By ADAM HATHAWAY

Sam Underhill is a decent barometer of England’s progress in the last 12 months having watched them from in and outside the camp over the last year.
The Bath flanker did not make Steve Borthwick’s World Cup squad but was called up when Jack Willis was injured and was stunned at the progress the side had made.
Underhill played once at France 2023, when he turned in a man of the match performance in the third-place play-off against Argentina and sensed England were on the up then.
He started all five of England’s Six Nations games, plus the Tests against Japan and the two ag...