Daniel Majstorovic and Scott Brown were more influential, their goals in each half dismissing any notion of an upset.
It looked worrying when Flood was unsteady on his feet in the closing stages, considering his recent record of concussion, but the England fly-half dismissed it as one of those things that "happens 20 times a year".
And then not even the bleakest corners in our diagram's bottom half can be dismissed from the reckoning.
This is a significant change from 1999 and 2000, when less than 30 percent of merger-related lawsuits settled and more than half were dismissed by plaintiffs.
Ex-Arsenal striker Gervinho, who had hit the bar in the first half, was dismissed on 58 minutes for a slap.
The guards' numbers were rapidly reduced; half were dismissed within five months of the opening.
The full-back's crime was to be tackled by Ryan Shawcross, in a challenge that led to the Stoke City centre-half being dismissed.
The Spaniard, who has slipped one place to fifth in the world during his absence from competition, took a little under an hour and a half to dismiss the 25-year-old Argentinian clay-courter 6-2, 6-1 on the hardcourts of the new tennis complex in Rio.
The Wakefield hooker, Scott Moore, and the Widnes scrum-half, Aaron Heremaia, were dismissed midway through the first half, with the Vikings centre Patrick Ah Van having already been sin-binned, and his team-mates Lloyd White and Stefan Marsh followed suit in the second period.
Over half of those dismissed were at the "senior or executive level," according to Ms Barra.
Saakashvili has already dismissed half of the 600 staff who were employed by the governor's office when he arrived.
