Donal Lenihan: ROG in La Rochelle, Eddie Jones' tight spot, the shape of Sexton and those dancing Fijians

Travelling around France, our columnist finds himself in La Rochelle, with its coffee shops, restaurants and a magnificent food market reminiscent in so many ways of Cork's own English Market

QUICK FIX NEEDED: Eddie Jones has got things badly wrong with the Wallabies and if he doesn’t have a plan in place before Sunday, they could be heading home early.

Two weeks into this World Cup and things have started to settle. After the chaos and dissatisfaction around how supporters were treated in a number of match venues - most notably Bordeaux and Marseille in round one, things could not have been better, on or off the field, last weekend. 

To be fair the FFR absorbed the lessons from the opening weekend and, despite the vast numbers of Irish fans in Nantes, everything went off seamlessly.