The Breakdown | Wales won Six Nations by sticking to speed limit while others lost control

The grand slam was based on meticulous preparation, precision and containing risk, qualities Ireland and England could not matchWales’ grand slam was planned in military detail. If, statistically, it looked a minimalist triumph, based on defence rather than possession, the champions played with a precision honed on the training field and were supremely conditioned. It was not so much that they avoided risk – they ran the ball in the rain with a degree of recklessness on the opening night in Paris and trailed by 16 points at the interval – but contained it. They kept to the speed limit while ot…