach's response? Do you rate your players | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
publicly? If it is so obvious, there is no point spreading a line | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
everybody can see through. There are times when you say, I don't know | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
what happened in the first 40 minutes. You have to take some | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
responsibility for stop there is no point saying, we were competitive | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
and everyone just slams you for not being transparent. You have got to | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
get the balance and it's the balance of hanging someone out to dry at a | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
time when the -- they are feeling vulnerable, but I think he's trying | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
to get a response for next week, get some emotional... He could have said | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
we were poor, let energy, not they were poor... Without a doubt, but | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
sometimes you've just watched the side you have invested so much into, | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
that's quite an emotional moment. side you have invested so much into, | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
couple of years ago side you have invested so much into, | :18:37. | :19:37. | |
really talented individuals can do. He has got done | :19:38. | :20:38. | |
really talented individuals can do. came on... It was good to see Rhys | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Webb back, he has been chomping at the bit, we'll know he's deadly | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
around breakdown, he brought a bit of speed to his distribution. He got | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
caught once by Itoje but every other Welsh player did as well. He was | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
dangerous on the breakdown and was creating gaps for others. Rhys | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
Priest and I think did well, he took the ball going forward, took it to | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
the English line, created problems and George North and Wales scored a | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
great try from a simple move. Why don't we play rugby, why do really | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
bit so late, the game was finished? Possibly because Wales didn't start | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
well. It's just a simple pass when you look at it but the off-load by | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Liam Williams, the follow-up play by Jonathan Davies puts George North | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
there. At times Wales tried forcing things when it wasn't on, under | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
pressure by England, they made a lot of mistakes and errors, when they | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
put it together, they have really creative players. I thought I | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
wouldn't was really good as well. The most shared image last night on | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
social media was full of George North and the foot in touch. What | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
was your view? It's quite clear! Split-second decision, there is no | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
TMO, it's the call from the line to 20 is not in touch. Who is to blame? | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
The touch judge. Would it have made a difference? Craig Joubert, last | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
player began, does he not have the jurisdiction to say, can we have | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
another look at that? The touch judge puts the flag up and the play | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
stops. Do the rules need to change? The studio seems to think so. | :22:43. | :22:52. | |
There's got to be something. Trust me, this is not from a bitter Welsh | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
man, impartial BBC broadcaster. Imagine that is the rugby World Cup | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
final. Surely will rugby needs to look at... It's a bit is being used | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
for all sorts of things, a key moment like that, the TMO has to be | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
used? If it is about a rugby World Cup trophy being handed the one | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
country and not the other, surely it. Every time the ball goes next to | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
touch you have to go back and have a look or wasn't in touch, start the | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
game began. It's unfeasible to do that. Lots of the disciplinary | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
issues to clear up. Let's take a look at this one. There is Joe | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
Marler, Rob Evans, here comes an elbow smack in the face. I knew you | :23:45. | :23:54. | |
would come to me first! You look at it, if we're looking at every single | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
thing, he is guilty of striking him, realistically. How many weeks? I | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
think about for days. Realistically, think the referee had seen that he | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
might have had a word in his is at best. We're in danger of putting | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
every incident, analysing it, we'll never get on with the game of rugby. | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
A couple more disciplinary issues. This is one I want to get your view | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
on, this is Thomas Francis. Wales had a penalty at this point, | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
overturned. That for me is frustratingly forgot to look where | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
you are on the field, it is Wales's ball. You mean stupidity? Your five | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
meters from the try, you need points on the board, he has caught him in | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
the face, end of story. There is a bit of frustration. You're not going | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
to get away with it, so it's just stupidity. Reckless, he will get a | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
band because world rugby are strict with anything around the eyes and | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
face and so they should be. There was one of the big issue to discuss | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
and that was when Joe Marler was allegedly making a racial slur at | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
Sampson low. Samson Lee. Samson Lee has in the past spoken | :25:19. | :25:45. | |
about how proud he is of his gypsy heritage. Clearly you could hear Joe | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
Marleau calling him gypsy boy on the ref Mike. What should happen next? | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
Society takes a dim view, all walks of life, without any territory term, | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
I suppose this falls into that category. If it was a different | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
racial term, people would be in no less doubt what should happen. They | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
are a recognised community, the travelling community. I think he has | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
two accept the responsibility. This situation has happened, there are | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
ref Mike 's, the responsibility of playing international rugby now, you | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
are fully aware of what is said across open mics and he needs to | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
take that sponsor ability to stop we don't quite know how this gets. | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
With, in which direction. -- take that responsibility. The RFU want to | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
draw a line under it, that's what you do, they have said that Joe | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
Marler apologised and was later reminded of his responsibilities as | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
an England player by Eddie Jones. The British and macro officials are | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
aware of the incident and Welsh rugby union says they are pleased | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
about the apology and that Joe Marler was reminded of his | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
responsibilities as an international rugby player. Rugby union pride | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
itself on being a gentlemanly game, it is hard, ferocious, but when you | :27:21. | :27:21. | |
get issues like this, surely they have to act? I think they will they | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
do. I don't think there is any debate, but just don't really know | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
in which direction it's to go. You can't brush it under the carpet. By | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
apologising, he has accepted it is him, he had to deal with what was | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
said in the context and it will be interesting to see what they do. | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
Round of applause for our panel. Wales's under 20s are here. We will | :27:53. | :28:02. | |
talk to Tom and Dan, that show the highlights of this weekend first. | :28:03. | :29:14. | |
The England women are on the brink of a Grand Slam. Wales travel to | :29:15. | :29:26. | |
Ashton Gate, Bristol, looking of a Grand Slam. Wales travel to | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
their first ever under 20 Triple Crown. Coach Jason strange made | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
three changes to the team that beat France. Harry Millard moved to | :29:35. | :29:42. | |
outside centre. Reigning champions England have won just one of their | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
three games this season but have never lost to Wales on home soil. | :29:47. | :29:55. | |
COMMENTATOR: Driving towards the line for Wales, Shaun Evans, has he | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
got it down? A try is awarded. Wales are on the board. The forwards coach | :30:02. | :30:11. | |
will be delighted with what he has seen so far, and this line-out. Here | :30:12. | :30:19. | |
is Giles, to Harry Mill ard, what a score, a second try for Wales. | :30:20. | :30:30. | |
Beautifully conceived. Morgan Williams again directing things at | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
the base. Getting over the advantage line again. Morgan Williams, Dan | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
Jones, the ghosts his way through, a third for Wales. A bit of a | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
paramedics pass that George Perkins did well to take and Wales have | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
space on the left hand side. A little chip. And it bounces kindly | :31:00. | :31:14. | |
for him and Giles is over. Expect a grant and shunt from England. A | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
little bit lateral but now they have some forward momentum. Over the | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
line, Sam Smith was at the bottom of it. Lovely strong scrum by Wales | :31:26. | :31:38. | |
again. Harry Kenney for the posts. Great score by the number eight who | :31:39. | :31:50. | |
has been outstanding to night. What have England got in these closing | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
stages, it is Giles and this is officially a rout for Wales. A sixth | :31:55. | :32:04. | |
try, a second for Giles. Dreamtime is for the Wales under 20s. The | :32:05. | :32:11. | |
metronomic Dan Jones. That is six from six and a first ever away win | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
in England. A lot of the boys have come back from last year, 13 or 14 | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
of us with an extra year of experience. The unity and the bond | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
is excellent. Everyone gets on really well. It makes for | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
performances like that. We know we have each other's backs. Wales go | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
for the Grand Slam next week. It is live on scrum V. | :32:38. | :32:48. | |
Well played Wales under 20s, our stars at the bar this evening are | :32:49. | :32:56. | |
Tom Phillips and Dan Jones. Welcome. How proud are you of not only the | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
performance but the squad atmosphere you have right now? It is a massive | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
win for the boys. From the start we have been on food and, the | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
togetherness of the team epitomises the performances we put in. The | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
first three games, they were close. But we knew we would come up with a | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
performance like we did against England. I don't think there is a | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
better time it could have come really, against the Auld enemy. The | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
togetherness of the boys, the coaches making us buying fast rugby | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
came to tipping point and it paid off. Can you describe what it was | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
like to score some many points with the boot against the Auld enemy? I | :33:41. | :33:50. | |
suppose the forwards gave me a platform to work off. A lot of | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
credit goes to them and their hard work during the week. The whole | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
squad really made my job a lot easier. Tom, it will be a fantastic | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
week, on the verge of creating some Grand Slam history? Yes, that is the | :34:05. | :34:15. | |
idea. Had you keep your feet on the ground? All of us have bought into | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
keeping our feet on the ground. It is in the back of our minds but we | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
still have another game. We have to put it in place, look at Italy and | :34:26. | :34:32. | |
put a platform on how to beat them. And hopefully take the Grand Slam. | :34:33. | :34:40. | |
We wish you the best. Let us move from the bar, the Wales women are | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
also here. Unfortunately, no win for them against England. I was looking | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
at the official RBS website and they said you were completely blown away | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
by England, did you see it like that? Not at all, we put ourselves | :34:54. | :35:00. | |
on the back foot in the first half, we slipped off a couple of tackles | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
which put us on the back foot but we had a kick before half-time but then | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
came out in the second half and we were in the game. To the 80th | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
minute, we played as if we were in the game. If we had scored in that | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
last five or ten minutes, we were in a position to win. Definitely a step | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
forward from a couple of years ago. You have made such big strides? We | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
showed good defence against France and good defence in the second half | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
yesterday against England. Going forward and into the last game next | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
week, it is a definite positive for us. Lovely to see you, thanks to the | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
Wales women. Let us bring you up-to-date with what happened with | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
the under 18s, a close one as well. Meeting at the Tolbert athletic | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
ground, a pretty jer Matic finish. Will Jones scored from a well worked | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
driving line-out with just two minutes left. Crucially, Wales | :36:00. | :36:08. | |
missed the conversion. England outside-half James Grayson dropped a | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
match-winning goal to seal it with the last kick of the game. It | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
finished 26-27. Let us get the views of Jonathan Davies on Wales and | :36:19. | :36:26. | |
England and Scotland against France. I thought the first 15 minutes that | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
England were very good. They created a lot of opportunities. And they | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
missed those opportunities. Wales were very passive in defence. The | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
kicking game did not work because they lost the aerial battle. They | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
lost a few crucial line-out so they had no possession, no field | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
position. It was a very poor performance. In saying that, they | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
still created a lot of opportunities. No matter how badly | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
they play, they snuck in and they could have won at the end. Very | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
disappointing overall and it showed what they can do in the last 15 | :37:07. | :37:12. | |
minutes when they spread the ball about a bit. Very disappointing, the | :37:13. | :37:19. | |
performance. But they could have lost by more. Scotland today, it has | :37:20. | :37:26. | |
been coming for a while with Scotland. The crucial thing today, | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
they kept going forward and playing and kept the errors out. Because of | :37:34. | :37:40. | |
that, I thought that got them home. They took their chances well, Hogg | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
was superb. But France, individually they'd looked good but collectively, | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
not so good. I can see England beating France next week to win the | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
Grand Slam. That will go down well in the studio. Thanks to Jonathan | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
for taking time to talk to us before we came to a, impressive from | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
Scotland? Impressive today and throughout the tournament. They had | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
against Italy, I said if they beat them, I could see them beating | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
France. They play with tempo and pace. And Hogg gets involved in the | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
game and he has been superb for Scotland. They play with a lot of | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
width and created a lot of problems for a lot of teams. Against Wales | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
force huge parts of that game they were the better team. Really | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
impressed and France today drifted in and out as they often do in the | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
Six Nations. But the best team certainly one. What did you think of | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
France post Philippe Saint Andre? I was quite optimistic, I was a big | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
fan of the replacement after being on the sidelines for some long, he | :38:56. | :39:03. | |
missed the first couple of kicks and because of that, the shrinks a bit. | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
France look like a side, I know people will hate the word but | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
structure. There are a lot of good players in that side, very physical | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
players but nothing underpinning it. When they move, they are all moving | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
in different directions. At times they look awful, for a side with so | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
much ability. In the back of your mind, as France turned up back in | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
Paris and ruined England party, I cannot see how. It gives the | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
credibility to do that. Sadly, I agree. What French team will turn | :39:39. | :39:47. | |
up? You always have to say that with France. I can't remember the last | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
three or four years a decent French team turning up. 30 or 40 matches | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
where they have lost structure. Their coach was wonderful for | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
Toulouse tenures ago, he has got the job too late. The French league is | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
dominating French rugby thinking. I think international rugby is well | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
down the pecking order for them. Will the French stop England's Grand | :40:16. | :40:26. | |
Slam juggernaut? Not a chance. No chance. No. That us turn our | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
attention to Wales's death team. -- def. No big day than Wales | :40:30. | :40:48. | |
against England. He will go for the line. And there have been bad days. | :40:49. | :41:00. | |
It must be a try for England. Today, this greatest of days kicks off here | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
at the Arms Park where the Welsh deaf team take on their English | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
counterparts. There are very few national teams. New Zealand, South | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
Africa and Australia. The English team have improved in the last | :41:17. | :41:28. | |
couple of years. We are Welsh. They say the medication is sick the 70% | :41:29. | :41:31. | |
of the game, much of that is hearing, that is the challenge, so | :41:32. | :41:38. | |
it is a disability and a difficulty and it affects people on the pitch | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
as well as off it. What level do you need to qualify? To say whether | :41:43. | :41:54. | |
someone is deaf enough? There is a 25 decibels average, that means | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
moderate hearing loss, it is surprise and, some people could very | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
well they might never know they have a hearing loss. Some struggle with | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
the 25 decibel average, you'd be surprised how many qualify. The | :42:08. | :42:18. | |
punching, the passion, whatever. We have to keep our focus. That is all | :42:19. | :42:28. | |
I am going to say. Playing rugby helps me a lot. It helps me interact | :42:29. | :42:36. | |
with a wider range of people. It makes me feel like I am part of a | :42:37. | :42:45. | |
genuine community. Quite a few years ago, 2005, I was with the Welsh | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
Guards, when I returned from tour, I had a few incidents and found I had | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
hearing loss. I took it badly and did not play rugby for four years, | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
then came back into it. To find out there were deaf teams, days like | :42:59. | :43:05. | |
today, Cardiff Arms Park, Wales against England, it raises | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
awareness. Facebook groups, twitter, anyone who is hard of hearing or | :43:10. | :43:17. | |
death, please get in touch. -- or who is deaf. | :43:18. | :43:32. | |
Wales were the better team today. Yes, absolutely convincing. They | :43:33. | :43:41. | |
were the better back line and overall, the better team. Wales did | :43:42. | :43:44. | |
what they had to do and we didn't stand up to it. It would have been | :43:45. | :43:53. | |
nice to win. They were competitive but at the end of the day, the | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
result went our way and I think we deserved it. | :44:00. | :44:06. | |
Many congratulations to our deaf team. No Pro12 this weekend but not | :44:07. | :44:12. | |
long until the big one. Those games live on BBC Wales and S4 | :44:13. | :45:13. | |
C. Back to the RBS Six Nations, Ireland have been very poor in this | :45:14. | :45:16. | |
year 's championship and yesterday they met Italy. Yellow macro to | :45:17. | :45:26. | |
score 58 points in a Six Nations game, you have to be happy with your | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
finishing. That is one thing we haven't been happy with. Especially | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
in the opposition 22. Today, we were a lot better they. | :45:36. | :45:58. | |
in the opposition 22. Today, we were will help them. Putting it in the | :45:59. | :46:00. | |
context of Italy losing players early in the game, some second rows, | :46:01. | :46:08. | |
that will cause disruptions that make it more difficult to compete. | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
We were afforded more time and space than in recent weeks and that is a | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
luxury at Test match level. At least I felt we took advantage of that | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
luxury and put some good scores together. Being back here | :46:23. | :46:25. | |
luxury and put some good scores little bit of pressure, | :46:26. | :46:27. | |
luxury and put some good scores performed well in the championship. | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
luxury and put some good scores competitive group and they always | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
want to try and produce their best. I think you saw that today and that | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
will be the driving factor next week. | :46:40. | :48:26. | |
will be the driving factor next in situ a year passed the World Cup | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
and it feels like that. You can feel the story coming to an end, no | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
catalyst for looking forward. They missed that opportunity against | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
France and you almost felt, they have to fire above their weight | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
anyway to compete with the other sides, when they lost that emotion. | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
No journey, no future about what happens next, you can feel it | :48:48. | :48:54. | |
windowing away. Today was the end of it already full and Ireland side | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
that desperately needed a win and to win well. Some of the criticism of | :49:00. | :49:02. | |
Ireland is how restrictive they have been. Italy were gone in 20 or 30 | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
minutes. They have nothing to hold onto. Bizarrely in this game you | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
need something to hang onto. Italy next for Wales and Sean has been | :49:13. | :49:23. | |
taking a closer look. Let us not forget Wales full-back emphatic | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
victory in the last round of last year 's tournament. Italy have | :49:27. | :49:29. | |
strength and nothing to lose but this is surely the game where Wales | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
unleashed their full attacking potential. Traditionally, the Italy | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
set pieces strong, particularly the maul and Wales's defence has been | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
improved. An effective long wall which is difficult to defend and | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
Wales will have to be careful of giving penalties await. If Italy get | :49:47. | :49:52. | |
close to the line, it is a potent weapon for them. The Italians are | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
also developing a foil to that as well, a very dangerous ball catching | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
ability of Sergio pre-season to either run the ten channel or two | :50:02. | :50:07. | |
fill the void created closer to the ball. Bringing interest runners like | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
scrum-half 's and Windows. The captain aside, their star has been | :50:13. | :50:19. | |
Campagnaro, it could be a threat to Wales and his defensive tackling is | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
very abrasive. He has had some success against Wales. Taking | :50:26. | :50:32. | |
advantage of loose play behind the defence and spotting an interception | :50:33. | :50:34. | |
to score a double at the Millennium Stadium. It is going to be eight I. | :50:35. | :50:44. | |
It is the exploitation of the forward players where Wales can get | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
some massive plusses. In the mid-channels after long defensive | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
sets, they get tired and if Wales can build phases they can be | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
exploited. Look how they have to push off and Finn Russell takes full | :50:59. | :51:04. | |
advantage. Wales have these runners in abundance. The inform scrum-half | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
will take full advantage if the Italian front row leave this much | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
space between them around the fringes. Any line breaks could be | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
crucially finished off by the potent back three of Wales. Cast your way | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
back to last years final round of championship, while's -- Wales's | :51:22. | :51:30. | |
tactics it out perfectly. Great support play from the forwards. This | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
leaves Italy vulnerable and disorganised. If Wales can play with | :51:36. | :51:46. | |
tempo and pace, the Italians will drop off after a long championship | :51:47. | :51:50. | |
and it could be an enjoyable day in Cardiff for the men in red. | :51:51. | :52:00. | |
That was a great game in Rome last year, I cannot think of a time where | :52:01. | :52:06. | |
Wales have been involved in a dead rubber on the final Saturday. It has | :52:07. | :52:13. | |
been a while, that is how competitive they have been in recent | :52:14. | :52:19. | |
years. But not this time. What would you do? Give some fringe players an | :52:20. | :52:28. | |
opportunity? I would not drop down bigger, a few month ago, he was BBC | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
Wales sport personality of the year for his relics in the World Cup. | :52:33. | :52:39. | |
APPLAUSE He is not perfect and he is not as | :52:40. | :52:46. | |
good as Rhys Priestland in the things that Rhys Priestland does | :52:47. | :52:48. | |
well and there are not many people as good as Rhys Priestland -- Rhys | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
Priestland doing that. He is likely to be our future ten for some time. | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
We beat England by 30 points with him at ten and 50 points Italy with | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
him at ten. It is a mindset. When we need to go out and scored tries like | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
we did and the last ten minutes, we play differently. We need to grab | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
some of that in our plan. I do think we need a new right wing, I will say | :53:16. | :53:25. | |
that much. We were in Rome last year and that second-half, when Wales | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
play, they can play. Do we need an ex-factor? Matthew Morgan had a | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
great 30 minutes against Fiji, would you go with him? You are probably | :53:36. | :53:41. | |
fed up of me saying his name, you have a player in your midst, I have | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
trained with a lot of players, he is one of the most attacking players | :53:49. | :53:51. | |
Wales have at the moment. A fantastic talent. Why put him in the | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
squad if you are not even putting him on the bench? It has been | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
frustrating. I know what he is capable of doing, he gives Warren | :54:02. | :54:04. | |
Gatland a heart attack at times with what he does but especially for this | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
game, there is nothing on it, give a guy like Matthew chance and he will | :54:10. | :54:17. | |
create things. Lots of debate in Rugby clubs around the country over | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
whether Rhys Webb should start in place of Gareth Davies. We would not | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
have won at Twickenham without Gareth Davies, fantastic energy | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
levels but do you think this is the perfect opportunity to bring Rhys | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
Webb back in? Spoilt for choice, they are quite similar. They both | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
make a lot of line, they are good around the breakdown and Italy are | :54:43. | :54:45. | |
very poor at defending that. Rhys Webb has from injury, great to see | :54:46. | :54:51. | |
him back on the part, he definitely made an impact. A lot quicker in the | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
breakdown and getting the ball away quicker than Gareth Davies. What a | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
headache to have, maybe we will see Rhys Webb involved and he could | :55:00. | :55:01. | |
bring tempo into the game. When Wales are on the front foot, they | :55:02. | :55:12. | |
are good. I love coming down, you have to remember what has created | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
this level of expectation, it is the way Wales play, the amount of wins | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
in the 6-nation. It is about evolving that forward. You cannot | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
jump to everything being about the last ten minutes. You have to try | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
and find that balance. That is the challenge, Warren Gatland will be | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
aware of that challenge. He will start to move the game, they will | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
just give a different slant on the game. We are out of time but I do | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
need to say that Tomas Francis has in the last unit -- few minutes has | :55:43. | :55:52. | |
been cited. My thanks to you all. Also to the Wales under 20s, bring | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
that Grand Slam home, and to the Wales women. Very disappointing at | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
Twickenham, no wins but now the nation has to get behind the under | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
20s, I grand slam is up for grabs, come on boys. Here is their anthem. | :56:11. | :56:21. | |
Harry Miller ard. That could be a killer blow for Wales. | :56:22. | :57:00. | |
What a score. He ghosts his way through. England have been | :57:01. | :57:09. | |
obliterated. | :57:10. | :57:20. |