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No.9? Not a problem insists versatile Ford

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The Rugby Paper Team
18 August 2019

By NICK CAIN

Adaptable: George Ford
PICTURE: Getty Images

GEORGE Ford does not appear unduly perturbed that Eddie Jones has dusted off the old French strategy of scrum-halves and fly-halves being interchangeable just before the World Cup.
Nor will the Leicester flyhalf admit to being apprehensive about being earmarked as emergency cover at 9, even though the concept of half-backs swapping has been largely abandoned on the other side of the Channel – and has never caught on anywhere else.
In fact, he brushes aside concerns that he could find himself in the scrum-half hot seat beca...

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