Time for the forgotten men to return

Tom Bradshaw urges the new England coaching team to give these players a chance

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Or maybe that should be indecision, indecision, indecision.
Under Eddie Jones’s tenure, around 200 players were picked to be part of various England set-ups – although dozens never won a cap. There were water bottle-carrying apprentices, the briefest of injury replacements and Barbarian non-cap cameos. There were one-cap wonders, two-Test discards, ones-who-got-away-to-other-unions, and players picked for training squads who promptly disappeared no sooner had they checked into ...

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