JEREMY GUSCOTT
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK

THE England squad of 35 picked by Eddie Jones for the autumn series is a nice blend of experience and youth. However, the nearer you get to a World Cup the more the inexperience of youth is moved into the background and lessens in terms of influence.
The most quoted figure in terms of the ideal amount of experience required by a team to win a World Cup is 600 caps, and if you look at the last final both South Africa and England were over that number.
There’s been quite a lot of noise around the guys left out of the squad because ma...