This game was all about shared values, and the Welsh and Scottish fans came together to give Doddie Weir a wonderful reception at the start. At the finish, though, there was a different kind of bond between them, as none of them could feel particularly satisfied with what they had just seen. For Wales, there was the comfort of victory, but it came with the knowledge that the result, and the two Wales tries in particular, rested heavily on Scottish errors. Scotland, for their part, could take some satisfaction from the fact that their understrength side had had a decent hit-out, but at a level of rugby where accuracy is everything they had to live with the fact that they had coughed up two soft…

Source: The Times November 05, 2018 00:11 UTC