With a team in transition, Italy in Rome presents a potential banana skin but there is much to savour with this new England team
Jan McGinity figured it could work out like this, the fortunes of Leicester turning around hugely on the pitch with him no longer beavering away in the background at Oval Park and seeing out to its expiry the three-year deal he had originally inked as head of elite performance recruitment. Such is the hectic nature of life as a fix-it man, a contracts supremo who dives in at the deep end of clubs or governing bodies in dire need of
At the time of the squads being announced for the 2021 British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa, we decided to create our own hypothetical addition to the tour, U21 squads for each side.
The group includes six capped World Rugby U20 Championship players in Celimpilo Gumede, Sibusiso Sangweni (loose forwards), Emile van Heerden (lock), Jaden Hendrikse (scrum-half), Thabiso Mdletshe (prop) and Mnombo Zwelendaba (centre).
