"I think it will be a cracking game, as they always tend to be when Wales and Scotland meet. For once, Wales are going into the championship without having to apologise for the performances of their sides in the European Champions Cup. And while the latter ultimately came up short, the former are playing the free-flowing, offloading game Wales aspire to. Players like Aaron Shingler and James Davies [flankers who are in the Wales squad] have been outstanding. "Without being disrespectful to where he came from [last summer], it is a different game here," says Howley.

Source: Irish Independent January 21, 2018 02:38 UTC