On a day when Owen Farrell also saw four kicks go astray, Wales’s frustrating day could ultimately have ended up even worse. The overnight confirmation that south Wales had been shaken by its strongest earthquake for five years certainly felt like neat timing. Were there slightly more pitchside flame throwers than normal, too, or was this just the latest bonfire of WRU vanities? Wales badly needed a flash of something, perhaps from the speedy Louis Rees-Zammit or Mason Grady, their hefty new cap in midfield. If you were Welsh it cried out for a dramatic late Scott Gibbs intervention or a Gavin Henson matchwinner.
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