That’s all for this blog, for today – Lee has England v Scotland right here:
The Wales head coach, Warren Gatland, speaks to the BBC: “Strangely I’m not that disappointed with a lot of the things in the game … the things I’m disappointed with are the thing we can fix up: the slow start, the penalties we gave away seemed to be needless, and they created momentum off that.
“When you look at the game, I think we had about the same amount of entries into the 22, and they came away with points … they’re a good side, they were taking ‘threes’, they don’t play a lot of rugby around halfway, and they’re clinical.
“I think we’ll take a lot from that … there are things we need to work on … but we weren’t quite good enough to finish off our opportunities.
“[At half-time] We spoke about discipline and the penalties we were giving away. We just wanted to get a little more line speed defensively in the second half. I thought we brought that, and we were much better, and put Ireland under a lot of pressure… At 27-10, we’ve gone down there [to Ireland’s 22], we’ve had a “not straight” [lineout throw], we’ve had an overthrow, a couple of passes that we’ve forced … at 27-10 I thought: “If we score here, we can have an interesting last 20 minutes.” … Like I said I can be positive about the things we can fix up.
“Some of the young boys stepped up … it was a great experience for them.”
Sonja McLaughlan asks: Does Gatland still want the challenge of Test match rugby?
“Yes, I do. [Gatland smiles.] It was tough and disappointing. They’re a good side, and they’re a good side because they’ve been together for a long time, and they don’t make many mistakes. They manage the game well. That’s why they are the No 1 side in the world. That’s the step up we need to take. We need to be clinical, we need to be patient … we’ll work on that over the next few weeks.”
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