BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT
Playing rugby on a filthy wet February evening with the wind gusting up to 50mph and swirling around the strangely asymmetric contours of Murrayfield is always easiest from the comfort of the stand where you can sip a reviving hot chocolate as you pontificate on what how things should be done.
Perhaps it wasn’t quite as extreme as that freakish winter storm which unexpectedly descended on Murrayfield in 2000 and did for England’s Grand Slam hopes and I reckon it was windier and colder at Lansdowne Road on the perishing night in March 1994 when Ireland...