Wales 40
Australia 6
His team are bound for the quarterfinals and behind him, choking in their dust, is a stricken Australian team who are now all but doomed to a premature tournament exit. Eddie Jones, on the other hand, is seeing all his worst nightmares come true.
When Jones was rehired in January at vast expense, having lost his job with England, it was not supposed to end like this. If defeat to Fiji was bad, this was far worse as his side barely fired a shot. If the 63-year-old was meant to breathe fresh life into the Wallaby squad, it has had the exact opposite effect. Compared Australian with the rugby it glory days of was almost embarrassing at times, with boos ringing around the stadium whenever Jones appeared on the big screen. Wales, though, still had to seal the deal and duly did so through tries from Gareth Davies, Nick Tompkins and Jac Morgan and the boot of Gareth Anscombe, on as an early replacement for the injured Dan Biggar.
By the end Anscombe had racked up 23 points on his own and Wales were out of sight. Morgan's late score, driven over by his pack, was the clearest possible sign of Welsh supremacy and Gatland, his staff and his players deserve huge credit for delivering a result that puts them on course for a quarter-final against, potentially, Argentina.
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