By NICK CAIN

Step up: Owen Lane cuts in to score for Wales

THIS rough old sport does not have a habit of producing too many fairytale endings, especially when it comes to World Cup warm-ups, and Warren Gatland was not handed one in his last game in Cardiff as Wales coach.
It was partly his choice. Rather than turn the heat up on Ireland’s World Cup preparations after their hiding by England by giving them a second shellacking on consecutive weekends – as he had promised – he gave Ireland coach Joe Schmidt a reprieve by fielding a shadow Wales side. It cost Gatland not...