NICK CAIN
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COME in No.12, your time is now! That is the call that Eddie Jones, and his predecessor as England coach, Stuart Lancaster, should have been broadcasting loud and clear to every club in the land for the past decade, given the dearth of candidates to either challenge or replace Manu Tuilagi at inside centre.
Jones has picked a mind-boggling 22 different centre combinations in his six and a half years as England head coach, while Lancaster was not far behind, picking 14 different pairings in his four year stint before England’s 2015 W...