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• Wales 43-33 Barbarians• Josh Adams and Ken Owens scored two tries each
Warren Gatland’s final farewell to Wales started with boos and finished with booze. In between were cheers for the New Zealander whose 12 years as the national side’s head coach transported supporters back to the 1970s when success was taken for granted and the game was the country’s main export.
Gatland, who flies to New Zealand on Sunday to take charge of the Chiefs, signed off at the Principality Stadium as head coach of a Barbarians side that looked ill-equipped to contain a Wales team which, even without luminaries such as Alun Wyn Jones, George North, Jonathan Davies and Taulupe Faletau, looked too coated in their former head coach’s varnish to start his successor Wayne Pivac’s reign with anything other than a resounding victory. Continue reading...