So the game was won in the first 20 minutes, after that it - as a welsh supporter - i gave up on waiting for a great attacking display as we had seen in the first 20. I had to concede that our defence was superb, but also scotland's attack was impotent.
If Wales went down to 13 men against any of the other nations that currently sit higher than them in the world rankings, we would have conceded a shed full of points.
Discipline is something we are always lacking. Byrne was really clumsy with his tackle, no need to go that high and Bradley didn't need to kill the ball the way he did to get a yellow card. Our defence was strong enough, yes, they were threatening, but he should have shown confidence in the other boys to hold their defensive line.
Yellow cards are sometimes necessary (when england killed the ball against wales last week, it almost certainly stopped a try) but Wales had two unnecessary yellow cards yesterday. I'm not gonna bother going into scotland's should be yellow card, but byrne showed precisely why you should always raise your boot (or knee) when going up for the ball. The ref may not have punished Southwell, but Bynre did.
Happy with the win, and defensive performance. Let's hope we can take this further against Italy now.
