BRENDAN GALLAGHER
Two very average teams produced a pretty sub par Test match in front of an intermittently mute Twickenham crowd with the volume only really being turned up in the final quarter when England roused themselves. Add to the mix a visibly nervous youngish ref who never got to grips with the scrum and baffled both sides with some decisions and frankly it wasn’t much of a day out.
The Championship – some statisticians reckon this is England’s 500th Championship game since the dawn of time – has however been full of such encounters over the centuries so perhaps we shouldn’t get too ...