shorn

There's also a feeling that if they click then the Wallabies - shorn again of the wonderful Rob Valetini in their back row - will be taken to the cleaners.

The tourists had been 0-2, but Rahul and captain Gill blunted an England attack shorn of Ben Stokes, who did not bowl all day.

Yet another U turn was sanctioned, leaving his plans appearing threadbare, shorn of their central pillars of just a week ago.

Bukele, a former advertising executive who labels himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” dispatched video crews to record the arrival of the Venezuelans, who were led off deportation planes in shackles and had their hair shorn.

It did not backfire then, but using it against a superior pack - albeit one still shorn of Tadhg Furlong - is an audacious move by Galthie, whose future could hinge on how Saturday goes.