Jones will make Farrell his captain again, says Cueto

■By GARY FITZGERALD
MARK Cueto believes Eddie Jones will reinstall Owen Farrell as captain in the runup to the World Cup.
Jones kept Courtney Lawes as his team leader for the Australia tour having led the team during the Six Nations with Farrell unavailable due to an ankle injury.
It was expected tht Farrell, who had led the team since 2018, would be given the captain’s armband when he was named in the tour party. Instead, Jones stuck with Lawes and moved Farrell to centre rather than his preferred fly-half position.
Jones admitted Farrell was “very unhappy...

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