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JEREMY GUSCOTT

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YOU need to be a bit of a mind reader to work out what Eddie Jones will do next with his midfield selection, because he has had quite a few variations.
Some of them have been forced by injury, and others by wanting to look at new combinations. At the start he had George Ford at 10, Owen Farrell at 12, and Jonathan Joseph at 13, and it worked very well, helping England to win a 2016 Six Nations Grand Slam, and then whitewash Australia on the summer tour.
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