CHRIS HEWETT
THINKING ALLOWED

Eddie Jones coached Mako Vunipola during a brief spell in charge of Saracens, and coached him again during a much longer stint with England. Both times, the notoriously unimpressible Australian heaped praise on the loosehead prop in the way Nadine Dorries routinely paid homage to Boris Johnson. Only one of them was justified in throwing around Hallelujahs like confetti and it wasn’t the former member for Mid-Bedfordshire. “He’s the most skilful footballer in the squad bar none,” Jones would say of the most mobile slow-motion runner ever to grace the Red Rose...