Looking towards Samoa and QFs

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T Willis. Reckon he would be the nuts at test level.

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Why? We barely seem to have one?

Earl is clearly first choice - in another example of Slightly Bleedingnose’s original squad not being where he ended up - and has played well, probs my Eng player of the tournament, so far. Billy is obvs nailed on to be in the 23 whilst both Ludlam & Curry can play there.

An 8 on the bench makes more sense when we have an openside starting there. Ludlam has actually looked quite good there but not quite sure if Borthwick fancies him? Vunipola has been shite for ages. I'm not really sure how else to put it.

Pearson getting ahead of Curry, Ludlam and Earl to start at 7 just seems less likely or useful to me, plus it would stop Oakboy from stating every half an hour that he'd have picked T Willis. He even plays for Saracens now.

I was about to say that it’s not really about getting in the XV but about squad balance but then I realised that if Slippery Backslider didn’t pick a player in his initial squad then there’s 100% certainty that he’ll make the XV, see Mitchell and May.
I think both Pearson & T Willy are class players and could become quality test players. Happy for either of them to be called up.
If Oakboy can no longer bang on about Willis then he’ll start on Manu being too injured to build a backline around. Out of the frying pan and into the fire…