ELLIOT Daly is the enigma in the English backline – an outsidecentre by choice, and a sometime wing for his country who has been redeployed as England’s first-choice full-back since last summer. Daly’s move from wing to 15 on the three Test tour of South Africa was a baptism by fire in a position he had no familiarity with as either schoolboy or in the Wasps academy.
The result is that alongside the moments of brilliance, such as his virtuouso try against Australia in the autumn, there are glitches – notably in the aerial defence in his own 22, with Josh Adams&rsqu...
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