Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed

Poor old Italy came up with plenty of solutions to the problems posed by Ireland in last weekend’s Super Saturday bunfight, but Dan Sheehan turned out to be a question without an answer.
The three tries bagged by the Lions’ Test hooker-in-waiting were scored so effortlessly, they may have constituted the easiest slice of hat-trickery since Vladimir Putin’s run of victories in the Russian elections, all of which were free, fair and transparent. (Yeah, right).
Predictably, events in Rome were shaped by the all-too-familiar five-metre maul routine, which accoun...