75 Minutes – Ireland are camped in
66 Minutes – Wales are still dominating and coping with the weather. Ireland just cannot go through phases and make anything meaningful happen.
57 Minutes – Wales get the scrum after a fight for turnover ball with Tipuric stealing, Ireland win it back but knock on.
55 Minutes – Ireland need to get going, they win a penalty and kick into the 22 for a lineout.
49 Minutes – Wales 19-0 Ireland another penalty for Anscombe.
46 Minutes – Ireland give away a debatable penalty, with the commentary team still struggling.
Wales well on the way to a win here, Ireland have nothing and the ref certainly isn’t helping them out.
43 Minutes – Ireland have a scrum on halfway. But they make no ground against a tough Welsh defence. Sexton then kicks it out on the full. He apologises to the team, just shows how off form they are at the minute.
41 Minutes – Anscombe takes Wales into a 16 point lead. Can they lose this now?
36 Minutes – Wales 13-0 Ireland another penalty after an offside from Wales. Anscombe looking settled with kicking duty.
30 Minutes – Ireland knock on after a scrappy lineout. Wales have a scrum to build on from halfway.
23 Minutes – Ireland in the Wales half and putting the pressure on, they win a penalty and are going for the corner. Ireland taking the game to Wales now.
20 Minutes – Offside penalty given away by Ireland, then some handbags after the whistle goes. Wales have the penalty reversed for jumping on the player whilst playing advantage.
18 Minutes – Decisions going for Wales, they get a penalty and are back into Ireland territory with a lineout. Rain is coming down though.
WALES 10-0 IRELAND
16 Minutes – Wales earn a penalty after swarming on Stockdale after taking a high kick. Arguably a penalty for Ireland but given in Wales favour. Anscombe puts
12 Minutes – Wales go through phase play, and are on the 5m when Ireland turnover the ball in the ruck.
9 Minutes – Big change here, Biggar on at 10 as they have a reshuffle due to North going off.
7 Minutes – Jacob Stockdale breaks away after a cross field kick from Sexton. Hadleigh Parkes sorts him out though and takes him into touch.
Wales 7-0 Ireland
1 Minutes – TRY TIME – Deft kick with advantage to Wales straight from the start and Hadleigh Parks is over for a try.
Anscombe adds the extras.
And we are a go, what a game this could be.
