Remember last year’s Patrick Schickerling incident? When Exeter’s Namibian front row thought he had qualified to play for England through residency, having arrived in the country in 2018, but hadn’t?
Eddie Jones selected Schickerling for last summer’s tour of Australia but he didn’t get to play – which turned out to be a good thing because he hadn’t completed World Rugby’s required 60-month residency requirement.
The confusion came about because World Rugby delayed the cut-off point for players to be captured under the previous 36-month residency rules from December 31, 2020, to December 31,...