A one-sided encounter on a cold, wet afternoon illustrated just how much international rugby is missing fans

There is an old story about a rugby correspondent at a local paper who began his report of a particularly dull game by giving the score and mentioning there were a couple of hundred people at the match, then went on to list them all by name until he had filled the space on the page.

Sadly, there were so few people here on Saturday that it would be a struggle to make it halfway down this particular page if we tried it again.

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