Orlando’s new world

PAUL REES previews the new season and picks a young talent who could set the game alight

When Orlando Bailey started playing rugby as a five-year old at Dorchester Rugby Club, Danny Cipriani was setting out on his senior career. The two outside-halves start the season together at Bath, the master and the apprentice, with Bailey wasting no time in tapping into the knowledge of a player he has admired for years. There is something of Cipriani in Bailey, the England U20 international who will leave his teenage years behind at the end of the month. He prefers to run and seek space rat...

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