Richard Williams laments England's lack of cutting edge following their defeat to Wales in Cardiff in The Observer.
"With the roof closed to preview the conditions they will encounter against Argentina in Dunedin, playing around 75% of the match in their opponents' half for the best part of an hour, with the volume of God Save the Queen outdoing that of Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, and a chorus of Swing Low Sweet Chariot sweeping around the stadium from visiting fans who seemed to constitute a majority of the 73,307 in attendance, this felt unexpectedly like a home match for England.
"So much possession was granted to England by the superiority of their pack in the first half that Cardiff might as well have been Fortress Twickenham. For long – indeed, almost interminable – periods of the match, the men in white camped out on the Welsh line, trying desperately to take advantage of the decision not to take shots at goal from the avalanche of penalties awarded to them by the erratic referee, Alain Rolland."
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