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Borthwick knows his captains, have faith!

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The Rugby Paper Team
5 September 2021

MANY an eyebrow has shifted in a northerly direction since the news broke late last month, but Steve Borthwick knows what he is doing when it comes to captaincy.
The Leicester boss has asked the combustible loosehead prop Ellis Genge, who follows the doctrine of pacifism in the way Morne Steyn embraces running rugby, to lead the Tigers on the latest stage of their return to Premiership relevance. Can it possibly work? Of course it can.
Leicester are hardly the first team to play the “school bully turned prefect” card. Bath appointed the rough-house flanker Phil Hall as sk...

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