It was the second successive reverse suffered by Carys Phillips’ side after their highly promising opening round win in Italy. They now have to face Ireland in Cardiff and France in Brive to complete their campaign before heading to Ireland for this summer’s World Cup.
Wales soaked up enormous early pressure from a Scottish side that hadn’t won a Six Nations game since February, 2010, yet somehow went ahead 14-0 with two forward tries. Scotland then scored with the last move of the first half and were the only team to add to the score in the second half with another try and last gasp penalty from scrum half Sarah Law.
“It does seem as though we are in a bit of a state of shock at the moment. It wasn’t what we were expecting or hoping for – we are all very disappointed and a bit numb,” said Dragons outside half Snowsill.
“In the first half we managed the game pretty well. We sustained a lot of pressure without conceding any points and then we took our chances to score those two tries.
“But we shouldn’t have let them in for that try on half-time – that was a crucial momentum shift in the game. We had half-time to re-group, but in the second half our indiscipline completely cost us.
“We let them back into the game. They kept it pretty tight, but we kept giving away penalty after penalty and we got penned back into our own 22.
“We had chances ourselves and weren’t clinical enough when we needed to be. There are a lot of other errors we need to tighten up on and if we had done everything as we had planned then we wouldn’t be talking about our indisicipine.
“We have to stick together as a team and ride out the storm. It is pretty tough to take, but you have to give credit to Scotland because they have been battling for quite some time.”
Wales came into the Six Nations on the back of three wam-up victories and then beat the Italians 20-8. But reigning world champions England put them to the sword in Round 2 with a 63-0 thumping at the BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park.
Now the Welsh team will have to return to that same venue to face the Irish, who they beat in the warm-up matches. Ireland have won the past five championship matches between the two teams and the last Welsh success was a 15-14 triumph at Cross Keys in 2011.
“We have got two weeks now before we meet Ireland. We need to go over a lot of things and be honest with each other,” added Snowsill.
“We owe the crowd a big performance in two weeks time and that’s crucial for us. We beat them in the warm up game last year and then lost to them in the Championship.
“Both teams will have played three games by then and so a lot will have changed since we last met. We will have to turn up on the day and stay disciplined.”
