The full match report is in, so I’ll take my leave.Thanks for your emails and company.On to round three next weekend!Dewi Lake is offering thoughts“I guess it’s a step forward, we were a lot better than last week, but there’s still lots to work on.Our kick chase needs work.It’s always a privilege to pull the jersey on and that will never change, that’s where the morale comes from.

[On the low attendance] It’s our job to make people want to come and watch games, and at the minute we’re not getting results, all I can ask is that they come along on the journey with us and support us, we want to get better.”80 mins.France have the ball on the Wales 10m line, but foot in touch ends the match with a resounding victory for Les Bleus.78 mins.James hammers towards the line from the lineout but is stopped short.

This prompts a few drives from the forwards that are stopped before Plumtree is held up over the line.HOwever, there were repeated offside by France and on the tap and go from the penalty the ball reaches Grady via Rees-Zammit for a consolation score.Evans misses the conversion.75 mins.Elias loses it forward on the ground and this allows France to spring left, but Bielle-Biarrey takes a turn to fumble it.

Wales win a penalty at the scrum and this will go to into the French 22.72 mins.Wales find themselves in the French 22, but it’s all a terrible combination of frantic and tired, with the inevitable loss of possession coming this time from Wainwright.He’s practically run his moustache off in this match, so it’s no surprise he’s knackered.69 mins.

The game is ramshackle as you like at this stage due to France no longer giving a proverbial, and Wales trying anything from everywhere – to little success.The stadium sounds like a library on a sponsored silence.68 mins.Jalibert tickles and angled grubber toward Attissogbe’s corner, but he can’t get it down under pressure from Adams and the ball goes forward65 mins.Wales are punching with more purpose into midfield via James again as well as Plumtree.

The offload from Elias goes to ground just as the attack looks to be getting in behind the blue defence.It’s inevitable that the home side have to force it more now.63 mins.Eddie James has a couple of strong runs up the left and some quick ball and phases afterwards have France scrambling.The ball is returned to James who has drive to the line but is stopped short before Adams loses it forward as he tries to pick and go from a metre out.

60 mins.Serin is on, and he sells an outrageous dummy on a Wales chaser on the restrart that allows him to race 30 metres.A few phases later Ollivon is forcing over from a couple of metres out.58 mins.Let’s not forget, Wales don’t even have a full-time permanent defence coach, which may explain why the pattern wasn’t great.

57 mins,Another close-in lineout from France is mauled, but held this time by Wales,Dupont flings it to Jalibert who simply hoists it with the boot to Attissogbe who is all alone on the right wing due to the shockingly narrow alignment of the home defensive pattern,Ramos converts,53 mins.

Another visit to the 22 for France, but Wales do enough to force a knock-on.The home side work it away from the scum to the left and it very quickly becomes a hot mess under French breakdown pressure.But Gailleton is too keen in making a tackle while already on the floor and that gives a fortuitous relieving penalty to Wales.50 mins.There will be a lot of talk about the finishing of that last try, and rightly so, but the real magic that made it was Ramos immediately returning the ball to Bielle-Biarrey.

Very few players would have the nous to know that there was space back on the wing as the defence raced towards him, and then the moxie to dolly an overheard pass back there.He’s a remarkable rugby player.49 mins.Bielle-Biarrey takes a kick and chucks it to Ramos who as the defence bite on him he very quickly lobs it back to the winger who is immediately in space and running.He looks inside to his opposite winger who has tracked across to receive the pass and race over.

Ramos adds two.47 mins.Wales finally have some pace on the ball and their runners after a strong France carry puts them into the French half.They move it to the right quickly for Wainwright to move through a gap, but he doesn’t have the gas to get away from the cover and the next phase has the ball spilled forward.A glimmer, and no more.

44 mins.Wales’s defence is the most notably improved thing as this game has progressed, and they look to be containing another French attack before Cracknell clacks Dupont late after the ball is well gone.From the lineout, it’s a textbook catch and drive for Marchand to ground in the right corner from the rear of the maul.42 mins.Ball in hand is contained the middle third for both sides in the opening exchanges, before some back and forth with the boot ends with a France lineout give on halfway.

Wales receive the ball and the game is back on.Wales certainly improved as the half went on, but given their relative performance compared to the opposition, that’s like saying a 2009 Vauxhall Corsa improved in a race with a TGV train because someone put some tape over the oil leak.Make no mistake, the gulf in ability between these teams is too big for even Donald Trump to rename, and arguably France are making harder work of this than they need to.40+1 mins.Wales have possession around halfway after 10 phases.

The ball is overrun out wide and Guillard clamps on to win a penalty.Jalibert has mercy on the home side and decides to tap it to end the half rather than have another attack.39 mins.You’ll go a long way to see a try as stupid as this.Cracknell wins a great turnover on the Wales 22 at the ruck and the ball spills to Beard who decides to kick it.

He had neither the space nor the skill to do such a thing and it bounces off Jalibert who gathers it to stroll in from 20 metres.37 mins.Dupont takes the ball from lineout on a loop, straightens up and rams forward into the 22.It looks like trouble for Wales, but they are let off the hook by a French knock-on.35 mins.

More French possession around the 22 leads to an angled kick towards Bielle-Biarrey’s wing, but Rees-Zammit covers it and the Wales defence regroup for Williams to kick clear.33 mins.Williams takes a quick tap on halfway for Rees-Zammit to have a run with.He’s hauled down on the 10m line and as the home side move it back to the left they arae isolated in a ruck and lose the ball to a turnover penalty.31 mins.

Another kick is too long to Bielle-Biarrey, who offloads to Dupont to race up the left touchline.Wales scramble as best they can and two phases later Dupont chips over the top for Attissogbe to gather under pressure to ground.But wait! The celebrations are cut short as the TMO has spotted the winger was standing miles in front of Dupont when he kicked.Offside! No Try!28 mins.The story of Wales’s half so far, aside from France’s tries, is every kick being slightly too long for their chasers to compete for, which allows France loose ball to work their magic with.

The latest example is Tomos Williams booting an angled kick into the 22, to no-one other than Bielle-Biarrey.25 mins.A juggling take from Ramos from a Williams bomb is popped to Jalibert who finds Bielle-Biarrey in space.The familiar willingness to keep the ball alive and move it all way left-to-right results in some more territory before Wales manage to halt it.The loose ball finds Rees-Zammit who is very nearly away before being tackled by Cros.

The ball ends up in touch where a bit of a scuffle ensues,Nothing to see here, Wales will have a lineout,22 mins,Excellent drills from Wales to exit from an awkward defensive scrum via a Hawkins carry then a long touchfinder from Williams,20 mins.

A coach killer for Tandy as Wales mess up the restart to allow France the ball in the 22.The ominous attack clouds gather once more, but the red defence is far better organised than previously and this, plus some aggression from James, forces a knock on.18 mins.A gift from the kick-off for Wales as France allow Mee to get up and regather the ball to gallop into the 22.The red shirts swarm and start hammering carries at the French line before Beard heaves over to be called held up.

There was a penalty in backplay, however, and a simple tap and drive has Carre smashing his considerable weight over the line.Edwards converts.15 mins.Bielle-Biarrey steps around Lake out left like he’s been nailed to the floor.The next phase moves swiftly right to new centre Brau-Boirie to drift on the outside shoulder of James, open up his legs and score France’s third try.

Ramos converts.Stephen Roach emails from Saigon.“As Max Boyce said ‘They don’t come and see me when I’m bad’”.Quite.11 mins.

There was a penalty for Wales not rolling away earlier in the attack and the resulting lineout has Jalibert with all the time in the world to cross-kick to Bielle-Biarrey in a Bannau Brycheiniog of space on the left to score.10 mins.Jalibert takes the ball on a loop play and this is enough to create an overlap on the right for Attisogbe to accelerate into.He races towards the line but is held up as a bevvy of red and blue shirt converge on him.8 mins.

France are up to the 22 through mainly carrying straight and hard at too passive Wales defence.The scramble is good enough however for Mee to snaffle the ball out wide, but he’s soon scragged into touch.5 mins.A hanging Edwards kick is dropped by Jalibert, but it went backwards and so Attissogbe can tidy it up around halfway.Wales are soon back on the ball with Edwards again kicking deep; way too deep as it bobbles dead