The twin pillars of England’s rebuild

NICK CAIN
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Ollie Chessum and Marcus Smith play with such enthusiasm when they pull on the Red Rose jersey that their pride in representing England is transparent, and it will be evident when they face Fiji in this afternoon’s World Cup quarter-final in Marseille.
There is a spring in their step, and a desire and intensity that has gone missing among many of the senior pros from the Eddie Jones era who have been retained by Steve Borthwick.
It was captured in Chessum’s galloplop down the left wing to score England’s opening try against Samoa last weekend...

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