Eddie's 'Firing' Line

[Banquo]

Well you say it's not a long list, I think it is a long list but whoever is plucked from the list, and it's a bit murky who given the length of the list, will need some work. I think I'd pick Watson, Pennell or Daly, depends a bit on how EJ wants us to play and who the other selections in the backline are.

I said it wasn't the longest list of (obvious) immediate successors to the gruesome twosome - as opposed to a long list of people who might be able to play 15 (at a big stretch in the case of Nowell, Daly, Mallinder) for England. I don't think any of the three you've finally landed on look like folks who'd make a step change there frankly. So mine is an immediate quality argument, which is different to writing down a bunch of names who are between vaguely suited and already tried.

We're not always going to get immediate returns, which is why I'm grumpy about a wasted 6N.

Two steps forward, if not as much as ideal.