Wales wing Josh Adams has praised the “amazing” Principality Stadium crowd and says his side will “keep fighting for you all” after suffering a heartbreaking late defeat at home to Scotland in the Six Nations.
Despite leading for the vast majority of Saturday’s game in Cardiff, Steve Tandy’s men succumbed to late Scottish pressure to lose 23-26. It means Wales have still not won a Six Nations match since 2023, and haven’t tasted victory at home in the tournament in nearly four years.
In spite of the latest loss, positives could be taken from the team’s overall performance which took many by surprise, with hope of further improvements to come ahead of the remaining fixtures against Ireland and Italy.
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Speaking to S4C immediately after the game, try-scorer Adams, who now has 65 caps for Wales, said: “It’s difficult to take to be honest – it feels a lot different to the last two games (defeats to England and France).
“We were in the game today, and we played really well. In the second half we maybe lost a bit of control in the centre of the pitch, a bit of momentum too. Credit to Scotland for coming back, but that was a much better performance.”
Adams said it was a different challenge for the Wales side after they went ahead early in the match.
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“We haven’t been ahead at half-time (before the Scotland game) and we didn’t want to go into the game tight, just kicking the ball out,” he said. “We wanted to play with the ball to try to increase the score but in the second half it was quite hard for us to get that momentum back.
“That try (that Darcy Graham scored in the 58th minute) – I haven’t seen a try like that before from the kick-off. It was one moment, and Finn (Finn Russell, who set up the try with a quick kick-off) is capable of moments like that.”
Adams praised the almost sold-out Welsh crowd, and said the team is doing all it can to give thousands of Welsh supporters something to cheer about.
“Honestly, it (the atmosphere) was amazing today; it was amazing last week,” Adams said. “I think there was more in this week than last week, and when the anthem is sung a cappella it’s amazing.
“Thank you to everyone for coming out and supporting us. We’re trying our best and we’re going to carry on fighting for you all.”
Wales have two fixtures remaining to try and avoid a third consecutive wooden spoon. They travel to Dublin to play Ireland on Friday, March 6, and then round off their campaign with a home game against Italy on Saturday, March 14.
