NICK CAIN
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England were facing a fly-half fiasco this week when Owen Farrell went in front of the RFU disciplinary beaks. If Farrell had been served the standard six-week ban for a dangerous tackle in which he hit Gloucester No.8 Jack Clement with a rising shoulder to the head during Saracens visit to Kingsholm on January6,he would have been ruled out of England’s Six Nations opener against Scotland.
Even with it reduced to a consecutive four-match ban covering the next four weekends he would have been ruled out. However, this would have created a fly-hal...