Gallant Doddie forced to grin and bear it as Scots run into a red wall

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■ From PETER JACKSON at the Principality Stadium

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DODDIE WEIR has been standing out in crowds most of his life but never more poignantly than yesterday in the city where he first stood tall almost 30 years ago.
The mere presence of Scotland’s stricken Lion, all smiles as usual in courageous defiance of a cruel disease, brought a dignity and a point to a phoney fixture, one taken out of its natural Six Nations habitat with the sole purpose of making money.
The Scots earned £1m for their t...

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