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I think it's better if the captain is a forward - which probably means Itoje.
The players won't admit it, but the pressure of Lions selection is having a significant effect. At the start of the six nations pretty much every player in the England squad would have thought they were at least in contention, and a fair few would have assumed they were nailed on. But some are trying too hard and others are scared to make mistakes.
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Not sure it would have changed the result though. England's discipline is an issue.
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(Although as a Quins fan I'm OK with us having the full squad for club games and being 3rd in the table right now)
There are certain players who just don't fit the Jones model for various reasons and he won't change his style to accommodate them. Now you can understand that up to a point but when the team keeps making the same mistakes and losing matches it's surely time to change either the methods or the personnel.
No-one has mentioned it yet I don't think but my goodness England are missing Joe Launchbury. IMHO he is more important to England than Itoje, a bit like Scotland's Jonny Gray, not flash, just a hard working big lump who rarely gets on the wrong side of the ref.
As it stood, he didn't dare.
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