Hugh Godwin runs the rule over Wales' win over England - where both sides were left coveting the other's strengths - in The Independent on Sunday.
"Friendly and phoney, or tellingly revelatory? Some old failings undermined England in the second of their three World Cup warm-ups and the most obvious straw to be clutched by those hoping they will achieve something in New Zealand next month is that to suffer in Cardiff is neither here nor, more importantly, there.
"Oddly, each side possessed what the other lacked. England, who will not play before naming their squad of 30 on 22 August, were solid in scrum and line-out, and they will proclaim that winning a World Cup is a tough task without those pillars. But Wales ruled the breakdown and they had an effective flanker in their captain, Sam Warburton, and the simple ability to finish a try when the chance presented itself to James Hook with 23 minutes left."
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