YC and Emma Duff followed Scotland to the Millennium Stadium on Saturday to see them take on Wales. Scotland's away form tends to hover between poor and non-existent. But on Saturday they played superbly in the first half with tries from John Barclay and Max Evans, both of which were right in front of us. The game reached an incredible finale in the last 5 minutes. Scotland's back-line was ravaged by injuries and they were down to 13 men with 2 players in the sin-bin. Wales equalised with a penalty on 79 minutes, then Shane Williams scored the winning try in extra-time to record an extraordinary 31-24 win. It was all very thrilling if you were Welsh, but just a tad disappointing for the Scottish contingent.
On the plus side, the train journey to Cardiff provided ample time for Emma to teach YC the Welsh national anthem phonetically - my hain gwlad the hadai etc - listen to it here. It's fantastic.