Six Nations: what we learned from the opening weekend action

Indiscipline proves expensive, Edwards makes an immediate impact and England’s forwards struggle to gain groundSet-pieces are diminishing in number but not in significance, the lineout especially. It provided the platform for Wales’s opening two tries – and their fourth – against Italy and the only try in Ireland’s victory over Scotland in Dublin also came after a penalty was kicked to touch. Italy and Scotland both conceded 10 or more penalties and with teams reluctant to kick to touch and concede a lineout, indiscipline costs. Italy have little to salvage from their heavy defeat in Cardiff, …