Explosive Eddie is a master of deflection and his team love it!

PLAYERS love seeing what grenades Eddie Jones throws during his press conferences. Sometimes they watch on social media to see what he comes out with.

Coming out and criticising the referee Ben O’Keeffe over Manu Tuilagi’s red card was a classic case of Eddie the headline generator.

It was a good way of deflecting attention from the scoreboard and the boys will have loved it.

England should have won by more than three points and they will know it. They were so dominant and brutal Wales should have been put away by a bigger margin.

I expected England to beat Wales by at least 10 points but they are still in with a chance of winning the Six Nations depending on how France get on in their remaining games.

They carried on where they left off from the Ireland game — they were dominant. The forwards won the set-piece battle, England controlled the territory and the pack overpowered Wales at scrum time. Their carries and their defence were also strong.

And when England play as powerfully as that, not many teams can live with them.

The only side that have were the South Africans in the World Cup final.

Off the back of that power up front, George Ford showed his world-class skills with his distribution.

He had a great game orchestrating England around the field with his kicking and passing but it makes his life easy when you have got that advantage up front.

He was sitting in his armchair but you have still got to execute everything and he did it to a high level. A good day to be a fly-half.

Ford and Owen Farrell ran the attack and you can tell they are probably going to end up as coaches with the level of detail they put into their presentations.

At scrum-half, Ben Youngs has had a bit of criticism recently but good on him.

He made the most of the pack’s efforts and he was in fine form. He was benched for the Scotland game but he has come back to his sniping best and playing at a high tempo.

His kicking game was spot on and well done to him for bouncing back.

Tuilagi was going well until the red card but it was clearly the right decision.

His big carries get the backline moving forward and he was doing that yesterday.

It was a shame he got a red. But it was the correct call and he knew it. He obviously had no arguments with it.

It is difficult because everything is moving so quickly. George North was horizontal and low to the ground and Manu was horizontal flying into him as well.

But the fact is he didn’t lift his arms up then straight away that puts you in dangerous territory.

As players, we have been told how referees view it if you are putting shoulders near heads.

You know you are going to be in trouble and you don’t want to give the referee the excuse to start handing out red and yellow cards.

If you are not using your arms it just looks bad.