It’s a miracle Sweeney has kept the RFU afloat

JEFF PROBYN
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

AS great as the game of rugby is, it seems that there is always a need to find somebody to ‘carry the can’ who in reality has nothing to do with what went wrong.
On the field, it will be one or two players who get dropped should the team lose and then if they still keep losing, the coach comes under pressure even if the players just aren’t playing well enough.
As far as Eddie Jones goes, it seems he is under pressure to prove he has a plan and will in fact make the right selections when the time is right during the World Cup. There is after all, a...

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