NICK CAIN

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IN two and a half years of England training sessions under Eddie Jones as intense as any generation of Red Rose players has experienced, there have been four serious leg injuries, one of them career-ending.
The severe leg and ankle injuries that eventually forced Wasps flanker Sam Jones to retire were sustained in 2016 during a judo bout with Maro Itoje. The other three were knee injuries, incurring ligament damage requiring surgery, which take approximately nine months to recover from.
Two of them happened to Bath players, with loose-head pr...