NICK CAIN

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Alack of leadership was an area that Eddie Jones identified immediately as being an Achilles heel of English rugby soon after he had taken stock of the players available to him. Two years on and the record losing streak by Premiership clubs in the European Cup last weekend – when all seven went down – provided a strong indication that nothing much has changed.
With the exception of Bath’s narrow defeat in Toulon – where their captain Matt Garvey led from the front – the lack of flinty, tactically streetwise leaders...