England have urged officials to prevent scheming France deliberately slowing the tempo of Sunday's Guinness Six Nations clash at Twickenham.
Eddie Jones has highlighted the difficulty of playing at pace against Les Bleus due to the variety of tricks they employ to reduce the game to a speed that suits their substandard conditioning.
It will be among the issues raised by Steve Borthwick when the forwards coach speaks with Nigel Owens at the customary eve-of-match referees' meeting and England are confident the Welsh official will be alert to the threat.
