Under interim coach Matt Sherratt, Wales would, Matt Williams assured us prematch, get “a dead cat bounce”, but his question was: “How high does a dead cat bounce?” Joe Molloy had no answer, possibly never having experimented in this area. “Not very high,” Matt informed him, sounding like a man who had.
Come half-time, though, Matt and the Virgin Media lads were having kittens, Wales bouncing so high it was as if Sherratt had supplied them with a trampoline. As Jonathan Davies had put it over on the BBC, when that Jac Morgan try sent the Welsh on their way to a 13-10 half-time lead, “well, well, well”.
Before the game, Gabby Logan had asked Jonathan to list out all of Welsh rugby’s problems, but he wasn’t…