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Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.

The opening weekend of this year Six Nations is now history

and what a weekend it was for England who outfought, outthought, outperformed the defending champions

Ireland in Dublin. Wales benefited from major lapses in concentration from the French. Who could

have predicted that, eh? And Scotland picked up an expected bonus point win at home to Italy.

Here to dissect the weekend's action to look ahead to round two is the former England fly half and former director of elite rugby at the RFU.

Rob Andrew. Hello Rob.

Evening, Brian. How are you?

Not too bad. 32 points to 20 out in Dublin and bearing in mind that England have not scored more than 13

points against Ireland I think in the last seven games I don't think anyone saw that coming

nor indeed the manner but when Eddie Jones quipped that Ireland had to get used to being favourites, all right, it was a bit of a barb, but he is right in this sense.

There is a different psyche when you're going in as strong favourites, and indeed, I seem to detect a difference in the crowd.

Yeah, hi Brian.

Look, what a stunning, stunning performance by England.

I mean, that's as good as we've probably seen them play for.

Two years?

Well, probably, even under Eddie's rain, probably.

I mean, the winds away in Australia were pretty impressive in 2016.

But to go to Dublin, to, to an outstanding Irish team who just beaten New Zealand, effectively, was their last big win,

and to be not dominant, because you're never going to dominate that game, but actually, even when

they didn't have the ball, they were under control. Well, I thought it was an absolutely outstanding performance.

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