Wales expected Ireland's 'bludgeon' approach

Late Saturday afternoon. The second Six Nations game of the weekend is still very much in the balance in Twickenham, but another Englishman is the name on everyone’s lips in Cardiff. 

Wayne Barnes’ refereeing has already generated a viewnami on Twitter, but the view inside the Millennium Stadium holds that his compatriot Shaun Edwards has done more to influence the course of the game.

Defence had been a dirty word after the first three weekends of the championship. Tries had been rationed as the overt physicality and talk of concussion had cast a cloud over a tournament gripped in a tactical straitjacket.