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<blockquote data-quote="Darwin" data-source="post: 474073" data-attributes="member: 24910">To me, as an outsider looking in, this looks like the most exciting England squad I&#039;ve seen in years. Gone are the slow, almost robotic, backline players (Tindell, Hape, Banahan, Wilkinson etc) that have been hampering England&#039;s backline play for years. There seems to be sprinklings of new young players in the forwards too.&nbsp; Obviously not everyone is 100% happy with the team but, to me at least, it looks to be a good step in the right direction.&nbsp; I don&#039;t expect this team to start winning straight away (and hopefully the English supporters don&#039;t either) but I can see this team start to develop into a quality unit after a year or two together.One name that I was interested to see is Callum Clark.&nbsp; I remember him from the Under 20&#039;s a few years ago where he seemed to have serious anger issues - in the final versus New Zealand he was lucky not to be carded for deliberately shoulder charging a player in a mall several times, then was eventually red carded for heatbutting a player in a mall not once, but twice (then laughing as he was sent off!).&nbsp; I assume his discipline has improved since then?&nbsp; I remember him playing at 7 during the Under 20&#039;s but a look through his record shows that he&#039;s played primarily as a 6 recently, with only the odd game at 7 (and strangely the odd game at lock too...).&nbsp; He seems a slightly strange inclusion in the squad given they already have plenty of players who are primarily 6&#039;s - I would have thought a specialist 7 would have been handy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darwin, post: 474073, member: 24910"] To me, as an outsider looking in, this looks like the most exciting England squad I've seen in years. Gone are the slow, almost robotic, backline players (Tindell, Hape, Banahan, Wilkinson etc) that have been hampering England's backline play for years. There seems to be sprinklings of new young players in the forwards too. Obviously not everyone is 100% happy with the team but, to me at least, it looks to be a good step in the right direction. I don't expect this team to start winning straight away (and hopefully the English supporters don't either) but I can see this team start to develop into a quality unit after a year or two together. One name that I was interested to see is Callum Clark. I remember him from the Under 20's a few years ago where he seemed to have serious anger issues - in the final versus New Zealand he was lucky not to be carded for deliberately shoulder charging a player in a mall several times, then was eventually red carded for heatbutting a player in a mall not once, but twice (then laughing as he was sent off!). I assume his discipline has improved since then? I remember him playing at 7 during the Under 20's but a look through his record shows that he's played primarily as a 6 recently, with only the odd game at 7 (and strangely the odd game at lock too...). He seems a slightly strange inclusion in the squad given they already have plenty of players who are primarily 6's - I would have thought a specialist 7 would have been handy. [/QUOTE]

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