PETER JACKSON

THE Welsh Rugby Union hierarchy finally got around the other day to addressing the home defeat to Italy but without a word about the folly of allowing Alun Wyn Jones to lead the team out, carrying his two daughters as if the result was a foregone conclusion.
Surely someone ought to have realised before the act that it was going to set the wrong tone. Nigel Walker, the Union’s newlyappointed head of high performance, took a philosophical stance. “Any team can lose a game,’’ he said. “It can happen. I think there needs to be a sense of perspective.’’
For seven yea...