England’s new head coach Eddie Jones calls me in for a meeting. I’d been hoping for someone foreign, with a non-English mindset, so I’m quite excited. Plus, Eddie must rate me, because he tried to sign me when I was at Wasps and he was at Saracens.
No sooner have we shaken hands than he pulls out his laptop and sparks up footage of my 17-minute, man-of-the-match display against France in the 2015 World Cup warm-up match in August. I think he’s going to start waxing lyrical – “Play like this, mate, and you’re my starting No 10”. Instead, he says, in that whiny Aussie accent of his, “Mate, you’ve got to be doing it like this instead. See what you’ve done there, mate? That’s
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