Wales 21-13 England: talking points from the Six Nations international

England should reassess their scrum-halves, Wales handled Kyle Sinckler before turning the visitors’ tactics back on them

Two years ago England used their bench in the final quarter to come from behind to defeat France and Wales, but the half-backs Dan Robson and George Ford never left it on Saturday. Dan Biggar was the replacement who turned into a game finisher and it raised a question about Eddie Jones’s scrum-half policy. He has preferred to have two in a squad rather than three to maximise their time on the training field, but having dropped Danny Care, the finisher supreme, after three years, and replaced him with the internationally inexperienced Dan Robson, England’s head coach has become reliant on a starter.

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