It's great to have Christian Wade back in the Premiership, with Gloucester.
It’s hard to comprehend how such a prodigious talent was allowed to slip through England’s fingers.
Wade won his solitary England cap on the tour of Argentina in 2013 before flying out to join the Lions party in Australia.
In 2015 he was offered a contract in NFL. He turned it down in order to make the England team for the home World Cup.
Unfortunately, Stuart Lancaster had other ideas – his 50-man training squad included five wings: Chris Ashton, Jack Nowell, Jonny May, Anthony Watson and Marland Yarde, but no Wade....
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