BRENDAN GALLAGHER

WELL, it wasn’t quite the ‘Bazball’ rugby that Jamie George apparently aspires to – did we really expect things to change overnight? – but England were just about good enough to get the job done in Rome and in the Six Nations you give thanks for any away win and move on.
A revved-up Italy started quickly and strongly enough for England to revert to a much more pragmatic approach, indeed the game plan we saw from them was essentially what they unrolled at the World Cup.
The biggest, most predictable plus, however, was the all-round competence of Tommy Freeman who mysterious...