Why won’t Eddie pick Dombrandt? It’s a mystery to icon Winters

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ALEX Dombrandt is in a Catch-22 as the restart begins.
Eddie Jones does not like selection by media, and the louder the calls grow for the England head coach to select a particular player – as they have for the barnstorming Harlequins No.8 this season – the more he appears to resist.
It is a perception which it is impossible to prove, although at various times through Jones’ five year tenure the likes of Danny Cipriani, Jamie George, and stopstart scrum-halves Ben Spencer and Dan Robson might beg to differ.
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