There’s been a big fanfare around Tommy Freeman’s potential move from wing to outside centre following the Lions tour, starting this season with him getting more time at 13 for Northampton.
However, as someone who has said for some time that Freeman has the physical attributes to make a big success of a move to outside centre for England, it’s something that needs to be carefully thought through, because it’s no stroll in the park.

Freeman is a winger who is not yet an outside centre, and has yet to come to terms with a position in which you have less time than wing, and yet have more to d...