SALE Sharks say they are ‘astounded’ by WillGriff John’s exclusion from the Wales squad following his selection before the Six Nations went into lockdown. John had been named as the starting tighthead against Scotland only for the match, and his Test debut, to be called off 24 hours later.
Now he finds himself so far down the national rankings that four other tightheads have been picked ahead of him for the six- Test autumn schedule. “I was astounded when I saw that they hadn’t picked him,’’ Steve Diamond, Sale’s director of rugby, said.
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