Wales’s canny Warren Gatland targets Ireland’s raw Six Nations pack

The French referee’s quirks means Gatland will start with Gethin Jenkins on the bench but Ireland coach Joe Schmidt has no such luxury with his squadWarren Gatland has been researching referees, it appears, and has accordingly parked the venerable Gethin Jenkins and his hundredweight of caps on the bench. Jérôme Garcès, the French official deemed by popular consent – and by the Wales coach himself – to be top-notch, has the loosehead prop’s number at the scrum and has singled him out in recent games for not holding a straight line there.Nobody is saying the French referee i…