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Wales will field the same starting XV in successive matches for the first time since the pool stages of Rugby World Cup 2019 after interim head coach Matt Sherratt gave a vote of confidence to the side that went down 27-18 to Ireland in Round 3 of the Guinness Six Nations. “I thought the performance […]
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Neither of these two are where they want to be after three rounds. In the case of Wales, rock bottom cannot be worse than where they feared they might be; in the case of Scotland, fourth must be so much worse than they had hoped. And some might say deserve.
Eyebrows may rise, then, at the news that both coaches will more or less send out the same teams that featured in their respective defeats in round three. But Six Nations tend to have narratives more nuanced than those supplied by the table at any given moment.
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