KYLE Sinckler’s late call up for the Lions tour after the injury to Irish tighthead Andrew Porter has been give the thumbs-up by Eddie Jones.
However, while the England head coach said this week that he is pleased, and that it was “a no-brainer”, he also commented that his first choice tighthead had been given a bit of a wake-up call.
Jones said: “Maybe he was starting to get a little bit too comfortable, and now he realises you can never be that. There’s never an opportunity for a player to be comfortable, because they’ve got to keep growing.”
Sinckler knows now that the Springbok plan goin...