By TOM BRADSHAW

There are “no short cuts” to Jake Polledri regaining Premiership and international sharpness, says Gloucester George Skivington, after the loose forward was omitted from Italy’s training squad.
Skivington says a Premiership return is still a little way off for Polledri, who suffered a hideous knee and leg injury in November 2020 that was worsened by slow-healing nerve damage.
Polledri was hopeful of being named in the squad for the Azzurri’s Verona training camp ahead of the autumn internationals, but he is not among the sevenstrong loose forward division selected by head c...