a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5m5TYLuLZoY/TVginx1teII/AAAAAAAAFA0/UJY9Bu-a92I/s1600/shane-williams-vs-scotland.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5m5TYLuLZoY/TVginx1teII/AAAAAAAAFA0/UJY9Bu-a92I/s400/shane-williams-vs-scotland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573242605659846786" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Wales finally broke their eight-match losing streak with a hard-fought 24-6 RBS 6 Nations victory over Scotland at Murrayfield this weekend. /spanbr /br /Wales, who had not won an Test match since March 2010, ran out victors in a scrappy game that was littered with handling errors and penalties.br /br /They got the dream start when fly-half James Hook punctured the Scottish defence and off-loaded to the supporting Shane Williams for a converted score. Perpignan-bound Hook then slotted three more penalties to give Wales a 0-16 advantage over the home side.br /br /Dan Parks got Scotland’s first points with a penalty, although several try-scoring opportunities went begging: Joe Ansbro knocked-on when Wales were reduced to 13 men following yellow cards to Bradley Davies and Lee Byrne, and then John Barclay failed to hold-on to the ball near the whitewash.br /br /The sides remained dead-locked for large portions of the match, as the Scots couldn’t find a cutting edge to penetrate an impressive Welsh defensive effort.br /br /Sean Lamont was the standout player for the Scots, whilst Jamie Roberts looked to have regained some of the rampaging form that made him the 2010 Lions player-of-the-tour.br /br /The game was eventually sealed when Williams touched down for his second score, chasing a Jonathan Davies kick, which put the win beyond the reach of a stuttering Scottish side.br /br /Following the game, Welsh Captain Matthew Rees said: "We've been a wounded animal all week after the England game and we knew it wasn't an easy task coming up here to get a result.br /br /"The commitment, the endeavour, everything was there for us, especially going down to 13 men at one point. Discipline was a bit of an issue, but to come away with a 24-6 win was a great result for us."br /br /A fuming Scotland head coach Andy Robinson said: "We made too many errors particularly in that first 20 minutes. That is unacceptable, what happened today. We've gone back a couple of steps."br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"If you fancy a game with a bit more excitement, have a look back at last year's fixture between the two sides, which was packed with action from start to finish. /spana style="font-style: italic;" href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/02/wales-come-back-to-snatch-victory-from.html"View that here/aspan style="font-style: italic;". /spanbr /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bGhxPB8_LDs?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bGhxPB8_LDs?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time:/span 03:51/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-2981629380448922152?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divpa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E2ahs4clJ-FV8QLKFYfX5zRSfp0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E2ahs4clJ-FV8QLKFYfX5zRSfp0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E2ahs4clJ-FV8QLKFYfX5zRSfp0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/E2ahs4clJ-FV8QLKFYfX5zRSfp0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=TD35C9TN0hs:6T-P8vhLRgM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/TD35C9TN0hs" height="1" width="1"/ More...