Inside rugby union's big showdown
Handling in rucks, it is starting to get to me.
Now, I am a big fan of Irish rugby as I think their efficiency in keeping hold of the ball looks to be the best in the Six Nations.
But exactly how much handling in a ruck are we going to allow for goodness sake, and isn鈥檛 too much of it going to spoil the game?
Referees have to be far stricter, don鈥檛 you think? Aren't killers of the ball murderers of the game?
We鈥檝e all seen the headlines - 鈥淛onny B God鈥, 鈥淩eturn of the Hero鈥 and 鈥淜ing of Sporting Comebacks鈥.
Yes, it was an incredible performance by against Scotland on Saturday and rightly he claimed all the plaudits after the victory.
But as the focus now drifts to Italy this weekend, and perhaps more importantly the crunch Croke Park clash with Ireland on 24 February, I would like to look at four other areas that give England reasons to be cheerful.
Thanks to everyone who sent in their laws questions last week. It was an eventful first week in the Six Nations, that's for sure.
We had plenty of questions on all sorts of subjects, including lots of comments on .
Unfortunately myself and my fellow referee Hugh Watkins cannot comment on the rights and wrongs of individual decisions from matches - our job is to help clarify points of law which can be difficult to understand.
Anyway onto my answers - in no particular order...
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