Bit of an over-reaction, surely?
I get that Tigers fans will be annoyed at the Tom Youngs omission, but Jones has already said he wants hookers who can hook, and he obviously thinks Youngs is too old to learn, unlike LCD. I wonder if he will be called up if LCD doesn´t recover in time. You should be happy about the scrum half selection, though - I would have had two of the scrum halves with better basics (Simpson, Cook) in there with Youngs, but with only Care alongside him in the squad he´s got a very good chance of starting, since Care is a similar scrum half to Youngs, but without Youngs main attribute (can we get rid of that point of difference crap?), namely that he is very good at running a game. His kicking is also worse than Youngs, which clinches it in my opinion (and is why I think we will miss Simpson and Cook not being there - did you see Cook´s 60 metre box kick against Toulon?).
Anyway, apart from the scrum half selection, I am very happy with the squad. Jones has got rid of most of the ´honest grafters´ that Lancaster loved to pick, and hopefully we will only see one (Haskell or Robshaw at 6, although I really hope it is Itoje) in the back row, which will have a much better balance as a result. Barritt going is a very good sign - it shows that Jones picks the team and Gustard then teaches them how to defend, rather than having the defence coach picking the team a la Lancaster-Farrell, and even Johnson-Ford. Burrell going is also a good sign, as it shows (apart from Tuilagi, who I can see playing on the wing) that Jones doesn´t want one-dimensional players in the midfield. Back three I´m not crazy about, but hopefully May and Wade will come back into it in the summer.
