Air day for Hogg

that, then talk about his hair. It still looks bad!

“Exeter are a quality side. They are in the [English] Premiership every year fighting to win it, a quality side. We have played against them before and I have played them with Newcastle as well and there are a lot of quality players there. You keep an eye on Hoggy but there’s guys who make that team tick.” 2 DTH Van der Merwe crosses to score Glasgow’s only try, which ultimately proved to be the difference between the sides at Scotstoun on Saturday.

After getting their season off to a highly encouraging start with two wins away to South Africa, Scotland were brought back down to earth yesterday in a match which highlighted some of their shortcomings.

They had no answer in the first half to the power of the Welsh pack, and although the second half was a lot more even, with neither side scoring, the damage had been done.

All the points came before the interval, with Wales’s forwards being responsible for two of their team’s three tries. Openside Bethan Lewis got the first score after 13 minutes, finishing off a lineout maulafterapenaltyhadbeen sent to touch. The backs got in on the act for the second, with Lisa Neumann running on to a delicate kick ahead by Lauren Smyth and Scotland were 10-0 down before they had done so much as mount a decent attack.

They began to attack with a bit more purpose after that, however, and when a half-break initiated by Rhona Lloyd was halted illegally, Helen Nelson, pictured, opened their account with a penalty from just inside the Welsh ten-metre line. The rest of the half belonged to