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Perfect fit for us then …

I don’t recall the exact number, but 50min stints in both games vs. NZ could be OK. It would have been worse if Saracens had made the final.

You are. 6 uncapped players suggests a decent amount of ambition. I'm assuming Langdon is not going on account of injury, it's not like Oghre is a conservative pick. He could easily have picked LCD as an experienced option or Walker simply because he's been in camp before, but neither would...

I’ve usually been critical of Ewels but he came back from SA a different player. He’s absolutely there on merit IMO.

Not when we’re touring NZ and the rest of our hookers and locks are pretty inexperienced.

We probably will be light on experience in some areas, but there’s a good core who have plenty - 5 or 6 in the likely starting pack should have over 50 caps for example. Moreover, most of us wouldn’t have wanted Daly and probably would have preferred more game time for the Smiths than Ford, so...

I don’t see Skinner ever being an international standard 10. He’s 26 and while he might improve a bit, I don’t think it will be to the extent that he is a genuine option for England. Atkinson and Bailey have some promise but the former has the advantage of more game time at club level which...

Not ideal, but as long as Fin Smith is OK (he seemed confident he is post-game), not having the ‘safe’ option of Ford could actually be a good thing for England.

A random thought that occurred to me when looking at the Super Rugby results … Will losing the SA teams from the club competition have a negative impact on the All Blacks? A less competitive format has pluses and minuses. On the one hand, their players will be less battered but on the other...

Yeah, as long as the injury hasn’t significantly affected him, Curry is the obvious player to come in at 6 with CCS on the bench for impact. If CCS continues to play 6 at Quins (which I think he will), I think he may leapfrog Chessum. Hill has all the right qualities, in his case it’s more...

Yeah. I think all of that has crossed his mind as he’s sat on the sidelines. Unfortunate. Assuming it will be Marler, Rodd and Baxter now.

Underhill was immense in that first half. At the heart of pretty much anything good for Bath. Some massive hits and crazy work rate.

They are ‘good’ players, but none of those has even come close to the level of quality we've seen in pretty much every other position on the field. Ironic that there are four there who have ended up representing other home nations. However, I'm not totally sure we'd have taken any of them back...

Depends how much money they’ve spent getting Aidan Morgan over.

Same here. Really like the look of Woodward. Runs hard lines but also has some playmaking ability.

Who knows? Honestly if I was a young player coming through with even vaguely suitable attributes I would be pushing to play 12.

No, but at least he plays there on a semi regular basis. Probably more than Lawrence does.

So three 13s and a utility back? Lawrence is better at 13 but is doing a decent job at 12. Northmore has only played a handful of games for Quins at inside centre and is a test rookie. 13 might be Freeman’s best position in the long term but right now he’s still learning the role and I’’m not...

Who instead?

Picking up on an anti-Tigers bias here, but otherwise, I like that squad with some minor revisions. JvP would be there on merit - nothing to do with who he plays for. Arguably he’s been the best 9 in the last third of the season. I’m ambivalent over Spencer or Randall but would probably favour...