England kicking on but strategy for Wales could include power game | Nick Evans


France caved under pressure from kicking but Eddie Jones may mix it up with Tuilagi and the Vunipolas against Wales

France’s death by a thousand kicks at Twickenham started the week before in Paris. England have been extremely well coached in both matches so far and so George North’s first try for Wales against France on the opening night will not have gone unnoticed by Eddie Jones and his assistants. They will have seen that Hadleigh Parkes’s kick forward found space, it put Yoann Huget in a position he did not want to be in and then a bit of pressure from North brought the mistake. England took that and seized on it.

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