England forward pack as things stand

[Tigersman]

In terms of Hooker
Barbeary (Wasps)
Riley (Quins)
Vanes (Tigers)

All look very promising in their different ways.
Barbeary - Extremely dynamic and powerful player
Riley - More the modern day style hooker in his play, very quins style excellent offloading game in the loose.
Vanes - More the older school mould very physical mould.

Interested to see how they do at senior

[Mikey Brown]

Seems sort of relevant in case anyone is interested.



Is it confirmed whether he is off yet? I’m up and down on whether he is a top, top player, but for all Launch and Lawes offer their own fantastic USPs they don’t fulfil the modern 5 role of leading all the set piece work and allowing Itoje to run around being a bastard.

I think this is partly why perhaps why EJ has been so interested to look at Ewels? I’m not sure he’s got the chops for the top level but he has a very good all round game.

Just to add I haven’t actually read the article yet but it sounded interesting, and I see now it says on the tweet above he is definitely off to Japan.

[Mellsblue]

Is it confirmed whether he is off yet?

Yep. Plenty of quotes explaining why he’s leaving, he’ll only comeback to Sarries etc etc