During the wash-up over the raging tidal wave of emotions unleashed in Cardiff all week, Wales found it necessary to deny that Ross Moriarty’s withdrawal had been pre-planned.
It remains as inexplicable now as it did eight days ago, all the more so because no Welsh No.8 had been subjected to an earlier substitution in a competitive international over the last five years. Moriarty disappeared after 52 minutes at a time when he had England on their hands and knees. If anything all the more so in the absence of a coherent reason.
Nobody can argue that it cost Wales the game ...