PETER JACKSON VERDICT

The Welsh scrum had splintered like a trunk of rotting balsa wood when Romain Poite stepped aside from the rubble to deliver a damning verdict.
Taken aside by the French referee, Josh Navidi knew what would be coming because he had seen it all collapse in front of him. As captain knee-deep in the debris at No.8, he must have felt horribly like the boy on the burning deck on his big day as the second migrant’s son to lead his country behind Taulupe Faletau. “Engagement too close,’’ Poite told Navidi. “Collapsing. Not steady.’’...