Peter Jackson compiles the numbers and picks his best XV from the 2025 international season

They say the league table never lies, that like George Washington’s inaugural American presidency, it swears allegiance to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Rugby’s global standings for 2025, based on the results of the 12 chosen for The Nations League starting next year, contains a whopper or two of almost Trumpian magnitude, an observation which is not intended to denigrate England’s achievement in topping the lot.
After all, they could only beat what was put in front of them, w...