The trouble is, we've got a dozen* players who all deserve to be in the 6 selected 0 there WILL be some unhappy players and fans about who doesn't make it; and yet no-one will be able to say that whoever does, doesn't deserve it.Puja wrote:6 back rows isn't that many to have in an extended squad - it's only 3 times the number in a Leicester XXIII.
Backrow for England has got to the point where, so long as you pick backrowers rather than lock, you can't really make a bad selection.
It's similar on the wing - if you don't rate Nowell as one of the best wingers in the world (aka, deserving selection ahead of Watson, May and Daly - all of whom are or have been world class) then the only solution is not that you criminally under-rate him; but that it's a position of enormous strength.
*ETA: in case anyone thinks that's exaggerating
Curry, Curry, Willis, Underhill, Hill, Wilson, Earl, Ludlam, Mercer, Dombrandt, Vunipola, Simmonds
Hell, you could pick 3 opensides or 3 #8s and still put out a good backrow!