Wales vs Ireland LIVE: Hosts hammer visitors to claim 2019 Six Nations Grand Slam
Here's how the final day of the Six Nations championship played out
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Your support makes all the difference.Wales thrashed Ireland 25-7 to win the Six Nations Grand Slam.
Hadleigh Parkes' try inside just 70 seconds set the tone before fly-half Gareth Anscombe took over from the tee to add a further 20 points as the hosts hit the front and never looked back.
Ireland scored with the final play of the game to avoid being left scoreless but it was a day to forget for them in Cardiff.
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74 mins: Jones makes more changes as Luke Cowan-Dickie, Nathan Hughes and Ben Spencer on in place of George, Launchbury and Youngs, and they have to at least show something to suggest that they can still win this game.
77 mins: Wow. Just wow. Of all people, Vunipola loses the ball in contact and Scotland counter. The ball is whipped to Russell, and giving the eyes to the back-field, he pops a no-look pass to Sam Johnson, who beats Nowell, Daly and the rest of the covering defence to score. Russell converts and Scotland, somehow, LEAD! 31-38
80 mins: England win a penalty just inside Scottish territory, but the clock is red and England CANNOT win this match. Ford kicks to touch, and England need a converted try just to draw the Calcutta Cup!
80 mins: England are camped on the Scotlanf line...TRY FOR ENGLAND!
80 mins: An unbelievable game has an unbelievable finish as George Ford, the man Jones sent on for Farrell, slides over between the posts, and as a result gives himself the simple conversio to DRAW the match!
England 38-38 Scotland
It means that Scotland retain the Calcutta Cup, but their wait for a win at Twickenham goes on!
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