Six Nations: talking points from a weekend of potent wing play | Paul Rees

Wales’ and England’s wide men finished clinically during their wins while France’s passing game remains supremeWhen a few England passes went to ground early on against Italy, it explained Eddie Jones’s preference for a kicking game. Space was not at a premium against the weakest team in the tournament, but the champions were often too mechanical to exploit it. At Murrayfield a couple of hours later Wales showed, for the second successive week, that deficiencies at forward can be masked by opportunism. Their passing was more natural than England’s and helped them to win a match that at one poi…