Today's rugby headlines as World Rugby refuse to address law despite backlash and Faletau's genius revealed

These are your morning headlines from the world of rugby on Tuesday, March 1.

World Rugby has no plans to change the game's laws that saw the match between Ireland and Italy descend into a farce on Sunday.

Epalahame Faiva was sent off in the opening quarter of the Six Nations match in Dublin.

He had only been on the field 10 minutes after replacing the injured Gianmarco Lucceshi, before seeing red for a dangerous tackle on Dan Sheehan.

The Italians had no front-rower left capable of playing hooker and the game was forced to move to uncontested scrums as result.

But, under rugby's laws, moving to uncontested scrums because of a red card means a team must be reduced to 13 players and another front-rower brought on.

The ruling is in place to prevent teams from abusing the laws, and assuring uncontested scrums whenever they want.

And the sport's governing body said there are no plans to review the current law in place.

"It’s an unfortunate chain of circumstances that is incredibly rare," spokesperson Dominic Rumbles told RTE Sport.

"A specialist player is injured and then the replacement is red-carded, which is avoidable. On top of that, Italy didn’t submit on the team-sheet any suitably qualified hookers to cover.

"Sometimes a team might have another player, maybe a back row who used to be a hooker, to be able to safely play there. They obviously run the risk by not doing that."

Wales centre Nick Tompkins says they need to be "relentless" in games after coming up short against England.

Wayne Pivac's side gave themselves a mountain to climb at Twickenham last Saturday, being 17-0 down at the break after a poor first half in south west London.

A marked improvement was seen in the second period, but Tompkins, who was