Tactic queried

ENGLAND coach Eddie Jones launched an extraordinary attack on Italy’s innovative breakdown tactics in Sunday’s Six Nations clash, saying “that’s not rugby” and that the fans should get their money back. England won 36-15 to stay on course for back-toback grand slams but the victory, which needed a late surge of tries to put a gloss on the result, was almost forgotten in the immediate aftermath as the opposing coaches took markedly different views of Italy’s tactic of not putting any players into a ruck. That allowed their players to legally drift behind the tackle area and obstruct the England scrumhalf without being offside.