Robert Howley’s new direction leaves Wales’s World Cup linchpins left behind

Jamie Roberts and Dan Lydiate are victims of evolution as interim coach favours multidimensional players to face ArgentinaWales are not masters of disguise, but selling a profound shift in emphasis in their selection for the team to face Argentina in Cardiff on Saturday as a defensive move is subterfuge.They have conceded 26 tries in their past five Tests, which all resulted in defeat, and their predictable attacking game has not been able to compensate. By dropping the centre Jamie Roberts and the flanker Dan Lydiate, two players who were central figures in Wales’s power game that took them t…