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Jack’s authority shows he’s the lad for England

KYRAN BRACKEN
FORMER ENGLAND SCRUM-HALF

It's interesting that, in England, scrum-half has traditionally been considered less influential tactically than fly-half, with the focus almost always on the player in the No.10 shirt.
However, with nations like France and South Africa, everything goes through the scrum-half, who is considered to be not only the main tactical general, but the heartbeat of the team. That tradition is reflected at the moment in the influence of Antoine Dupont for France, and Faf de Klerk for the Springboks – but just recently England also appear to have rediscovered...

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