Brian Moore: England didn't play to their strengths

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🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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After Round Three of the Six Nations it is only Wales who can win the Grand Slam after they ousted England to make it a record breaking 12 wins in a row. Elsewhere France finally turned up with Scotland yet to find the Stade de France, and Ireland had a run for their money against Italy. Alongside Brian Moore to discuss it all is Ben Ryan.This week's big topics from the Principality included whether England have a Plan B, the inaccuracy throughout the second half from England, and the trials and triumphs of Kyle Sinckler.As for the Welsh side, we speak with former Wales and Lions back Dafydd James on Biggar v Anscombe debate, we get an appraisal of Alun Wyn Jones, and Dafydd names his player to drop: George North. You'll have to listen in to find out why.Over to Paris where it was a familiar case of Groundhog Day for the Scots against the French who finally picked their players in their nominated positions and came out with their first win of the tournament. Former scrum half Rory Lawson was there in the Stade de France and said the tactics were right from Townsend, they just weren't executed correctly by the players.As for Ireland it was close run in Rome - and that was just their escort to the stadium! We invite former hooker Shane Byrne on to try and tell us what isn't clicking for them with a large explanation going down to Sexton and Murray just not firing as they normally do.Finally, we speak with Wasps Ladies coach Giselle Mather on the Women's Six Nations.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph Podcasts
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.
0:11.4	The Six Nations third round was a cracker as Wales ousted England to make it a record 12 wins in a row.
0:18.7	France finally turned up with Scotland yet to find the Stadde
0:23.2	Florenton Island had a run for their money against Italy. Here to discuss it. All with me
0:28.3	is the Olympic Sevens and World Cup winning coach Ben Ryan. Hello Ben, how are you? I'm good,
0:33.3	thanks. Yeah, I enjoyed the Six Nations at the weekend. It seemed like it was an endless build-up for the Wales, England, so it was good to actually watch them.
0:40.1	For those who didn't get all the results, I just read them out.
0:43.2	France 27, Scotland 10, Wales 21, England, 13, and Italy 16, Ireland, 26.
0:50.5	Ben, we've got guests to speak to, from a Welsh, Scottish and Irish perspective, so why don't we start with England?
0:58.9	Billy Vinappola, interestingly, if they might say in the second half, there's a lot more niggle, we bought into that because we thought we had a seven-point buffer.
1:06.6	I don't quite understand the logic behind that. England were in control of the game in the first half to a large extent.
1:13.6	And I thought actually when you look back at it,
1:16.2	the Welsh standard that denied England to try just be half for half time,
1:21.6	thought it might prove decisive.
1:23.1	It did in the end.
1:24.6	But where do you think England went wrong without taking any credit away from
1:29.5	what was a tremendous, tremendously spirited Welsh performance? No, I mean, and it was and I thought
1:35.7	you know, Sean Edwards' defence really stood up to what England threw at them, but England,
1:41.2	they tried, you know, they had the kicking game that they played against Ireland.
1:44.4	It caught Ireland on the hop a little bit and they got that ascendancy.
1:47.7	They then played against a French side that didn't pick a back three that had,
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