Rugby union: talking points from the weekend’s internationals | Guardian writers

England must be more clinical, Samoa show World Cup promise and the All Blacks make a clean sweep at end-of-year awardsThe contrast between the last quarter of an hour of the games in Cardiff and Twickenham was striking. The All Blacks kept calm, even when they fell behind, and were rewarded with the three tries which guaranteed their victory over Wales. England, dominant at the set-piece against Samoa, could not muster a single point in the final 28 minutes, wasting several obvious try-scoring opportunities. The worst was the last one, when Marland Yarde could not quite decide whether to side…