NICK CAIN
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Five years ago there was a scrum feature in The Rugby Paper which forecast that unless England developed a world class scrum in the year leading up to the 2019 World Cup they would not be world champions.
The piece had been instigated after I witnessed the England pack concede a scrum penalty try to South Africa in Bloemfontein as they lost the second Test of their 2018 summer tour – and with it the series – after being blasted back over their own line.
It was such a rare occurrence during three decades of watching England scrums that it stoo...