Wales 12-54 France
Wales slump to 13th consecutive Six Nations defeat
We are running out of ways to describe this. Another match in what used to be rugby’s most passionate cauldron, another dismantling, another humiliation.
France are good, really good, but we might as well have been in Paris, so loud was the travelling support, so gaping the rows of empty seats. The official attendance was just shy of 60,000. Maybe, but it looked and felt a good deal less than that.
More painful a statistic was the score. Another 50-point defeat for Wales. France had eight tries by the hour mark, before the game meandered towards its end. That Wales finished with a well-taken try, their second, by Mason Grady, put over by Louis Rees-Zammit, will be of some comfort, as will a set piece that was rock solid. But a solid platform is the least of your requirements when taking on this lot.
