The matches we are dealing with are Italy vs Wales, Scotland vs Ireland and England vs France.

There is also the matter of time and a little point to be made.

We speak from time to time about commentators. Jonathan Davies shows a fine disregardto the properpronunciation of names, unlike Huw Llewellyn Davies who gets even subtle differences right. When Joel Dumé was a referee, Davies regularly reduced him to ’Mr Doom’ - a long ooh, making him sound like a lugubrious character from John Bunyan.

This weekend he made trisyllabic Parisse into monosyllabic Preeze to rhyme with Breeze. And when Kaine Robertson dropped the ball for a third time after coming on as a late substitute, Davies said he had "hands like a digital watch"!

But to law, and we shall start - rather aptly -with time.

1. Time, ladies, please

There were two reports on the vital Women’s Six Nations match between England and France at blustery Imber Court. The outcome of the match was likely to determine the outcome of the competition, and England led 13-8 into injury time. France scored and won 13-10, their first-ever victory over England in England.

The English reports said the try was scored in the 13th minute of injury time, the French report in the 7th minute.

That’s a big difference.

The little point to be made is that these terms like injury time, extra time, time added on and referee’s optional time are all inaccurate.

If a match is set for 40 minutes each way, that means 40 minutes of playing time. Time is not then tagged on for injury. It is not extra time, which is something different and really should be used for that time played in knock-out matches when scores are level at the end of the normally allotted time. It is not time added on and it is certainly not time at the discretion/whim of the referee. The referee is obliged to have 40 minutes of play in a half. That’s all.

The business of stoppages has become harder to gauge now that there are substitutions and time out for admonishments as well as injury. The referee needs a sophisticated timepiece to get it all right. That is why in some places they give the timekeeping to one individual who makes it his sole chore.

That the match at Imber Park ended more than 40 minutes after it started was not surprising as there were several stoppages. But it did not run beyond 40 minutes of playing time.

Just a little point.

2. Obstruction?