When a team takes a beating as comprehensive as the one Wales had in Dublin it is easy to be seduced by sage analysis, the kind that digs deeply into every peripheral issue suspected to have had an influence.
In three days of febrile reaction here, the hammering against Ireland has been laid at the door of everyone and everything.
The structure of WRU governance, the standard of the United Rugby Championship, the general malaise brought about by the regional game…. each have been forensically picked apart.
