PETER JACKSON on Monday: Wales now rubbing their hands

So many rudderless English chariots have drifted away on the Liffey over the years they must now pose a danger to shipping in the Irish Sea.

Another Red Rose expedition buoyed by lofty ambition ended with a few more being sold down the river in Dublin last night, each and everyone broken by the burden of trying to carry a Grand Slam home.

Ever since they socked it to Wales in Cardiff, English expectation has been heading for the stratosphere while conveniently overlooking the awkward fact that the opposition had a monopoly of the torpedo market as cornered by Jonny Sexton.