After victories over France, Italy and England in the Championship to date, Wales have now won their last 12 matches in succession which is a new record in the country’s rugby history.
Still, the squad are getting far from ahead of themselves and Wales’ last visit to Edinburgh showed just how tough an opposition Scotland can be.
In 2017, Wales were beaten 29-13 there and it means that even though the current side are on a fine run of form, they know their unbeaten run could be ended at any moment.
“It was a tough day for us in 2017. We didn’t come out the blocks and if we’re honest Scotland probably embarrassed us a little bit,” said Wales loosehead prop Rob Evans.
“We are obviously looking forward to the game, but it’s going be an incredibly tough one for us.
“We know what Scotland are like at home. They feed off the atmosphere there just as we do back in Cardiff. We’re not shying away from the fact it’s going to be a massive, massive game.
“Every match is presenting us with a different test as you can see from the last three games. They’ve all been different. Danny Wilson is forwards coach with Scotland and he’s going to know a lot of our players pretty well. It’s going to be a tough challenge.
“Their set-piece has been going pretty well I believe and they’ve got some quality backs in there. I don’t know if Finn Russell is fit, but they have got some exciting talent.
“We’re taking it one game at a time and looking at Scotland only.”
After downing England in Cardiff, a fallow week in what is northern hemisphere rugby’s greatest international tournament gave Wales the chance to recharge their batteries.
This week they will ramp up their preparations for Scotland with two big days of training on Monday and Tuesday before a day off on Wednesday.
Gatland will then name his team on Thursday before the squad depart for Edinburgh.
“It’s great for us to have a captain like Alun Wyn Jones. I think if he sees any glint of complacency or anything like that he’ll just snap it out straight away,” Evans added.
“He’s a great leader. Another big thing about this group is everyone’s pretty grounded and we realise where we are at the moment. I know we’ve had three wins, but as I said this game with Scotland is going to be a massive challenge for us. They embarrassed us last time by quite a hefty scoreline.”
Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies said: “We worked hard going into the England match and we’ll work just as hard leading into the Scottish week. We’re not going to take anything for granted.
“If anything we’re going to work even harder leading up to the Scotland game and hopefully we can play as well as we did against England, and come away with another win.”
