BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT

Brilliant leader: Japan captain Michael Leitch

Eddie Jones was joking in midweek that Japan needed to find a temple and say a few prayers before this match. Had they done so, they would have prayed for a loose and possibly complacent England to play like headless chickens for the first half. Which is exactly what they did.
England were so lacking rugby intelligence, not to mention intensity and sharpness, for the first 40 that they deserved to go down the tunnel at half time 15 points down rather than five.
It was U15B rugby against a well-motivated, extremely...