Six Nations: talking points from the weekend’s action

Italy proved a point beyond their spoiling tactics, Finn Russell leads the list of potential Scottish Lions and will Ireland pay for lack of pace out wide?There can be only one talking point about Conor O’Shea’s side and whether their refusal to engage at the ruck was a masterstroke or a blight on the game requires a far lengthier discussion than this. What can be said without question, though, is that it turned what was expected to be a cakewalk for England into a unique spectacle. O’Shea’s side were eventually outclassed but, if his objective was to make those critics who have been calling f…