DYLAN Hartley is looking increasingly like a gamble in a position in which, at this juncture, England do not want to be rolling the dice.
Hooker is so intrinsic to a solid set piece that it is not a position where any coach with big ambitions can afford to be short-staffed, and Eddie Jones is no exception. Yet, Hartley’s participation in the 2019 World Cup looks fraught with pitfalls on almost every front.
The first and most obvious is that the Northampton hooker is struggling to recover from a knee injury that is sufficiently serious to ensure he has not played for almost six mon...