Sean Lamont's counter sparked the first, the left wing breaking through on the opposite flank before the ball was recycled for Regan King to send Priestland over.

BBC: Scarlets 43-34 Perpignan

Trimble looked as though he might finish off the move himself in the left corner but the Irish had numbers on the opposite flank and Heaslip ran in the score after quick hands from Brian O'Driscoll, Gordon D'Arcy and David Wallace.

BBC: Ireland 29-11 Italy

To the obvious discomfiture of the IMF and its counterparts, Gorbachev is moving in just the opposite direction and doing so at flank speed.

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