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Cheers Mike. He'll have a quick breather, swig a luminous-coloured, electrolyte-packed sports drink, and return to the field for the final third of our Six Nations finale a little later. In the meantime, I'll be doing the hard yards in the middle stretch.

In the green corner, Ireland. In the navy corner, Scotland. Let's get ready to ruuuuumble!

What do you mean this is a dead rubber? Nonsense.

Right, let's turn this final-day tanker towards Dublin.

Jonathan Jurejko is ready and waiting to take you through Ireland v Scotland.

George North matches Shane Williams' feat of scoring in every match of a Six Nations campaign. 

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Wales captain Dan Lydiate tells BBC One: "We are still disappointed with last week and we owed it to the fans.

"We still gave away some soft tries but the boys played their hearts out and I couldn't ask for anything else from them.

"Two bad halves of rugby let us down in this championship and let's hope we learn from that and we never start again like we did in the first game and against England."

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Italy captain Sergio Parisse on BBC One: "We lost against a great team in Wales which shows the young guys must work on this defeat and get better for future.

"The campaign was really difficult, every team gets injuries but for us it is maybe much more difficult because we don't have the depth but no excuses, from June we have another staff and maybe things will change.

"It is difficult to play matches when you lose by 50 points but there was some good things we scored two tries but there were too many mistakes in defense. They have great players, great backs and put us under pressure today."

Conor O'Shea, the Harlequins director of rugby, is the hot tip to take the reins from Jacques Brunel.

It will be interesting to see how he goes if he does indeed get the gig.  

Gareth Davies ensures Wales finish in style...

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So many try-scorers, they start encroaching on the kickers' turf.

Nine tries in total.

Garin Jenkins
Former Wales international on BBC Radio Wales

"That was all that could have been done by Wales. They did the job perfectly, they scored tries, they were exciting, there were mistakes, it might not have been title decider today but Wales were in a difficult position coming into the game."

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Wales' man of the match George North tells BBC One: "It feels awesome. The boys wanted to perform today and from minute one we showed out intent and our desire and the scoreline says it all.

"This week was a new week and we had to get the result we knew we deserved."

Jonathan Davies
Former dual code international on BBC One

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"Wales have scored some lovely, lovely tries today. They have played a good, open game.

"Today this is the sideshow, the big game is in Paris, but Wales wanted to go out on a high and they have a tough tour to New Zealand in the summer.

"The Italians have a lot of injuries and have looked very tired in their last two games. They have no strength in depth."

Dafydd James
BBC Radio Wales pundit

"Fantastic passage of play from both teams throwing caution to the wind, wanting to finish on a blast."

Wales, Wales, Wales bray the home crowd.

Their men are within five. 

Jake Ball worms for the line, but is just short...

Wales are rumbling. Jake Ball and Dan Lydiate grinding through the hard yards and driving play into the Italy 22m.

Gareth Anscombe chances his arm with a looping cut-pass aimed at George North.

Gonzalo Garcia has read it, gets a hand to it, but shackled with cramp cannot hold onto it, nevermind go the length.

Glorious ragged stuff.

Italy spin wide. 

Jonathan Davies intercepts, Wales counter, Italy at sixes and sevens, but Sergio Parisse nabs a George North pass to prevent an almost certain try.

Players scattered across the pitch and all are relieved when Romain Poite blows to end a lung-busting phase of play.