NICK CAIN
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BY the time Eddie Jones selected his England team to take on a formidable Frenchflavoured Barbarians side under the tutelage of France’s 2022 Grand Slam coach, Fabien Galthie, at Twickenham today, he had called up almost 200 players to England squads.
Of that 200, a little over 100 have actually been capped, giving the head coach barely more than a 50 per cent strike rate in selection.
This proliferation of players attending England training camps was highlighted over the last fortnight when Jones picked an initial training squad of 35 ...