Jeremy Guscott
Outspoken and unmissable... Every week

Finn Russell’s statement about how much he’d like to reunite with Owen Farrell for the 2025 Lions, particularly as a 10-12 combination, has to be put in context.
He would almost certainly say the same thing about playing 10 alongside his two Scottish inside-centres Sione Tuipulotu and Cameron Redpath – and a host of Irish, English, and Welsh Test centres hoping for places on the tour to Australia.
Russell’s in a good place to claim the fly-half shirt, but a year is a long time in this game, and England’s Smiths, Marcus and Fin, and Irel...