Fuming Wales fans walk out of England game in disgust before final whistle

Welsh rugby fans left Allianz Stadium before the full-time whistle yesterday as Wales were pummelled 48-7 by England in the Six Nations.

Wales' performance was littered with poor discipline and four players were shown yellow cards in the game. At one point, Wales were down to 13 men after Dewi Lake and Nicky Smith were sent to the bin in quick succession of one another. Even with 15 men on the field, Wales failed to impose themselves on the encounter in any manner and were outclassed by a superior England side.

With 20 minutes to play, the score was 36-7 to England and the game was won.

Welsh fans began to leave the stadium at this point and Pulse Media spoke to those who decided to get the early train back.

"Waste of my time," said one. "A complete waste of my money, waste of my time. If you're going to be awful, try something different! (Steve) Tandy's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting something different."

Another commented: "We've gone backwards. Too many penalties, not enough line. We've got plenty of people out on the wing. No wing ball! Kicking, kicking. Sad."

One said: "At the moment, all the schools are football, there's no real interest like there used to be (in rugby), no passion for it. They need that back. If they don't get that, they've got nobody coming through the ranks. Absolute joke."

"Were England that good? I don't think so," contested another. "Looking at the game, two very average sides. One side wanted it a lot more and one side was a lot more organised."

When asked whether there was anything to take from the game, one fan said: "Absolutely nothing," before his friend added: "I've invested a lot of money into Welsh rugby but I can't anymore."

Another fan praised one Welshman despite the result: "I thought (Aaron) Wainwright tried very hard. (Rees-) Zammit ran from depth a couple of times, which was great. Too strong, England too strong."

Wales scored just one try in the game through Josh Adams after a cross-field kick from Dan Edwards. The latter would then knock over the conversion but this would be the only occasion in the game that Wales threatened England.

Those were also the first points Wales scored since the autumn Test against New Zealand after beating nilled by South Africa in the final game in Cardiff.

England ran in seven tries against Wales with Henry Arundell scoring a hat-trick with his only three touches of the ball in the game at that point.

George Ford was superb at outside-half and was responsible for picking Wales apart and controlling the game.