Wales 0-73 South Africa

PRINCIPALITY STADIUM — Predictably and painfully, Wales were routed by South Africa in a pathetic spectacle of rugby, dressed up as a Test match, and attached to the end of the Autumn Nations Series like a fleck of chewing gum stuck on your heel as you stagger home from a session that went on too long.

Some kind of pre-Covid agreement was blamed for playing this match, delayed from 2020, and now held outside the three-week November international window.

It meant Wales were shorn of a dozen top players away at their English and French clubs, when they could have lost none and probably still have been well beaten by the awesome world champions, who were missing a batch of superstars of their own but were spearheaded by the shimmering fly-half Sacha Feinberg-Mngomez

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