Tough schedule no concern for Gloucester starlet

By NICK VERDIER
ENGLAND U20s scrumhalf Harry Randall has defended World Rugby’s format for the Junior World Cup despite ongoing criticism of the gruelling schedule.
Each June player welfare is pushed to the limit with young players made to play five games in three weeks.
England reached their fifth consecutive final in Georgia three weeks ago but ran out of steam against New Zealand after two bone crunching matches against Australia and South Africa in the space of four days.
They suffered seven tournament- ending injuries in the process but Randall thinks the competition would lose i...

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