Here’s Michael Aylwin report from the Principality Stadium
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That’s it from me. Our full-time report will be launched shortly
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Over at Twickenham we have nail-biter, James Piercy is on-hand to guide you through the closing stages:
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Alun-Wyn Jones becomes the first captain to win lift the Doddie Weir Cup.
The man himself hands over the trophy to the Welsh captain.
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Full-time! Wales 21-10 Scotland
Jonathan Davies punts it out of play and that is that! Wales by far by the better side as Scotland repeatedly falter in their opponent’s 22m.
78 mins: Scotland now trying to run it from deep and make it up to midfield before a poor kick from Hastings goes to touch and Wales only have a couple of minutes left to see out.
74 mins: Wales earn a penalty and you feel Scotland’s day is not going to come. Dee has four minutes left in the bin, Wales are in possession in midfield and the clock is counting the game away.
73 mins: Scotland knock-on and now Wales will get a chance to clear from their own put-in at the scrum. The men in blue are getting frustrated.
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71 mins: The George Horne dinks over for his brother Peter but the replacement can’t grab the ball cleanly and is pinged for a knock-on. We were playing an advantage so it’s another Scottish scrum.
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Yellow card! Elliot Dee
69 mins: The replacement hooker gets 10 minutes in the bin as he commits the second offside offence in the same series. He’s frustrated with himself and Wales are forced to reshuffle the pack. Scotland have a scum on the 5m line.
68 mins: All of a sudden Scotland break a couple of tackles down the right they’re at the Wales 5m line. The visitors have struggled here most of the game and again Wales slow the ball but do concede a penalty.
65 mins: Another Wales change, Beard on Hill.
63 mins: A few more replacements. Fagerson and the Horne brothers on for Scotland. Dee and Rhys Evans trot on for the Welsh.
62 mins: Jonny Gray goes for the line but doesn’t make it and gets pinged for a double movement having been pinned by Gareth Davies. Penalty Wales and they clear.
60 mins: Scotland have a lineout deep in Wales territory, the hosts survive a driving maul but concede a penalty advantage. Fantastic stuff from Wales to hold the ball up on the line but Scotland kick for the corner again. Can they get a shove on?
If you want to keep up-to-date with what’s going on at Twickenham this afternoon, James Piercy has his eyes on that one:
55 mins: Scotland have made a trio of changes in the front row, Allan, Brown and Berghan all on.
51 mins: Scotland look to hit straight back, as they did in the first half, with a well-recovered kick-off. A penalty conceded by Owens gives Hastings a shot at the corner but from the lineout Wales recover and Anscombe kicks clear.
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Try! Jonathan Davies! Wales 21-10 Scotland
48 mins: Anscombe’s clever offload from an excellent first-phase Welsh move off the lineout creates a huge hole for Jonathan Davies to stiff-arm a would-be tackler and scoot home for a try! Halfpenny knocks through the extras. Wales could not have asked for a better start to the second half. Davies marks his return to international rugby with a score!
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47 mins: Wales get the shove and turn Scotland. From the resulting penalty Anscombe gets Wales up the pitch with a lineout.
46 mins: A good hit from Tipuric following good defence from Wales sees WP Nel knock-on. The hosts held firm and now have a put in and a chance to turn the field.
44 mins: Another great kick from Hastings and Wales are again forced to clear from deep. Anscombe makes a decent fist of it but the blue wall keeps coming.
43 mins: Adam Hastings drills a flat low kick into the corner that pins Wales deep back in their own 22. Owens, now back on, takes the lineout and Wales clear up to their own 40ish. Bit a of a let-off.
Kick-off!
Anscombe kicks us off, with Wales having swapped Elliot Dee for Ken Owens in a blood replacement at the break. The hooker passed concussion protocol, mercifully.
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Half-time! Wales 14-10 Scoland
Mathieu Raynal brings the half to an end with Ken Owens down following a colossal coming together. Well contested half of rugby that. Two contrasting styles, with Wales prepared to kick and play for territory and the Scots looking for quick ball.
38 mins: Scotland ending the half well on the back of the maul but Tipuric turns it over and wins a penalty. They’ll have a final go at the Scotland line from the lineout just outside the 22.
Try! McInally! Wales 14-10 Scotland
35 mins: Scotland rally back and a collapsed maul gives them a free series deep in Wales territory. Ultimately it leads to Kinghorn kicking for the corner. A catch and drive sees the Scotland skipper McInally bundle over in the corner. They’re right back in it as Hastings adds the extras.
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Try! George North! Wales 14-3 Scotland
30 mins: Costly it is! North powers through a tackle and pumps his legs to escape some desperate attempts to bring him down. Good quick ball from the Welsh and Scottish ill-discipline see the game’s first try. It was some finish from North that. Halfpenny misses the conversion from a tough angle, pushing it right.
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29 mins: Lovely ovation from the fans at the Principality as Doddie Weir appears on the big screen. On the pitch, Scotland have a scrum in their own 22 but an early drive from the Scots sees the put-in change hands, that could be costly.
Penalty! Wales 9- Scotland
26 mins: Smoothly converted by the fly-half and we are back to a one-score game!
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24 mins: Scotland have their first scrum as Wales knock on and the big men win a penalty. Hastings will look to cut the deficit.
Penalty! Wales 9-0 Scotland
22mins: From almost dead centre the full-back drills flat and hard for another score.
21 mins: Halfpenny earns a big roar for a brave claim from a towering Scotland clearance before beating a man or two in midfield. A couple of phases later Moriarty breaks free and earns another chance for Halfpenny to kick for three from 36m.
18 mins: Big penalty for Scotland. With Wales pushing towards the try line, Hamish Watson gets over the ball and Kinghorn gets the chance to kick his side away from danger, which he does.
17 mins: Luke Morgan gets his first involvement and helps win his side a penalty by covering the ball at a ruck in midfield. Wales again deep in Scotland’s half with a lineout from Anscombe’s kick.
Penalty! Wales 6-0 Scotland
15 mins: Shorter distance for Halfpenny this time and he again splits the uprights.
13 mins: Wales are utterly in control and following a call of penalty advantage they work it right with Anscombe chipping over for North to claim well but the winger’s his foot was in touch before he got the ball down. He never looked convinced he’d scored. Halfpenny will kick for goal again.
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11 mins: Scotland have had 78 per cent possession but done nothing with it. Wales defence is holding them at the gain line and eventually they win a penalty on halfway that Anscombe buries deep into touch in their opponent’s 22.
8 mins: Scotland steal a lineout in midfield and for a second Alex Dunbar is clear through but the door is shut before he can reach the try line. A grubber kick through is fielded by Halfpenny for a 22m dropout. Trouble dealt with, for now. Wales still defending their territory.
7 mins: From the resulting kick-off Wales field it well and earn themselves a first lineout of the game and pin Scotland back in their own half at the second attempt.
Penalty! Wales 3-0 Scotland
5 mins: The full-back knocks it through the posts to give his side an early lead.
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3 mins: Now it is Wales who are the beneficiary of a penalty, Ken Owens gets over the ball and causes Scotland to err. Halfpenny will kick for goal from 40m.
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1 min: Scotland win the first penalty but Hastings fails to find touch from midfield after Alun-Wyn Jones’ committed a spot of illegal rucking.
Kick-off!
Peeeep! We’re off in Cardiff as Blair Kinghorn hangs the ball up for his side to chase but it is Wales who win it before kicking downfield into the arms of Hastings.
The teams are heading out on to the pitch to a cacophony noise (largely from the pyrotechnics). We’ll have the anthems, then the Autumn Internationals will be underway for Wales and Scotland.
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Doddie Weir, decked out in a fabulous red and blue tartan suit, brings out the trophy named in his honour on to the pitch at the Principality.
“I’d be delighted if it went back to Scotland so I could drink out of it,” he quips, causing a few teary eyes in the stadium.
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There’s been a coin toss...
When the coin keeps rollin', rollin', rollin'... #WALvSCO
— Welsh Rugby Union 🏉 (@WelshRugbyUnion) November 3, 2018
(Scotland win the toss and will kick off.) pic.twitter.com/j88cEqGHRO
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George North spoke to Paul Rees ahead of today’s game about the motivations behind his decision to return to Wales for the 2018/19 season.
“We are very fortunate to do it but it is a very short career so you have to maximise, which is why boys will look at certain things, such as finances. The decision to come back was based on getting the best out of me. It was not for money but to be taken care of with blocks of rest, conditioning and time away from rugby. The World Cup was also a factor, knowing I had to get back to my best. That meant being in Wales.”
Full interview below:
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Preamble
There is perhaps more intrigue to this game than simply two northern hemisphere nations taking each other on in the Autumn, a season usually reserved for lateral meetings rather than vertical.
Off the field, this week saw the two participating nations somehow managed to bungle the worthy element of this oddly-scheduled Test. They created a controversy over how and how much of the proceeds from the Doddie Weir Cup should go to the retired Scotland lock’s motor neurone disease research fund, before ultimately agreeing to contribute a joint six-figure sum after listening the the ‘rugby family’.
On the field, for Wales it is chance for returning players to tune up and others to impress. A record try-scorer for his country in sevens, Luke Morgan will make his international 15-a-side debut on the wing at the Principality Stadium as one of eight changes from the win over Argentina in June. On the other wing is club teammate George North, back in Wales with Ospreys, and lining up against the Scots off the back of five tries in six for his region. The 26-year-old apparently reaping the benefits of playing in a system designed to maintain his health.
There are also plenty of changes from last time out for Scotland, eleven in total. Backs Huw Jones and Tommy Seymour, and forwards Jonny Gray, WP Nel and Hamish Watson all starting. As does fly-half Adam Hastings, son of former Scotland international Gavin.
Scotland historically do not travel well to Cardiff, and despite much pre-match chatter were burned on their last visit to the Principality back in February. Wales coach Warren Gatland seems deliberately irked by the visitors failure to give his side credit for that 34-7 win.
“Scotland are talking about how they got the preparation wrong last February [when Wales won 34-7 at the start of the Six Nations]. It was not about a good Wales performance but how poorly they had prepared. That puts it into perspective for us,” he said. This will be a proper contest then.
Wales
L Halfpenny; G North, J Davies, H Parkes, L Morgan; G Anscombe, G Davies; N Smith, K Owens, D Lewis, C Hill, AW Jones (capt), D Lydiate, J Tipuric, R Moriarty. Replacements E Dee, R Evans, L Brown, A Beard, A Wainwright, T Williams, J Evans, S Evans.
Scotland
Kinghorn; Seymour, H Jones, Dunbar, L Jones; Hastings, Price; Dell, McInally, Nel, Toolis, Gray, Ritchie, Watson, Wilson. Replacements Brown, Allan, Berghan, Gilchrist, Fagerson, G Horne, P Horne, Graham.
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